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Just because we don't speak doesn't mean I've forgotten you.๐ŸŽ‚ ๐Ÿฅณ ๐Ÿป


Shaking my English fist at clouds as they play silly buggers with the light switch: "Sun on, Sun off. Sun on, Sun off." #ukweather

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A couple of months ago, I told the window cleaner to come every other month rather than every month. He actually got his arse in hand with me.

He was due yesterday but didn't show up (Talk about immature), so we got a new old school one yesterday. A man with a bucket and a ladder rather than the other twat and his hosepipe pole and his "I don't need to dry them I put a chemical in the wash. WTF?

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I've been watching Undercover on Netflix. It's a Belgian-Dutch crime drama about undercover cops. I started out liking Bob Lemmens, the main character, but now I kind of wanna see him get his comeuppance tbh. Thoroughly enjoying it, though.


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The weather's too nice to be pratting around on Social Media. Plus I'm working from Hฬถoฬถmฬถeฬถ Garden today.



That's a point. If you fill out a car insurance request on GoCompare, for example, it will ask you how many days a week you drive? For the last year, my car has hardly moved off the drive! So that's a tough one to answer truthfully.

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yeas, my 2017 Prius PHEV has only just passed the 30K mark, and for 18 months of the llast 4 years it was my company car, doing a minimum of 250 miles a week.
I used to do more than 30K a year at one time.



@stannard I've just looked at your Bio. You want to eat Nigella Lawson? She'd probably want to snort coke off your bum if you believe what the papers say.


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I think We live in a mix between 1984 and Brave New World.Surveillance everywhere but people happily sharing their data.
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It always makes me smile that everyone in the FOSS community thinks that the world at large (Which is a billion times bigger than the FOSS community) thinks the same as them in terms of security when in reality, Joe Public couldn't give a toss. Millions of devices are out there with no AVโ€”millions of people using their DOB as a password. My Missus uses passwords that would make you cry! And as for sharing data.......


I wondered how long it would take insurance companies to implement Lie Detection. Thank The Pond Gods; this lot have dropped the idea.
theregister.com/2021/05/26/ai_โ€ฆ

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The Freenode saga reminds me of Github. Everyone is flocking to librachat (We like Libra)librairc.net/




Please don't say it too loudly, but I have the patio door open. It's actually stopped raining!
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It rained when I walked to the station and then stopped when I got there earlier.

Where were your patio doors then, huh?

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I've had to close it now. It's gone a bit cold. The dog looked at me as if I'm some sort of jailer!


Is it just me that finds it ironic that people on Twitter et al. are posting messages saying, "I don't have any money to buy in the dip"
So let me get this right, You've no money yet you want to invest in #crypto, which is currently haemorrhaging money, and you're hoping someone will flip you a few quid with your "Get Rich Quick sฬถcฬถhฬถeฬถmฬถeฬถ gamble."

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Half a room? With lawyers fees, he could have done the whole flat and possibly No1. 10 staircases!



Even though it says in black & white what you will need, I bet people still buy it without a POE router or switch in their home.๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
thepihut.com/products/raspberrโ€ฆ
#raspberrypi #poe


๐—ฃ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ต๐˜†๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€.
When Dominic Cummings was at No. 10, they all hated him and wanted him out! Suddenly, after being kicked out, he's the font of all knowledge, and everyone loves him: humans, tut.

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Funny how he reckons that incompetence was behind the failures in the Pandemic response.
I am wrong, or wasn't he Boris's chief adviser at the time?
So this is basically a confession?
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Exactly. It's the classic case of "When someone says what you want to hear......."



Clearly, the man doesn't understand that everything from then on is tainted when you do something wrong.
news.sky.com/story/martin-bashโ€ฆ



Damn! Bpytop has an update apparently but I can't remember how I installed it? Did I use:
pip?
git?
snap?
apt?
:shrug

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This is really sad. I met a lot of good friends on Freenode. While I haven't used it for a couple of years, this story is still upsetting.
boingboing.net/2021/05/19/freeโ€ฆ


The forecast today at #CastleCannon is thunderstorms with a high of 14C and a low of 7C ๐Ÿค”

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You've gotta love the UK. This morning Charlie and I were sat on the patio eating Vanilla Skyr and enjoying the early morning sun. It's now chucking it down with rain and freezing.

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Around 2000 already handed back. It's political pressure from Morocco, every time there's a negotiation or some quarrel happens something like this.
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That explains why France is letting so many attempt the channel crossing.


So they dug up all that peat and sold it, and now the government is going to pay ยฃ50M to put it back! ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
theguardian.com/environment/20โ€ฆ




"while they're picking on you, they're leaving some other poor sod alone."
Clearly, some other poor sod is getting it in the neck at the moment. #Winner

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Back in the spare room, #Fedora updates done, waiting for the day to start.



๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฎ ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜! It has nothing to do with Corbyn or poor results in 2019 and everything to do with voters seeing through Labours outdated views! Wigan Pier is now a niche coffee shop, Jarrow is a designer outlet. Nobody wants to get behind the party of Gloom & Doom and a 1960's attitude. Nobody is doing 18 hours at the pit face any more. People are getting on board with positivity, progress, investment and jobs. Working families don't want handouts. They want opportunities to better themselves. They have faith in a government that has actually risen to the challenges of the last two years and successfully guided us through.

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Charlie and I cast my vote a few moments ago. You have no excuse not to vote!
Women. Get out and vote! Emily Davison didn't throw herself under a horse so that you could throw that right away.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Daโ€ฆ
If you filled out a postal vote but didn't send it, they will accept that at the polling station. You can invoke an emergency proxy vote up until 5 pm today.

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