mattgrayyes

mattgrayyes, 10 months ago to random

In case you were wondering about threads, the timeline is full of shit I don’t follow and it isn’t chronological. So it’s just Facebook made to look like twitter.

Screenshot of threads with loads posts I don’t follow including the archbishop of banterbury

mattgrayyes, 9 months ago to random

“Channels that your Audience Watches”
I don’t think I’m surprised by any of this.

Stand-up Maths, Geoff Marshall, Techmoan, James Hoffman, Laura Kampf, Code Bullet, hankschannel

mattgrayyes, 9 months ago to random

People at #CCCamp23:
World’O’Techno has been missing for over a day.
If you see it on site please return it to Milliways village, or call DECT 3018.

It looks like this but entirely covered in stickers:

mattgrayyes, 4 months ago to random

I love that Mercedes car radios list the frequency next to DAB station names.
Yep, frequency is useful info for FM/AM.
Completely useless for DAB.

No DAB radio lets you tune by frequency. And that’s not the frequency of a station anyway. That’s the frequency of the multiplex, Digital One in this case, which has ~25 radio stations on it!

mattgrayyes, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

I’m off to CCCamp next week for the first time, along with some of the @emf team. Who else is going to be there?

For those not in the know, Chaos Communication Camp is a hacker camp held near Berlin and organised by Chaos Computer Club, the German hacker association.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Camp

mattgrayyes, 6 days ago to random

For @emf, I’m making Mastodot, which in theory prints toots that are hashtagged for the event!

#emfcamp

mattgrayyes, 7 months ago to random

OK, I've worked out how to take a bike on an LNER train (and probobly other hitachis) and was caught out by them locking the bike storage after setting off, and not being there to unlock it. Here's the whole process

1.Book your ticket and book a bike space.
2. Get there early, and ask a platform guard for help as the bike compartment might need unlocking
3. Put your bike in.
4. Ride to your stop
5. Check if its locked
5b. Immediatly ask a platform guard to unlock the compartment.
6. Get off.

Wide angle photo of the empty bike compartment, showing two vertical bike racks, at different heights to help make two bikes fit.
Selfie inside the train with the bike compartment. I'm wearing a bright yellow cycling jacket and grinning.

mattgrayyes, 8 months ago to random

Computer storage NERDS: I'm looking for a cost-effective 1U faaast NAS.
This is the best I've found, for about £700. The next best i found was ~£1800.

Know owt better i could get, or any reason I shouldn't get this?

No I'm not building my own from scratch.

https://www.qnap.com/en-uk/product/ts-435xeu

(I've got a perfectly functional Drobo 5D, whose old driver's going to stop working on MacOS shortly as the company's gone bust)

mattgrayyes, 9 months ago to random

I just got a scam call from someone trying to steal my mobile phone account.

Never read out an OTP (One Time Password) text message to anyone on the phone. They're only for you to type into an official app/website as you log in, in order to check that it's actually you.

If you get a call "from a company" who send you a text message with a code, they've most likely typed in your phone number into the recover account or reset password screen on the website, and need the code to "prove its you"

mattgrayyes, 9 months ago to random

Want to ring me? #cccamp23 has a phone system that you can call from anywhere

+49 3307 47987 2215

This is a German phone number. Make sure you know how much international calls cost before you ring

mattgrayyes, 7 months ago to random

I highly recommend against locking your car keys, house keys and wallet in your car, in the peterboroughsire countryside nearly 100 miles from home, where your spare car key is.

mattgrayyes, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Next week I intend to go to Amsterdam.
Last time I tried that, the monarch died just as I got through security and I never got on the plane.

Will it happen again?

mattgrayyes, 7 months ago to random

Remember: if you hear anyone saying anything positive about changing the time every six months, they’re just a shill for Big Clock.

mattgrayyes, 8 months ago to random

I made a hoodie with glowing dinosaur spikes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmcNZbI37DU

mattgrayyes, 6 months ago to random

ADHD / Neurospicy / Depression hacks (That involve spending money)

1. Get a cleaner.
   If you’re like me you’ll do the rush-tidy thing before they arrive so they can get at the surfaces that need cleaning.
   And then the place will be clean and your mind may be clearer to think of of other stuff.

2. b) While anxiously avoiding the cleaner in another room in the flat I normally accidentally end up doing something productive.

mattgrayyes, 3 months ago to random

My Windows 3.11 nonsense continues:

I've connected it to the internet!

• I browsed the first webpage
• I chatted with @jonty in IRC (both in DOS and in Win 3.11)

Screenshot of Windows 3.11 VM showing mIRC IRC client. I shouldn’t be so amused by this now IRC from an acorn I miss using IRC from my psion via IRDA

mattgrayyes, 2 months ago to random

I got new stickers.
No theyre not for sale, I normally hand them out when at events etc.

BUT I was about to place some around Finsbury Park for you to find if you wanted one but it’s too windy and they wouldn’t stay put.

Finding an alternative shortly…

mattgrayyes, 10 months ago to random

I got my first ever pair of glasses, and omg my computer screen now looks like it's in HD!

The optician said my prescription was so minor it wasn't worth bothering with unless I had a load of eye strain. I didn't notice any eye strain but I have been increasing text sizes a little over the last few years, so I thought I'd give it a try with a £20 pair. I'm so glad I did.

I can still see my screen perfectly fine without, but I'm definitely less headachey after wearing them!

mattgrayyes, 8 months ago to random

This post is sponsored by the squeak 2/3 of the way through Granite by Sleep Token.

https://youtu.be/om4dEGKnEmw

mattgrayyes, 8 months ago to random

What the actual fuck?

https://amzn.to/3EA2AX3

mattgrayyes, 9 months ago to random

Today, in train nerdery:
I get my first trip up the midland mainline.

mattgrayyes, 4 months ago to random

Releasing videos to a schedule is one thing, but releasing videos to a weekly schedule non-stop for a decade is something else entirely.

Raise a glass to Tom Scott
Enjoy your rest, you deserve it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKv5H5Frt0

mattgrayyes, 9 months ago to random

As silly as it would be to do, I am regularly tempted by the idea of long distance day trips, using direct flights.

Eg. Getting a flight to New York that lands at 7am and getting the 11pm flight home.

Not for practicality or anything, just because it’s doable.

The one direct flight to Australia from the UK isn’t timed well for this because QF10 lands at 1300 and QF9 departs at 1845, only giving you maybe 3 useful hours in Perth. (After 16.5hr and £1500). Worst of all you’ll be in Perth :p

mattgrayyes, 3 months ago to random

Something I’m always disappointed by in apps is them not gracefully dealing with intermittent internet.
So many feel like they’ve never been tested on slow/patchy connections.

Why not let me:
🔹press like, cache it, and send it when I get internet?
🔹press send on a message, cache it, and send it when I get internet? (WhatsApp handles this one well IMO.)
🔹open the message notification and see as much text as the notif held, & load the rest on reconnect?

mattgrayyes, 9 months ago to random

I’ve just thought. Eating the rich could be a green issue as well as an economic one. They’re probably worse for the environment than beef

You don’t /have/ to go vegan, Just Eat The Rich™