ex-Software Developer. Organiser of data. Ontologist. Unofficial btrfs support for the Fediverse. I'm not a digital native, but I did emigrate at an early age. Contents may have settled in transit.
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Last Notes npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…yzy8 Most computers are complete pants. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…65q8 We've met in person very briefly at a SCLUG meeting. Does that count for point one? npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…yzy8 I think for this encoding of Morse code you need four lengths of gap: dot, dash, inter-letter, and inter-word. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…yzy8 This is the thinking that leads to the eldritch horrors of ORM frameworks. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…65q8 What script is that in yellow on the keys? npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…d6ag Look on the bright side. You won't have another Monday for another six days. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…65q8 Deity, not diety. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…pfuj Oh, I'm sure that there's a bunch of other reasons in there, too from various parties. I just don't know whether those are at the forefront of the "reasoning" of the decision-makers, or just in the minds of the people feeding them ideas. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…805j TTHHAANNKKYYOOUUFFOORRTTHHEEPPAATTCCHHEESS!!IICCAANNRREEPPOORRTTNNOOVVIISSIIBBLLEESSIIDDEEEEFFFFEECCTTSS!!!! npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…805j Then I confess to making a false accusation of treason against myself. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…805j Is that payable to my next clone? npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…pfuj Well, that's a relief, at least. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…pfuj Someone once told me that you could determine the quality of a translation by the number of previously-unattested deities mentioned. The lower the number, the more plausible the translation. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…65q8 Shipping as only a docker container is pretty much an automatic nope here. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…65q8 I keep reading that as Manjaro. Sure, install it if you like, but I don't think it's that lightweight a distribution. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills *opens cupboard to get honey to put in a cup of tea" npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…kdr8 Was it delivered to the postern gate? npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…65q8 Was the one we saw at SCLUG a couple of months ago the Pocket Reform, or the larger size? npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…d6ag Yes, and *totally* yes, respectively. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…e4ry Good news! Evidence of ecosystem recovery in a highly-polluted waterway! npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…e4ry I've got a label printer round here somewhere, I'm sure. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…6ak0 Le Corbeesier. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…args Unfortunately, you are also the goblin who has to mark the homework. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills Someone (very briefly(*)) mentioned KDE-Connect, which I've installed and got working. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills Dear LazyFedi: I have a #GrapheneOS phone. Assume I know absolutely nothing about Graphene or Android (and want to know as little as possible). npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills Prisoner not known in this cell block. Return to Zenda. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…fht0 @nprofile…x759 @nprofile…65sm TBH, I'm pretty disillusioned with the whole small-device thing these days. So many exciting-looking OBCs and phones and the like, and pretty much all of them have an initial partly-working port that rarely, if ever, gets updated. Then you get a bunch of slightly-better-working-but-not-by-much community ports done as a one-off by a single developer who drops development shortly afterwards. So you're left with a half-working device that's never really usable. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…65sm @nprofile…x759 Sailfish would be my preference -- I used it for years on a Jolla and then a Planet Gemini, and loved it, but it only runs on about one and a half models of phone right now. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…args I saw an article a while ago which looked at the sums that national-level politicians had been caught taking in, err..., "undeclared gifts". They were remarkably small -- like, few even topped £10k. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…m9qs I heard the name from citizen Sta-R-MER(*) a short while ago. I was attempting to find a pen to fill in the appropriate termination form. I have no idea what a Thuthics Department might be, but I suspected that it was in treasonous opposition to the Middlethecs Department, and was hastening to make my report. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…m9qs What will you be doing about the Department of Thuthics? npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…3sf2 I'm entirely with him on the subject of the jackhammer. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…28h9 Of course they would. Those aren't newfangled, and they're always somewhere else. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…x759 Maybe your marketing strategy could join LinkedIn to get some tips on how to be a 10× marketing strategy? npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…x759 Wait... building credibility on LinkedIn? Was that article published in 2012? npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…3sf2 That's fortunate. Past Me is usually an arsehole. I'm glad you have at least some Past Yous under control. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills Today, I managed to write some code for the first time in about 3 months. It even compiled, *and* did what I wanted it to. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…pye9 To me, they usually sound like a struggling undergraduate who doesn't know what they're talking about. There's the same level of vagueness and hedging and unexpected detail in the wrong places. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…p5j8 I have a 16. It's mostly great -- does what it says on the tin. My few quibbles are that: npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…3sf2 npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…fv4z npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…3sf2 I don't blame him. I'm frightened of my bedroom door, too. There's terrible things out there. Just *terrible*. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…28h9 They've turned it off? I think that's about the only way that my local rag could improve its comments section. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills Happy Friday, to those who celebrate it. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…c5n8 It _is_ being done in parallel -- it look like they've got a cigarette each, rather than just passing one between them. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…3sf2 What do you mean, you might not need caffeine? npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…4nuy If I ever get to run a second-hand bookshop, I'm going to collect books on nuclear engineering, plastics chemistry, and the geology of oil wells, and file them all on a shelf labelled "unpopular science". npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…t4qe @nprofile…x759 I note that the push to AI text appears *even on the noai.duckduckgo.com site*. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills I'm possibly slightly late to the party on this one, but @nprofile…hyfj has just hit 1000 places in Europe. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…dm4p I normally don't go out much, and I'm usually masked in public places, but I went to the cricket in Edgbaston on Thursday, and didn't mask up (it's in the open air -- there should be enough ventilation, but clearly there wasn't). npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills Well, after 5 and a bit years, I appear to have caught #COVID for the first time. 🤒 npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…x759 It was pretty self-effacing. If you didn't spot the Zombie Response van in the alley round the back, you probably wouldn't know it was there. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…x759 They used the whole (derelict) mall, and the bingo hall on Station Road, as venues for games. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…x759 My abiding memory of a day's airsoft (in the old Friar's Walk shopping mall in Reading(*)) was that it was excessively painful, for about a week afterwards. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills Question for anyone out there on fedi with experience: npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…m9qs I deny any accusation from my fellow troubleshooters that I am any kind of treasonous terror from beyond anyone's reality. And I will consume their souls if they continue to make these claims. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…3sf2 "If we paid authors more, we'd have to pay ourselves less." You bet you're a threat. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…3sf2 As long as it's not a can of Maalox morning. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…3sf2 I've been trying to clean the cooker hob for the last three days. It's going well, so far, but I've destroyed three nylon scritchers and half a roll of kitchen roll, and I'm still not done (although it's no longer going to get me arrested). npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…28h9 Report problems through https://environment.data.gov.uk/support npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…28h9 The code behind those EA APIs is really, really horrible overengineered spaghetti Java, and is in very very don't-touch-this-steaming-pile maintenance mode. (I've seen it, and worked with the people who have to try to keep it running). npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills Anyone in #rdguk have problems with their water this morning? I've got none at all, in RG30, and nor has my neighbour. npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…28h9 We've already privatised the M6... npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills @nprofile…d2su @nprofile…ltcg At least it's only one part. I was looking at ISO 9995 (keyboard layouts) the other day, and that's 10 parts, each of which is the same price. (And, having found a couple of index pages, some are as short as 15 pages long). npub1dehm2e5qw4df255pqdxskkul4rzngvfl0wq9qgfa5jtn5nwcplwqq9gxdc Hugo Mills National Rail website. Return fare. Leaving on Wednesday. Returning on Wednesday, last train. "Invalid time".
