jtonline

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Dislikes: Addison's disease

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2026-08-17 09:55:03 UTC

Is there a way to stop #meshtastic nodes making any noise? I think I've turned everything off but it's still beeping annoyingly. (Maybe it needs charging but the battery claimed it was at 65% so 🤷)

2026-08-14 18:42:14 UTC

How far away are we from emergency alerts about small boats?

2026-08-10 09:48:02 UTC

Lovely to read on other social media how someone is upset about paying for free cars because people are fraudulently claiming their children have mental health problems. Meanwhile in the real world, the chances of getting any help from CAMHS whatsoever before children age out is practically nonexistent. This country :/

2026-08-06 18:18:38 UTC

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@nprofile…vwwx now I'm just imagining following Five Million Farage around with that blimp anyway! :)

2026-08-06 17:45:00 UTC

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@nprofile…vwwx you would think Trump could have accompanied Five Million Farage to a few Clacton rallies to show his appreciation.

2026-08-06 14:40:19 UTC

Has Five Million Farage actually turned up to Clacton for his election folly?

2026-07-28 09:30:44 UTC

Trying to find a good convention for where to put python venvs.

2026-07-25 10:49:29 UTC

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@nprofile…6mhw maybe the way to stop people coming over here to take care of us is to deport anyone who relies on the NHS or social care instead.
Better pack my bags.

2026-07-25 10:02:31 UTC

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I'm currently resisting asking who bailed out the banks and left them too big to fail.
The Lib Dems made plenty of mistakes in the coalition but even after chaos with a pure Tory government, this country is going to conclude that electing the Tory reject club is the way forward and I'm beginning to think we deserve everything we'll get.

2026-07-24 17:45:12 UTC

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@nprofile…3t4m coincidentally, I have just impulse purchased a RAK WisMesh Ethernet MQTT Gateway with POE but it hasn't arrived yet so while I think it might do what you want, I have no idea if it's any good yet.

2026-07-20 21:34:27 UTC

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Burnham had one job after over a decade of chasing inhumane right wing victim blaming.
He failed fast....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg4we9g58do

2026-07-20 21:30:32 UTC

Starmer had one job after over a decade of long Tory corrupting British politics.
He failed fast.
https://news.sky.com/story/keir-starmers-freebies-everything-you-need-to-know-and-why-theyre-proving-so-controversial-13217722

2026-07-18 21:38:31 UTC

Another night regretting CAMHS not having the capacity it needs.

2026-07-13 19:54:33 UTC

404 tabs open.

2026-07-07 13:55:37 UTC

Instead of a unity candidate, it would be nice if everyone (even binface!) called Five Million Farage's bluff and just let him return to parliament uncontested.

2026-07-06 20:10:32 UTC

Sodium (143 mmol/L) 💪
#AddisonsDisease

2026-07-03 22:22:12 UTC

Just read an excellent state of the fediverse post.
https://gfsc.community/why-we-discontinued-our-mastodon-server/

2026-06-28 08:53:34 UTC

There's a cool breeze! 🎉

2026-06-27 10:47:06 UTC

TIL there are combined heat pumps that do air-air and air-water, which could be interesting.

2026-06-24 16:51:11 UTC

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@nprofile…v47q /me waves from meshtastic!
I'm still a bit baffled by the meshtastic/meshcore split but it did seem a tad tribal.

2026-06-24 13:27:28 UTC

School is lava apparently.
Luckily it's a modern breathable building with great airflow... ah, that's the furnace like air. Oops.

2026-06-22 09:51:38 UTC

Can we at least get a decent home secretary for a change please?

2026-06-19 14:19:00 UTC

Blimey, the envelope of cash I posted successfully reached it's destination!

2026-06-17 21:30:15 UTC

Moon's good tonight.

2026-06-16 09:17:23 UTC

Still waiting for my envelope of cash to reach its destination.

2026-06-12 12:41:36 UTC

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@nprofile…lc7z <looks at all the weeds growing through the concrete in the front "garden">
...
<closes the blind>

2026-06-09 09:26:27 UTC

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Although for openness and ease of hackability (I can host my own app store and write apps in javascript) the Bangle.js watch is hard to beat
https://banglejs.com/

2026-06-09 09:23:39 UTC

UNA watch looks interesting
https://unawatch.com/
h/t @nprofile…u0xg

2026-06-08 16:15:23 UTC

"a few seconds left" stops being believable after a few minutes.

2026-06-07 15:35:17 UTC

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@nprofile…kzpn date knight 🤣

2026-06-02 11:07:00 UTC

"In the meantime, some have sought actively to misrepresent this issue as an attack on trans people. It is not." (Mims Davies, Conservative MP for East Grinstead and Uckfield.)
Well I'm completely reassured then :/
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-06-01/debates/CE610C68-7093-454F-B897-AF008EE7E7A0/EqualityAct2010CodeOfPractice#contribution-B93BA25E-6776-48BA-B2DC-4AEF9F0D22DE

2026-05-26 18:59:42 UTC

This school phone ban thing... how well is it going to survive contact with mums?

2026-05-25 19:28:39 UTC

I wonder if the new unitary authority will let me just download a .ics file of bin days.

