Paul Martin

Personal snac2 server of @nowster@fosstodon.org

Professional electron herder. Coder. Tinkerer. Road geek. Regular runner. Wearer of weird toe shoes. Purveyor of bad puns. Amateur singer/actor. Did a bit of local radio twenty odd years ago. Ran a small ISP for 14 years. UK based. Former pm111-at-phx to those who remember.

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npub1fdash0zdqsepy8wqydzf8xalujwga6wvqjl800mmk7ak2rpmkghqvjj6qe

NIP-05 Address

nowster@fedi-nowster-me-uk.mostr.pub

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2025-04-06 19:37:01

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@nprofile…pk3c Yes, why do you ask?

2025-04-05 19:25:42

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@nprofile…7sks What's half of 24°C, I muse...
(273.15+24)/2 = 148.65K or -125.575°C. Definitely chilly! Would recommend wrapping up warm.

2025-04-05 18:44:23

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@nprofile…hvqe Can't have you feeling deprived.
https://fedi.nowster.me.uk/fedi/nowster/s/a1d93b8d242fa35d5b2b000e6f9708b6.jpg

2025-04-05 12:20:18

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@nprofile…hvqe Have the bluebells started near you?

2025-03-27 12:34:27

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@nprofile…7sks At least it was resolved in the end. (I'll get my coat.)

2025-03-23 17:08:32

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@nprofile…7pvw Extending it: hangers on, acolytes, stalkers, disciples, etc.

2025-03-22 23:48:32

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@nprofile…22tn @nprofile…4csq Ooh! So it is! Uh, and y is one too (he said obscurely).

2025-03-22 23:43:55

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@nprofile…6lxr @nprofile…4csq I bet that went down a bomb.
bear
dear
fear
gear
hear
near
pear
rear
sear
tear (x2)
wear (x2, the second being a river in NE England)
year

2025-03-22 22:28:44

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@nprofile…g388 After seeing @nprofile…3g0h series of videos about it, I suspect you made the right decision.

2025-03-22 18:35:05

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@nprofile…4csq Has anyone mentioned George Bernard Shaw's "ghoti" yet? (In the preface to Pygmalion.)
touGH = f
wOmen = i
ambiTIous = sh

2025-03-22 13:54:31

#parkrun 130 today. This week is my 28th visit to Hafan Pwllheli, rated 6th hardest in the UK for 2025. Power of 10 site.
A lovely warm morning with a light breeze, not the chill and rain which was forecast. Plenty of jellyfish washed up on the beach near the start.
https://fedi.nowster.me.uk/fedi/nowster/s/5496b0e496201f52e9cc480e5f839873.jpg
https://fedi.nowster.me.uk/fedi/nowster/s/5fccf4df530360d66578ce8cf4fd4d8e.jpg
https://fedi.nowster.me.uk/fedi/nowster/s/a97e406150759804f1e504aef447f42b.jpg

2025-03-22 12:47:48

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@nprofile…udl6 @nprofile…x0ay My local parkrun has a vinegar factory nearby.

2025-03-22 12:45:53

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@nprofile…x0ay Parkruns are the only times I run without headphones. I like to chat with other runners and the marshals.

2025-03-21 18:21:19

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@nprofile…t7cl "It's OK, but it smells a bit."

2025-03-21 15:06:27

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@nprofile…ps5h Back in the day you'd blame the trainee; now you blame AI.

2025-03-20 23:08:53

Metaphors, parables and similes seem to bring me out in a rash. I think I've developed analogy.

2025-03-20 14:21:27

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@nprofile…tlvg Perhaps some comparison site can use them? 😜

2025-03-20 14:20:12

High contrast black and white photo from yesterday's lunchtime run.
https://fedi.nowster.me.uk/fedi/nowster/s/7332e4847eb149cb52912aa77ed3b711.jpg

2025-03-20 11:06:14

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@nprofile…fnwc No "time waiters". Impatient purchases only.

2025-03-20 11:04:48

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@nprofile…4t99 One reply you missed:
The day¹ in British latitudes has actually been longer than 12 hours since Tuesday 18th. The equinox today is the point in time where the line from the earth to the sun's centre is directly aligned with the plane passing through the earth's equator.
Because of the size of the sun's disc and atmospheric refraction, the day¹ length tends to be longer than if the sun were a point and there was no atmosphere.
¹ Day here being the period of daylight where any part of the sun is visible above the horizon, cloud and terrain permitting. This explicitly excludes any period of twilight.

2025-03-20 10:46:28

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@nprofile…ryl0 Watch out for the three pensioners in a bath on wheels.

2025-03-20 00:18:04

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@nprofile…cqwj Feature request: maintaining the last read place in the home timeline, even if the app has been killed by the system, and being able to handle when more posts than the server's request limit have happened since the app was last used.
For example if you check in the morning then don't check again until the evening the timeline will often have a big discontinuity in it, which you won't see if you browse the server directly.

