mattgrayyes

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, 1 year ago to random

My new favourite error message, thanks to find & replace.
It is absolutely correct too.

mattgrayyes, 1 month ago to random

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2crtp1uyoo/

mattgrayyes, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Good morning to you and a very fuck the Tories.

In order to to be able to fuck the Tories you now need ID. If you don’t have ID, go here ASAP to be able to vote against them next week.

Accepted ID:

• UK / EEA Passport
• UK / EEA Driving licence
• several forms of pensioners travel card
• several forms of disabled travel card

🚨Young persons travel cards Do Not Count!

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/voter-id

mattgrayyes, 3 months ago to random

If you are mildly annoyed by plastic drinks bottles is that a PET peeve?

mattgrayyes, 1 month ago to random

Remember not to get the two confused:

Polyamory: I have multiple partners.
Pollyarmoury: I have multiple parrots. As weapons.

mattgrayyes, 4 months ago to random

It’s me. I’m vampires.

https://nitter.net/iconawrites/status/1506774761451536388?s=20

mattgrayyes, 8 months ago to random

I made a hoodie with glowing dinosaur spikes!

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

mattgrayyes, 3 months ago to random

I just asked Chat GPT / DALL-E to generate some Hieronymus Bosch appliances.

Nice to have an outlet for my inner monologue’s incessant wordplay.

A microwave that is decorated on all sides in the manner of Hieronymus Bosch.
A jug blender of your nightmares. The base looks incredibly sculpted with tentacles and eyes all over it. The jug looks normal, but the stirrer in the middle of it is a tentacle/vine type thing wrapped around a metallic rod with a star shaped flower on it. Reminiscent of the snake on a stick medical symbol, but more horrifying.
An electric drill, which while still looking ergonomic appears to be sculpted from bone or porcelain, with vines, roots, and eyes. In between the sculpted parts are flatter surfaces that have been painted seemingly in oils. The chuck, trigger, and battery attachment mechanism of the drill all look completely normal made out of black plastic.

mattgrayyes, 4 months ago to random

Discriminating against enbies is apparently justified in the UK when it’s too much effort not to, according to The High Court. 😡

“The High Court … found that nonbinary gender is a relevant status when considering whether someone has been subject to discrimination. The Court also agreed that the difference in how Ryan was treated, … was discriminatory. However, the Court found that this discrimination could be justified on grounds of administrative convenience and cost…”

https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc/111778154001674847

mattgrayyes, 2 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 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, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to random

With my day job, I end up training lots of people on new technology, and explaining concepts to people as jargon-free as possible.

Almost every person apologises for asking or for them being “stupid questions”.

As I see it, there’s no such thing as a stupid question when you had no reason to know the answer to begin with!

But having seen the way people can gatekeep knowledge or act like they’re stupid or annoying for asking questions, I can see why they’re tentative.🧵 https://cutie.city/@Quenby/112373846919511547

mattgrayyes, 4 months ago to random

CEO?
No, I’m the CED:
Chief Executive Dysfunction.

mattgrayyes, 2 months ago to random

I can't remember when I last spend a whole day going wow like this, the research has got so much further than I'd have expected!

Matt Gray is Trying: Biomedical Research

https://youtu.be/2DvJauB0KyU

mattgrayyes, 4 months ago to random

You only ever hear about Werther’s Originals. I want to try Werther’s Plagiariseds

mattgrayyes, 3 months ago to random

If you'd like some wonderful bedtime reading that absolutely won't give you nightmares try this. It won't give you nightmares at all. nope.

https://archive.org/details/mc-donalds-specification-manual-1975/mode/2up

mattgrayyes, 2 months ago to random

As spring approaches I like to check all my really old hard drives work.

I call this the IDEs of March.

mattgrayyes, 2 months ago to random

If you’re a neurodivergent christian CEO of your parent’s company, you’ve got the triple ‘tism!
Au-, bap-, and nepo-!

mattgrayyes, 17 days ago to random

HOLY SHIT I CAN SEE THE AURORA FROM JUST OUTSIDE LONDON

Not quite that bright. Definitely not that saturated. But I can see the streaks and a slight tinge of colour.

Look north, avoid light pollution. It just looks like cloud until you notice. Point a camera at it and you’ll see the colour on screen then can work it out in person

mattgrayyes, 5 months ago to random

Matt Gray is Trying: Pyrotechnics.
My new series begins now, and I'm starting off with a bang!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZVRK1kZK_E

mattgrayyes, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to random

The direction all this is heading makes me feel sick.
Why do there always have to be minorities picked to be punching bags or scapegoats. Esp when their existence makes no diff to the public.

I am non binary 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
I don’t talk about it much because tbh it’s none of your business. And hell it can be hard to figure out what someone feels about themself never mind communicating it.
But I mention it to show support!

https://mastodon.social/@transactualuk/112444756399151218

mattgrayyes, 5 months ago to random

Midnight Mass: 114.5kg

mattgrayyes, 1 month ago to random

I'm on an unrestricted variable electricity tarrif.
My price per kwh is about to go negative for 3 hours*

I can get my oven and air con unit to fight each other, and be paid for it!

*it's so windy that there's nowhere to put all the energy the turbines are generating, so they pay (mostly industry) to use it up. The price shoots up in the evening when everyone starts putting their heating on and cooking dinner. People on a fixed price tarriff are paying ~25p/kWh all day in the UK right now.