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Baldy bespectacled beardy, beer breathed, B- bloody biker.

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thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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I've really got no idea what to call this feature on one of David Barclay's glorious townhouses on Dowanside Road in the west end of Glasgow, but I love it. You can't quite tell from this photo, but it's projecting from the side of the building rather than sitting on the ground. I'm presuming it dates from around 1900 when the building it's attached to was constructed.

bazzargh,
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@morgrugyn @thisismyglasgow no, the B listing for this building does mention an oriel, but it's round the corner on the next building (lane beside no. 60) - an oriel overhangs.
https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB32497

I think there's a typo in this, "octagonal cans" should be "octagonal cants" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cant_(architecture) - but I'm not sure reading this if that's referring to this feature

dirkdierickx, to windows
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Minesweeper - No need for anymore, the best game for it has been ported to your favorite by Under4Mhz

https://under4mhz.itch.io/minesweeper

bazzargh,
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@dirkdierickx well I couldn't let this stand so here is a very crappy and slow implementation for the BBC Micro https://bbcmic.ro/#%7B%22v%22%3A1%2C%22program%22%3A%22DIMM%28324%29%3AREM%20minesweeper%3A%20wasd%20to%20move%2C%20m%20to%20pick%5CnFORP%3D0TO323%5CnIFP%20MOD18MOD17%3D0ORP%20DIV18MOD17%3D0%3AM%28P%29%3D16ELSEIFRND%281%29%3E.9%3AM%28P%29%3D128%5CnIFP%20MOD18%3E1ANDP%20DIV18%3E1%3AM%28P-19%29%3DM%28P-19%29%2B%28M%28P-38%29%2BM%28P-37%29%2BM%28P-36%29%2BM%28P-20%29%2BM%28P-18%29%2BM%28P-2%29%2BM%28P-1%29%2BM%28P%29%29DIV128%3APROCC%28P-19%29%5CnPROCC%28P%29%5CnNEXT%5CnX%3D1%3AY%3D1%5CnREPEAT%5CnK%3DINKEY%2820%29%5CnP%3DX - with the help of @bbcmicrobot . Click in the emulated screen for keys to work then WASD to move and M to click where you think there's no mine. Because RND is seeded there's only one board! Move to top right to see the satisfying sloooow flood fill. Just marginally too big for a toot; I should relearn assembler.

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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A remarkable story on the excellent blog Futility Closet about a fictitious “Description of Britain” fraudulently written and widely believed, whose features bled into other documents including the Ordnance Survey. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Description_of_Britain

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell ah, only the podcast stopped, during the end times https://www.futilitycloset.com/category/podcast/

18+ kim_harding, to fuckcars
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Just remind me again, who is winning the "War on the motorist"?
This is just one zebra crossing in Bradford, but the "war" is on every street...

Video show people crossing a zebra crossing, either being hit or very nearly hit by drivers.

bazzargh,
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@kim_harding regularly had to dive out of the way of cars when I used to work out by Rosyth station. The motorway exits onto the roundabout there and cars don't slow down before the pedestrian crossing, and scream through the red light. The nearest miss got a visit from the police.

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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I got some actors to help me demolish my shed. They managed to get the roof off with some difficulty, but they were particularly adroit at breaking the fourth wall.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell I had some workers try to re-roof my shed while they were sick but they were making a terrible job of it.

I told them to go away until they felt better.

timbray, to photography
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Quiz: Name the famous old city I’m visiting from these nocturnal pix. Also, find the moon!

Looking at the end of a yellow-painted brick building with a peaked roof, Asian-flavored golded decorations on a plaque near near the peak. Beam of light shines out from the peak and some further ornamentation is dimly visible behind it.
A back alley, brick paved, single streetlamp, bare tree, moon in the top right corner.

bazzargh,
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@timbray @hub the alley

bazzargh,
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@deborahh @timbray @hub the rowhouses looked east coast; on the parked cars, one has an obscured license plate visible, with 6 digits and a space after the first 2. That means only DC or older Colorado plates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_license_plate_designs_and_serial_formats . The design on the wall is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmachakra so a buddhist building, but with the deer that's really common on Kadampa Meditation Centres. So I googled those in DC, there's only a handful. The alley/street are a block away.

bazzargh, to random
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tenderlove, to random
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The best investment I've ever made, in terms of dollars per life improvement, was a bidet. ~$50 for a low end bidet greatly improved my life on a daily basis

bazzargh,
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@tenderlove Good choice. I bought a high end bidet and it just soaked my face

bazzargh, to random
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Oh man, Tony Husband died? On the way to his Private Eye leaving party no less 😭 . Laughed a lot at his cartoons over the years, but also appreciated thoughtful pieces like this for dementia awareness

gvwilson, to random
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I am looking for a basic open source SVG editor that will allow me to add text (e.g., inside shapes, as labels on links) in several human languages and then switch between them so that people don't have to eyeball the differences between (for example) English, Spanish, and Vietnamese versions of diagrams like https://third-bit.com/ideas/concept-maps/; instead, people can draw once and toggle between languages. Asked draw.io to implement, request was rejected—has anyone else done this? thx

bazzargh,
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@gvwilson I'd have looked for a .po translation pipeline rather than try to do it in svg itself, like this https://web.archive.org/web/20080415092335/http://andy.brisgeek.com/archives/45 . from the diagrams I've generated before (from automation, not for translation), positioning will be poor because svg doesn't reflow; so my labels embed html instead of <text> and it gives better results when the text changes

briankrebs, to random

In keeping w/ Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Don't Let Zombie Zoom Links Drag You Down

I was surprised at how widespread this is in just the Fortune 100.

