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Mainly here for the 8-bit coding. Cantankerous. Drinker and brewer of beer. Fixer and breaker of many things.
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2026-05-03 22:58:33 UTC

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Kellogs' All Bran. Gone and replaced with a less healthy version that tastes awful.
That's just ruined a recipe that used it as an ingredient.

2026-04-29 10:46:56 UTC

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I might apply and tell them I'm fully prepared help them accelerate climate change with AI accelerated anthropogenic global warming.

2026-04-26 16:53:31 UTC

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Plug in solar isn't even legal yet. That's why the regs were updated with regards to labelling of bidirectional safety devices. People plugging them in on a circuit with other outlets will be interesting when a fault happens. Given the amount of dangerous shit amazon sells now. And... feeding in mains voltage with a plug??

2026-04-12 12:22:14 UTC

Mathers Black Beer
Roses Lime Marmalade
Patum Peperium
What next?
:(

2026-04-11 13:10:48 UTC

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All the ingredients to port the full version back to the Amiga.

2026-04-05 16:11:51 UTC

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You'll be pleased to hear that onion marmalade is in breach of the labelling rules and a clear misuse of the term 'marmalade'. A call to your local trading standards office is in order. ;)
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3120

2026-04-05 09:51:41 UTC

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Finally, we'll be able to sell tomato marmalade, chocolate marmalade, and sweet potato marmalade. Yes, sweet potato is listed as a fruit, so are carrots. No, I don't know why.
Now if the EU could also fix the definition of "wine" in the same way it would be great.

2026-02-11 12:40:09 UTC

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2026-02-09 20:06:01 UTC

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2026-02-09 18:59:16 UTC

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2026-02-09 18:54:51 UTC

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2026-02-07 18:28:49 UTC

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Yesterday it was raw nettles. Today was worms. I wonder what culinary delights tomorrow holds.

2026-02-07 18:07:56 UTC

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Before Bear Grills and Ray Mears there was Lofty Wiseman. This is from Lofty's "SAS Survival Handbook."
"WORMS: Contain the highest class of protein with a large proportion of essential amino acids and are easily collected. Starve them for a day before you eat them or squeeze them between the fingers to clear muck out of them. Worms can be sun- or force-dried, one easy method is to leave them to dry on a hot stone, and then ground into a powder to add to other food as required."

2026-02-07 17:54:27 UTC

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Apparently they make quite good survival protein if you allow time for them to purge themselves. Some people have compared dried worms to bacon. Afaik there aren't any poisonous worms but don't trust that without verifying. 🪱🪱

2026-02-07 17:47:00 UTC

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https://genius.com/Children-songs-nobody-likes-me-lyrics

2026-02-07 12:33:35 UTC

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2026-02-06 01:10:46 UTC

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Take a $500m bribe?
https://upolitics.com/news/uae-royal-invested-500m-in-trump-crypto-firm-days-before-trump-granted-uae-access-to-most-sensitive-computer-chips/

2026-02-01 23:49:22 UTC

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I've got a set of original arcade boards adapted to JAMMA. My favoutire arcade game when it came out. I held the top spot in the Soho arcades back then playing Sarah.

2026-01-31 11:56:02 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@CarveHerName/115989007663964887
How not to do alt text.
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2026-01-18 19:53:31 UTC

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Who cares when it looks that cool.

2026-01-18 17:00:23 UTC

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2026-01-18 15:58:03 UTC

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Just make your own from a giant tractor tyre.

2025-12-09 19:32:28 UTC

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Only seen fryums, popcorn and corn on the cob being salt fried in India. And Americans trying to salt fry chicken or steak on YouTube 😂

2025-11-27 13:19:45 UTC

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Here's the before version.
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/115/621/855/529/983/509/original/57d07e0eb37c0d44.jpg

2025-11-18 13:21:04 UTC

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But https://www.cloudflare.com/ isn't down. Curious.

