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Dear Whoever
If you are going to issue codes, don't use i or L because how the fooking hell am I supposed to know which one when the code is: DDII75U
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The problem is the code is on a document and needs to be put in the website portal.
sorted it now. Bunch of cretins.

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Oops!
Microsoft Outlook and Teams down
bbc.co.uk/news/technology-6439…

Microsoft Outlook and Teams down for thousands around world

Data from outage tracking website Downdetector showed more than 5,000 reports in the UK alone.
BBC News

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Just bought this from Amazon for £35 to play some cassettes I have from forty-five to fifty years ago! 🤣

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Dungeons & Dragons move to a Creative Commons license.

games.slashdot.org/story/23/01…


D&D Will Move To a Creative Commons License, Requests Feedback On a New OGL - Slashdot

A new draft of the Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License, dubbed OGL 1.2 by publisher Wizards of the Coast, is now available for download.
games.slashdot.org
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Tom
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After the debacle they created for themselves, it is gonna take a lot to get the community to trust them at all again.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

ROTFLMAO

Twitter- Read Elon Musk- has sold off over 600 items, including the kitchen sink, in a bid to scrape together enough money to pay the first instalment of his loan, potentially $300M, next week.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…


Twitter auction’s highest bid was $100K; it could owe $300M next week

Twitter's first loan payment deadline is reportedly next week.
Ars Technica

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NO! OS/2 Warp is still a thing?
theregister.com/2023/01/19/ret…

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This is so unfair! What on earth will Linux Podcasts have to talk about now? We need the SCO bunfight to start up again.
theregister.com/2023/01/19/hpe…

Six years later, HPE and Oracle quietly shut door on Solaris lawsuit

Bunfight over support for proprietary Unix operating system ends with a confidential whimper
Dan Robinson (The Register)

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For the love of The Pond Gods
I've started using Markdown. And I always moaned about Markdown. #LeSigh
#LeSigh

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Oh crap, I've eaten my lunch. There's only an apple left. 😟

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Note to self:
DO NOT! Watch any of @geerlingguy's latest videos, or you will end up buying kit you do not need!
twitter.com/geerlingguy/status…

Jeff Geerling on Twitter

cue the "It's Happening!" gif https://twitter.com/richdurso/status/1615826317454327810
Twitter

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And then suddenly Nicola Sturgeon realised she doesn't actually run her own country.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-sco…

Nicola Sturgeon says gender reform row will go to court

Scotland's first minister says the courts will be asked to rule on whether the UK government can block the reforms.
BBC News

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Talking to the missus on how part of the NHS problem is that we are able to keep more and more people alive these days, she retorted: "Oh, well. We'll all live to be 200 years old then!"

It would seem, she may have to eat those words because some folk are already trying.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64…

World's oldest person, French nun Sister André, dies aged 118

Sister André, a French nun who took holy orders in 1944, died at her nursing home in Toulon.
By Malu Cursino (BBC News)

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Thank The Pond Gods for that. You can't get the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W for the minute, so that means it's pointless buying any of the Argon Pod modules.

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Oh, for the love of The Pond Gods!
I'm a sucker for @argon_forty stuff. I already have the ONE, the NEO and the EON.
TBH, it would just be an "Ooh! Shiny!" purchase I have no real use-case for the Pod System. Really tempted, though.
thepihut.com/collections/lates…

Argon POD Case

The Argon POD case is the starting point of your Raspberry Pi Zero Argon POD system, expandable with other available POD modules such as the POD display, POD USB LAN and POD HDMI...
The Pi Hut
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Thomas
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Really beautiful cases. And I don't have use-cases either 😂 nor money 🙄

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People should be discouraged from using Social Media on their mobile phones because too many people use a mobile app to fire off a quick Tweet/Toot/Post without bothering to engage with their audience. If you sit at your computer or tablet, you're already in the zone for communicating.
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Thomas
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You're absolutely right!

Sent from my Android phone

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A few years ago, on Google search results, you'd get two, maybe three "Paid For" results.

𝗔𝗱 ·https://SomeURL/
SomeResult

These days there's half a page of "Paid For" results.
Next time someone says: "Can I do your SEO? We'll get you first rankings!" ask them: "Are you paying Google for Ad placement then?" you can't get 1st place for free anymore.

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Isn't EVERYONE rated as "Excellent" on Trustpilot? #LeSigh

#LeSigh
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I know someone on one of those 'Tradesman' websites who not only writes his own reviews but gets friends and family to write fake ones too!

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I wrote a thing:
ecency.com/tdtrs/@dickturpin/i…
#hive #tdtrs #podcasting
#Hive #podcasting #tdtrs

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Reliving old memories: cast.garden/c/tdtrs/videos
I've yet to start uploading the episodes, and who knows, maybe I might pick up the microphone again? (Although not as TDTRS)
#hive #tdtrs
#Hive #tdtrs

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Haiku beta 4: BeOS rebuild almost ready for release.
theregister.com/2023/01/11/hai…
#Haiku #BeOS #FOSS

Haiku beta 4: BeOS rebuild / almost ready for release. / A thing of beauty

Open source reimplementation could be even better than the original in its prime
Liam Proven (The Register)
#foss #haiku #beos
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I've messed about with it for a few years. Went to the developer's talk at #FOSDEM in 2020
#fosdem

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Bought a copy of Private Eye, which I would read more regularly if it weren't so sparse in its stories about Labour.
#PrivateEye
#privateeye

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Works published in 1927 fall into the Public Domain in 2023
Join Creative Commons, Internet Archive, and many other leaders from the open world to celebrate Public Domain Day 2023
creativecommons.org/2023/01/09…

Celebrate Public Domain Day 2023 with Us: The Best Things in Life Are Free - Creative Commons

