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penguin42, to random
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It's good the BBC is carrying this article on facial mis-recognition; hardly surprising but good it's not hidden:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945

penguin42, to manchester
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The proven way to reduce road traffic in is to organise a Man City vs United big game.

penguin42, to random
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git format-patch really should have a --covert-letter option.

penguin42, to random
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I reckon some channel will show Independence Day as normal, and then show V for Vendetta after the polls close
(UK election 4th July)

penguin42, to random
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Oh, McKittrick is dead 😠
'McKittrick : General, the machine has locked us out. It's sending random numbers to the silos.'

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001056/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-69013314

penguin42, to random
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I think I just found a unused in the Xserver since ~1996.

suihkulokki,
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@penguin42 I bet autoconf is full of tests that could be removed as unused 😅

penguin42,
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@suihkulokki surprisingly it's been meson-ised.

penguin42, to random
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Do self-driving cars have horns? When do they use them?

penguin42, to manchester
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trams are lively enough during football matches, but having a Barry Manilow concert next door to it at the same time will make them 'interesting' - I guess they'll be tram fulls of drunks singing Copacabanaaaaaaaaa.

penguin42, to random
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@emf 's health page is very boring; good covid etc rules, sensible camping rules - but no mention of RF burns, radiation exposure or welding accidents - this place sounds way more boring than the people who seem to be going to it.
(I'm not attending, but it does sound fun)

sully,
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@penguin42 Why not?

penguin42,
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@sully I find travel really hard with my eczema; actually, not so much the travel as staying places; I can just about cope with an overnight in a hotel, never tried camping.

penguin42, to wildlife
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penguin42, to random
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I baked a Banana bread for the first time earlier in the week. Very nice; seems to get more bananay over time. Lovely bananay burps.. 🍌

(I didn't bother with the drizzle and banana chips on the top)
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/brilliant-banana-loaf

ianbradbury,
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@penguin42 - have you considered.... spreading peanut butter on a slice? I think you should.

penguin42,
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@ianbradbury Oh I'm not a peanutbuttery person; however I did wonder about some chocolate spread...

penguin42, to random
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tony,
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@penguin42 "While we cannot control all of these actions, we are implementing some technical solutions to address this"

Technical solutions to stop people being people? I rather suspect that won't work.

penguin42,
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@tony Changing the angle of the camera so people can't moon ??

penguin42, to random
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I saw the obit for Roger Corman in the paper; I haven't seen it on any news.
I grew up watching a bunch of the 1960's horror films with my dad; 'The Man with the X-Ray Eyes' and the Vincent Price set including 'The Masque of the Red Death' are the ones that particularly come to mind.

penguin42, to random
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Spent an hour shining the knobs off my dad's amp; much better than they were, but there's something on the top of some that wont come off even with some iso and general household cleaner.

penguin42, to random
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wth does AEG want £51 for a dryer filter that consists of ~3 pieces of plastic held together with a mesh.
(And that's cheaper than 3rd party supplier)

wyliecoyoteuk,
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@penguin42 Spare parts are often ridiculously expensive.
I once priced up a control panel for a Hotpoint cooker hood. it was £180, which was £30 more than the retail price of a new hood of the same model.

penguin42,
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@tony @wyliecoyoteuk I think what offends me about this is it's entirely passive - plastic and mesh! (and fits loads of models by many vendors, so isn't particularly rare).

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