2025-11-06 10:45:19 UTC

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Thank you. When it first releases steam I turn down the gas so some steam escape as the weight moves but it doesn't jump up like that. So you leave the gas higher and count how many times it does a big pressure release? 👍
I searched youtube for a video about counting whistles but most were in Hindi and my vocabulary is very basic. One in English was titled: "Don't damaal your house 🔥 Learn how to use a pressure cooker from the best." 😂😂
I do this: https://youtu.be/Msx-pMiIPck?si=Xh2wQAAeIC4ZYQW0

2025-10-21 05:54:09 UTC

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2025-10-07 22:57:43 UTC

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Typo "the British foot retailer Co-op Group"

2025-09-01 12:06:53 UTC

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Wow. Replacing forest with tarmac and conctrete at that scale is crazy. I hope the government see sense and enforce more sustainable development rather than knowingly let a disaster unfold.

2025-09-01 10:56:48 UTC

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Though that was about 20 years ago.

2025-09-01 10:55:55 UTC

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My grandmother grew up there so we visited a few places she lived and went to. Most places we went to had very little evidence of any tourism apart from in Shimla.

2025-08-31 18:46:46 UTC

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I loved Himachel Pradesh. Hope to go back someday. I'll read the article later when I've got time and strength to get angry.

2025-08-02 16:37:11 UTC

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Yes. Last year I built a greenhouse for the chillis and sweet peppers but still planted them out a bit late this year. I grow corriander, lemongrass, thai basil, some other herbs and some cucumbers in there too.

2025-08-02 16:28:55 UTC

Yellow sweet pepper, Cayenne, Habanero, Hot Lemon, Trinidad Perfume, Buena Mulata, Apache, Hungarian Black, Basket of Fire.
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/114/960/096/025/399/127/original/af74641eb52c1b0c.jpg

2025-07-26 17:14:20 UTC

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I used to be an electrician and a gas fitter, on many occasions I got called to a rental property or a place with new owners to take out the electric hob and fit a gas one. It was always to cook roti.
I'm never sure if there's a difference between chapati and roti, or when I should call them one or the another. They often seem to be interchangeble terms in the UK
Edit: Ah, roti are normally cooked on a flame and chapati on a tava.

2025-07-26 16:22:35 UTC

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But you need a gas hob for chapatis too.
Even if you get pre made ones in a packet you need to freshen them up otherwise you just experience sad, limp chapati sadness.

2025-07-17 22:05:11 UTC

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How many pints can you drink and still use power tools?
Is it more or less than seven?

2025-07-17 21:05:01 UTC

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This evening requires LOUD music.
Once again I'm glad to be 4 metres under ground.

2025-07-17 21:01:44 UTC

I'm still at work. Do I start drinking and walk home or start drinking and sleep here? I suppose it depends on the pubs still being open and turning the long walk into a pub crawl.
The job I'm stuck doing will not be impacted by a few pints but my ability to stick at it and do it proprlerly, rather than digging a large pit and burying it, will be.
Needing to dispose of some of the finest beer known to man* is part of the job anyway.
*The species, I'm sure there are finer alien ales.

2025-07-15 15:38:22 UTC

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Such a distinct flavour. 100% mustard oil is labelled "not for consumption" and "external use only" and we have to make do with so-called edible mustard oil that's a 50/50 mix of mustard oil and another oil. That just means I use twice as much. 🤔
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/114/857/895/224/286/556/original/54cc4c1585ef2de9.jpg

2025-07-15 15:03:54 UTC

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And mustard oil, although original mustard oil is banned here. We only get watered down stuff.

2025-07-11 18:04:41 UTC

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The documentation often says "should" and "should not" rather than "must" and " must not". This is to avoid placing restrictions on what people do with their own instances. Unfortunately it also avoids placing restrictions on what people can do with their own instance.
i.e. "Block - Signal to a remote server that they should hide your profile from that user. Not guaranteed."
"...it recommends that servers SHOULD NOT deliver Block activities to..."
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#Block

2025-07-11 15:19:51 UTC

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The instance I'm on shows how many followers @npub1s6e…n008 has.

2025-07-04 11:23:18 UTC

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Quite a few doctors got them for working with people with leprosy or the poor (sometimes a euphemism for low cast). It's a George VI era one. Is it gold or bronze? There's more chance of finding a record of the gold awards.

2025-06-17 09:28:21 UTC

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Doesn't all work ultimately end up as heat?

2025-05-22 23:41:59 UTC

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Google's business model is damaged by VPNs?

