Steven Reed

TC on IRC. "crazed container bastard". http://xkcd.com/2083/ ← this guy. Anti-fascist. Increasingly techno-amish. Pretty left-wing but also pretty low tolerance for language-policing. He/him.

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2026-08-19 16:16:10 GMT

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From this side of the pond, I look at pictures of your domestic electrical stuff and am regularly amazed you're all still alive!
@npub1tjs…87qz

2026-08-15 20:05:36 GMT

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I'm not great at judging this stuff but that looks like at least £9 worth, probably more. So $12?

2026-08-14 12:04:32 GMT

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This is going to sound very "old git"-ish, but when we travelled as a family when I was a kid, or with school, we made some effort to study local conventions in the destination country before travelling. Is that .. not a thing any more? The internet should make it easier, but I guess it also contributes to a globalised sense that everywhere should be the same, or at least navigable without effort :(

2026-08-12 14:15:59 GMT

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The call progress tones that the caller hears have always been synthetic haven't they? Certainly for off-exchange calls. But yeah, a lot of the other stuff can be annoying at times. I think car turn signal clicks in the cab are often synthetic too - there is no relay any more, it's all solid state.

2026-05-06 12:01:19 GMT

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https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/116/527/514/277/132/398/original/274e27ce6ce4a274.jpg

2026-01-29 10:47:18 GMT

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a friend and I are "messing around" here in the UK (though using a mix of UK and European suppliers) - early stages and not exactly professional, but it might be interesting to have some sort of forum or mailing list to discuss and announce different efforts in the "European tech co-operative" vein, if there isn't one already?

2025-11-15 10:03:08 GMT

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ah, brilliant, I'd been hoping for something like this, didn't realise something existed. Thank you!

2025-10-14 13:52:39 GMT

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for some reason reminds me of Richard Gabriel's "The good news is that in 1995 we will have a good operating system and programming language; the bad news is that they will be Unix and C++."

2025-09-15 12:55:25 GMT

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symmetric DSL was a thing too, but hardly ever seen in the wild, at least in this country.

2025-08-24 11:54:29 GMT

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the last few years there's finally been some recognition of the grim 'masculinization' shift in the field from the 70s onwards - I've seen various articles every now and then in some mainstream publications. Now we just need things to actually change back again!

2025-08-08 08:03:47 GMT

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I guess I've been coping (without realising what I'm doing) by playing around with low-level resilience stuff. Realistically in any really serious or sustained crisis I'm done for, but my crazy projects (small scale solar, grey water recycling, a bit of self-hosting, growing a few veggies, etc) might just help if the world slowly becomes more erratic.

2025-08-01 17:12:22 GMT

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I think that would end up being "aA1!" + something random generated by my password manager with its current settings.
Also, that only lists 4 classes anyway? God I hate that sort of thing.

2025-07-18 17:19:56 GMT

@npub1sv0…rq9x
EDIT: seems to be sorted now, Saturday morning.
looks like there might be a problem with incoming SMS. Not sure if it's affecting all numbers, but a couple of us at least seem to be having problems. Don't know if it's worth worrying about out-of-hours, I guess it could easily be an upstream problem?

2024-12-21 00:12:39 GMT

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time to bring back Fido, or QWK, or something? :)

2024-12-13 17:56:19 GMT

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I think Europe should start drawing up the legislation for a travel ban from the US now, to save time later :(

2024-11-14 22:49:50 GMT

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This post is from 2022. I feel developments since then, culminating with the election result, put a rather different complexion on things.

2024-11-03 22:08:41 GMT

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if you don't need the number attached to an actual phone, you could port it to @npub1sv0…rq9x VoIP (~£1.50/month number 'rental') - texts and voicemails come in as emails, you can forward real calls out to somewhere else (though would pay for the forwarded leg), or take them on a physical or software SIP phone?

2024-09-24 08:52:00 GMT

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@npub1wy5…64vc or @npub1sv0…rq9x :)
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2024-09-03 19:59:57 GMT

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I've always just assumed it was yet more American naffness that's made it's way over here, like halloween, school proms, baby showers, etc?

2024-08-22 13:06:40 GMT

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I assume it's possible to testing matching without proceeding any further? If so let me know if you want me to test my Sky/NOW account!

2024-08-16 13:17:40 GMT

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Mobile or "landlines"? I've belatedly realised a lot of the issues I have with mobiles are probably down to tiny mics and speakers. My well known mobile number now rings on my dect handsets courtesy of @npub1sv0…rq9x and I find that helps a lot (can't be codec related as AA only do the basic standard thing.)

2024-07-24 21:32:46 GMT

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The other way around would arguably have been worse

2024-05-30 21:12:21 GMT

That was quick
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/532/097/641/963/955/original/c32c5fa8bc4561e7.jpg

2024-05-26 13:56:13 GMT

I have pretty much minimal sympathy for a casino, but this is still utterly horrifying
https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

2024-04-07 08:46:46 GMT

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perhaps the solution is bring the technology "full circle", so to speak. My nieces are still interested in physical objects and the outside world .. perhaps showing them "solarpunk" uses of tech, e.g. solar generation, automated plant watering systems, etc might trigger an interest?

2024-04-07 08:12:33 GMT

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I guess each generation "tinkers" at a different level. I think my grandfather and uncle couldn't understand why I was fiddling with software instead of breadboarding circuits with discrete components.
That having been said, mobile devices are significantly more locked down than any previous platform in history. Without a "real computer", that may impose a fairly solid restriction on what can be learned :(