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2024-07-23 08:28:47

Build batteries, babe
Do the economics for new gas stations even stack up? I can see that some might want to get paid for building them, but I'm not sure running them makes sense if they are only occasionally used.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/23/uk-may-need-new-gas-fired-power-stations-to-decarbonise-grid #RenewableEnergy #UKpol

2024-07-23 06:58:04

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@npub1cxy…vryr evergreen toot

2024-07-22 07:33:57

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@npub1aq0…py77 she's very brave to hold up under such injustice

2024-07-22 07:15:06

Do I know anyone here who is doing or has done stats for NHS Scotland?
I'm trying to help someone #GetFediHired and they'd like to work in the NHS (they have a maths degree)

2024-07-19 07:24:26

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Looks like it might be a MS cloud problem? (usually these things are AWS East)

2024-07-19 07:23:01

Does the fedi keep going while the rest of the world's IT crashes? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et

2024-07-10 09:10:20

I'm pretty sure this happened on a day England were playing in the Euros, but come on.
#ScotPol
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/112/761/409/556/453/623/original/1731d691d46a50d1.webp

2024-07-06 09:33:56

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@npub198t…hasj yeah, sorry about that

2024-07-06 07:15:32

@npub198t…hasj
Eric Gill was a bad person. Sorry to be the joke ruiner
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill

2024-07-02 11:40:52

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I agree with you on the Shah, but there were a number of groups resisting the Shah and the CIA decided they wanted the Islamists to win because they weren't Communists in the 1970s.

2024-07-02 10:56:05

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@npub1psd…9sr7 well, we got Khomenei b/c the other left wing options looked worse to the US.

2024-06-28 15:07:09

What you can't see is that I have a bag in the bag #BikeTooter
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/112/694/861/795/696/597/original/4af1ee0f4beaac38.jpg

2024-06-20 06:05:38

Well done to Just Stop Oil for getting lots of coverage for the environment again

2024-06-15 12:42:05

If I rode past the Dundee #Pride march, smiled and felt happy, is that sort of participating?
Happy Pride to those celebrating love and who they are.

2024-06-14 12:41:05

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@npub1psd…9sr7 welcome to your updated climate weirding event

2024-06-14 10:40:18

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@npub1aum…5jx0 why isn't this on Disney+? (the rest of National Geographic seems to be)

2024-06-04 08:12:04

My timeline is dominated by people complaining about how much coverage a horrible person is getting.
If you want to hear about what others are doing instead that might be good, then here you go. Maybe join one of them or give them money. They are running in more places than before.
https://greens.scot/
https://www.snp.org/
https://www.greenparty.org.uk/
#ScotPol
#UKpol

2024-06-01 22:13:40

Any thoughts on how I'd transport a #Brompton on the back of a long tailed ecargo bike? #BikeTooter

2024-06-01 16:40:36

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@npub19lt…qfjk it is actually streaming on Netflix in the UK today

2024-05-30 13:59:31

I'd love to find some repairable cycling/outdoor shoes for flats (not clipless)

2024-05-29 10:40:32

Fellow #brompton riders on Strava and similar. What kind of average speeds do you get when you cycle around (and how many hills and gears do you have when you do that cycling)?
I'm trying to figure out if I'm just slow (pretty sure I am) or if Brommies are slow. A fast average speed for me over 10km is 21-22kph. My fastest, not going downhill is around 33kph. I have a 2019 m6l with knackered tyres.
#BikeTooter

2024-05-27 10:10:48

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@npub1yyx…qa5g that actually makes me feel a bit closer to "doing a journalism" than the writing bit of it would

2024-05-24 12:10:30

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@npub1yyx…qa5g controllable by and work for the user and resist abuse by hackers/employers/etc

2024-05-24 06:20:30

Framed #805
🎥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 ⬛ ⬛
https://framed.wtf
Oh, with the number

2024-05-17 08:48:08

Just emailed my opt out to slack. I'm wondering what I should move over to. It would be good to have something where someone not me was the admin. Happy to pay the same amount we pay for slack.

