Dave T-W @davoloid@social.cleverlibre.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, moving towards Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
Some f**ked up logic behind this destruction of a gorgeous building that is similar in swathe (but much more interesting) to the new Google sidescraper going up at Kings Cross. If the building is a "reminder of car dominated urban planning of the past" well what's that to do with the building?
Why not change the road itself from that bleak internal motorway? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/28/birmingham-council-votes-to-demolish-brutalist-landmark-ringway-centre
Quite a milestone! As of this morning's levelling up, the house demographics have changed. There are now 3 adults and 1 child living here.
FFS. Every now and again eBay make some change to their interface which just makes everything worse or just breaks everything. Can't print a label, can't tell if it's been paid for.
Have been quiet on here, recently, a lot on the last month or so. I expected to run out of spoons after an active summer.
*blurgh*
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@TheConversationUS
Or rather, "How Cats Domesticated Humans"
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The first ticket release is at 8pm this evening, London time
boosts appreciated!
^Paul
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/barcamp-london-xii-tickets-717341005257
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You know you’re getting older when the names of online services become nouns before you get around to finding out what they are.
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How the names "Lenino", "Pushkino," and "Turgenevo" appeared on the map of Crimea, what were the original names of those settlements, and several renaming campaigns in Crimea - in this video.
📹krapka.krapka/TikTok
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'A conversation about using progressive taxation to rescue and rebuild the UK economy is long overdue. The above is a small sample of the ways in which additional tax revenues can be raised without increasing the rates of income tax, corporation tax and basic national insurance contributions. A large proportion of the population will see no increase in taxes.'
10 ways we could make the tax system more progressive - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate https://leftfootforward.org/2023/09/10-ways-we-could-make-the-tax-system-more-progressive/
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Exactly 14 years ago , Satoshi Nakamoto designed the most pathetic / inefficient system ever invented by humankind : the blockchain.
Today, it weights 60 000 tons, wastes constantly 10 gigawatts .. to process less than 7 transactions per second :
Less than a 33 bps modem from 1990.
This could be joke if it didn't have such gigantic environmental impact, wasn't enabling billion dolllars ransomware industry and was not crushing thousands of lives in the process.
Moon looks dusky tonight , half way between tangerine and lavender. Anyone else spotted that or are my eyes failing?
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This is one of the most incredible pieces of research into a random piece of infrastructure I’ve ever seen. A wild ride.
https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge
h/t @danyork
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@Keltounet @hywan There's a deeper point: the past 70 years of computing have focussed on a spurious vision of progress that forgets to consider the utility of a stable platform. Operating systems in particular are driven by commercial goals (sell more software! Get more Linux desktops out there!) that are actively inimical to the needs of their users. Forcing users to learn a new way of working every year—even if they don't need to—is crazy. And it renders computers inaccessible to the elderly.
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Michael Gove scrapped the £56bn school building project in 2010 that was set to replace every single RAAC school in the UK.
He then replaced it with nothing.
Fast forward 13 years and they are all falling down.
Whose fault is it?
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Huge preparation over the last few weeks for today's community AGM. The difficult people had their say, were answered fully and showed how they had nothing positive to say.
Some many great contributions, words of support and great ideas for the coming year.
Full of beans and so proud of the team we've recruited this year and the way we've all worked together.
Pitchforks down!
Advice for #Word document preparation.
I want to print many copies of the same single page document, but have each copy numbered in several places. Is there a way to add that to the document?
Am thinking a mail merge is a workaround but wondered if there was a simpler solution. Googlefu is weak on this one.
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- Location
- Mostly London
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- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, moving towards Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
