@slothlydad
High-functioning dilettante or low-wattage polymath? Bikes, synths, maps, code, LCC, homegrown, homebrewed, climate, G/green. Croydon & Sarf London. Personal views only. Does things you've not heard of for people you have.
This is actually a relatively sound and cost-effective defence investment.
In that there are at least three hostile regimes right now who could be prevented from invading simply by us lining the top of the Dover Cliffs with a bunch of those lesbian crossings from Trafalgar Square.
Permanently drunk guy in a US bar, open-carrying a handgun and banging it on the counter from time to time to make a point.
What actually happened:
The council officers made recommendations to keep the schemes because they were improving safety and activity levels and reducing crashes.
The Mayor, an idiot, said he didn't want to do that, but had to because of the money. And for that reason the judge ruled it unlawful.
Follow back and I shall 👍🏻
One might extend that to some of the nastiest factional conflicts blighting humanity.
As an atheist Anglo ex-Protestant married to an atheist Irish ex-Catholic, I'll dare mention that one, and that one only.
(Any of the others is to end up like the UN blue helmets, getting shot at by both sides).
Talking to some local folks (SE London).
What varieties, whereabouts in Kent and can they be collected sooner, fruit trees here are breaking dormancy now due to mild winter/spring - clock's ticking!
As s/one who watches weather mostly from an amateur food-growing perspective - thoughts on likely effect on seasonal temperature / rainfall for Southern England?
.. and most such voters, being born after 1970, have literally no idea what Militant was or why anyone would be mad about it.
It's become pretty standard in all orgs above a couple of hundred employees. Risk management, data governance, compliance, all the rest.
The dog-whistle is for the benefit of people who've been out of work for a decade or more, and self-employed tradies, i.e. Reform voters.
"Remember not to hope, peasants. That's for the fairies."
And then they wonder why they're as popular as a cold sore at a kissing contest.
Snap! They're on a nice London to Cambridge route iirc, somewhere between the top of the Lea Valley and Duxford.
Sun angles and tree cover maybe? St James's Park is a fairly sheltered site, tallish buildings to the south, the sun won't get through there as much when it's at a relatively low angle as it is now.
They're the "right people". Deference to age, mixed with class embarrassment. Never mind that they're wrong about basically everything, walking talking "No Ball Games" signs.
Overwhelming vibes of "I have legitimate concerns about age of consent laws, purely from a civil liberties and economic agency perspective, you understand".
I can't think of any headline that screams "Check His Hard Drives" louder. Unless perhaps there was something about Woking Pizza Express in there.
"Sweet, my domain name now matched my (needlessly visible) waistband. Innit."
It was clear way back to the early 2010s that tech was becoming corrupted. Theranos the first of many.
And from Gamergate on, '14, it was in turn visibly corrupting society / democracy.
What I didn't anticipate is that a corrupted democracy would then turbocharge the corruption within tech itself.
the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...
Democratic corruption 🤝🏼 Tech industry corruption.
Operating as a toxic feedback loop.
Nurgle would be proud.
With Microsoft visibly rotting almost as fast as the American polis, I wonder if this needs to go beyond just data-centres and infrastructure. European Desktop Linux, anyone?
Mum and 2 kids cycling on the pavement outside Hnps Hackney where the road was improved but no safe cycle lanes were added
3 kids cycling on pavement outside HNPS Hackney
For every family cycling on the pavement outside my kids’ school, there are many more who just feel too unsafe to cycle at all. Really ‘solving the school run’ means being much bolder. @solveschoolrun.bsky.social
January ish temperatures maybe but still light until nearly 6pm, I'll settle for that.
I cycled home that way today hoping to catch the sunset over the river.
Nature had other plans.
🎉👏 Big congratulations to @camdencyclists.bsky.social's very own Jean Dollimore for being one of the nine “unsung heroes” recognised by TfL in form of a Santander Cycle taking her name!
Check out the full story: bit.ly/4u5sj2a
Adds "Sheep Farming" to list of "Things that are woke".
Sort of wonder if assisted coding, reverse engineering and a bit of straightforward theft will bring us to a place where non-MS OSes running on reverse-engineered NT kernels become a viable thing.
Google halfway has with Chrome OS.
The question is whether there's a market gap between "it's all yours, good luck" (Linux), the locked-down, cloud-centric appliance model (ChromeOS) and Apple's "you're free, but on our terms (hand over your wallet)" Singaporean city-state.
.. and RAM is expensive because of..? Oh yeah, AI data centres guzzling it all up.
Maddening, isn't it.
Yep, I've been mostly on Macs for a while now.
I do like AMD's processors, but feels like Linux is the way to go there now. It's a shame, as the NT kernel and drivers are sound and have been for three decades (!!), but the front-end has been slowly decaying since Windows 7.