Greg Harvey 🌍

European, #foss fan, #linux lover, business owner, #infosec nerd. Toots on tech, France, wine and music. #VoteGreen

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2025-05-24 23:03:38

Also, that surprise Ed Sheeran gig. Talented sod, isn't he? If you strip away the pop facade to a bloke with an acoustic guitar and a Loop Station, and it's still a solid performance, you have to admit the guy knows how write a tune and put on a show. And the energy of the man! ❤️ #music (And I have a Loop Station, it is nowhere near as easy as he makes it look!)

2025-05-24 09:42:33

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@nprofile…6r7l I'm getting shades of Vic and Bob. 😂

2025-05-01 18:10:30

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@nprofile…02ad We live in France. 😉 Joking aside, it's incredible here now. Range anxiety just isn't a thing because there are fast chargers *everywhere*. No so much in Italy though.

2025-04-27 21:12:02

I think I want a Nio Firefly! 😍
https://youtu.be/x0oQy0tHUiQ?si=Qt6tLlVjFRMjGKJV
#ev

2025-04-27 14:12:34

This PDF report on the automotive industry is interesting:
https://www.acea.auto/files/Economic_and_Market_Report-Full_year-2024.pdf
Notably, looks like pure #EV cars were about 20% of global sales last year. (Analysts expect that to be between 70% and 80% by 2035.)
Japan stands out as dragging behind significantly compared with other wealthy, "western" economies. EV take-up is extremely low there. Also interesting that Germany, Austria and Ireland are seeing degrowth in car buying. Probably a good thing! (Unless you build cars for a living.)

2025-04-11 15:43:24

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@nprofile…2hfk @nprofile…6r7l It is very #magic. I have no idea how it works, but some clever sensor detects light sources in front of you and kind of "cuts a hole" in your main beam around them, so you don't dip your lights, but your lights "go around" the car you're following/crossing. They also follow the corners, a sort of fancy modern version of the turning headlamps in the Citroën DS. Fancy pants #VW stuff. 😎

2025-04-01 17:37:13

Now that we run two #EV cars, we basically use all our solar. I might add another 3kW at some point. There's always at least one car on charge all day (we don't charge at night, there being no sunshine!) ...

2025-04-01 06:49:21

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@nprofile…wgkj @nprofile…np92 I'd have to tool up, one of the problems is the brakes I had needed special tools (according to the YouTubes I watched anyway)... appreciate that's not usually the case, hopefully the replacement brakes will not. I think it'll be Shimanos this time, last time it was Elixirs.

2025-03-19 12:27:40

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@nprofile…6r7l Blimey, what was the reason for that? Your safety or general curiosity??

2025-03-15 23:41:53

Huh, I just decided to fact-check an ad for the Citroën Ami that claimed it would make life cheaper. Obviously this depends on parking options at your destination, but looking at London, a zones 1-4 annual travel card is currently £2,568. You can lease, insure and charge the Ami (I even included a set of tyres) for about £5,000 over three years. In short, the ad is right, running an Ami is almost certainly cheaper than public transport in London. Which is all wrong, if you think about it. #EV

2025-03-05 23:19:03

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@nprofile…g4hu I agree with small and frequent. But I've never seen a situation where rolling forward is quicker than rolling back. We roll back from failed releases, but preserve the failed release for examination so we can fix the issue without being under time pressure.

2024-11-18 21:57:16

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@nprofile…x759 It is lovely, most of them are grey because that was the cheapest. My wife wanted two-tone, but I discovered the dealers have to buy their own demo cars (!!) and since two-tone was €2,000 more most of them didn't bother. Fair enough!

