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You know, that Martin "Money saving" twonk does give some crap advice. He keeps banging on about using a hot water bottle. He himself states it costs 35p to boil a kettle, and yet a 100W electric blanket at the 34p per kWh rate would cost 3.4p to run at full power for an hour!
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Steve
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Steve
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That's wrong. Boiling enough water for a HWB could cost less than 1p. 2kW for a minute or two
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Shredni Vashtar
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Shredni Vashtar
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Tell it to Martin; I'm just going by what he puts the shits up the MIL with.
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Steve
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I think the guy is trying to help. Not that I tend to watch or read him. A lot of people don't know how to economise. Hence those waiting to pick up at the station with their engines running.
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Shredni Vashtar
friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
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Mmm? He bangs on about switching cards; he tells you how "It won't cost a penny", and then you find the card issuer charges a transfer fee. His shitty program has caused my wife and daughters so much grief with the MIL, who thinks he's the font of all wisdom. I've no time for the bloke.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Air Fryers are clearly the new "Thing" in this drive to lower household bills. When I got home last night, the wife berated me that from the comfort of our double-glazed home sofa, she had spent nearly two hours on her iPad tracking one down because "Everywhere is out of stock!"

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
The dipshit of Highways Cannock thinks it is a good idea to effectively close and bring to a standstill all major routes between Walsall and Cannock. This morning I saw an elderly woman in a Peugeot get side-rammed from a car which exited a side road as they desperately tried to avoid the five-mile traffic jams. The poor woman was physically shaking and had to be consoled by a road worker. Image, having waited your turn to go through (Supposedly safely) some roadworks and out of nowhere BANG!

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
So I've just been to Costa Coffee to see my grandson, and the place is rammed! And that place ain't cheap. (Obviously, I can't take a picture behind me.)
#HeatOrEat
#HetaOrEat

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Current status on many of the Federated instances.

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Shredni Vashtar
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Is that your own instance? TBH that's why I created this one in case my dick_turpin@mastodon.org.uk went down.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

ROTFLMAO That'd upset a few people.

RevK

2022-11-07 13:20:42

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I wonder what would happen if #birdsite was to link to #ActivityPub, making twitter.com one of the biggest instances connected to the #fediverse just like that.

#fediverse #activitypub #birdsite

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
I can't play the drums, but I wish I could.
youtube.com/watch?v=Qsr5063uOU…

THUNDERSTRUCK Orquestra de Baterias 2018

THUNDERSTRUCK - AC/DC6° Orquestra de Baterias de Florianópolis com 482 bateristas19 de agosto de 2018Facebook.com/orquestradebateriasPatrocínio: Lojas Koeric...
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Twelve years ago (I'm sure it was longer than 12 years?), this man held us captive in a cellar in Liverpool. It's not The Cavern, but it did look like the sort of place Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb might hang out.
@methoddan

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When someone leaves the company and people phone to speak to them, one of my favourite pastimes is to say to callers: "I'm afraid [insert name] no longer works for the company."

The four-second silence is brilliant. You can literally sense them thinking:
"Oh! What happened there?"
"Were they sacked?"
"Did they get another job?"
"Are they still in IT?"
"Where are they now?"

The vast majority of repressed Brits, although desperate to know, will be too tight-lipped to ask. 🤣

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I just realised that if the Woke community has flooded to Mastodon because they believe Elon Musk intends to reinstate right-wing accounts, they're going to have a massive shock when they find out cancel culture doesn't work on Federated services. You can block and mute them, but you can't silence them. ✊

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

A whole slew of followers on the shrednivashtar account, "which was nice." Better start using it more, I suppose?

youtube.com/watch?v=XOhZgAPn_C…


which was nice

YouTube

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Heard a noise outside my office window that, seriously, sounded like a cat had been run over. Goddam seagull is flying in a circle overhead, screaming its arse off!

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What I find so hysterical about the mass Twitter exodus to Mastodon is that the very people and attitudes Twitter leavers will cite as their reason for moving have been on Federated services for a long time. If anything, Far-Right groups are bigger on Mastodon.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

I woke up this morning and spent the first hour or so convinced it was Thursday. 🤦‍♂️

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I miss TEXTS FROM DOG

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textfromdog

Follow @textfromdog and get more of the good stuff by joining Tumblr today. Dive in!
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Today's events demonstrate that you really need your own instance on the #Fediverse.

My biggest mistake was using my dick_turpin@mastodon.org.uk account, which then put that instance owner in a difficult position which made me very concerned for them, TBH.

#fediverse
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Shredni Vashtar
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I posted a comment on someone's post about how their pictures were really good and that they should create an account on Hive so they could earn money for their work. It was a genuine attempt to show them somewhere they could earn some money. I don't even think I mentioned Crypto? The individual just told me to "FUCK OFF", and then the next thing I know; their weenie friends started reporting me to Sem. I was a bit worried for an hour or so.

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ghostdancer
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You should know better. Let the new ones meet you first, earn their trust and then scam them but give them some days you're going too fast.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Groan. I take it I have to delve into the db to delete the username of an account I deleted on my #friendca instance if I want to use the username again?

