chrisgerhard

chrisgerhard, 4 months ago to random

Oh Private Eye again you make me chuckle

chrisgerhard, 4 months ago to random

The lie could only stand up against reality for so long.

#brexit failed, as it was always going to, because it was a stupid policy.

Those who proposed it should pay a political price and be banished from serious discussions. Their judgement is so bad they have nothing to offer.

Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/30/britons-brexit-bad-uk-poll-eu-finances-nhs?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

chrisgerhard, 4 months ago to random

Had Britain not turned its back on the EU we would be in a position to really influence the block to increase support further. Our isolation was Putin's goal when he got useful idiots to back #brexit.

British defense secretary calls on world to ramp up support for Ukraine
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3806978-british-defense-secretary-calls-on-world-to-ramp-up-support-for-ukraine.html

chrisgerhard, 5 months ago to random

A core principle of capitalism is capitalists never pay external costs. They are always left to society. For Conservatives that means only the rich should ever be compensated for external costs.

Wales fears another Aberfan as Westminster refuses to clean up tips
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/26/wales-fears-another-aberfan-as-westminster-refuses-to-clean-up-tips?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

chrisgerhard, 5 months ago to random

Good grief this is so depressing. Not the bit about praising Thatcher, that's just electioneering. The bit about missing the opportunities of BREXIT. That is suggesting Labour really are going to hand power back to the tories when they fail to find #BREXIT opportunities, as there are none.

Keir Starmer praises Margaret Thatcher for bringing ‘meaningful change’ to UK
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/02/keir-starmer-praises-margaret-thatcher-for-bringing-meaningful-change-to-uk?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

chrisgerhard, 6 months ago to random

Everyone of them is a hero.

Jury clears climate protesters of causing damage to HSBC London HQ
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/16/climate-protesters-cleared-of-causing-criminal-damage-to-hsbc-london-hq?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

chrisgerhard, 6 months ago to random

Anyone got any idea what this is?

simon_brooke, 6 months ago to ubuntu

So, I've hit one serious problem to switching from #Ubuntu to #Debian: the version Shotwell - an application I use a lot - in Debian is an older version than that used by Ubuntu, and its database can't be downgraded. So far, I've failed to compile it from source, because of dependency hell.

mbonsma, 6 months ago to random

I have never felt more respected or validated in my life than when I drove this onto the elementary school playground this morning

chrisgerhard, 7 months ago to cycling

Today's ride I found the holy grail of cycling. A closed road (for roads to be closed to pedestrians and cyclists in England requires a special traffic order, and signage, so almost never happens) so I got a pleasant few miles with no cars. Was lovely. #cycling

GottaLaff, 7 months ago to legal

I’m back on the @nicolesandler show later today and have to prep, but will cover what I can of Cohen’s testimony with a 🧵starting here. 1/…

Via Klasfeld:

Good morning from New York.

#MichaelCohen's face-off with #Trump is at hand, and the two are likely to be in a room together for the first time in five years, after another witness's testimony wraps. #legal

jon, 7 months ago to random

How Twitter’s pre-eminence in EU politics ends

I wrote this in June https://euroblog.jonworth.eu/how-twitters-role-as-pre-eminent-social-media-in-eu-politics-ends/

It’s playing out largely the way I sketched out here

kate, 7 months ago to random

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GottaLaff, 7 months ago to random

Update for those following this:

This drive home is more brutal than most. We spoke to father in law as we drove, told us he’s ready to go, wishes it wd happen “as peaceful & easy” as his wife went. Sigh. Not easy to hear. He’s under hospice care, nothing imminent though.

Backstory: yrs of congestive heart failure finally taking its toll. He’s 97(!). Still sharp.

We leave Portland for Medford, OR today, then to Sacramento, then home to SoCal.

TY for your empathetic replies❤️

sarajw, 7 months ago to random

My fingers are sore from messing about with a cable, one that should be sending some current from the dynamo on my bike's front wheel hub to my rear light.

After much messing with a multimeter I found where it was broken - the bit that went inside the frame. Whatever, yanked it out. Even if I tried to tie bits of string to it, I'm not sure I'll be able to thread another cable through the frame again.

Will end up cable-tying a replacement to the outside of the frame. It will look terrible,

1/2

jhilden, 7 months ago to cyberpunk

Someone using the wreck of a MacBook Pro with a tether as a bike lock #cyberpunk

fkamiah17, 7 months ago to UKpolitics

Wasn't the climate his "lifelong project" the other week?
He's the UK's answer to Jared Kushner. 🙄🤬
#AbolishTheMonarchy #UKPolitics

aral, 7 months ago to accessibility

Programmable keyboards with free and open firmware are not just geek toys but accessibility tools.

I was just able to create a new layer in Vial that moves the arrow keys to the left side of the keyboard and maps them to s/z/x/c to make them easier to use in some keyboard shortcuts after breaking my right hand.

#accessibility #a11y #keyboard #qmk #via #vial

chrisgerhard, 7 months ago to random

We can just put this down to the stupidity of Sunak.

Again, the tories show they don't understand things, and they are against anything they don't understand. Which covers most of the modern world

HS2 services to Manchester may run slower than normal trains
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/07/sunaks-plan-to-run-part-of-hs2-on-existing-track-may-be-slower-than-existing-service?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

notjustbikes, 7 months ago to random

There's some jerk with a bot reposting my Mastodon posts to Twitter.

If I wanted my content on there, I would post it myself. I don't. Take the hint.

Not to mention all the people tagging that account thinking it's me.

Of course, Xitter is so useless now that they won't get rid of unauthorized accounts.

If you're reading this on Xitter, tell the person who posted it to stop.

mattblaze, 8 months ago to random

TIL that gold bars are prominently stamped with traceable serial numbers.

In unrelated news, I will no longer be accepting gold bars as payment for bribes. I apologize for any inconvenience.

chrisgerhard, 8 months ago to random

If you were part of the Box Broadband outage last night and are now having connectivity issues to some sites. It appears they are no longer auto detecting the MTU so you need to set the MTU to 1484 or MSS of 1444.

#boxbroadband

chrisgerhard, 1 year ago to random

A broadband company that replies to an email asking if they support ipv6 in less than 4 minutes is probably worthy of consideration. Even more so when the answer is yes. #boxbroadband