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At least once a week, I buy a poached egg on toast sandwich from the local cafe come sandwich bar. It's convenient as I phone halfway to work and place my order. The sandwich cost £2.30; however, this morning, there's a price increase: £2.70!
Looks like they'll be losing a customer. 😞
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Apparently, the price of eggs is on the increase. I await Twitter to be filled with stories of Hen-napping and black-market powdered egg.
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In related news chicken feed does not cost chicken feed.



I saw a Nun today with one of those electric car tyre pumps putting air into her car's flat tyre. Clearly, God does not look after his own.

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Seriously? The cat is out of the bag now. There's no way you're going to put it back, no matter how many petitions you raise.
slashdot.org/story/23/03/29/23…
#GPT4 #AI
#ai #GPT4
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I've heard several people say they wrote the petition to convince smaller developers to stop working on AI, while they still work on it in secret.

Sounds about right.

in reply to dick_turpin

Corporations won't want bedroom coders working on it; this is too powerful an asset. 🕶️


I take it that it's just me that finds it hysterical that folk are venting their spleen on Twitter about @elonmusk's latest announcement regarding verified accounts and eligibility, and yet rather than leave and find another platform they can be happy on, they just want to stay to bitch and moan. Humans are such weirdos.


in reply to Steve

Realist, you mean.

Biden is a complete joke, even though it doesn't affect them. Americans don't like the fact Putin is doing whatever the hell he likes, and their current president appears to be doing nothing, and so they will want someone willing to do something, even if it is insane, like starting a war but let's not forget. Putin and trump are supposed to be mates.

If Labour wants to win the next GE, they need to start getting in front of the cameras more I mean, we haven't seen anything of Angela Rayner for months. Has she been sacked? Keir Starmer only appears now and again too.

in reply to dick_turpin

And Trump isn't a (bad) joke? Politics is fucked up.
The Tories have fucked themselves up. Labour just have to let them get on with it.



It never ceases to amaze me how much help people for when they are cancelling a service with you. They don't even have the common decency to offer you a small fee for your assistance either; they just expect you to help them leave with no impact on them and have no regard to what you are losing.



𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼.
Donald Trump wins a second term, gets Putin to agree to a peace deal and becomes the darling of the free world. 🤣
youtube.com/watch?v=1j1MxIHSPy…

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Not bloody likely. With all the apocalypse talk tumbling out his mouth yesterday he’s not aiming for peace.
in reply to Stephen Michael Kellat

Ah, but you have to show you're a strong leader. I can't see Biden pushing Putin around and, in the current game of chess, putting tactical nukes in Belarus doesn't look good for Europe. I suspect Putin is waiting to see if Biden remembers he's running a country. 🤣

in reply to dick_turpin

You know you're going to pay for that, don't you? She will have her revenge one way or another.
in reply to ghostdancer

LOL
Every day mate. I often wonder how we've managed to clock up 33 years.


Well, I have no idea what they were watching, but I watched pretty much all of it on Parliament TV, and I thought Boris gave a strong performance to an overly polite and shamelessly amicable panel.
#PartyGate #Boris
in reply to dick_turpin

What's bad about being polite and amicable? Are those not Tory values? I didn't watch it as I don't need to hear that gobshite.
in reply to Steve

Nobody "Grilled" him as such, from what I saw. There were two or three questions which got him flustered but sticking to the "This is what I was advised" defence seemed to let him slip through the cracks.

For all those Lineaker fans
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
-- Joseph Goebbels

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You do love a quote, but they are not always true. Everyone knows Johnson is a liar. Opinions on whether he makes a good leader are divided. Up to the Tories to choose their path.
I'm no particular fan of Lineker, but we may agree on a few things, like treating people decently.
in reply to Steve

You know, Richard Nixon was a liar and a crook, and yet he was still one of America's best presidents. Tony Bair lied to Parliament and the country about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, thus causing the deaths of British soldiers and countless innocent civilians.

While I understand the pain of people not being able to attend loved ones' funerals and then finding out Boris and his gang had a few sherberts for me, we have far more important stuff to worry about than whether people in the lobby of number 10 stood 2M or 1M apart and what distance rules were in effect at that time or whether a woman who lives there, namely Boris's wife, should have been at a gathering. Fooking pathetic if you ask me.

in reply to dick_turpin

I thought you wanted politics to be entertaining?

Do we really want liars and crooks running things just because they can do some things well? What useful things has Johnson done?

I wish politics was more boring.

