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BritishTechGuru

@BritishTechGuru@techtoots.com

Pan Galactic villain on the run from the Internet Gestapo.

Proud creator of strange devices built using a variety of esoteric SBCs

Pubwished awfur of 3 buks and cowntin.

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StillIRise1963, to random
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It is NOT a sad day for the nation. It’s a PROUD DAY for the nation. The LAW was FOLLOWED.

BritishTechGuru,
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@StillIRise1963 And what about all the other presidents that weren't charged but should have been? Clinton...

cstross, to random
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Tories remain without candidates in almost 25 per cent of seats in Scotland

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tories-remain-without-candidates-almost-132058508.html?guccounter=1

BritishTechGuru,
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@cstross I hope and pray the SNP gets in and delivers independence for Scotland. Maybe Hadrian's Wall can be rebuilt but to keep the Sassanach's out?

BritishTechGuru, to amateurradio
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My emergency radio transmitter video is now live. It's entirely solar powered from just 75ma of solar cells.

https://youtube.com/shorts/q96JU_gjKyg?feature=share

Very simple design but the interesting thing will be the next one which will be 100% automated with no buttons.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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What advice would you give to someone just starting out in a relationship?

Mine might sound kind of dark in relation to the question, but here goes:

People change, and they should, it's part of being a person. Some people are lucky, and they change in the same direction, but some don't, and that's okay too. There's no shame in leaving a relationship or changing the nature of a relationship that no longer serves you. We are all taught that every relationship, whether romantic or friendship, is supposed to last forever, but nothing is forever, and forcing something that no longer works, just ends in anger and bitterness. Knowing when to let go is as important as knowing when to hold on through a rough patch, and how to know either of those things is the most cliché advice of all, COMMUNICATE.

BritishTechGuru,
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@RickiTarr Communication has to go both ways

jess, to Eurovision
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Bambie not in afternoon dress rehearsal over an EBU incident - apparently something to do with the Israeli commentator. And France interrupted the song to make a stand.

If any more pull out they’re going to have running order issues…

BritishTechGuru,
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@jess
It sounds as though the Eurovision Song contest this year is more exciting because of the politics than for the songs.

All I know is there was something going on backstage between an Israeli worker and the Dutch singer (who was allegedly expelled).

Normally I have zero interest in the Eurovision song contest but this year sounds gripping. Please keep us all updated.

ChrisMayLA6, to Health
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2 posts on health - No.2

Here's a piece from BMJ, looking at social determinants of heath suggesting the crisis in health is not one of perception, but a wider problem with how our health is impacted by the social structures we encounter.

The authors conclude: 'A common response is that we cannot afford such action [on inequality & health] —we argue, we cannot afford inaction'!

Health inequality compounds social inequality which makes health worse

https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj-2024-079389

BritishTechGuru,
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@ChrisMayLA6 I see this all around me in South Carolina. The poor cannot afford healthcare so they stay poor and sick. Because they cannot afford healthcare, they come to work sick and infect everybody else, leading to reduced productivity. Then the most iniquitous practice often demonstrated by low-wage fast food outlets is to offer health insurance to full time staff but when they get sick and use it, to fire them.

eff, to random
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Using your face or thumbprint to unlock your phone is convenient, but courts may grant less legal protection to biometrics. EFF’s Andrew Crocker spoke to @Gizmodo about passwords and the Fifth Amendment. https://gizmodo.com/stop-using-your-face-or-thumb-to-unlock-your-phone-1851438205

BritishTechGuru,
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@eff I never have used biometrics. They're an invasion of privacy.

cstross, to random
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I remember when I first saw a CPC464 in a shop I was working in, in 1984.

It was a very neat answer to what the market needed in 1982. But by 1984, cassette storage and Z80s were clearly long in the tooth—it came out the same year as the Macintosh, and 12 months late Atari STs and Amigas were showing up.
https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/112351091848131466

BritishTechGuru,
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@cstross @keyboards

Alan Sugar registered Amstrad as a trademark when he was a teen. It stood for Alan Michael Sugar Trading. He was a trader rather than an IT person and he saw the market blossom for home computers, jumped on the bandwagon and came out with decent enough stuff. The 3" drive however, was what really killed the CPM operating system. Nobody wanted an expensive non-standard floppy.

BritishTechGuru,
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@chrisdrake @cstross @keyboards Sounds like the guy who ran Hypervalue. That kind of entrepreneur the world can happily live without.

lednaBM, to random
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The nuclear power scam....

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/nuclear-powers-lethal-larcenous-end-game/

BritishTechGuru,
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@lednaBM Interesting article. Nuclear power plants were originally designed to be covert ways of generating plutonium for atomic bombs.

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@lednaBM

The biggest problem with people being self-suffiient is that their energy "needs" have exploded over the last 30 years. Now, with the advent of those ridiicuous evs, it's even worse.

mentallyalex, (edited ) to random
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I have a friend who is extremely technical and probably smarter than is safe for normal society. The world is not particularly kind to him for his intelligence and he has had a few difficulties as he has gone through life. That being the case, the fates have smiled on him in equal but different ways.

I think he forgets that the rest of us go through life in an almost perpetual fog of confusion, wonder, and excited realization. Perhaps that is just me?

BritishTechGuru,
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@mentallyalex sounds like me

BritishTechGuru,
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@mentallyalex What part is frustrating?

For me the frustration is that after college I could not get work at my level and I often had rude or snarky responses to applications

I never had the chance to work with people of equal intelligence. I always had to do second rate low skilled work that the average high school dropout could do.

BritishTechGuru,
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@mentallyalex That sounds a little like autism. That I'm familiar with as that touches on my current role

augieray, to random
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STUDY finds that mortality and hospitalization rates rose 6-9x in Brazil between 2022 and the first half of 2023 due to falling vaccination coverage.