2024-11-18 21:49:19

I suspect it's a sign of my character that the thing I like most about the ID.Buzz is the practical features of the boot! 🤣
https://tooting.ch/system/media_attachments/files/113/506/158/034/210/474/original/53cefc3fd0056a1b.mp4

2024-11-18 21:45:30

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@nprofile…x759 I *really* need to sort us out a Jitsi server. I got bogged down in how to do it at scale, rather than just doing it the simple way. As I do. 🙄

2024-11-18 10:32:20

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@nprofile…x759 Ugh! Good to know Thunderbird is doing it's job though. 😃

2024-11-16 18:28:20

Collecting a second-hand ID.Buzz on Monday. Reading this and dreaming...
https://www.theverge.com/23735554/vw-id-buzz-review-ququq-camper-e-vanlife
#ev

2024-11-13 10:58:24

Trying to wrap my head around how to present what @npub10ts…yhvm does and encourage people to use what we share. We do a lot. 😄 Figured a company README on GitHub was probably a good start...
https://github.com/codeenigma
#foss #php #drupal #ansible

2024-11-12 16:43:25

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@npub198t…hasj And regardless of whether we like them or not, isn't this what Canonical have already done?
https://ubuntu.com/gov

2024-11-12 16:41:38

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@npub198t…hasj Quite. Depends on how it's done, I suppose. If it were just like a "spin", as they call it in Fedora, that would be fine - sensible, even. But not a distro!

2024-10-17 13:12:58

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@npub198t…hasj Too successful? 🤣

2024-10-14 18:59:12

Wine club site is starting to come together! 🤗

2024-10-02 07:43:18

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@npub198t…hasj High risk of career ending personal injury as well.

2024-10-02 07:08:53

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@npub198t…hasj Fair enough.
The one that really shocked me recently was the cost of operating (properly and legally) as a builder in France! We have a good friend who's got his own building company, but it's only him. (I wouldn't call him a builder, he's a flippin artist, but that's another conversation.) He pays over €10,000 in insurance and (obligatory) guild memberships and so on. He doesn't actually earn that much either, and he has a truck and tools to pay for... He should charge more, mind you.

2024-10-02 06:36:47

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@npub198t…hasj Ouch. I can't remember how much the RIBA charges architects, never had to pay it, but I suppose it's similar. Our equivalent is optional, but it's sponsorship, certification and association memberships. Partially for credibility, partially to help the projects we rely on to function.

2024-09-17 10:47:46

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@npub1jlj…skl3 Signed! But I'm in France. I see Belgium is close! 🤞 The other countries have a ways to go...

2024-09-14 14:46:19

Mini #car #review (literally).
Just back from Nîmes having looked at a bunch of small (like, REALLY small) electric cars with my mother-in-law. She has a tiny entrance to her garage on a narrow road, so the car needs to be equally narrow and with a decent turning circle. It also needs to feel like a "normal car" to drive, because she doesn't want to know about buttons and touchscreens. Here's what we looked at:
- Dacia Spring
- Renault Twingo electric
- Volkswagen e-UP
- Fiat 500e
/1 #ev

2024-09-13 21:04:32

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@npub1y5h…7m3c venv ftw!

2024-07-13 08:11:03

I quickly read some procurement documents yesterday, on the main page it gave an email address to send "communications about the tender" to, so I sent them an email.
I got a polite reply saying that to ask questions I needed to follow the steps in point 5 of the bid instructions, namely:
- fill in an Excel spreadsheet with all the questions
- upload the spreadsheet via a web-based form
- wait patiently for them to update a specific page on their website with the answers
I can't even.

2024-07-10 22:22:48

I'm not on Facebook, but here's Troquet d'Poche, post-gig photo at the Argorock Festival in Remoulins! Much fun was had... #music
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1022449276333506&set=pb.100057053305867.-2207520000&type=3

2024-06-10 17:46:04

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@npub198t…hasj Oh dear, that sounds rather unpleasant. Was that the contents of your mystery envelope?

2024-06-05 08:40:30

Bomb scare at my son's secondary school, apparently. 😬
One hopes it's just a silly prank. Most likely is...

2024-05-17 18:33:34

Hmm... 🤔
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-69022771
Or maybe they've just run out of people who are able/prepared to spend over £/€30k on a car? I'm quite sure that if (when?) prices were sensible then the #EV market would be flying. Which is what the Chinese manufacturers are looking likely to bring. Plus, a few years from now you'll be able to pick up a pretty solid long-range EV for less than £/€10k, which will also change the game.
Already my sister's hanging her nose over some attractive second-hand deals.