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@steevc But Boris is really awful at being able to answer the questions; he can't give a straight answer even when it's obviously in his best interest. For example in one of them he was asked about a meeting with ~17 people and the questioner said 'well we know that at least 2 of them shouldn't have been there' - I'd have come back and said with 'so almost eveyrone had a reason to be there'.
in reply to penguin42

I believe he has been told to use a similar defence to:

WASHINGTON -- President Reagan 'absolutely' has no recollection of being told by Lt. Col. Oliver North of a proposed large private donation to the Contras by an Iranian posing as a Saudi prince, a spokesman said Friday.

Iran/Contra scandal 1987

in reply to dick_turpin

WHAT! He got us out of the EU, didn't he?

I bet you can find that every PM throughout history has told a lie to The House and the British public. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the requirements on the job application, so you could argue where Boris went wrong was being found out. 🤷‍♂️



Wondering if Zelenskyy is going to return the favour and visit Boris now that he's in trouble?

in reply to dick_turpin

So I'm watching his evidence at the moment, and based on his performance, I think my prediction is right. He's gonna get a clean bill of health.


I can't see Boris being found guilty, even though he's clearly guilty of the party's scandal. No UK prime minister has even been remanded in custody or had a custodial sentence, and the fines he received are not recorded as a criminal record.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…
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What were you saying about people getting away with being anti-social and not thinking rules apply to them?
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Yep. 100% still doesn't change the fact. I think he'll get away with it.


Given that nobody is willing to put troops into Ukraine, I wonder who will arrest Putin?
Maybe they'll wait until he pays a visit somewhere a snatch squad can get him? #LeSigh
theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…
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I thought it was telling he made an impromptu visit to Mariupol in the dead of night. Just to make a point to the West.

I suspect there are local Ukrainian activists who would have willingly sacrificed their lives in an assassination attempt.

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TBH, I suspect he's done it more for home consumption than the West.
"See! This is what I have recaptured for mother Russia."



Asked OpenAI's GPT-4 to write me a blog post. I checked the output against Grammarly's plagiarism checker, and it found one similar usage of six words in a sentence from a totally unrelated (Subject matter) Website, so I reckon it would be possible to auto-generate blog posts for, say, #hive and nobody would be any the wiser. 🤣 😈 👹
#Hive

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Yeah right. For that, read, "Money is running out in the pension pot!
ft.com/content/248b0df9-a594-4…
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No it's the opposite problem; people who have filled their pension allowance and can no longer dodge higher rate tax so just retire.


I have to agree Richard Sharp should be replaced for having no backbone.
If I'd been Chairman, I would have grabbed someone from the canteen if necessary to present Match of the day. Can you believe the mob is behind someone who earns £1.35m for talking about football?


𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁.
When the UK joined the EEC, the precursor to the EU @govuk had to introduce VAT as a prerequisite to joining. Given we are no longer in the EU, in theory, this additional tax is redundant. Wouldn't now, with the price crises, be an excellent time to abolish VAT and put money in people's pockets?


Watching Merkel on #Netflix. Can I just point out Eva Weber, The Berlin wall was officially built to keep the West out, although, in reality, it was built to keep the East in. Comparing it to Trump's wall, which I might add Joe Biden is still building, is misleading and inaccurate in the context used in the program.
#TwoPenneth #Netflix #Merekel
netflix.com/gb/title/81662140
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though it is equally misleading to say Biden is “still building” the wall when the efforts focus on making the wall safe and unscrewing up bits of the environment- abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/bi…
in reply to dick_turpin

my article cite is later than that economist article and is a push back on the notion the wall “was still being built” - a talking point of the GOP at the time.
in reply to Codepope

Also hrw.org/news/2023/01/05/biden-…

foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/22/b…



The whole point of the Illegal Migration Bill is not about stopping illegals coming today, although maybe they might think twice. It is about speeding up the process of expulsion on their 2nd, 3rd or even 4th attempt.
bills.parliament.uk/bills/3429


I'm surrounded by nutjobs!
For years, I truly thought: "It must be me?" but as I get older, I realise that was the plan all along; make him believe he's the problem.
(08:15 𝘞𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘵 09:00)
𝗠𝗲: "Hi, just to let you know I'm in the office.
𝗕𝗼𝘀𝘀: "Ha, ha, ha. What's all that about?"

𝘜𝘮𝘮? 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘐'𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

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“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”

― William Gibson #quote @GreatDismal




Why do nobheads who clearly are not regular drivers think it is a good idea to attempt to drive in poor conditions? If you're scared of [very light] snow or even rain. 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗘!
#uksnow #delays #gridlock

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First rule of driving: Everyone else on the road is an idiot
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They are when there are no cars in front of them, and they are driving at 11 mph on a road with just a light dusting of snow. Christ knows how people manage in Norway, Sweden etc.


