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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 s̶c̶h̶e̶m̶e̶ gamble."

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Gasp! No! Not yet another political leader with shady financial dealings?
order-order.com/2021/05/25/jer…

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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.🤦‍♂️
thepihut.com/products/raspberr…
#raspberrypi #poe


𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗵𝘆𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀.
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-bash…



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/free…
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this is the beauty of open source: a fork has already spring up: libera.chat/ point your IRC application to ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697


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

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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 £50M to put it back! 🤦‍♂️
theguardian.com/environment/20…




"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.



𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗿𝗼𝘁! 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_Da…
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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If your leader is full of gloom and doom what hope is there for the party faithful?
theguardian.com/politics/live/…


So here's a question: Will Twitter, Facebook, et al. be banning anyone who shares Donald Trumps stuff? When does protecting become censoring?
bbc.co.uk/news/technology-5698…


Logged into my LinkedIN account after a 23-day absence and realised I'd missed absolutely nothing.


And yet another positive thing the Government is implementing that slips under the radar. ftadviser.com/regulation/2021/… as we come out of COVID restrictions, more and more people will be grateful for this, especially those who have sadly lost their jobs.


You know what? 27 Years. You can't say Bill and Melinda Gates didn't give it a fair go. It seems a shame that people can't find a way to accommodate differing views, though, if that's truly the reason for the divorce?

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Your guess is as good as mine, but I have to agree with you. It seems silly to divorce at their age; it's not as if they're stuck in a two-bedroom semi in Tower Hamlets.
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She is vaccinated with Astra and he with Biontech. Obviously!


I was gonna moan about how all these new options claim to be faster and better but then I read the article and thought "Ooh, shiny!"
linuxshelltips.com/exa-ls-comm…



Does anyone really search hashtags on Twitter? I mean, in general, not some important event or news item.



Hello, Fedora 34. Not convinced with Horizontal Workspace Navigation, but I'll stick with it for a short while.

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Hands up all those who remember the good old days when we pointed and laughed at crashed display boards running on the MS Windows platform? Not laughing now, are we?
theregister.com/2021/04/28/bor…
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We're not laughing, never did. But a reboot screen is way better than a blue screen, as it isn't even based on a system failure, just waiting for a user input. But yes, poorly configured Grub.
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Ultimately I couldn't give a damn. It just makes me smile when I think back to all the kiddies wetting their pants when someone posted a picture of an MS error. In fact, I'm sure I saw a presentation either at LugRadio Live or OggCamp by a guy who had a whole host of an information board and cash machine error messages. Oh, how we laughed our bladders out.



How long will it take for my Fedora 33 to realise there's a 34 waiting to replace it? fedoramagazine.org/announcing-…