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Jon Wood

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@renata I think they’re slowly expanding but yes, possibly.

@renata CityMapper can do that if you’re in a supported city, and will also take into account rental bikes/scooters.

Drug use

@foone Pimoroni have a ton of wifi supported 2040/2350s with various combinations of IO, (almost?) all running off USB-C. I had one of their ones designed to drive addressable LEDs arrive today which uses USB-PD to avoid needing a second power supply unless you’ve got hilarious numbers of LEDs.

@0xabad1dea in a less dramatic way I definitely get this walking around my home town, going through areas I’ve been walking through since I was able to walk around on my own being vividly reminded of things that happened decades ago.

Ok. I choose not setting fire to the planet. Do the questions in this test get harder at any point?

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@fl0und3r @aworkinglibrary the other advantage to four day weeks from the employer side is that filling open roles is really easy, so sadly not.

@fesshole doesn’t really matter, they’re a cat and so won’t get too worked about the matter.

@bob tbh that sort of thing is a bit of a brown M&M to me. If you’ve not considered basic things like the person using some business software rarely being the one paying for it what else haven’t you considered?

@aworkinglibrary my employer instituted a four day week a year or two ago, with no reduction in pay, and it really does transform things. I’ve got a day to myself to get chores and the like done without eating into the weekend, they’ve got an employee who’s near impossible to hire away, you’d genuinely have to either double my pay or match the four day week for me to even consider jumping ship.

@JuliaRez replace your toilet with a wheelie bin full of sawdust.

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Since I'm going to be breaking out the air mattress so I can kip downstairs where it is cooler this week, I began to wonder what other things I should do for the full EMF-at-home experience.

- put my router in a Playmobil datenklo
- ask next door to play Amsterdam trance from 7am
- park my car five streets away
- ask the other next door to converse in German
- all the pride flags. All of them. More.

@joenash @amx109 well, in that hat…

@grumpybozo I think your mental model of “most people” may be a bit skewed. Sure, all the people who know what they’re doing are using a password manager. A typical person has two, plus several TOTP apps depending which one a given site recommended, and a bunch of saved passwords in three different browsers.

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The easiest way of testing if your self-hosted mail server can scale to cope with thousands of messages is to order £5 of stuff from AliExpress.

I’ve not really done anything today but scroll through social media because it’s too hot to be active, and I’m in a funk on things I could inactively do. This has been a terrible choice and yet here I am.

I’d love to see someone attempt to use behaviour like this to bust through Meta and co’s argument that they’re neutral platforms and so shouldn’t be held responsible for material published on those platforms as they don’t make editorial choices.
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@Andres4NY possibly the answer is that all devices should allow installation of any software you choose by default but also every family must nominate someone to be the family MDM administrator. They get to decide who’s authorised to just install software and who has to ask for approval first.

@Andres4NY I’m endlessly divided on this because I’d love to be able to do whatever I choose with my (iOS) phone, and yet at the same time I wouldn’t trust my Dad with the power to install arbitrary software on his phone for a minute, it would be riddled with malware harvesting his every move, word, and keystroke while he complains about how Apple have messed up battery management almost immediately.

@Extelec @catsalad this was very much improved by the image not loading until I clicked for the full size version expecting an artful photo of Stonehenge. Well played.

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Last night we had to go in the back door to the central library in Dundee instead of through the shopping centre. Standing outside, I happened to look at the bike rack, and wtf, why oh why are there feet?

@JustFi I think the real question is why don’t all bike racks have little prehensile feet?

@farah back when he was younger any time my son and I played Minecraft together I’d end up assigned to digging a giant hole. These days he’s hard into the PvP side of things and I simply refuse because being repeatedly killed by someone swooping by on an elytra just isn’t fun.

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So we've reached that phase have we

Spent this evening writing a hacky little server to consume telemetry that has been added to my favourite game of the last 12 months specifically for EMF and feeding it into my flat’s lights. God I love the mad things this event allows to me get up to!