Join Creative Commons, Internet Archive, and many other leaders from the open world to celebrate Public Domain Day 2023.
Ony Anukem (Creative Commons)

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Clearly, everyone has finally returned to work today after the Christmas break because the roads are chocker-block full of cars and also lots of people who have forgotten how to drive. 🤦‍♂️

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Not sure NOW is a good time to strike for more money?
Hands up all those who have spent their heating loan money.
bbc.co.uk/news/business-641710…

Amazon to axe 18,000 jobs as it cuts costs

Most of the job losses will come from human resources and retail including its shops Amazon Fresh and Go.
By Annabelle Liang (BBC News)

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀! 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴.
People are no longer dying in the numbers they used to.
Immigration, both illegal and legal, is at insane levels.
Affordable housing is minimal at best.
And the only answer seems to be; to put everyone up at taxpayer expense in hotels!

inews.co.uk/news/nhs-discharge…


NHS discharges patients into hotels to ease bed blocking and A&E crisis

Three NHS areas in the south west of England booked out hotels run by private health providers for patients with non-critical needs due to a shortage of social care provision
David Parsley (iNews)

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
This is not Twitter!
Getting tired now of seeing people moaning that Mastodon doesn't do XYZ that Twitter does. If you can't adapt, maybe you should go back? You're clearly not happy here.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
The missus came home with that Yorkshire tea. "Ooh, it's really nice." she enthused. The dog hates it! And he loves a brew. Sunday, we had Yorkshire pork "Bred and slaughtered in Yorkshire." the label proudly announced. That geezer Jay Blades from the repair shop now has a program "Yorkshire Workshop." what is it with all this "Yorkshire" stuff?

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Prince Harry is that classic knobhead who says shit like:

"Don't take this the wrong way."
"I'm not being rude but."
"In the nicest possible way"

And then goes on to insult the buggery fuck out of you.

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Still playing the "Victim" card, I see?
telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…

Watch: Prince Harry shares details of new book Spare in US interview

Duke of Sussex claims Royal family unwilling to reconcile in trailers of hard-hitting interviews to promote tell-all memoir, Spare
The Telegraph
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The man is full of shit. While I think we do get value for money out of the royal family, it sticks in my throat the millions this country has spent only for him to turn around and insult the British public. If I had my way, I would remove every title he has and probably go as far as to remove his UK citizenship.

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FLU and COVID are currently competing for your body. Of course, some greedy feckers out there are inviting both in. There's always one gotta have it worse than you, isn't there? 😉
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I've been ill all over Christmas. It looks like I gave it to my daughter. My neighbours are ill it's like diseased city at the minute.
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Thomas
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But "it's all fine and freedom and gatherings and party and work and shit".

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A&E is not in crisis. They could cope perfectly well if it weren't for one problem. There are 𝗡𝗢 𝗕𝗘𝗗𝗦 𝗔𝗩𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘. There's nowhere to put anyone! This is why patients lay on trolleys in corridors, not because there are no nurses or doctors; there are no beds! Get that through your thick skull!
bbc.co.uk/news/health-64142614

Some A&Es in complete state of crisis, warn health chiefs

Hospitals are facing soaring demands and experts say there is "no doubt" it causes harm to patients.
By Charley Adams (BBC News)

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Just been in the spare room and literally ripped the Epson Expression Home XP-2200 Printer off the shelf and took it downstairs, and threw it by the bins. It's only printed once and now won't print the missuses return (pdf) label so guess whose fault that is? Piece of shit.

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I blame myself for not checking. The damn thing was not supported under Linux. I'll get an HP when I get back to work.

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Given the news reports we constantly see about how Mrs Miggins waited 18 hours for an Ambulance after a fall, will anyone notice the strike?

bbc.co.uk/news/health-64037440


Strike: What will ambulances respond to on Wednesday?

What you need to know about emergency care during the ambulance strike.
By Michelle Roberts (BBC News)

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PINE64 Announces the PineTab2 Linux Tablet

9to5linux.com/pine64-announces…

If only Mark Shuttleworth had gone down the path of Tablets. He'd own the market now, and everyone would love Unity Desktop and the buttons on the left.
#Pinne64 #Tablets #Linux


PINE64 Announces the PineTab2 Linux Tablet with Up to 8GB RAM and RK3566 SoC - 9to5Linux

PINE64 announces the PineTab2 Linux tablet powered by the RK3566 SoC and featuring a metal case, two USB-C ports, and up to 8GB RAM.
Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
#linux #Pinne64 #Tablets

Momo le Mamouth 🐝 reshared this.

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RIP Terry Hall
Much too much; you were much too young.
#specials

#specials

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There will come a day when distributions will ship with nothing save their own theme and logo.
omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/12/ubuntu…
#ArchiveManager #ubuntu

Ubuntu Mulls Removing ‘Archive Manager’ from Default Install

Is shipping the file roller utility unnecessary now that Nautilus, Ubuntu's default file manager, can compress and extract common archive formats?
Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
#ubuntu #ArchiveManager

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Why would you have "Make and offer" on your #ebay listing only to ignore the offer #ebay suggested I make? I mean, it was only £7.00 off the price.
#ebay

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Tempted to get a second #ArgonEon I have to say I prefer my current Eon to my QNAP TS-251, which is now switched off because the noise of it constantly accessing the drives was doing my head in. I need a 2nd NAS to back up the 1st NAS
#raspberrypi #backups

#raspberrypi #backups #ArgonEon

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The missus went out last night, so me and Charlie watched The Italian Job (The proper version) on the TV and thoroughly enjoyed it. "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

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Digital Services Act
I wonder what would happen if a resident in a non-EU country refused to recognise the EU? You know, just ignored them. 🤷‍♂️
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