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proactiveservices

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System Admonisher, tech support in Hampshire, UK. A screeching voice of the minority. I read your email.

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paul, to random
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As the UK government have decided changing the geometrically incorrect footballs on UK street signs is a danger to safety on the roads, Matt Parker has now decided to try to change the design of footballs in the English football league to match those on UK street signs

Say Yes to mathematically complicated footballs!

https://mathsballs.com

(Non-UK Signatures welcome)

proactiveservices,
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@paul No signatures welcome, it's an abuse of the petitions system and a waste of time.

revk, (edited ) to random
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OK I’m going to float an idea on here. It looks like we won’t be able to cancel a “broadband switch” from losing side. So won’t be able to do “anti slamming”. Shame.

But to switch using OTS you have to have a match on surname (using some fun, and vague, rules for accented characters).

So we could allow customers to set any surname on a line, and use as a sort of “password”.

After all, you can call yourself what you like, and we have to accept changes to personal information.

proactiveservices,
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@revk If this is added as a feature I will immediately be using it. I have to protect myself from unscrupulous organisations and ISPs fall into that description frequently. Whatever I can do to place my own padlock on my service, I will do.

Jackiemauro, to SanFrancisco
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Just your friendly(???) neighborhood heron (???)

I don’t know much about birds, but it was cool.

#SanFrancisco #GoldenGatePark #birds

proactiveservices,
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@Jackiemauro It probably looked at that blue house and thought "I don't know much about houses, but that is cool".

kim, to random
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I'm now contemplating an xkcd-style graph of average mobile phone height over time, and wondering when the minimum occurred. Someone who isn't me do this please?

RE: https://fediverse.fun/notes/9tq27iqilyn202w9

proactiveservices,
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@kim also can we plot it against "average amount of play between the battery and the chassis" because I love a story with an easy ending.

floppy, to random
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Happy .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day

proactiveservices,
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@floppy I took a simple purple hand towel, but it's an adoptee so is special to me.

Gordonbp, to random
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Which is more secure - Bitlocker (in Windows obviously!) or an encrypted HDD/SDD in Linux?

proactiveservices,
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@Gordonbp Well Microsoft will store your Bitlocker keys without informed consent, on an insecure platform, so that's a solid data point.

i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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what happened why do i have 40+ follow requests

proactiveservices,
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@i_lost_my_bagel 40 people want to see more Chromium users cry into their keyboard

dev_ric, to random
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Has anybody else found that the notifications have stopped working on the Android Mastodon app? Unsure if this is somehow related to the Bing API saga too, or if I've broken something in my settings, but I'm instead receiving notification emails because my instance doesn't think I'm active in the app, and the app just isn't doing push notifications at all. Getting a tad irritating now!

proactiveservices,
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@dev_ric I don't use it, but this week I've seen a few other people mention this problem for both the official and, I think, iOS apps.

proactiveservices, to random
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@i_lost_my_bagel I hear you may be blocking Chromium users from your Web site.

I'm sure you're aware that this makes some people cry into their keyboard.

giggle.

proactiveservices, to random
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What we need: microsoft to not landfill countless devices with windows 11
What they've given us: AI computers just to search our files

faassen, to history
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I recently reread the novel 1984, written in 1948 by George Orwell. It's famous.

It's interesting to see how much its own time informed it.

In the 1984 London, rocket bombs crash into the city regularly and are shrugged off almost casually. Bizarre!

But 3 years before the novel was written, V2 rockets still crashed into London.

1/n

#history

proactiveservices,
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@faassen My late father was a young man during WWII and when he had time off from working or serving, he would sometimes lay in a park and would see the V1s fly over London. The way he told that story made it feel very casual.

halla, to random
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I love lentils, and I love chickpeas, so when today's lunch place offered lentil soup with chickpeas, I didn't hesitate.

It turned out to be a watery concoction made from stock cubes and maggi liquid, with a handfull of lentils and chickpeas added, and a dollop of over-age yoghurt.

It wasn't worth the effort of spooning it up, so no lunch for me today. It wasn't even worth complaining about, because I wouldn't have been able to say anything that wouldn't be sarcastic.

proactiveservices,
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@halla if it's any consolation I managed to carbonise some food so badly the other day, that it was reduced to a homogenised slurry of fundamental elements. Let's just eat out today.

proactiveservices, to random
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I shouldn't have to drop into bcdedit to get windows to tell me that the reason it's stuck in a recovery boot loop (with no logging) is that ntoskrnl.exe is missing.

something went wrong :( is about as useful as microsoft get these days.

proactiveservices,
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@srtcd424 I'm going to have to give up and beg for a hint on that one!

proactiveservices,
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@srtcd424 You know I think I've seen reference to LILO over the decades but hadn't ever looked it up.

proactiveservices, to random
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Would photo software please stop objectifying women in their software screenshots?

It's 2024.

bagder, to random
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Remember to take the #curl user survey 2024 - if you can spare a few minutes.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/05/14/curl-user-survey-2024/

proactiveservices,
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@bagder Every year I think "how can he not get 100,000, easily?" and every year, people surprise me.

proactiveservices, (edited ) to random
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When opening Windows Store (hah!) and navigating to the Updates pane, the "Get Updates" and "Install Updates" buttons...

ghawkins, to random
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The latest BT Group results have quietly slipped into the report that the retirement project has now slipped 13 months to the end of January 2027

proactiveservices,
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@ghawkins No need for fanfare when we all knew it was going to happen!

i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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I fucking hate retroarch

proactiveservices,
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@i_lost_my_bagel it is just fine with tossing all the changes we painstakingly made without a peep about saving them :-(

proactiveservices, to random
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@RL_Dane you're a happy user - does yours still automatically reconnect after say, sleep / switching WiFi networks? It appears that I have to now issue a kdeconnect-cli --refresh before it reconnects.

There's half a dozen bug reports about it not automatically reconnecting since November time.

(between Kubuntu and Android here)

proactiveservices, to random
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"My emails look ludicrous, ex-Post Office PR boss admits"

We've all been there, but the rest of us in rather different circumstances.

proactiveservices, to random
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The 11th user survey is now up. Responding is the least you can do for the most widely-used hobbyist software in the worlds!

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/05/14/curl-user-survey-2024/

bagder, to random
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If you would listen to this presentation next week, what question would you ask me?

proactiveservices,
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@bagder What do you tell your friends (e.g. at social events), and how do they respond?

bkero, to random
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Does anybody I know on here have experience cycle touring in England? I'm headed to EMF Camp at the end of the month and it sounds really fun to simply cycle there (from London). I have many questions.

proactiveservices,
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@bkero Yes. Ask away!

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