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neilgall

@neilgall@mastodon.scot

Emptier of drip trays, filler of beans.

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neilgall, to random
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New remix of Deep Purple's classic Machine Head album sounds awesome. Pre-ordered the new album on purple vinyl and bought tickets to see them in November ๐Ÿ˜ https://open.spotify.com/album/1PYl2uQNd51wwrEVsjEgg1

neilgall, to random
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Did I see somewhere it's national egg day? Don't know why eggs need a day but having a double yolker to celebrate anyway.

mattwilcox, to random
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Woke from a dream of trying to photograph a snow flurry at my parents despite it being summer. The phone, of course, doesnโ€™t work when I need it to.

Weather today: high of 13c, low of 7c.

Its summer.

neilgall,
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@mattwilcox The first summer I worked at home and was looking forward to laptop days in the garden etc, the high was 13 for the whole of July. Had the heating on.

neilgall, to random
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Well done to the winners I guess, but I can't help thinking that Apple handing out design awards these days is like Boris Johnson praising someone for competent governance. https://developer.apple.com/design/awards/

neilgall, to random
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Latest #OctopusEnergy billing farce: email suggesting my monthly direct debit should be changed to... ยฃ8.00

I'm moving to another supplier. Energy companies are all bad but billing is their only job. One correct calculation in a year shouldn't be too much to ask.

neilgall, to random
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Press & Journal tomorrow: owner of Aberdeenshire golf course found guilty in trial.

neilgall, to random
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I'm having a wee 13 year old dram to celebrate. Don't have a 34 year old.

neilgall, to random
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The sun finally shone today and I wasn't doing "big screen work" so I took my laptop out to the garden for a bit. Battery lasted 2 hours. M1 MacBook Pro

neilgall,
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All those double-digit hour battery life claims are where the machine is basically doing nothing.

neilgall, to random
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Always reassuring when you pull the 7kW charging plug out of your and it splashes you with half a glass of water ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

neilgall, to guitar
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Good band practice today. We're doing a bunch of covers and reviving one song we wrote together in the 90s. All starting to sound pretty good but guess the one song and solo I made a pig's ear of. Yes, our own, and my own.

davidho, to random
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One thing we donโ€™t talk about enough is how good bicycle lights have gotten, thanks to LEDs and Li-ion batteries. ๐Ÿ”‹

neilgall,
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@davidho Oh I remember carrying a kg of D cells for the light of half a candle.

acemaxxanalytics, to bapcsalescanada
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#sales momentum for #electricvehicles #EVs is slowing globally, and hybrids #HEVs and plug-in #hybrids #PHEVs are proving more competitive than first thought, chart @GoldmanSachs

neilgall,
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@acemaxxanalytics I had a plug-in hybrid. Kept it less than a year. Hardly ever needed the petrol engine but it was horribly inefficient as an EV. Never again.

neilgall, to random
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Cleaned my solar panels with a water-fed brush and squeegee. No chemicals, although there probably is something appropriate that won't leave a residue. Any thoughts?

Anyway it's going to rain for the next 3 days so I won't know if it's helped until the weekend.

neilgall, to passkeys
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I had created a grant total of 3 , stored in a password manager rather than a platform lock-in, but I'm deleting them all. If something is ever to replace passwords and OTPs it needs a better user experience, not worse and more confusing.

neilgall, to random
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Really enjoying https://draculadaily.com. I tried last year but missed a few entries, got confused about the story and dropped it. Fun way to read the book but important to make sure you don't skip bits. To make it easier I have a filter move the emails into a folder.

neilgall, to random
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As I enter my first summer of ownership I now know what the flat panel on the front in place of a grill is called.

It's the Fly Catcher ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

neilgall, to ai
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Overheard quite an elderly couple debating #AI in a beautiful spot in the #PentlandHills near #Edinburgh. He was all in on the successor species nonsense and she could see right through it. They walked off still talking about it.

neilgall, to random
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245 miles today, the most driving I've done in a day. Plenty for me, if not a lot by some folks' standard. One 20 minute charge. Easy peasy.

neilgall, to random
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I'm on at https://www.bandlab.com/neilgall

deshipu, to random
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Looking at the state of the software industry, I expect to be forcibly brought back from retirement in some 15-20 years from now, if I will even be allowed to retire.

neilgall,
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@deshipu Scary thought, I hope to retire by the end of the decade. What will we be needed to do?

neilgall,
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@deshipu Is this because when we retire there will only be a useless generation of LLM-assisted script kiddies?

neilgall,
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@deshipu Ah, yes that's true. I was being overly cynical. Maybe we have a responsibility to pass on what we know before retiring?

neilgall, to random
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Welcome to the brief time of year when it's warm enough to have lunch outside without a bazillion wasps hassling you.

orsinium, to security
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Which one would you choose?

  1. Make sure you correctly handle user input in SQL queries to prevent SQL injection, or

  2. Make a standard banning any punctuation in geographical places and force local authorities to rename streets and reissue all street signs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

neilgall,
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@mike @orsinium We don't even need foreigners

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