2026-03-28T00:29:03Z https://yabu.me Emily_S https://yabu.me/npub18demsckay0nwdd9a833stykrn0rlv298dmckc950z6p0sullt29sk5u079 https://mastodon.me.uk/system/accounts/avatars/111/279/365/193/182/091/original/e2948bf5731e4ad7.jpg https://mastodon.me.uk/system/accounts/avatars/111/279/365/193/182/091/original/e2948bf5731e4ad7.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqlgn3357gk48rhzma5sdh8xphtguwtf5r04la877x4pkaxmhv3cszyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkyuutv4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0mteeq245hrdvaysc38ykxshvzptt0ya0eljfkyjp4s9v264vm7gu8sc78'>nevent1q…sc78</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>literally all the problems that happened with &#34;off shoring&#34; 2026-05-05T07:22:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9hczmrnzh6z2jqef60vawkyenscls8760746uh0kvq9hp4m9u8aszyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgky8ryjr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8fwjpvt9y866hwjjjkgr58gf2ggkv5el0vw2vr0ajnfm4pwqy9ecjxggpx'>nevent1q…ggpx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think this points at one of the things I find more offensive about these LLMs. The first machine I wrote code on had kilobytes of ram. Long term storage was a tape drive.<br/><br/>I grew up watching people pull off amazing feats of computation with less resources than my current watch. <br/><br/>Now everything is getting brute forced by datacenters that use more power than the town I live in. <br/><br/>We&#39;re losing the subtlety, the beauty, the cleverness, to a sea of average slop. 2026-04-18T08:21:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8fwjpvt9y866hwjjjkgr58gf2ggkv5el0vw2vr0ajnfm4pwqy9eczyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgk5hwv4k damn these ai bots are bloody mad... <br/><br/>This github repo only contains the static files from my blog. There is zero reason for any one else to clone it. <br/><br/>I published a blog post on thursday night.<br/><br/>That apparently triggered 19 unique entities to clone it 42 times???<br/><br/>I&#39;ve got an rss feed ffs. there are so much less computationally expensive ways to get the same text.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/424/267/875/080/220/original/ef114359d59ce0ea.png"> <br/> 2026-04-18T06:27:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs04t9y08crr6m53cwk8dht2d56n7zdujzm2q8gc0tde2xznjtu6rczyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkudwq2p Been going through the tool boxes we collected from my wife&#39;s dads place. I&#39;ve been able to figure out most of the tools (with a little help from my dad for the bike specific bits) <br/><br/>But the purpose of these three baffles us. Made of what feels like streel, they look like they were machined. <br/><br/>Any one got a clue what they are for?<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/392/261/695/564/956/original/7e0e085b2a9df5db.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/392/261/698/881/668/original/2b58fab0bf105e3b.jpg"> <br/> 2026-04-12T14:44:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrv2r4uhlc6f7ey2auydz0ntw094u7tjucjgknh86znar3pf93vpczyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgk727pxz Fun view up an electricity pilon yesterday with the clouds in the background. Feels a bit like a quilt pattern.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/300/468/726/315/089/original/35d78418aa787e50.jpg"> <br/> 2026-03-27T09:43:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsquj7qvnsp7jk0w5hxsx8pd4mj8py8vv4d4kx8h2eadtwvujk498qzyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkn4vpxr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv5765mramsjtey5z455qfxvvq7n24xs0pn9jfasyvf2qsspjpztsyetx3c'>nevent1q…tx3c</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>how many actual people are there on LinkedIn? Feels like it&#39;s 99% AI generated slop 2026-03-04T17:14:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqwsyk2v9fl9d50g9pjkzr78kyyx7023h77l3eqtd6t9dm2awh5rqzyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkdqaj98 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8xu0rlqc9vkxnasug62kw6wadfj6cay00cl2kjf266u5utykrxsqn0a8ek'>nevent1q…a8ek</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>also I love how china went from &#34;there&#39;s no point in us doing anything because china burns all the coal&#34; to &#34;well china managed to do it, why aren&#39;t we?&#34; 2026-03-03T07:45:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqst25mvkwcqajh6pufay3ecd8lhnmu0x7y7hft96e4l8kh5wa0cqzyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkaagdvu Think half term won over the rugby today. Very busy at the repair cafe. <br/><br/>* A cricut that seemed to just work.<br/>* A toster that they&#39;d brought a new element for. <br/>* A TV that they&#39;d brought a replacement cap for but unfortunately it still didn&#39;t work.<br/>* A set of fairy lights needed the wires splicing back in.<br/>* another set of fairy lights that snapped right at the plug not leaving enough to solder to.<br/>* a hoover with broken Cable Retractor, spring had snapped.