Richard Bairwell

https://mastodon.org.uk/@rbairwell

Living in #Clipstone , #Mansfield , #Nottingham , #Nottinghamshire , #EastMidlands , #UK with my wife (who has #CSF / #ME / #Fibro) and a #dog

#PHP / #NodeJS developer + #Linux / #cPanel server admin (so #devops ), but currently suffering from #longCovid .

I have a #BBCMicro and a #Acorn #RiscOS #A3010 at my desk + I used to do a bit of #ballet #dance , but now mainly play #genshin / #genshinImpact .

I was "rbairwell" on Twitter/Mastodon.social.

Pronouns (he/him): https://name.pn/richard-bairwell
Personal Blog: https://blog.rac.me.uk
Professional Site: https://rbairwell.dev

Public Key

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NIP-05 Address

rbairwell_at_mastodon.org.uk@momostr.pink

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relay.momostr.pink

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2026-05-21T05:57:06Z

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2026-03-23 19:01:25 UTC

I wonder what the "minimal functioning UK road-legal (passes the MOT)" would be like. Quite a few things in the MOT say "must be functional *if* fitted": but if they aren't fitted you don't have to have them.

2026-02-19 12:06:36 UTC

Out of idle interest: Are UK police charging guidelines different if the person happens to be over 65 at the time of their arrest?

2025-10-15 14:00:41 UTC

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Have you considered having dinner at Milliways?

2025-10-10 19:46:48 UTC

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Ahh, wait until she hears Robson and Jerome.. At least they were better than PJ & Duncan (whatever happened to them... ;) )

2025-09-24 11:00:28 UTC

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Magento is now owned by Adobe and last time I looked had made Magento practically unusable on the open source side (not that it was easy to use, maintain and upgrade Magento2 anyway).

2025-09-24 10:34:05 UTC

Shopfiy has the DHH problem, WooCommerce/WordPress has the MM problem: is there a non-problematic ecommerce solution for a small business that you are aware of? (osCommerce?)

2025-08-02 18:36:08 UTC

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Even on Android, Google Assistant is a lot better and more reliable than the new Gemini.

2025-07-22 00:48:29 UTC

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Perhaps Obama should sue him and the social media network for ten billion dollars. After all, that's what Trump is suing the WSJ for for "totally fake" things.

2025-07-06 11:03:45 UTC

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So been demoted from disaster-harbinger?

2025-05-20 15:56:22 UTC

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It'll be a shame if @npub1m9z…whzq were to be reported for hosting/promoting extreme porn...

2025-04-11 09:54:08 UTC

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"Ban insider trading in congress": shouldn't that be "Prosecute members of congress when they break already established laws?"

2025-04-07 07:12:22 UTC

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2025-03-09 17:18:19 UTC

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I would suspect https://github.com/ethereal-developers/OpenScan would do the job: I've only used the Google Play variant for scanning to PDF

2025-03-05 11:48:03 UTC

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The following paragraph did make me doubt the accuracy of the whole article. WTF? Facebooks native programming language is an offshoot of PHP, you wouldn't (or shouldn't) be able to do searches on Facebook using it and base64 is a text encoding standard...
https://cdn.mastodon.org.uk/media_attachments/files/114/109/653/404/088/975/original/3c25f94a4cd57c97.png

2025-03-01 22:50:27 UTC

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Works for me here in the UK

2025-02-25 11:20:09 UTC

Are there any test/diagnosis #VoIP servers available? I'm having trouble getting our #Draytek Vigor 2850v to connect to our @npub1sv0…rq9x #SIP account: it is failing *somewhere* : I suspect the router just isn't trying to connect, but have 0 diagnosis information

2025-02-20 12:57:50 UTC

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Have you watched Star Trek: Lower Decks (the animated series) yet? I preferred it over Strange New Worlds (in fact LD got me watching SNW).

2025-01-22 10:23:34 UTC

Can anyone recommend a low-cost UK accountant for a very small Ltd business (1 unpaid director, VAT registered but turnover currently less than 10k/year: about 10 transactions per month).
Currently paying circa £90pm to Crunch and it's the highest monthly expense for not much service. Just need VAT submissions and year end doing: no need for payroll, pension or bookkeeping (so few tx I can easily do them).

2024-11-17 09:59:42 UTC

I was looking at buying @npub1x59…gect 's https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/South-Up-Aotearoa-Centred-Equal-Earth-Projection-Labelled-Map-by-terenceeden/154196690.G7H47 from RedBubble and thought to see what else was on offer..The trending searches are, erm, "interesting" (aqua tofana is a historical poison https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdFW3bYh/ )
https://cdn.mastodon.org.uk/media_attachments/files/113/497/703/017/511/152/original/6aeb6f98df3599de.png

2024-11-17 09:32:22 UTC

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You can get Mastodon (via the web interface) to email you on every new follower. Since people can't refollow without unfollowing, it shows the pattern Neil describes. If the same name crops up in a short period of time in the subject of emails, you'll probably notice it yourself.

2024-10-16 17:08:06 UTC

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Or ask at the pharmacist counter and get a big box of double strength (400mg) ibuprofen

2024-10-09 10:47:38 UTC

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Any ideas where it is slow? Network transfer, Jenkins itself (I know it used to be slow - so much the PHP "shop" I worked at used https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano for deployments), the build process etc?

2024-10-03 09:54:40 UTC

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I cannot tell from that screenshot if you allow quote posts or not. #badUx

2024-09-17 14:54:45 UTC

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Since seeing the Beeb's article, I have been wondering *how* the hell a pager could explode.

2024-09-13 10:16:32 UTC

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I don't get the "non-permanent employees...must bring in a credit/debit cars" bit. What does that prove? Asking them to bring proof of a recent payment from TFL/affiliates (payslip) would be better. And isn't the hardware they are bringing on to be authorised asset tagged which would count as some sort of proof?

2024-08-21 07:21:14 UTC

The year is 2031, in the UK TV broadcasts are no longer a thing as it's all streaming now (https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2022/12/broadband-woes-as-bbc-plan-to-switch-off-terrestrial-uk-tv-by-2030.html ), all non-mobile telephony services are VOIP and then something happens to Telehouse North (one of the UK's main internet connection points).
The mobile networks are overwhelmed with everyone switching to using them for everything - and even then, they have problems with unavailable services, failing routing and multiple retries.
No news availability causes panic...

2024-08-11 12:23:14 UTC

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I just don't get why pensions funds don't take action after the 2nd missed payment to stop this from happening. But then again, I can't understand how a massively indebted loss making company (such as Thames Water) can pay dividends to shareholders - dividends from what?