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tony

@tony@hoyle.me.uk

Geek, Linux User, Retro gaming enthusiast.

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GossiTheDog, to random
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AI Tech Bros are VERY UPSET that reviewers are REVIEWING PRODUCTS

tony,
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@GossiTheDog 'Do no harm'?

He's a youtuber, not a surgeon.

And the product is already dead.

bitsunited, to random German
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Webfund.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1d7lfrk/littlebillyignoreinstructions/

tony,
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@mira @bitsunited You know they will..

tony, to random
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"XiP is also affordable, with printing packages starting at $6995"

Dear reviewers.. I don't think that word means what you think it means.

gsuberland, to random

the swap shop has new policies

Sign in the swap shop that says "no orphaned sourced. do not leave radioactives unattended. do not supply the spider nuclear program. it has been 1 days since the furry nuclear program was dispatched"

tony,
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@glowl @gsuberland @littlescraps Yes, and there are little graphical maps of the radiation levels across the entire site :p

tony, to random
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FML. Got a CM4 to replace a dead one, tightened a screw too far and broke the new one.

It lasted less than 20 minutes.

tony, to random
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Enter a new password

avUf5G#5p*gsi5

Error. Password must contain a capital letter, a number, a special character and must not be a common string

Wibble

Correct! Welcome aboard

(Just happened on Disney Plus.. they force reset my password presumably due to a compromise and their complexity checking logic is broken.. it prevents me choosing a good password).

tony, to random
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mhoye, to random
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This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

tony,
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@mhoye GM are doing a worse.. but yes on average the market is healthy.

Absolute numbers aren't much use when Tesla sells 6 times the number of EVs as everyone else.

PeterEbenezer, to random

Ok. So. First post on Mastadon so bear with me…first time at , also first time camping with a 6 year old… I’ve read the info on the site, can anyone weigh in with random one-liner bits of advice? It may also be helpful other emf newbies?

tony,
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@PeterEbenezer If you can, join a village

tony,
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@PeterEbenezer You have access to good internet and power, so don't forget your gadgets and chargers.

rgm, to random
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ask your docker if kubernetes is right for you side effects may include bladder pain nausea joint pain unusual tiredness or weakness vomiting urge to extend a middle finger to middlebrow bourgeois capital as it continues like so many lemmings to senselessly overcomplicate without regard for context mostly to nerf labour power via deskilling runny nose shivering sore throat confusion anxiety blurred vision depression nervousness pounding in the ears

tony,
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@rgm
I find microk8s fairly sane but I imagine it gets quite complex when you go full fat.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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To be clear: I don't have any sympathy for the Tories...

but the key problem they have (like any government after a decade & a half in power), is when, for instance they say they are going to clamp down on tax avoidance, its not unreasonable to ask, well if you are going to do it now why haven't you done it sometime in the previous fifteen years.....

And, its pretty difficult to campaign on a dreadful recent record, while saying well, now we can rectify this often noted problem.

tony,
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@ChrisMayLA6 The existing government is supposed to campaign on 'look how great things are, if you vote for the other guy they'll ruin it'.

The tories can't do that, they'd be laughed out of the room.

acf, to random
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There's something very sad about reading "there was no money in giving water we extracted from the air to drought-ridden people so we're selling it to hotels instead"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11nnwp646o

tony,
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@acf It's got a bad rep. after the waterseer scam I expect.. investors not wanting to be bitten.

evan, (edited ) to random
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When you have access to a bidet, do you use it?

tony,
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@evan We added one during lockdown because they were supposed to be 'better' than using toilet paper (and toilet paper was scarce due to panic buying).

Found that cold water squirted up your arse is horrifically unpleasant, doesn't clean anything, and you need toilet paper anyway to dry off.

cstross, (edited ) to random
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WHAT—

(The European potato crisp singularity intensifies)

(UPDATE): Aaagh! They taste of egg yolk! This is totally bizarre!

tony,
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@cstross All you need is some bacon flavour and you have an entire breakfast on the go.

srtcd424, to random
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Live footage of me hacking on Hydra. Finally a use for my 30 year old skillset!

tony,
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@srtcd424 I think the 'horrifying' is redundant here.

Edent, to random
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10 years ago today!

Google Glass was probably the last time I felt genuinely excited about a piece of consumer tech.

It was obviously a flawed beta, but showed so much promise. The right amount of "this is so crazy it might just work!"

Wherever I went, people wanted to try it on to see for themselves how it worked. They wanted to discuss ethical issues and it's vast potential.

Today, it is barely more than a punchline like Google+.

But, for a brief moment, it was the future.

tony,
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@Edent
Google do occasionally hint they're still working on glasses, but nothing ever comes of it.

I want something that puts nameplates above peoples heads :p

angiebaby, to random
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suck-my-big.org is a personal blog that the owner has been updating faithfully since April 1997.

That's a twenty-seven year old blog.

http://suck-my-big.org

tony,
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@angiebaby The last entry appears to be july 2022 (the dates seem to be autogenerated). Apart from the note on the front page in October 2022.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Absolute honking state of it.

tony,
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@fkamiah17 She wants to do.. what?

This has to be satire.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Please tell me this was made by Boeing...

https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/112281385917125916

tony,
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@quixoticgeek https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2003-07-11-Boeing-Receives-145-Million-ISS-Battery-Contract

jeffjarvis, to random
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It's neither "dystopian" nor "absolutely terrifying." It's a machine. The delicate technological sensibilities of the journalist.
‘Eat the future, pay with your face’: my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/15/ai-burger-joint-flippy-caliexpress

tony,
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@jeffjarvis Has he never used a coffee machine?

It's the same thing just with meat.

Edent, to windows
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Anyone here have a PC which has a virus scanner?

I'm trying to download an .exe to see if it will run on WINE. But Firefox is saying it has a virus.

Would one of you kind souls be happy to download a file and scan it to see if it is safe?

tony,
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@Edent Have you tried virustotal? You can just give that the URL.

tommorris, to random
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Popular tech YouTuber publishes a negative but fair review of a new device. Said review says product is an interesting idea, with thoughtful design and clever engineering behind it, but has a lot of shortcomings and teething troubles that—combined with the high price—don't justify buying it for most people as it adds little value over what their phone already does.

Cue the tech industry bleating about it being part of an awful defamatory hit job trying to hurt innovation etc.

tony,
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@tommorris Is it that stupid 'AI pin badge'?

You don't need to be a tech reviewer to know that's a fail.

Andy_European, to random
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Britain has entered talks to replicate the Rwanda migrant deportation scheme with Armenia, Ivory Coast, Costa Rica and Botswana, according to leaked documents that reveal the government’s extensive search for another third-country deal.
https://apple.news/A1KUffdEVS0mjxcPBhGTbFw

tony,
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@Andy_European It's just bollocks appealing to their base. They have till maybe October. No time to sort such a deal out, get it past parliament etc.

tony, to random
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Tried dns64 for a day and.. off again. It broke my wife's OBS install. Apparently discord voice doesn't work either.

For it to fail requires that app writers ask for an ipv6 address from DNS then don't know how to handle it when they get it. It takes a rare combination of stupidity to do that.. but here we are, 13 years after it became available..

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