<br/><br/>#RepairCafe 2026-02-21T18:03:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9hm5tul7x09xhwvunxcmej4uwg8g3yqglea69ve0nwd4e0u7t8hczyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgk24hktd You know all that water use that mentioned when talking about AI datacenters? That&#39;s used for cooling. <br/><br/>You know what you don&#39;t have in space? A plentiful external supply of water to cool stuff down with. <br/><br/>You know the other name for a thermos flask? A vacuum flask. We use a vacuum to make it harder for heat to escape. You know what space is? <br/><br/>A datacenter in space is a thermal management nightmare. 2026-02-01T18:06:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxsvhjgjzamv3vachyj2cj6yllg70f9wgm4a3epzq4clhc99p6tgszyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkqzy2hp As stupid shit posts of a repo goes this might be the best I&#39;ve made in a long time.<br/><br/>Presenting the Self Deleting Repo.<br/><br/>When opened in vs code or zed it immediately deletes its self. (at least if you have the rust plug in installed) <br/><br/>I&#39;ve also added agent instructions that might make the agent delete it but I don&#39;t have any of the ai tools installed to see if that part actually works.<br/><br/><a href="https://github.com/emilyselwood/self_deleting_repo">https://github.com/emilyselwood/self_deleting_repo</a> 2026-01-21T21:56:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs22jv9w83nnagdf2z289jecps84xun9xfhjtycv93q6qndtxz4njszyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgk432gm3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspzltl9kcq9r5a34j3wx4yp8lfp07xmhjefdhr9w7rpj296mn2ensgag07u'>nevent1q…g07u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>wonder how much validation they put on that... if that tasks.json includes a command to delete the current directory? 2026-01-21T08:01:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqmgxk75q0zry3nm6l0trtexkwlztswc5yuypc8hlnp9f9qtfevkczyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgk2zeyt0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfncumgwxrc8mlqsdssta6wur7sywccfd350jmvgdr87m70l9jmwcsnzs3a'>nevent1q…zs3a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>every gay transphobe thinks they aren&#39;t in the line behind us. 2026-01-18T12:26:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstmzf8jh29atnqsdgn322aye7ypag5nwxxjz5hj3qhsmup5e27t9czyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkk06m09 She feels relaxed but she really doesn&#39;t look it. <br/><br/>#cat<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/115/617/817/955/103/001/original/972fafa0de0fe0dc.jpg"> <br/> 2025-11-26T20:16:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrakcg6pl98apj9mevap7sxl3z4cyzqgcd5sfmm5tle799g2dlj8qzyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkk6f52a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd0wmkvxk8xfu7y4a4e84k6lqvj0qf4pg2z9ax2r4awesnns2gpcczve907'>nevent1q…e907</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Re wired the switch and connected the ground wire around the side to make the lamp safe. <br/><br/>If you work for a charity shop and someone wants to buy something you&#39;ve found unsafe or not tested, please for the love of the goddess don&#39;t sell it to them. We were lucky this one got brought to us for a check before it killed the new owner.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/115/042/899/987/670/160/original/1fb35b1da57cc178.jpg"> <br/> 2025-08-17T07:26:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd0wmkvxk8xfu7y4a4e84k6lqvj0qf4pg2z9ax2r4awesnns2gpcczyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkfpnd7j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxktjue3rle5llfp78vs49fytah7a5fe9dh2pw6rkddy5c8j5d8xsa2etg3'>nevent1q…etg3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I opened it up to find this horror show.<br/><br/>The wire to the plug is at the bottom. The wire to the lamp body is at the top. <br/><br/>The ground and neutral joined together on the plug side, and the ground and miss coloured live on the other. <br/><br/>The case of the lamp is metal. The ground wire is bolted to the case at the top. Yes the case is live mains when this lamp is turned on.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/115/042/855/028/006/137/original/69785da39cf0a322.jpg"> <br/> 2025-08-17T07:18:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxktjue3rle5llfp78vs49fytah7a5fe9dh2pw6rkddy5c8j5d8xszyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkrptm89 Yesterday at the repair cafe someone brought in a lamp. They&#39;d acquire it from a charity shop, that apperently didn&#39;t want to sell it because it was unsafe, they seemed pleased that they&#39;d managed to persuade the charity shop to part with it.<br/><br/>The pat tester reported a problem, but couldn&#39;t do the full test, they&#39;d not brought the bulb of course.<br/><br/>So I took a look. A multimeter along the flex pointed to weirdness in the switch. 2025-08-17T07:10:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz8w8dlm673rg7szaqwerzl47mwwl37xfzldfrfhythftk8p588jgzyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkwv5nhv Damn people. If your making a website for an event there are two things that need to be front and centre on your landing page (Preferably every page)<br/><br/>* WHEN the event is<br/>* WHERE the event is<br/><br/>99% of the time I&#39;m arriving on your page to either decide if I can go or to add it to the makers calendar. Both of which require that information. 