2026-05-22 10:44:56 UTC

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@nprofile…wsr8 @nprofile…2q04 I would panic if we import their barely there cubicle design! Presumably required so it's easy to check the right kind of person is in there. 🤯

2026-05-20 15:53:18 UTC

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@nprofile…99fv "kinks" and "foibles" it is then.

2026-05-20 08:39:27 UTC

Maybe "default context" and "conditional context" would have been more honest than "rules" and "skills".

2026-05-19 07:56:40 UTC

Having a bad bout of missing my mum this morning. Not sure what brought that on.

2026-05-18 09:40:32 UTC

Still trying to get my head around asking chatty jeebs to score anything. Surely any numbers it gives you are a work of pure fiction, or am I missing something?

2026-05-15 22:01:19 UTC

Apparently more democracy is using an overwhelming majority to do something you said you definitely wouldn't, while less democracy is campaigning for a new mandate in an election. 🤦
Yes, this is a subtoot.

2026-05-09 09:20:29 UTC

My pet theory is that Labour had one job that they absolutely had to succeed with after the May-Johnson-Truss-Sunak era.
They had to restore trust in politics.
They didn't even try, and I think it's probably too late now even if they wanted to.
Not looking forward to the next general election at all.

2026-05-09 07:56:58 UTC

Blimey, I just read a well balanced political discussion on nextdoor. Maybe there is hope after all.

2026-05-08 14:24:13 UTC

Ow. I thought my arm wouldn't be quite as sore after the second shingles jab. I was wrong.

2026-05-02 19:20:14 UTC

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I thought I should check for more broken links in the blogroll and now I've been massively side tracked by https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/

2026-05-02 18:39:50 UTC

Just noticed that the about page on my blog was so old that it still linked to Delicious!

2026-04-28 21:05:48 UTC

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@nprofile…4uv7 did you get back to Southampton Central ok? Cross Country were as reliable as I remember on my way home!

2026-04-27 08:49:55 UTC

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@nprofile…f0qm do it! (I was thinking the same thing so some inspiration would be great 😃)

2026-04-26 14:34:03 UTC

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@nprofile…kzpn @nprofile…rd4l it does seem to be open to free gigs but that still feels a little uncomfortable compared to "good first issue" in a way I'm not sure I could justify. The person who mentioned that link is live on stage now, so maybe it'll become clearer.

2026-04-26 11:00:30 UTC

Interesting discussion after #OggCamp session about the importance of usability in open source freedom.
TIL https://opensourcedesign.net/ exists.

2026-04-26 10:32:26 UTC

They've moved the cold room for day 2 of #OggCamp!

2026-04-24 17:21:09 UTC

On the train to #OggCamp!

2026-04-24 10:48:48 UTC

Trying to find out what happened to my phone number. The port was apparently rejected but it ported away from the old provider successfully, so who knows where it is now.

2026-04-22 13:54:33 UTC

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@nprofile…63aw is it definitely from your roof, not an unfortunate neighbour?

2026-04-22 13:42:59 UTC

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@nprofile…63aw that sounds unhelpful.

2026-04-22 12:32:50 UTC

Just the four holes in the roof apparently. Splendid.

2026-04-21 14:29:45 UTC

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@nprofile…lc7z no traction engines?! :(

2026-04-21 14:27:07 UTC

All four lanes were open on the M27 on the way home!
Mind blown! 🤯

2026-04-19 17:40:19 UTC

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@nprofile…q4x0 I really thought it might have been but no, it was definitely someoneelsedriving.

2026-04-19 16:53:30 UTC

Just found my car twin on Google street view! Spooky.

2026-04-19 14:25:31 UTC

What's the maximum number of times you can re-microwave a cup of tea before you risk ending up with super powers?

2026-04-14 09:33:58 UTC

Quite tempted to spend the day just screaming at all the things

2026-04-12 19:15:05 UTC

I wonder if JD Vance is planning to help out with any local election campaigning 🤞

2026-04-12 09:38:06 UTC

Blimey, one of the candidates in the upcoming local elections has a mastodon link in whocanivotefor!

2026-04-10 14:23:45 UTC

As if things weren't bad enough, I've just learned of an alleged maple syrup scam! Is nothing sacred?!

2026-04-09 13:58:24 UTC

Do the Green Party still oppose HS2?

2026-04-08 15:20:20 UTC

"Google couldn't confirm that you're an adult"
Oh no, my ads won't be personalised, how will I manage.

2026-04-04 13:00:05 UTC

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@nprofile…edcp nothing is really new :)
Obviously you don't have to pay but company policies and slack messages to keep everyone on brand are probably not the best way to handle a strategic social media site. Like the one you have to use to reach the developer company.

2026-04-04 12:54:09 UTC

Pondering a way to get big companies/organisations to pay for social media...
Free option: employee verifies their company email address -> verified employee.
Paid option: company gets to decide who is verified! (And a nice company dashboard, admins etc.)

2026-04-01 10:54:35 UTC

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Apparently I'm doing this wrong and they're meant to be believable at first glance, so...
"UK Home Secretary has proscribed the Green Party as a terrorist organisation ahead of local elections."

