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TheLancashireman

@TheLancashireman@hostux.social

Retired software developer, Linux user, amateur genealogist, software archaeologist 😉
Originally from Lancashire, now living in Franken where there are far too many breweries to be good for my health.

I builds little electronics projects and operating systems for fun.

I use devuan linux (unstable).

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RickiTarr, to random
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If you wash and dry a load of laundry, you also have to be prepared to fold it, and put it away. It's not really helping otherwise.

TheLancashireman,
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@argv_minus_one @RickiTarr
I sometimes wish for a decent clothes-line where the wind will do the job for nowt. Clothes that have had a good thrashing in the wind rarely need ironing 😉

RickiTarr, to random
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Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

TheLancashireman,
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@RickiTarr

You asked for it; you got it ... 😄

This one was covered by Nirvana...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdYVANxDNkg

TheLancashireman,
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@RickiTarr

Another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJiyMC1xhDs

Covered by Frank Zappa and the Mothers.

StillIRise1963, to random
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R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain

Hmmmm.🤔

Gift Article
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU0.ePrS.vkY8gTh-Vdvs&smid=url-share

TheLancashireman,
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@StillIRise1963

Worm says Doctors found a dead RFK Jr. around its body. 😜

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

TheLancashireman,
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@tezoatlipoca @RickiTarr
"Putting one's foot in one's mouth" is a fairly modern phrase. Originally, the saying was "Put one's foot in it", implying that the foot gets placed into a cow pat or other undesirable substance.

Someone in my lifetime (it may have been the punchline of a joke) once said "Every time he opens his mouth he puts is foot in it"

RickiTarr, to random
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That Novelty Cup you had to have on vacation, you'll never use it again.

TheLancashireman,
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@RickiTarr
I used to be a sucker for German beer glasses and mugs. Some of them get used from time to time, but the souvenir Maßkrugs (1 litre, decorated ceramic) just lurk at the back of a cupboard.

aegiap, to random
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https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships

Article sur les réparateurs de cable sous-marin.

TheLancashireman,
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@aegiap @alarig Interesting article. The strange navigation down and across the page almost made me give up reading. Glad I didn't

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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Berlin police raided and cut off electricity to the Palestinian Congress conference before banning the three-day event. Organizers say Germany’s antidemocratic authoritarian response to Palestine activism is growing by the day.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/police-raid-berlin-conference-as-repression-of-palestine-activism-escalates-in-germany/


@palestine @israel

TheLancashireman,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel

😡

ross, to random
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The Verge article on the best printer in 2024 is just completely brilliant in so many ways.

And also kinda sad.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework

TheLancashireman,
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@Theodrake @elilla @ross
From experience with my old DCP150C (inkjet), Linux drivers are binary-only and never got updated. So as long as your linux runs on x86 and has 32-bit support, you're fine. Raspberry pi? forget it.
Perhaps the "airprint" feature is better - I don't know.
I'm now a happy user of an Epson 2815 - also inkjet, but with tanks, not cartridges.

gdg, to random
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After a nice time on hannover.social (@ordnung & @gdg) we have to move on because of a shutdown and chose the best German Mastodon instance (@MastodonDE) from @ErikUden and his awesome team. Thank you so much everyone! 🥰

TheLancashireman,
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@gdg @ErikUden @ordnung @MastodonDE @gdg

Nothing against mastodon.social, but doesn't this go against the decentralisation principle of the fediverse?

kennethb, to random
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Thatcher sold of council houses but signally failed to replace that social housing with new, decent, good-to-high-quality homes. We've never caught up & are around 3 million homes short, right now. The Tories have never cared enough to recognise that, or to do enough about it.

TheLancashireman,
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@Paulos_the_fog
Longer-term loans often come with penalties for early termination. The UK housing market is quite dynamic compared with Germany (where I live) - people in the UK tend to move frequently to match their needs and financial abilities, so long terms aren't as attractive. Maybe France is similar to Germany?

Also: in the UK, switching to variable at the end of the fixed term isn't forced. You can negotiate another fixed term. Variable rate is the default if you don't renegotiate.