2024-05-02 13:47:39

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@npub1yuy…603c that's why I want to move to guix and guile scheme

2024-04-28 10:55:19

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@npub15zu…s7lx https://mastodon.cloud/@respros/112348404712597528 has a link to the report

2024-04-15 09:22:34

Dearest Air Quality Nerds, any suggestion on a device to check particles in the air (pollen? diesel? other? mould?) to see if the counts are high?

2024-04-12 07:49:55

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@npub1yyx…qa5g I presume that the Cass Report is the "scientific proof" to support their bigotry that they've been waiting for.

2024-03-27 10:11:20

Dearest Java Friends,
What book(s) would you recommend for a clojurian wanting to learn some more java to get good at java interop?
I feel that #clojure 1.12 changes some of this as well.

2024-03-26 19:23:16

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@npub1zw2…2aln hi, is there an API for proton drive?

2024-03-24 15:58:51

Now we just need it to be night time and clear. Lots of space weather on atm
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/112/151/487/198/860/052/original/3b145e39a2ed7af7.png

2024-03-18 14:36:54

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@npub16u7…uend thx for being patient with the out of date

2024-03-18 14:04:16

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@npub16u7…uend 50tWh of untapped hydro (30 tWh) and geo (20 tWh)?
Tho I'm clearly behind the times on things. I do get that hydro has issues.

2024-03-18 13:12:32

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@npub16u7…uend tbh, I don't know why they aren't all in Iceland given that latency isn't an issue

2024-03-09 11:48:12

A bit of org-mode hacking where I'm trying to archive pages from pocket-mode into org-roam nodes and refile things from my Org Capture browser extensions and orgzly captures on my phone into the day pages they happened on. https://gist.github.com/otfrom/6b4d9a54dff2d4edcf16d8a39a5469de #emacs #orgmode

2024-03-04 18:55:30

Is there a way to watch For All Mankind without an Apple or Windows device?

2024-03-03 11:15:35

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub15dm…nd6f in a crisis the elite panic and everyone else sticks together

2024-02-27 08:16:35

We produced more electricity than we used from the grid yesterday, but didn't have quite enough battery to store it all so fed 2.9kWh into the grid #solar #Scotland

2024-02-22 13:58:13

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@npub194h…4ewx I went through their debugging stuff and it looks like the meter is connecting OK. The IHD has never worked. We don't really use it. I've been checking it via the Octopus app.

2024-02-22 13:31:01

Now officially an electricity generator. If only we could get the SMETS2 smart meter working.
Is anyone else finding that #octopus are taking months to get it working? We got ours in September 2023 and it still isn't working. There are only intermittent readings.
#solar

2024-02-20 15:36:00

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@npub1hqx…944s thanks for the good reasons for sticking with steel

2024-02-16 07:13:41

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@npub12rk…uvf3 @npub1cqs…4er8 sounds like this is from the attacks on misskey servers that are going on ATM. Lots of people are blocking or limiting the servers because if it

2024-02-15 11:12:09

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@npub1rhu…drl9 do those things (which weren't AI before) get called AI now?

2024-02-14 09:55:12

For those of you who don’t like tailwind.css what should I be using to do css well?
I do like semantic markup, but I’m also from a very old school of book typesetting so I’m not too bothered about mashing loads of formatting on something to just make it look nice.
It doesn’t need to be a framework as such, but an approach where I can get something reasonable to start with and grow for there while learning good habits would be nice.
#ui

2024-02-12 11:22:12

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@npub19lt…qfjk I've always presumed as a small business owner that I'm not the right person to join a union.
It felt more difficult to find out about unions back in 2010 when it would have been the right time for me (being in banking didn't help)

2024-02-09 11:38:37

This was a good campaign #ScotPol
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/111/901/319/128/519/835/original/9ccf5f48b054b013.jpg

2024-02-09 07:40:25

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@npub16uk…pv7k Government Digital Service in the UK. Run from the cabinet office, but helped lots of other departments.