2025-05-06 21:41:43 UTC

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Well you said "We do have (in global terms, relatively small) surplus with the USA," and "he [Trump] sees trade surpluses as an indication countries are being 'unfair' to the US...."
Whichever side you are looking from one of those two things is wrong. Trump can't argue the UK is "unfair". And the surplus is only small if you discount services, as Trump choses to. Following his formula for tariffs, without an artificial lower limit the UK would be at 0% and the EU at 20%

2025-05-06 19:09:12 UTC

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Yes, it's trade deficits that trump thinks in unfair. That's why EU imports in tbe US got a 20% tariff while the UK got his baseline 10%.

2025-05-05 21:20:37 UTC

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Can you check the drive number in zero page (0x0004 = current selected drive 9=A...15=P) matches register C, in that it's set to 1.

2025-05-05 20:54:23 UTC

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That's odd. It wouldn't normally, in my experience, look anywhere other than the boot drive unless specifically instructed to, A: shouldnt be hard coded. In a system with 2 floppy drives I could boot from either with the same disc without problems.

2025-05-05 18:42:43 UTC

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CP/M didn't know or control what drive it was booting from. Most machines defaulted to booting from A (and wouldn't check other drives) but some, such as the Osborne OCC1, would let you boot from another drive it you pressed CTRL-B or other key combination on power up or reset.
So: Can it? Yes. Will it? It depends on the machine.

2025-05-02 23:28:38 UTC

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Not trivial with the error correction and redundency in QR codes. This is a working QR code after all.
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/114/440/808/529/563/726/original/ce7afc2303830951.mp4

2025-04-25 19:27:38 UTC

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I know how to install Win11 on an "incompatible" device. How do I fool Microsoft into detecting my Copilot+ compatible devices as incompatible?

2025-04-17 23:24:59 UTC

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Confused. Which one are you?

2025-03-30 15:00:45 UTC

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They have a Burmese language service but have dropped some other coverage. They can't afford to expand it without more help from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
https://www.bbc.com/burmese/schedule.htm

2025-02-10 12:40:16 UTC

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Damn dragon curves and their relatives. I can't escape them ;)
https://mastodon.me.uk/@geoffl/113896900631002265

2024-12-06 21:56:23 UTC

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Tell Musk it's stifling bussines then wait a few weeks.

2024-11-19 13:10:24 UTC

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If I was offered work I always I took it, even the hard, cold hours. If I needed work then I searched for it. I don't know if such things exist now but job centres had a "temporary job" section. If I was ever short then I'd head there early and ask what they had. 8 hours unloading car parts from lorries, 2 days mixing cement, delivering leaflets, pulling cables, anything. Spent some of my down time getting qualifications for gas work, forklift ticket, etc. That opened more doors.

2024-11-19 12:30:20 UTC

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Spent the last 30 years working like that, or living a communal lifestyle. All bar one year that I worked in an office, that put me off ever being full time employed ever again. I have zero planned work in my future but know something will show up. I'm much happier like that. Wage slavery isn't for all of us.
A decent living wage should be available to those who want it. Just don't limit the options for those of us who don't.

2024-10-17 04:03:39 UTC

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use programming to decrease evil influences
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/113/320/742/269/346/206/original/deeb3396013c8e27.jpg

2024-08-17 08:40:26 UTC

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Buying a device that isn't running stock firmware from Facebook marketplace sounds like a great way to end up with a pocket full of malware. No way I'd be using that for banking.

2024-08-17 00:34:15 UTC

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https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/112/974/551/718/019/343/original/d2f2fb5be632b030.jpg

2024-08-17 00:29:52 UTC

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The prerequisite of a laptop or desktop is literally stated on your website. It's apparently so easy you don't know how to tell people how to do it.

2024-08-17 00:26:59 UTC

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I have one device, a smartphone.

2024-08-17 00:08:28 UTC

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"You need a USB cable for attaching the device to a laptop or desktop."
Who even has a "laptop" or a "desktop" nowadays? We all just use phones. Why do you need a USB cable? You want me to find two cans and some string too? My phone connects with WiFi or Bluetooth and charges wirelessly, I don't use cables. It's not the 1990s anymore. Why can't they bother to get that install working directly from the phone like an app store?