2026-04-01 08:44:01 UTC

"UK Home Secretary stops all dangerous channel crossings by opening universal safe legal routes for asylum seekers."

2026-03-31 21:08:29 UTC

Messing with DNS records. No good will come of this.

2026-03-29 16:29:22 UTC

Reading about "Just Stop Solar" in Lincolnshire. 🤦

2026-03-29 10:22:57 UTC

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@nprofile…dqzr soon OpenBenches will own all the benches, then it won't be long before the enshitification starts!
Want to have a nice sit down to enjoy the view? Sign up now!
Need to pause for a rest? Accept tracking first!
Why not upgrade to a VIP subscription to reserve the best benches?
Mwahahahaha. Sorry, just ignore me, someone stole an hour of sleep!

2026-03-29 10:15:09 UTC

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@nprofile…65q8 that reminds me, I think Lenovo are trying to ignore me. Should I go straight back to the UK GM or give the poor customer relations person I got palmed off on another poke first?

2026-03-29 10:12:20 UTC

Before long King Trump will have fired everything the US military has got at Iran, then Denmark could preemptively invade Maine to protect Greenland from attack.

2026-03-29 10:06:37 UTC

Well, Easter holiday with the minion is going swimmingly so far :/

2026-03-28 20:57:39 UTC

What stupid thing has King Trump done today?

2026-03-27 22:07:37 UTC

"Would you support it being a legal requirement for social media platforms to have a minimum age lower than 16?"
Unfortunately none of the available options cover disagreeing with a legal minimum age completely. I love "consultations".

2026-03-27 14:03:52 UTC

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@nprofile…qrey I regret to inform you there sandwiches and wraps just now as well, which I was also too slow for!! It was much easier to catch the left overs working in the house!

2026-03-27 13:02:14 UTC

Doh, I missed out on spare sausage baps this morning! Explains why the office is so busy on a Friday though.

2026-03-27 08:51:11 UTC

Ogg Camp has made it onto the family calendar! Just need to book it now and decide how to get there.

2026-03-25 17:12:15 UTC

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@nprofile…xjkk well that puts my current grumble about Android demanding a phone number to install apps on a tablet into perspective. (I'm still annoyed but I would be significantly more annoyed if it had pulled this kind of age verification BS.)

2026-03-25 10:48:08 UTC

An email trying to phish my github credentials seems more than just "spam" but what do I know.

2026-03-24 21:57:57 UTC

Well I'm fairly sure Google have extracted data from every device I own in the process but I finally have a working Play account, or at least it's been working long enough to install mastodon.

2026-03-24 20:48:31 UTC

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@nprofile…nutk very wise!

2026-03-24 20:42:30 UTC

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@nprofile…lf5x ah, good point, it was still possible to skip an MS account way back when I last did an install.

2026-03-24 18:40:26 UTC

Does anyone know if new Windows machines demand things like phone numbers during setup?
(It's been a while since I installed Windows, and I'm aiming to keep it that way, but I'm just wondering how it compares to Android.)

2026-03-24 14:03:52 UTC

Maybe this is a DNS problem 🤔

2026-03-23 21:06:56 UTC

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@nprofile…kzpn @nprofile…m99x oooo, that does look good. The end goal would be that apple doesn't get a choice, although I am kind of skeptical about gov.uk running an app store tbh. Perhaps the way round that would be to legislate that apps deemed important enough for everyday life in the UK *must* be in more than one app store pre-installed on the device, and just "leave it to the market" to do the rest.
Or maybe there are other/better options.

2026-03-23 20:01:08 UTC

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@nprofile…72ar before I get too carried away, does a UK app store sound like something that would be worthwhile?

2026-03-23 16:46:44 UTC

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Possible fix is propagating 🤞
(Unfortunately, I'm sure Google will find a way to remain a problem.)

2026-03-23 16:18:38 UTC

Attempting to fix a problem like Google via IRC 🤞

2026-03-23 09:39:46 UTC

In the past, 73.6% of statistics were made up on the spot but now with AI that raises to 100.9%

2026-03-22 21:01:13 UTC

Found a photo of our old cat while looking through some of my mum's things. I miss them both.
https://mastodon.me.uk/system/media_attachments/files/116/274/818/342/327/508/original/4546403df9be7612.jpg

2026-03-22 17:25:20 UTC

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@nprofile…2q04 BBC director generals?

2026-03-22 13:09:33 UTC

No, Google are still unable or unwilling to email me, with no obvious way to contact them about the problem. I think I'm going to end up on IRC to get help.

2026-03-22 12:18:52 UTC

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@nprofile…z59w @nprofile…wn4u uh oh, you weren't supposed to encourage me! :)

2026-03-22 12:06:32 UTC

Currently wondering how realistic it is creating my own app store...
I should probably go outside and enjoy the sun instead!

2026-03-22 09:13:25 UTC

Wow, they're a lovely bunch over on Threads.

2026-03-21 18:57:47 UTC

Wondering how to create a Google account if they won't email me to verify my address.

2026-03-21 14:14:27 UTC

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@nprofile…4agh winning at lunch!