British, live in France, work in Switzerland. Reading, science, snowboarding, making, woodwork, electronics, guitar, occasional cooking, board gaming, cinema, music, music, music. Sysadmin by trade, DevOps, K8s, Cloud, automate all the things. Atheist, humanist, remainer. -= Do no harm, take no shit =-
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Last Notes npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1mqx…xqll Ice ice baby - Vanilla Ice 🤭 npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1m2r…gp9d Blade Runners missed a trick with their Voight-Kampff test. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1wje…kd27 Great photos. Moths are nature’s cuddly insects. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1mqx…xqll The first album I ever bought with my own money, and it was magical, still love it. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1mqx…xqll The Birdy Song npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1mqx…xqll Indian Sunset, Madman Across the Water, Elton John. Retrospectively maybe not the best lyrics, sits jarring on an otherwise great work. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1mqx…xqll Queen - Love of my Life live at Wembley in ‘86 https://youtu.be/jO9C7frk2ss?si=qjPpeIW5PeE30B_h npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1mqx…xqll Money for Nothing npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1afz…wdvg Loving the way their accents come through. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1u3t…5q74 That’s a lot of duct just to take a 180 degree turn and go right back into the structure. Maybe for cooling? npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub178h…hyhr They’ve invented roller-skates when we already have cars. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub17vj…g088 I’ve been tempted, but I enjoyed The Martian so much I didn’t want to be disappointed. I think I’ll give it a go. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1mqx…xqll Heroes, Bowie. So 70s, and yet timeless. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas Giving up on neovim, moving back to plain old vim. Neovim is great when you start with it and everything is working, but as soon as you try and customise it everything falls down, it’s a spaghetti of lua. #neovim #vim npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1gzd…wfsq Everyone please ignore the “cluster frag bomb” chest they are resting on, nothing to see here. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas Reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Sad to say I'm finding it tedious. Hugely impactful work can suffer from this I think if we read it after the event. We've since absorbed so much that was influenced by it, that it's hard to take it fresh. Now the reader's dilemma, to push on to the end, or abandon.. #bookstodon npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1lup…jra8 😂 I wasn’t expecting that Ha ha npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1tkg…2eul In a country whose Prime Minister is, along with his wife, worth £730 million. £730 million How on earth can those two things possibly be true at the same time? npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1lup…jra8 Not this, but when I used to cycle to work through central London traffic I was totally making the Death Star run in my X-Wing. I’d argue cycling in London was more dangerous. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1gfd…7gg6 “Why is my monitor showing all funny colours?” Out come the needle-nose pliers to straighten the pin that has been smooshed by over enthusiastic use of force. Had to do that more than once. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub10pr…qn7d @npub13vy…lczv I strongly urge you to watch her in Hidden Figures if you haven’t done so already. Superb performance and fantastic film about the ladies whose maths skills made the early days of space flight possible. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas Attached the neck to the body. That was easier that expected, I’m happy that I figured out a way of clamping it on before putting the screws in. #guitar #guitarbuilding https://a.mindlycdn.com/media_attachments/files/111/613/433/391/735/470/original/f97c80aad965d3f1.jpeg https://a.mindlycdn.com/media_attachments/files/111/613/433/438/333/222/original/33f7c8e569933daf.jpeg npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub178h…hyhr Really great list, making a note for future reading, particularly, Vernon God Little, Ira Levin, Doggerland, The Miniaturist (which I think I have actually). npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1mhp…6t73 @npub1she…ukhk The question was is Elon good at anything, and you implied that he is good at something because two companies he’s involved with are doing ok, so he must be doing something. It is certain that if he had stepped back from running Twitter, far, far back, and instead put in place a competent management team that the company wouldn’t be in the mess it is now. He desperately needs someone to filter his impulses. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1mhp…6t73 @npub1she…ukhk Both those companies are run by incredibly talented and hard working teams, he’s not doing it by himself. Just one, albeit very significant example - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1ccn…czwu That wet floaty stuff in the sea, that’s Oxygen mixed with Hydrogen. You can see that. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub178h…hyhr Ah, ok, D-Ream 😁There’s a pub quiz question there. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub178h…hyhr Guessing Queen? npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1e7p…nvup Watched The Lighthouse recently. Wow, it still haunts me months later. Looking forward to Nosferatu. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub1yyx…qa5g @npub1hyk…3p33 The impact this had on the generation growing up in the 80s is not I don’t think realised at all today. I remember being terrified of the threat. It was part of life, see When the Wind Blows, TV public service announcements, documentaries, even chart hits like Two Tribes, 99 Red Balloons, you couldn’t escape it. npub1cydp69pz9m6wzu2mpeppp7dfy8qlrdkfyxt3fvv02v8vqaxres3slf287d Alexander Dyas @npub178h…hyhr Just to be clear, you found this in the rubbish???