#friendca

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And its gone dark again with a hint of rain. It's like when we were kids and flipped the light switch on and off like a poor man's disco strobe light. #Ukrain
#Ukrain
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Shredni Vashtar
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I watched the weather with the Missus this morning; the radar picture they displayed showed it all going up through Wales to Scotland. I was like: "Oh well, they both used to rain. :-D

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
And this is why it is Great Britain. The rain has stopped, and it is daylight again. Nowhere in the world does mental weather like the UK does.

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youtube.com/watch?v=zjgbKv7-vW…

This is why I don't "Play Online" I don't even think it's funny. Because of this, I won't buy "Internet Access Required" games. Imagine if you coughed up the £100 for #CallOfDuty #cod and these arsewipes were waiting for you.


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#CallOfDuty #cod

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Deary me, 14:20, and it's very dark out there! #Ukrain
#Ukrain

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

It's getting very dark out there.
#dst Ended.

#dst

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Watched "All Quiet on the Western Front" on NETFLIX at the weekend. Brilliant version IMO although I was surprised [Kemmerich's] boots were left out.

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Shredni Vashtar
friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
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I watched it at an ungodly hour of the morning and then realised my mistake as it meant I had nothing to watch in the evening. :-D

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

The wife has a basket of sweets by the front door, ready for the #halloween #trickortreat There is no longer any kids in our street, so unless some urchins from over the road show up, it looks like I'm munching through small bags of Haribo later. \o/

#halloween #trickortreat

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
So my car passed its MOT Saturday with no advisories. Driving along a few moments ago, and the goddam engine light has come on! #ShakesFist
#shakesfist

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
The leg on my office chair broke. I need a welder!">
#chair #weld
#chair #weld
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Shredni Vashtar
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Will everyone stop telling porky pies and making out I'm ever so slightly over the weight threshold for my age and height? #ShakesFist
#shakesfist

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

IMPORTANT:
IMPORTANT: Do not pay for 0.A.D.
twitter.com/play0ad/status/158…

0 A.D. on Twitter

IMPORTANT: The person who released the game on steam today is charging 8€ for it. Please do not buy it. The game is free and always will be. It might contain viruses and other malware. #FOSS #opensource #indiedev #Steam
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#foss #opensource #steam #indiedev

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
tech.slashdot.org/story/22/10/…
#blockchain #crypto #google

Google Introduces Cloud-Based Blockchain Node Service For Ethereum - Slashdot

Tech giant Google said Thursday it will be launching a cloud-based node engine for Ethereum projects. CoinDesk reports: The company said its Google Cloud Blockchain Node Engine will be a "fully managed node-hosting service that can minimize the need…
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#blockchain #google #crypto

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Blimey! If Gnome cannot maintain its own installation of Mailman, what does that mean for LUG's?
theregister.com/2022/10/27/the…
#lug #mailinglists #gnome

The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists

Everyone has to join Discourse… although you can still participate via email
Liam Proven (The Register)

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
So your broadband comes into your building to a router. It's that router that lets you on the Internet. If you have VOIP phones, they also need an internet connection to work.
𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: "Hi there, I was told to reboot our router, but I don't know what that is?"
𝗠𝗲: "It will be a white box with Draytek on it."
𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: "I found it!"
𝗠𝗲: "OK, on the back is a small black switch.........."
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
🤦‍♂️

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

We were young and hungry! Well, OK. Maybe I wasn't. 😉

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Aha! The image library was no longer working after upgrading my #Friendia instance. The fix is, wait for it, switch themes from vier to, in my case, Frio. TBH, I like it. I wish I had better emoji, though. Does anyone know how to get custom ones installed?
#Friendia

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

"Please ignore this email if you do not supply software."

So what do they all do?

"Hi, Pete, we do not supply software."

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗚𝘂𝘆: "Do you still use xyz.co.uk?"
𝗠𝗲: "yes, that's where the bounces go. I bet there's a few in there?"
𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗚𝘂𝘆: "There's 27'000!"
𝗠𝗲: "Oops."
#fediverse
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#fediverse

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
There's one downside to fixing the timeout to the mailserver. There is now a queue of emails in postfix dropping into my mailbox every few minutes. 😟
#Blame @UnkleBonehead @3speakvidshare
#fediverse
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#fediverse #Blame @UnkleBonehead
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UnkleBonehead
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Blame me. I can take it. I'm used to getting the blame on everything,
I'm married.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
#LeSigh it's not: $ sudo move xyz.php is it you cretin Cannon! It's mv in't it.
#fediverse
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#fediverse #LeSigh

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Running your own Federated Instance doesn't mean you are "Cut Off" from Social Media; it means you are in control of your own data and your real personality. I'm hardly likely to ban myself, am I? 🤔
#fediverse
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#fediverse

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁
creativecommons.org/2022/10/25…
#creativecommons
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#creativeCommons

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Hmm? Plenty of money to spend on looking at Data to see if there's a way to spend more money. theregister.com/2022/10/26/uk_…
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The UK needs to get back on its feet. Rishi knows he needs to form a robust and assertive government; if that means members that are right of the party, so be it.
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