2025-08-05T19:49:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs87krg9fh5aksmjmv6fnxzywqvynh7vfa4zcajqunntysfqv4uadqzyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgknuq9wx They&#39;ve installed copilot on our machines at work. My biggest annoyance is that the fucking tab key accepts it&#39;s suggestions. Have you tried to write python with out pressing tab? Like you start a new line and it suggests a vomit of clearly wrong and useless bollox but to start typing what you actually need you need to indent for the block... 2025-07-26T08:14:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrpyn057r5fxsem6knxq6yyqra27e4n4605rywxs546aqgqgnk9fczyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgke79jqw To answer my earlier post in case the thread gets mangled at some point here is my new process. <br/><br/>1: Go to the circle shape thing (I really need a good name for this thing) <a href="http://parsecsreach.org/circle_shapes/?shapes=W3siYyI6MjAsInIiOjY1LCJvIjowLCJhIjo2NSwidSI6MjAsImUiOjAsImwiOiIjMDAwMDAwIn1d">http://parsecsreach.org/circle_shapes/?shapes=W3siYyI6MjAsInIiOjY1LCJvIjowLCJhIjo2NSwidSI6MjAsImUiOjAsImwiOiIjMDAwMDAwIn1d</a><br/><br/>2: Setup your pattern however you want.<br/>3: Hit the download button<br/>4: open the resulting file in inkscape ( version greater than 1.3, tested on 1.4.2<br/>5: Select the object, hit ctrl + shift + g a couple of times to undo the grouping, you&#39;ll see loads of blue bounding boxes when its right.<br/><br/>... 2025-06-23T20:47:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsycv05f8vdmwenzrt86nw8sj854jskmfxq7jsprck5t0mcau0mdjczyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkhfxfup Any of you wonderful folk happen to be looking for a head of engineering role? <br/><br/>Work is looking at the moment. You&#39;ll need to be in the office in London (UK) 5 minutes from Farringdon tube station, 3 days a week. Wonderfully diverse team of excellent engineers (if I do say so myself) and a company mission that can make a difference. <br/><br/>You&#39;d get to work with me, which I&#39;ll leave up to you if it&#39;s a pro or con 😂<br/><br/><a href="https://careers.natcapresearch.com/jobs/6026575-head-of-engineering">https://careers.natcapresearch.com/jobs/6026575-head-of-engineering</a> 2025-06-12T09:28:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs29kf9n39tckvluh7rtgndl2zszz3ssmlpye7l9hr9cxpy4a3k7tgzyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkdamz5e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq6273npq09y04ggnyrwu8sxxhrzxdc4c3n0v0r5p7d2jqwn4w8tcd64vfs'>nevent1q…4vfs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I did but it was over 15 years ago, things have changed a lot. (And I was young, stupider, and a different gender)<br/><br/>The biggest mistake I made was not having enough of a plan for what I wanted to see in each place. Spending a couple of days in Rome, two nights in Venice, a day in Prague, etc doesn&#39;t leave much time to randomly explore, you need a list of things to see and then probably half it. 2024-11-27T06:33:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs94ve0q65k03j6v3nglquq52d3kvr5z3fha4m8p8uwef6s5l459aczyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkhum6cm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0srexapx67fj9yyk3xc4kz3fs6cvmuwqrpfmzy5kyprqqp33ggjq8mlfqd'>nevent1q…lfqd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Illuminated biblically accurate pumpkin!<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/113/397/180/955/972/634/original/ec8d30c7de85287f.jpg"> <br/> 2024-10-30T15:54:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0srexapx67fj9yyk3xc4kz3fs6cvmuwqrpfmzy5kyprqqp33ggjqzyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkw7qp83 Biblically accurate pumpkin! <br/><br/>#pumpkin<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/113/397/105/137/731/828/original/b95a769a63586c56.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/113/397/105/380/209/833/original/06261f61527ea1c0.jpg"> <br/> 2024-10-30T15:36:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq7j4mk6nhxf9n09systp4w5nsk9fjsmpjhvgwcmpdy7vqgerp5dczyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkgvkq40 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9fkv3a7huft9arah8lfntgm58yy7pp0lws80mxewh3dgw73h6mjg4hgesh'>nevent1q…gesh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oooh! But also fancy cookie cutters! That has to have been done before! To the search engines 2024-09-02T05:47:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy9yqypp3kcfwrhv9rzd602yvhh0vfwjya7kuyha3qkprmz79zfrszyqah8wrzm537de45h57xxpvjcwdu0a3g5ah0zmqk3utg97rnladgkk78dme In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw5lwamty7h7pqnwp63acn5jxc0jn2qjpjvdf9mjmu9tms2x76mzc0ec9dd'>nevent1q…c9dd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Goddess this. Also given that apperently at the activity pub level it&#39;s a &#34;move&#34; activity it should be possible. 2024-08-12T06:26:47Z