Here in the US, just 23% of eligible Americans got the latest booster.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264410X24004663

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/coverage/covidvaxview/interactive/adult-coverage-vaccination.html

BritishTechGuru,
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@augieray

I'm guilty of not getting the latest boosters.

When they contacted me to tell me it was time for a booster and where to go to get it, I'd get the booster. Now they don't and it's not announced. Not even sure if it's free or not.

Mind, having had Covid not long after a booster my faith in the vaccinations was a little shaken.

clive, to random
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“A death certificate would say he died of sepsis from a bone infection, but my friend and I have a term for the illness that killed him: end-stage poverty. We needed to coin a phrase because so many of our patients die of the same thing.”

Excellent essay by a US doctor describing how many of her patients suffer (and die) not from their illnesses but from the wildly precarious economics of their lives

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opinion/doctor-safety-net-hospital.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk0.4z6-.Jp89JtFlvuyi&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

BritishTechGuru,
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@clive And South Carolina's refusal to fund Obamacare denied its poorest and most needy the medical care that would have helped them become productive citizens.

Edent, to DoctorWho
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🆕 blog! “Why do Doctor Who companions leave?”

If you got the chance to travel in time and space, with an immortal alien, and got to rescue the universe again and again - would you ever give up that life? Would you be content to go from unravelling the mysteries of the universe and fighting DALEKs to, I don't know, marrying a stranger […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/why-do-doctor-who-companions-leave/
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BritishTechGuru,
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@Edent I saw an episode with some green monsters. I think it was the oxygen monsters episode. Scared me to death as a 7:year old back in 74.

I think the point is everybody is discarded because it's about the title character not "Dr Who and his woman".

I think the later series up until that dreadful woman took over as the title character was far better. After she took over, I never bothered again.

ScepticalScot1, to random
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https://www.thenational.scot/news/24239082.anger-meets-labour-pledge-bring-private-healthcare-nhs/

You know what you are getting if you vote Labour. In Scotland you have the choice SNP & the Scottish Greens will not privatise NHS. Labour will force it on the NHS

BritishTechGuru,
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@ScepticalScot1 That makes Labour sound as right wing as Thatcher. Whatever happened to Labour being left wing?

jon, to random
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The central problem on a bunch of international routes is not the cost of tickets - the demand is there. Trains are full

The problem is an absence of capacity - both track, and a lack of trains. Explained here https://jonworth.eu/make-international-rail-cheaper-capacity-on-a-route-is-the-crucial-issue/

Generally if you make taking the train cheaper currently you will transport different passengers, rather than more passengers

BritishTechGuru,
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@jon I used to travel a lot from Swansea in the UK to Riga in Latvia. My route was always bus to London and bus from London to Dover the cross on the ferry. Then I would start taking trains. The reason is that trains in Britain are just prohibitively expensive.

Edent, to solar
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🆕 blog! “Fifteen MegaWatt Hours from Sunshine - Four Years with Solar Panels in London”

Just as the UK was entering the first COVID19 lockdown, we got solar panels installed on our roof. Four years later and our generation meter shows they have produced 15,480kWh of electricity. That's a rather impressive 3,870kWh per year. This is what the average UK …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/fifteen-megawatt-hours-from-sunshine-four-years-with-solar-panels-in-london/
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BritishTechGuru,
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@Edent Last time I was in Britain (the year before Covid), I was stunned at how many houses has solar panels on the rooves as I rode the train from London to Cardiff.

I understand many of these solar setups are scams where homeowners have systems installed that will never pay for themselves. I'm glad you avoided that and that you're showing a profit.

Solar panels do work better if they're regularly washed as an invisible layer of grime that lowers performance does build up on them.

Impossible_PhD, to random
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One of the really hard parts about being on the asexual spectrum is once in a while you'll just casually mention a basic fact if your existence, and an allosexual person will tell you with authority & confidence that you're broken. It's always freighted and veiled, but that's the message: your perceptions and feelings are wrong. Be more like us.

And the part that's hardest for me is queer communities are pretty much always worse about it than cishet ones, because queer culture is so sexualized.

BritishTechGuru,
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@Impossible_PhD I agree. I have no problem with asexual people. I have no problem with girls that like girls, boys that like boys and all the other flavors of creation. Where I get the problem is when people seek to grind my face in their business. I literally do not care what people do in their own bedrooms.

The inclusion of asexual in the LGB collective has always baffled me as LGB has always seemed a bit overtly sexual. Similarly, trans don't really seem to belong in there.

Gargron, to random
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We've updated the rules of our flagship server mastodon.social today. Most are the same with some clarifications, but one rule is new: Content created by others must be attributed, and use of AI must be disclosed. Profiles that only post AI-generated content will not be tolerated.

BritishTechGuru,
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@Gargron How about pics you downloaded eons ago and can't recall the source?

GrapheneOS, to random
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We're looking for people with a spare Pixel 4a (5G) or Pixel 5 willing to test experimental QPR2-based releases. It would be easier for us to continue extended support than shifting them to a legacy extended support branch. Join testing chat room to help: https://grapheneos.org/contact#community-chat.

BritishTechGuru,
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@rexum @GrapheneOS

All I want from a phone OS is something that works. No random updates whatsoever.

BritishTechGuru,
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@GrapheneOS @rexum Literally the only stuff I use on my phone are calling, Google Voice and occasionally Google Maps. I don't browse the web, do email, play games, take picture or make videos. I don't have any of the social media junk.

BritishTechGuru,
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@Edent I had not heard of that. I have an unused AT&T prepay smartphone that would be better with a different OS. I bought it new a few months ago but haven't done anything with it because it's so slow.

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