Given good old Boris was supposedly deposed in shame, he doesn't half get about promoting himself and Britain. I'm beginning to wonder if he's secretly still PM?
twitter.com/BorisJohnson/statu…
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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
dick_turpin
All of my Social Media accounts (FB, Twitter and even LinkedIN) are filled with him here, there, and everywhere meeting and greeting people, and yet I hardly see anything other than 'in the house' of Rishi Sunak. It's like Rishi's doing all the work, and Boris is enjoying all the jollies. 🤣 🇬🇧


"Pirating is theft, you swine," Matt tells us about an interesting survey that maintains that for 10% of pirated material, there is a 300% increase in legitimate purchases.
#tdtrs EP52 Seven thousand elephants
Uploaded to cast.garden/c/tdtrs/videos #hive


Dear @BBCNEWS
Plenty of tomatoes in Sainsbury's, you bunch of Remain campaign, Labour voting #Scaremongers



Hmm? Ping @github's IP, and ping works
PING 140.82.114.4 (140.82.114.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 140.82.114.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=42 time=133 ms
64 bytes from 140.82.114.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=42 time=133 ms
64 bytes from 140.82.114.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=42 time=133 ms

Ping the domain, and it just sits there.
ping www.github.com

in reply to dick_turpin

TBF, to me. I took that IP off the web. No idea what a UK or USA IP would be; however, this is 2023, and location should have no impact on name resolution if the Admin is worth anything. @penguin42
in reply to dick_turpin

No it's explicitly location dependent to route you to a near server; that's pretty common. Try pinging www.google.com from machines in different countries.


Now this would make an interesting #podcast episode, especially with @drjessicabarker and @_Freakyclown_

Who should be responsible? Your ISP? After all, they gave you access to the web. Your router manufacturer? After all, it's their kit that lets you on. Microsoft? (Or OS of usage) AV provider? The list is endless. It's a nice idea, but implementation is a nightmare.

arstechnica.com/information-te…



Picked a fight on FB; it's been a while since I've had some #PostRage on there. 🤣


Given that the whole point of #LastPass is the ability to store hundreds if not thousands of passwords on their service. Does anyone at LastPass understand the insane task of logging on to hundreds, if not thousands, of websites to change your login passwords? Clearly, just changing your Master Password may not be enough?
support.lastpass.com/help/secu…


"Some folk come to work just to be with other people. They fill up their time with tasks to complete the day."
#BountyHunter

I've known a few people like that during my working career.



If you use Lastpass, you should really consider changing your master password.
thehackernews.com/2023/02/last…
Given this was the second attack in December 2022, it might be a case of "Locking the stable door after the horse has bolted." but doing something is better than doing nothing, I suppose.

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@Friendica Support

I'm trying to upgrade my instance but git is not connecting.
Your current version is 2022.10, upstream version is 2023.01

sudo git pull
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/friendica/friendica.git/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Connection timed out

I am not behind a proxy, and firewall is not the issue.

git config --list
safe.directory=/var/www/html/friendica
safe.directory=/var/www/html/friendica
safe.directory=*
safe.directory=*
safe.directory=*
safe.directory=/var/www/html/friendica
safe.directory=/var/www/html/friendica
safe.directory=/var/www/html/friendica
safe.directory=/var/www/html/friendica/addon/
safe.directory=/var/www/html/friendica/addon
core.repositoryformatversion=0
core.filemode=true
core.bare=false
core.logallrefupdates=true
remote.origin.url=https://github.com/friendica/friendica.git
remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
branch.stable.remote=origin
branch.stable.merge=refs/heads/stable

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks



For the love of The Pond Gods!

sudo git pull
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/friendica/friendica.git/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Connection timed out


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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
dick_turpin
There was an avalanche of mistakes made along the way on both sides. The community failed (and still fails) to understand that Mark Shuttleworth owns it; it's his money that props it up. In contrast, insane decisions on the management side were made. Who has ever heard of shutting down a music store and cloud storage when you are desperately trying to enter the mobile phone market? Or build an OS that was perfect for Tablets (Unity) and yet show no interest in the hardware until it was too late! Or finally, commit the cardinal sin of insulting your userbase because they're all a bunch of selfish ("Look! I pay for it!"), whinging ("I paid for it, why shouldn't I have what I want?") individuals. #LeSigh 🤣


Huzzah! Maybe now we can get some peace and stability!
reuters.com/world/europe/scotl…


Aww, @Grammarly tries so hard to make me a more sociable person. If ever I use the word "Hate", it always wants to replace it with a much nicer word or phrase. 😍
#grammarly #BeNice #KeepCalm