2024-05-06 08:39:31

Dear people using serverless architecture for permanent workloads, you realise it's literally twice the price of VMs on most platforms, right? 🤷

2024-05-05 15:06:10

One afternoon of gardening, four one ton builder's sacks of garden rubbish. ☹️

2024-03-24 17:38:49

I don't know how well known this is, but #France has a network of tracks called the DFCI (Défense des forêts contre l'incendie) to allow access into the forests for the fire service. Cyclists can use them to more or less cross the country without travelling on roads. They're all crushed stone and generally well maintained enough to easily pass with a good mountain bike. I found this fantastic map, maintained by the government, to help with route planning: https://feuxdeforet.fr/cartes/dfci/
#cycling #vtt

2024-03-21 17:15:18

Ça y est ! I am officially French! 🇫🇷 🥳
https://tooting.ch/system/media_attachments/files/112/134/800/970/316/946/original/d072ab98868e94b6.jpg

2024-03-06 08:12:07

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@npub198t…hasj I know it's Amazon and they're the big evil, but I tend to buy the CD with free MP3 download/inclusion the Amazon library. I almost never actually open the Amazon music thing - I don't even know what it's called - I just grab the MP3s and stuff them on to my NAS and pop the CD on the shelf when it arrives. But I do not trust DRM music sales *at all*... 😬 So my buying is still 100% physical, then I'll rip the disk if it didn't come with an MP3 download.

2024-02-21 10:31:20

@npub198t…hasj I have a really cheeky quick question - a fact check, really. As a solicitor, is it imperative that you are paid from a bank account in the name of the company you are representing before you can act? Or is it sufficient to satisfy yourself that you have adequately identified the persons involved and the source of the money? (We're getting the run-around from a conveyancing solicitor, I'm trying to figure out if they're being obstructive or these are genuine rules.)

2024-02-19 17:28:27

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@npub198t…hasj Was it a *terrible* joke, by any chance? 😉

2024-02-08 19:21:29

Polestar 4 looks great. But again, €80,000 car. 😭
Where are the normal cars for normal people?

2023-12-20 14:39:35

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@npub198t…hasj I would say as long as you're not hiding what you're up to, admins of other instances can decide if they want that traffic or not. Someone has already pointed out they might block the user agent. Fair enough, doesn't stop you from using the software and doing so honestly isn't a 'bad' thing imho. What would be rude would be a service like that masquerading as a 'normal user' with a typical desktop user agent set.

2023-12-20 14:33:05

Dear tech folk. I'd like to do something a bit like this:
https://youtu.be/Dl8foMQmYCY?si=bFtKNvArtzKWy2iI
A WiFi connected button that's portable, preferably with a neck cord, and programmable so you can point it at an #API endpoint.
Except nobody makes such a thing any more?? AWS have withdrawn theirs, they recommend the Seeed button but it's never for sale, everything seems to be either overly complicated, too big or tied to a proprietary system.
Can anyone recommend a button? Boosts gratefully received! #iot

2023-12-19 13:53:07

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@npub198t…hasj Hope you're going somewhere nice for your troubles.

2023-05-22 17:35:13

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@npub198t…hasj Is it a sauna?

2023-05-20 11:52:05

I know one shouldn't air their relationship issues on social media, but I swear to God, my wife just throws things into the dishwasher. I'm pretty sure she does it on purpose to annoy me. 🤔

2023-05-16 07:57:06

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@npub198t…hasj That's fair. BUT if someone's looking for a good tech lawyer it's very reassuring to see someone posting blogs about the tech they're tinkering with!

2023-05-16 07:53:50

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@npub198t…hasj lol!
> I just post stuff I find interesting, plus the occasional blogpost.
In all fairness, maybe that makes you the best person? I often think marketing folk over-think online presence. If it's interesting and on point, job done, right?

2023-05-15 22:28:51

I really do not understand car companies and/or journalists who talk about €60,000 vehicles as the "perfect car for a young family". Really?? When my kids were small I could barely afford a second hand Fiat Panda. What young families are they on about? William and Kate??