2025-03-19 21:24:49

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@nprofile…dp43 The Going For Gold theme didn't do its composer much harm.

2025-03-19 10:32:18

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@nprofile…qeuh Yggdrasil, off a CD attached to a book. Then Slackware (including through the a.out to ELF transition), briefly RedHat, then finally Debian.

2025-03-18 17:38:22

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@nprofile…tx75 @nprofile…rw9j For that we defer to the wisdom of the late Les Barker. https://youtu.be/z1fcb3F-4L4

2025-03-18 16:24:19

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@nprofile…t4qe @nprofile…u85n Another trick is to find something trivial wrong with the line, fix it, then log "No Fault Found".

2025-03-18 16:22:08

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@nprofile…rw9j Similarly, do Occasional Tables have days off?

2025-03-18 16:12:59

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@nprofile…4t99 Serious "Don't You Know Who I Am?!!!!" vibes.

2025-03-18 15:23:35

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@nprofile…4klv Star Trek VI has one reference to kicking an alien in the sensitive bits on the prison planet.

2025-03-18 15:17:45

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@nprofile…fgj4 Looks like the visual aura I just had.

2025-03-18 15:04:17

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@nprofile…4t99 Corrections should be boring? I'm not a law expert but what you write is always interesting.
My fear is that the executive will continue to ignore the judiciary and suffer no consequence. It then will fall to the Supreme Court to decide whether or not to crown the monarch.

2025-03-18 14:08:53

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@nprofile…4t99 "removed form the case" → "removed from the case"

2025-03-18 11:37:51

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@nprofile…7d5r This raises a point. Can you call a strand of glass fibre a wire? Probably yes, but it's something I'd more often associated with drawn metals.

2025-03-17 23:16:33

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@nprofile…u792 The modern equivalent would be Wordle. Bindle?

2025-03-17 16:45:34

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@nprofile…zk3m That's not a standup. If it can't be done and dusted in fifteen minutes your team's too big or the person running the standup isn't doing it right.

2025-03-17 16:18:41

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@nprofile…6xtr More milestones to miss?

2025-03-17 16:14:15

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@nprofile…7t0y You've encountered what a lot of folks hit when they first reach about that distance. I remember finishing my first 13km distance and getting jelly legs the instant I stopped running.
You may need to look at hydration before and during the run, and maybe some quick acting carbs.
What's important to know is that it's not unusual at this point in your running journey. I think it's something that your body adapts to fairly quickly, but the first time it happens it can be extremely disconcerting.

2025-03-17 11:44:21

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@nprofile…4t99 It is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission, especially if you don't care whether you need forgiving.

2025-03-17 02:06:33

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@nprofile…z25q Ben shot first!

2025-03-17 02:00:30

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@nprofile…lum8 If you have a Labrador every walk ends in you washing them. They will find any mud around and wallow in it. I used to set out with a yellow dog and come back with a brown one.

2025-03-17 01:57:18

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@nprofile…p3ym They wouldn't be acceptable. America washes its eggs and hence has to refrigerate them. Europe doesn't wash eggs and doesn't need to refrigerate them.

2025-03-17 01:54:22

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@nprofile…rzjw Lancaster: short range distribution.

2025-03-13 23:31:37

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@nprofile…utk8 @nprofile…t4qe My own is a Celeron J4125 based one, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD. It came with pfSense but I put Debian on it instead. Back in November it was £160.
It's running foomuuri to organise the firewall, Asterisk, nginx (forwarding), bind9 (doing the equivalent of a PiHole), OpenVPN and Wireguard, ZNC, fail2ban and of course snac2. It's barely ticking over.
I changed the filesystem to f2fs to better use the SSD.
It improved throughout on the 1Gbps Virgin Cable connection by about 5% on the previous Celeron G1610 box (with dual Realtek gigabit ethernet ports). At some point if OpenReach gets its stuff together, I may be running one interface with PPPoE.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CXF32166

2025-03-12 10:45:10

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@nprofile…73zh One little thing missing. The makefile doesn't install the localisation files anywhere yet.

2025-03-06 16:26:16

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@nprofile…95h5 I suspect the voting this year is going to be interesting.

2025-03-02 10:36:39

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@nprofile…t4qe @nprofile…hvqe Two? Just in case the first one was a... whatchamacallit.

2025-03-02 10:33:32

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@nprofile…hvqe @nprofile…t4qe I wonder if she has a Fluke in her toolbox.

2025-02-19 12:13:07

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@nprofile…7sks Sessions dropping is a sign of heavy CGNAT. mosh is a good solution to that.

2025-01-23 23:31:05

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I've found out what relaying is useful for: outgoing distribution of your toots. The FediBuzz server doesn't follow you back, so it doesn't receive your toots to send on to its other users.
CC: @nprofile…73zh