2024-02-09 07:07:33

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@npub16uk…pv7k I know there are a fair few people who are GDS or ex GDS from the UK on here

2024-02-08 22:16:21

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@npub16u7…uend a flood of books (I'll see myself out)

2024-02-06 10:45:14

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@npub1whl…swnl @npub1psd…9sr7 that bottom row on the Torygraph is grim reading

2024-02-04 12:23:34

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@npub18p3…03wh well, at least I've told them they are wrong on that fact. Where they go from there is up to them

2024-02-04 12:13:03

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@npub18p3…03wh I usually just tell them that it is an AAVE term meeting "aware of the injustices brought about by systematic racism"

2024-01-31 08:53:55

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@npub1yyx…qa5g @npub1n36…a9gg it doesn't make sense for them to be "only out for themselves" though. If that was the case they'd look at these layoffs and say "that's weird, and bad management".
The return to office stuff feels the same to me. Greed isn't the primary driver here. It feels more like power is. The power to say "be in this place so I can see my domain" and "look at all these people I can just cut off without a thought". Greed I feel I could understand and reason with. Power just wants to feel good.

2024-01-31 08:49:35

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@npub1yyx…qa5g @npub1n36…a9gg why is the market so dumb?
I do think a lot of the market is ideologically driven rather than anything else. Belief drives things more than analysis.

2024-01-25 13:09:25

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1f35…r62u I read the article and like the SNP more?
I'm wondering if that Leitch/Yousof convo was after this https://www.scotsman.com/read-this/nicola-sturgeon-has-apologised-for-not-wearing-a-mask-in-a-pub-during-a-funeral-wake-3076955

2024-01-18 15:07:15

I love being able to mute domains

2024-01-18 08:51:50

Still really annoyed at how poor a job unions have done at protecting their members from covid and long covid. (please tell me if I’m wrong -- I’d love to see an example of a union protecting their members against it)

2024-01-14 14:00:54

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1pc5…c59w @npub17zl…hak3 so, not much different from now then

2024-01-12 11:52:30

This looks like great gaming fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUMkj9HWiEY
#games #emacs

2024-01-11 12:40:42

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@npub19fc…ay3c soybeans? #5 in oil after Iraq.

2024-01-11 12:33:08

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@npub19fc…ay3c only if you have a resource an imperial power would like to exploit. Otherwise you are just a regular failed state.

2024-01-10 09:16:02

My problem with nuclear power is the same as my problem with the Space Shuttle.
Sure it worked, and we were in space, but it drained all the budget to do other better things and held us back.
Nuclear power is low carbon, but you can produce an awful lot of solar, wind, tidal for that money a lot faster

2024-01-02 15:22:27

What do people use as a simple painting programme on that linux they have nowadays?
I just want to add a highlighting circle and a bit of text to png screenshot.

2023-12-02 23:29:22

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@npub1aum…5jx0 they also pilot starships to the edge of the universe

2023-11-18 10:12:00

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 oddly, I think Body Shop shows the fragility of trying to do good under these models, but how the reputational capital built up can be used to fool people long after it stopped doing good.
Good structures (like coops, just ask REI) aren't enough, but are at least a start

2023-11-10 17:12:01

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@npub19fc…ay3c that goes back to Ben Franklin and the US being a republic

2023-10-31 16:49:30

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/oct/31/microsoft-accused-of-damaging-guardians-reputation-with-ai-generated-poll and they wonder why I block adverts. They should be thanking me for not being outraged by this. (as there are so many other legitimate reasons to disapprove of the TERFy Graun)

2023-10-28 09:13:30

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@npub18p3…03wh if anyone asks you can just say you have to wear them to control your optic blasts.
#excelsior

2023-10-26 16:34:41

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@npub194h…4ewx someone from the fedi?

2023-10-24 10:00:36

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@npub1yyx…qa5g and all of your data is in markdown as well iiuc.
I'm going to stick with Emacs/org/denote. I've lost too much over the years

2023-10-24 08:54:58

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@npub1yyx…qa5g @npub1hyk…3p33 my worry with Kagi is that even though they don't have a VC chomping at their heels, they still have the same risk any sellable/fundable company has.
Probably good enough for now

2023-10-14 08:09:27

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@npub14k2…ed68 @npub1nr8…0w0z yeah, it is fun. I learn a lot. I'm constantly thankful I'm not a subsistence farmer

2023-10-04 12:43:29

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@npub1yyx…qa5g still? Again makes it sound like they pause every once in a while.