Many organizations — including quite a few Fortune 500 firms — have exposed web links that allow anyone to initiate a Zoom video conference meeting as a valid employee. These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/dont-let-zombie-zoom-links-drag-you-down/

bazzargh, (edited )
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@briankrebs typo - "Don’t Use Personal Meeting ID or Public Meetings" from the context, this should be "Don’t Use Personal Meeting ID for Public Meetings"? (for not or)

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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I’ve just come across a book shaped like a hole, and… well, I’m not sure if I’m reading into it too much.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell there are many types of hole books, but mine is the best.

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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Guess where I’ve been.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell the 1950s

gvwilson, (edited ) to random
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I heard geese this morning, flying south, and the leaves are turning, and I can't help but wonder, how many more times will I hear the first geese of fall?

bazzargh,
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@gvwilson I recall a site that charted stuff more granular than this; how many times would you meet up with your friends, and so on. Can't find it now. Mostly depressing and not worth worrying about, tho counting down how many more on-call shifts I had left in my career was good (because the number was small and now zero)

davidallengreen, to random
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This is a briefing note on the legal rule that computers are presumed to be operating
correctly

Happy to hear from anyone with an informed view on this issue

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151259/1/briefing-presumption-that-computers-are-reliable.pdf

bazzargh,
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@davidallengreen last para, (2) should maybe read "the number of relevant bugs...". It's rare to see a large system that isn't absolutely drowning in bugs, of all shapes and sizes, not just in-house but updates to 3rd party dependencies, even when critical paths where the notion of "correct" is well defined may be thoroughly tested and working.
In handling incidents I'll often spot dozens of bugs, but have to focus on the one that caused the outage

cstross, to random
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New blog entry: Pushing it back: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/09/pushing-it-back.html

bazzargh,
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@cstross there's the Silurian Hypothesis paper that discusses possible signals of previous civilisations https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/silurian-hypothesis-would-it-be-possible-to-detect-an-industrial-civilization-in-the-geological-record/77818514AA6907750B8F4339F7C70EC6 ... named after the Dr Who episode of course

fkamiah17, (edited ) to UKpolitics
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The entire fucking government in microcosm.
Sunak and The Seven Bins - A Grimm Bastards story in two parts. In which the relevant government department issues guidance directly refuting the Prime Minister's speech.
" ... so whilst it was never the case that seven bins would be needed by households, this new plan ensures it."
There is SO MUCH I could say about those three paragraphs. Fucking word salad is the nicest of them.

bazzargh,
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@fkamiah17 we need way more than 7 bins tho. Where would we put the other 345 tory MPs?

gvwilson, to random
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I have questions…

Screenshot of Wolfram Alpha showing related queries, one of which is "how many calories in an almond croissant"

bazzargh,
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@gvwilson I thought I'd try it too but first tried "factor x^3+2x^2+x+2" as a control sample:

gregeganSF, to random
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I just discovered that I have a copy of the Skim PostScript/PDF reader and note-taker app on my Mac, but I have no memory of ever downloading it!

Is Skim included with the latest versions of MacOS (now that Preview is unable to open PostScript files)?

https://skim-app.sourceforge.io

bazzargh,
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@gregeganSF @jonhendry @krampus "March 2031: In a discovery published on arXiv today, scientists report a memetic virus known as "SKIM" has infected 37% of Apple devices over the last decade. it presents as a file reader that can handle postscript, as used for many scientific papers on arXiv; but on opening it deletes the user's memory of installing it and replaces it with an urge to recommend it to others.

In any case, it looks like a very nice app, so I'm glad I have it"

bazzargh, to lotr
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Treated myself, these are 1978 hardbacks of lord of the rings, same as I got from the library back then. I’d never bought a copy since because paperbacks felt disappointing after this, with its fold out maps (that lasted a few months in the library before being nicked for some teenager’s wall)

Edent, to random
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The UK's Civil Aviation Authority have a brief report about what caused all the flight cancellations the other day:

https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/NERL%20Major%20Incident%20Investigation%20Preliminary%20Report.pdf (440KB PDF)

A few interesting thoughts about their findings…

The major cause was:

> The plan included two waypoints along its route that were geographically distinct but which have the same designator.

I don't know enough about ICAO4444 / ADEXP to be sure, but it sounds like an understandable, albeit avoidable, error.

(1/n)

bazzargh,
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@Edent there's also a BINGO waypoint in both US and Japan. I feel like I should shout something. (BONGO is in US, Japan, Australia, and Burkina Faso. For a "small number" it seems like I'm getting far too many by random guesses?)

b0rk, (edited ) to random
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some people who make programming easier

(who am I missing?)

bazzargh,
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@b0rk the panopticon. I monitor lots of work channels and nosey lots of problem threads that seem interesting. Mostly they fall through to on-calls (who I might backchannel a bit) but every couple of weeks, I'll see one that maybe worked on re-running but looks...odd. 'That can't possibly happen. tell me more?'. And it'll be a day of digging, some heisenbug re-occurring since 2016, and 4 services need patched to fix it properly...

simonvarwell, to wordpress Esperanto
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Can I please ask for help from anyone who's good on ? or ? I have a problem with SSL on my website: I installed Really Simple SSL to allow my site to be https, but it doesn't seem to be updating properly, because... I dunno, it's beyond me. As such my website has a security block for visitors. I think it's an expiry thing. I'm not in the mood to pay for anything, so what should I do in terms of plugins or whatever?

Sorry, I am a bit of a dunce at this sort of stuff.

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell I'll dm a zoom link, about 2?

bazzargh,
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@simonvarwell no problem Simon, happy to help!

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