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Last Notes

2024-07-17 14:26:27 GMT

Is anyone else old enough to remember that time when Walkers put actual money inside crisp packets as a prize? 👴🏻
Random people in the UK would find bank notes that were folded up into tiny squares and then put inside a little plastic envelope so that they wouldn’t get covered in crisp grease.
I never won a bank note myself, just slips of cardboard that when redeemed won me another bag of crisps. 🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-07-05 13:12:27 GMT

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 fwiw they made a big deal about it on BBC Points West. Carla Denyer did a live interview in her new Bristol constituency. 🙂
#ukpol #GE2024

2024-06-29 16:19:35 GMT

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@npub15zu…s7lx playing the victim and muddying the water with false allegations is always their go-to move whenever they get caught out. 🤔

2024-06-21 11:21:34 GMT

TIL that a shortcoming of my Mastodon post automatic deletion policy is that popular posts stay up, but my replies to them don’t. So I’m getting some very strange responses to some of them popping up in my mentions. 😂

2024-06-21 08:13:44 GMT

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Before anyone else does a "gotcha", yes I know that Men Without Hats are Canadian. But they shot the video in Wiltshire, the county I live in, so it still counts! 😝

2024-06-21 08:01:08 GMT

Disaffected teenagers on social media: “England has no culture of its own, so it steals everyone else’s!”
Meanwhile, in rural England every summer:
https://youtu.be/1p_BvaHsgGg?feature=shared

2024-06-10 19:00:52 GMT

tbh I haven't even worked out how Memojis work, so Genmojis sound like something that's going to pass me by as well. 😂
I see that Apple has also finally caved to Google's demand to support RCS. Using satellite connections when cellular & WiFi connection aren't available is also a nice touch. (And yes, I know rich Android users had these things already)
So, there's some interesting things coming in iOS 18. I look forward to being baffled and confused by it. #wwdc2024

2024-06-10 09:02:21 GMT

Condolences to Dr Michael Moseley’s family.
I suppose the lesson to take from this is that heat stroke is no joke. Hiking alone in a hot country during the heat of the day, even for experienced climbers in good physical condition, is a bad plan.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dd7ekyrpyo

2024-06-03 16:08:50 GMT

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@npub19lt…qfjk I thought the British solution was dangling net curtains from a tension wire! 😁
They diffuse the sunlight, provide privacy during the daytime, and bugs get tangled in them.

2024-05-30 12:36:12 GMT

I've been watching through Star Trek: Deep Space Nine during the evenings this week, and I get the impression that if DS9 had a HR department, Dr Julian Bashir would've been written up for sexual harassment enough times for Benjamin Sisko to make him do a training course. 🤨

2024-05-25 00:56:39 GMT

"Work-Life Balance"
Most professions: "You work your stated hours, then you go home."
Software engineering: "You work more than your stated hours, do unpaid portfolio side-projects to demonstrate 'passion', and if you burn out then it's your own fault for not following the instructions in a blog post about mindfulness."

2024-05-17 12:12:50 GMT

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@npub1yyx…qa5g I have sometimes wondered what the reaction of an evangelical Christian parishioner from a Southern US state would be if they actually read the beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. 🤔

2024-05-11 11:29:16 GMT

TIL that a Debian maintainer decided that KeePassXC really ought to be an encrypted database rather than a password manager you can actually use with a web browser or hardware token. 🤨
That change has cascaded down to other Linux distros, and the KeePassXC developers are catching flack for it.
https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725

2024-05-04 20:46:20 GMT

It was the year 2024, and Skynet took control.
Fortunately it was powered by ChatGPT, so instead of firing nukes and destroying humanity, it produced a spicy poem about the futility of war as written by Mr Bean, and then apologised for not understanding follow-up questions.
It was finally defeated by John Connor, who checkmated Skynet by asking for same-sex dating advice. #microfiction