Posts by nico@mastodon.vip
(DIR) Post #593145 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-17T11:15:13Z
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@0x3F Oh sure. I think the episodical format suits the collapse of civilisation
(DIR) Post #596359 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-17T12:14:04Z
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[Me, standing alone in a field]"so you see that's why Sabotage is the best Ozzy era Sabbath album"
(DIR) Post #597390 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-17T11:33:04Z
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Has anyone else found the profile of how people respond to toots has changed suddenly lately or are my toots just not interesting to anyone any more [serious]
(DIR) Post #702661 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-22T13:15:31Z
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wrote a script that generates fake news clickbait stories from real online newspapers but it has to run in a container OS so that it's virtualised virtual lies
(DIR) Post #708244 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-23T07:37:49Z
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Every generation of phone designers have even longer thumbs and soon they will have diverged into their own freaky species of hitchhikers and funk bass players
(DIR) Post #720343 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-23T21:53:37Z
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If I still drank every time someone jokes about the weird pronunciation of "gif" I'd have a quick gin
(DIR) Post #720462 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-23T22:00:24Z
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@Gargron me irl
(DIR) Post #725295 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-23T08:58:59Z
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people had high hopes for these eu data protection laws but the thing is the worst data pilferers are big and rich and laws are basically not enforced on the big and rich
(DIR) Post #725296 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-23T09:01:44Z
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dunno about the rest of the world but here everything about government, the media, the education system etc exists to protect elites and minimise social mobility
(DIR) Post #725297 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-23T09:05:20Z
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Britain has never had a prime minister who went to a normal school (i.e. without fees and without entrance exams) and most prime ministers surround themselves in government by people they went to school with and never actually meet a normal person
(DIR) Post #725298 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-23T09:07:56Z
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[But Nico exams don't keep the poor out per se, anyone can study for an exam] yeah except you need to hire someone to teach your kid how they want the questions answered, to buy copies of the old papers etc...school entrance exams exist primarily to keep the poor out
(DIR) Post #729665 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-24T11:15:27Z
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@0x3F I would really love this to happen one day but they are so entrenched in british society
(DIR) Post #755957 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-25T07:38:56Z
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@Gargron it's a superpower you've got there
(DIR) Post #755970 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-25T07:40:56Z
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@Gargron yeah I know matey, just trying to help find humour in there. Sorry I didn't get the tone right. Consider this toot the warmest appropriate friendly gesture
(DIR) Post #756058 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-25T07:48:08Z
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@Gargron ah phewI gave a talk a few weeks ago on the subject and used my new favourite analogy - ok so I take a bit more maintenance than most but it's like a sports car, I just have a sports brain
(DIR) Post #757383 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-25T09:44:18Z
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all swearing is better if you append the name of an animal found in the english countryside
(DIR) Post #757406 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-25T09:49:27Z
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@djabadu twatbadger
(DIR) Post #757479 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-25T09:53:01Z
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@djabadu oh I like it
(DIR) Post #836219 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-29T11:45:10Z
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@zatnosk @bobstechsite I wish these things were expressed in a consistent way. What I really want is a monitor in the same ratio as A series paper i.e. 1:root(2) but my head can't work that out as a ratio of nine
(DIR) Post #855068 by nico@mastodon.vip
2018-10-30T09:17:23Z
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do IBM know that's a lot to pay for a hat