2023-09-26 16:34:15

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@npub194h…4ewx true, but it is a generic combination of an "old world" British name and an "exotic" Japanese name as part of an overall anxiety that the US wasn't always going to be the "top nation" (which was a big concern for USians in the 1980s) @npub1zu7…c2ee

2023-09-26 16:25:52

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@npub1zu7…c2ee "The Company" (but yeah, probably W-Y), but then W-Y could just as easily be Yoyodyne, or OCP.
@npub194h…4ewx

2023-09-25 07:09:25

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@npub194h…4ewx so how long have they been failing in their duty of care?

2023-09-17 10:51:04

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@npub143y…3g53
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/111/080/099/139/610/493/original/620f1b2015299ced.jpeg

2023-09-10 17:25:15

Does anyone know where Octopus get their gCO2e/kWh from for here? https://agile.octopushome.net/dashboard
I can't puzzle it out.

2023-09-05 17:05:52

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@npub1sne…m70q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKpldgKHwws

2023-09-04 13:47:43

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@npub189n…satx as an example for the others

2023-09-03 16:52:50

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@npub1hqx…944s is that steeper or rougher than it looks? (looks gorgeous and like a lot of fun)

2023-08-29 15:19:08

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@npub19lt…qfjk I think I'm going to upcycle some of the screens on old phones into something (not quite sure what yet). Would be good to keep a phone that does what I need for a bit longer. I'll be glad to get back to a fairphone after a few years on a one plus.

2023-08-29 15:08:41

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@npub1yyx…qa5g I'm guessing this will make its way up to Dundee soon

2023-08-29 15:04:14

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@npub19lt…qfjk I'm thinking it is about time to replace my 6 year old phone. I'm hoping I can make this one last a bit longer.
I worry the thing that will stop me will be banking apps preventing me from rooting my phone.

2023-08-26 22:30:09

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@npub19lt…qfjk why should there be beyond the usual community norms enforced by your server admins and other admins federation choices?

2023-08-25 11:13:55

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@npub1r47…wytr stop scolding them (just keeping the chain going)

2023-08-24 13:21:17

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@npub1vs8…54zy good luck getting good results out of google and not something "plausible"

2023-08-23 14:24:52

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@npub1psd…9sr7 adjacent? @npub1ys8…tl3r

2023-08-23 07:41:45

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@npub1ezx…74mr are you set up to island or do you still need the grid?

2023-08-17 21:18:18

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@npub1ezx…74mr @npub1xyc…chu2 I've been looking at the term gsd or the moustache lundi 20 or r&m multitinker. I worry mostly about heavy loads on the back compared to a front lower box

2023-08-17 15:01:27

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@npub1ezx…74mr every time I see you doing stuff w/your R&M I think "ooh, a bucket would be better than a long tail", but then I remember I want to take a passenger

2023-08-13 13:03:41

Tried playing a rented movie on my mac from Amazon prime last night and it complained that I should be using the app instead. Even when you pay you are the product. I'm sure that app will have a lot more telemetry

2023-08-10 15:12:21

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@npub1ezx…74mr e cargo bike joy

2023-07-13 10:50:43

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@npub1zgl…rqd7 that would solve a lot of problems for me

2023-07-13 10:33:51

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@npub1zgl…rqd7 that looks pretty sweet. I'm guessing you don't need guix as the whole OS but it will work with guix on top of another (say ubuntu) OS?

2023-06-16 08:24:59

It really annoys me that I forget things just often enough to justify my ongoing paranoia about having forgotten something.

2023-06-16 08:21:24

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@npub1wn0…thhn 644 words in 10 minutes of #FreeWriting. Today’s prompt was easy. It was all about #guix home, which made me want to think about de-googlifying my life, which feels a bit more like avoiding risk now rather than merely taking on some hassle for some freedom.

2023-06-16 08:04:09

When you watch/read a thing on something you know about and see how disconnected from the important details it is and then wonder about anything else they report on can be true.

2023-06-16 07:19:38

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@npub1n3k…r9d9 yeah, it is All the Small Things, isn't it