TheLancashireman,
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@Paulos_the_fog
I'm not sure what I was trying to say either. Except that the mortgage market in the UK is reasonably flexible and the apparent lack of long-term fixed rate deals might result from consumer choice. Perhaps coupled with fear of early termination fees (either real or imagined). I took out my last UK mortgage around 1988. Rates were high at the time ( ~12%) and falling, so a fixed rate deal made no sense.

cstross, to random
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Apple wouldn't be doing this—at considerable expense—if they didn't consider such attacks to be plausible within the relevant lifetime of currently intercepted and retained messages (ie. not necessarily today, but within the statute of limitations of any crime you might be confessing to in an iMessage).

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079081/apple-imessage-pq3-post-quantum-cryptography

TheLancashireman,
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@SteveBellovin @cstross
Hmm. From the patent abstract, it sounds an awful lot like an Enigma machine.

alarig, to random French
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Mon couteau à beurre vient de rendre l'âme, je vous demanderai donc une minute se silence en sa mémoire s'il vous plaît

TheLancashireman,
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@alarig 😞

TheLancashireman, to random
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@brudibrau Got a little present last night. I'm not sure that I dare open it.
It isn't clear from the photo, but it's a 75 cl bottle.

TheLancashireman, to random
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@Codeberg

Are there any plans to introduce automatic creation of repositories when pushed via the git: method (similar to gitlab)?

FuckElon, to politics
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While Trump was being questioned about a 2021 financial statement, Trump claimed to have been too busy focusing on “China, Russia and keeping our country safe.

The state’s attorney reminded him that he was not president in 2021.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-testimony-new-york-fraud-case-off-rails-1234870774/

TheLancashireman,
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@FuckElon
😂 😂 😂

baldur, to random
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Occasionally I stop to think about how much of the modern software development infrastructure and community is run at a massive loss: Stack Overflow, npm, Github Copilot (probably Github itself), VS Code.

Also how much of it is owned and run by Microsoft.

So much of it could disappear at a short notice if just one CEO changes his mind about his company’s marketing strategy.

TheLancashireman,
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@baldur Simple solution: don't use that crap (at least not without a workable plan B and plan C)

br00t4c, to random
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Rudy Giuliani bottoms out with "2nd Chance Bail Bonds" debacle

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/rudy-giuliani-bottoms-out-with-2nd-chance-bail-bonds-debacle/51723/

TheLancashireman,
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@br00t4c

He's selling his house because he expects to move to a "luxury studio apartment" in the near future. 🤣 🤣 🤣

helenczerski, to climate
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Before steamships came along, sailing ships like Cutty Sark went pretty much everywhere, and they weren’t dependent on hopping between fossil fuel depots. They had less clockwork-like predictability, but greater freedom, lower costs & zero emissions. And now the shipping industry is making a serious effort to regain some of those advantages:

“A cargo ship fitted with giant, rigid British-designed sails has set out on its maiden voyage”

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66543643?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

TheLancashireman,
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@helenczerski

If you do it right using electric engines and wind and solar generators coupled with the pure wind power, you can even regain most of the predictability.

ErikUden, to random
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The new LK-99 superconductor video looks awesome

TheLancashireman,
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@ErikUden Add self-driving cars to your list.

oliphant, to random

You don't need no adblocker on Mastodon (or pretty much any fediverse product) because there's no ads.

And you don't need to block trackers or analytics or worry about information about you being sent to third parties.

If you check your adblocker you'll see 0 things. If you check for trackers for the usual suspects: Google, Facebook, etc, which are nearly ubiquitous on the web, you will not find them here at all.

Do you have any idea how rare that is nowadays, especially on a social media platform?

TheLancashireman,
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@oliphant
> You don't need no adblocker ...
Only two session cookies too and no local storage

TheLancashireman, to random
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Lancastrian by birth, currently living in Franken.
Linux user for more than 25 years, Unix even longer.
Amateur genealogist, embedded s/w developer (esp. operating systems).
Find me on codeberg (also on gitlab/github)

If I boost a toot, it doesn't mean that I like it or even agree with it. It just means that I think it should be more widely known.

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