Posts by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
(DIR) Post #AzJ15fwzEG7DJgu4e0 by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-10-17T16:32:36Z
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@tomjennings @Linkshaender the successful changeover also appears to include critical public services including the criminal justice system, Police and other emergency services, and the press release clearly describes what software was used - other than the planned VOIP telephone system, although its possible that isn't yet built (although it would be good to know what they have planned, I'm always on the lookout for VOIP telephone systems that haven't suffered USA corporate enshittification (even the partly FOSS ones seem to be all plagued by it)https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministerien-behoerden/I/_startseite/Artikel2025/IV/251006_ox-umstellung-abschluss
(DIR) Post #AzuYd04s04F3lKlCF6 by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-11-04T19:11:53Z
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@foone @NanoRaptor so if there is a flaw in your C code, the adapter might cause a gross overvoltage, and possibly a fire?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcjFeunl3C4
(DIR) Post #B0JlvlTSol7ZlWPpVQ by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-11-16T21:30:47Z
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@dyckron @Bwacton demand reduction (which needs as many carrots as well as sticks, but can make a dent in middle class usage patterns) requires significant public sector investment, the USA barely has any public sector apart from cops and they seem to have deployed them all to chase brown/black people on spurious grounds.The popularity of cocaine in USA and elsewhere is as much driven by capitalism and prohibition by anything else (it clears the system fairly quickly, so doesn't always show up in drug tests, and USA doesn't even always swab test drivers for DUI like many European countries now do) - also its short action means folk can usually still go to work the next day and not attract attention (unlike other partydrugs cause more insonmia and also have a much longer recovery period)
(DIR) Post #B0aXoe37rJZ4MGraDo by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-11-25T01:14:00Z
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Recently a work colleague was having slow/unreliable cranking in their 2010 #FordFiesta (previously fleet car but since purchased from the company) - was authorised to replace #battery before handover. Ordered battery in afternoon, quoted 2-4 days delivery but sent from #Yorkshire and arrived next day - impressive!Thought harness for #ECU would get in the way and have to be disconnected by springing big connector (other Fiestas don't have this arrangement, ECU is in different locations!) but thankfully there was just enough space to haul old battery out without doing that.Didn't get photos of actual job as I only had a short time to do the job before she had to use the car for work trip, but it starts on the button now within <1 sec#CarMaintenance
(DIR) Post #B0iXQHOTziSGPLuizQ by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-11-28T21:47:55Z
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@Natasha_Jay he sold his geese as a puma (!) got in to the enclosure and ate a few, and has now turned to raising bonsai (which makes sense as it requires less space, and they are too small for puma to climb into)https://80.lv/articles/former-microsoft-veteran-who-became-goose-farmer-sold-his-animals-is-now-bonsai-master
(DIR) Post #B0owisxcixYbvz4xgO by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-01T18:57:03Z
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@Pepijn I've sat on horses, ponies and donkeys, but never a cow - I suspect this is partly because they are harder to train to accept riders, but also UK farmers didn't want 1970s/80s kids getting too attached to cattle for fear that more of them would become vegetarian/vegan..
(DIR) Post #B10m7wa5dJbUnsKvtg by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-07T17:02:07Z
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@pony maybe that isn't even a bad thing for society as whole? I was reading community forums of BeamNG:Drive and a *lot* of older adults playing it said the realistic damage and how mangled a crash test dummy (which you can put in as a driver) looks after a collision made them more careful when driving their cars in real life..
(DIR) Post #B10mgLo0M77qsiFfDk by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-07T17:08:32Z
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@pony on (unmodded) BeamNG:Drive there is a hard limit to how much damage the crash test dummy will show - otherwise the game would get a 18+ rating across whole of Europe and I suspect the exact same would happens with war thunder, hence the "no obvious violence" you mention, but the crash scenarios certainly did have an effect on those who drove real cars (it also seems something very similar to BeamNG and very likely using the same tech is now used in German driving schools as a real life driving simulator)
(DIR) Post #B15H0DUakQ429DOrJY by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-09T16:33:57Z
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@wdlindsy even a couple of years ago, just before Trumps second term a friend from NC said that he thought USA was going back to pre-1960s social and political attitudes..
(DIR) Post #B1BhJk17oDzEHQLb2O by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-12T20:36:09Z
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@oddhack @benjohn they are across the whole of Europe, BSP threads and I think the plumbing for washing machines and dishwashers is the same (I'm unsure how/why this became a standard and not something metric as surely the British didn't export garden hoses to the entire continent?)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Standard_Pipe
(DIR) Post #B1BncowCL2BklfWXBY by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-13T00:10:08Z
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@TheJen @petergleick its not even a very good hat. My late father had a *much* better cowboy hat in 1978 (he bought it from some county show, even though we lived in a built up suburb), and he was a Malaysian Chinese man living in England driving a classic Mini van (he would sometimes wear it whilst driving, and listening to Charley Pride on a Japanese car radio cassette he had installed himself)
(DIR) Post #B1Bncr58MmWbPxihOK by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-13T00:39:24Z
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@TheJen @petergleick I remember it being a proper hat that you could wear when riding a horse and like those I'd seen on telly of USA folk at rodeos (which would make sense as the show was aimed at folk living in the outer areas which crossed over with South Oxfordshire, where riding horses was common). Except dad never had a horse in his life, he had this instead 😁 (from 1970, a bit rustier and more battle scared than the carefully preserved edition here)
(DIR) Post #B1DtHATSZcgfET3mbI by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-14T00:36:55Z
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@IanMoore3000 @futurebird this never happened at home with any food but there is 8 year difference between me and my sister so we've always got on well.When she started cooking in her 20s, I did however start to meow with our half-Siamese cat when we were hungry, we'd make so much racket she would feed *both* of us and couldn't prove who first started the noise..I told her it was a cross-species male bonding exercise, to try and make the cat braver (I did also meow against the neighbours cat who had been bullying him and chased him away)Me and the cat meowed together for some years until the mid 2000s when I had to move away to Ipswich (where I still live), for some weeks after I left he hung around my old room wondering where I had gone as he missed the meowing sessions 😸
(DIR) Post #B1DvruwnSrmDhRQvxI by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2025-12-14T01:24:43Z
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@futurebird @Gorfram @epicdemiologist there was never any shortage of scissors in my family house, but my Dad (who always did a lot of DIY) would buy his own shears and cutting tools for any gnarly stuff (which in the 70s included aluminium mesh, used to patch up holes in the wing (fender) of his classic Mini van (these were prone to rust)At work I get my own cutting tools rather than use the office scissors for unsuitable items (such as cable) but if I order them online whoever signs for the parcel gets carded (as its the law in my country). And you then need a pair of scissors, sidecutters or knife to open the packaging they are supplied in..
(DIR) Post #B1xV4DMvJ8DzHiCkPw by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2026-01-05T00:50:13Z
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@xenophora I was slightly jarred by the fake car restoration/detailing videos on Youtube, as although they made the usual clangers with the actual interior and exterior of the cars (obvious to anyone old enough to drive and know what they /should/ look like), the fake "B-roll" shots of people detailing and doing bodywork repairs were surprisingly realistic, confirming that these AI's are being trained on everyone elses real content.The only photo/art place I still use other than here is Flickr (which I actually pay for) simply *because* it mostly reliably behaves in exactly the same way it did 15 years ago, you just get photos and 0 added bullshit..
(DIR) Post #B2MaygNmen5DGIfOKm by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2026-01-17T02:12:21Z
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@PhoenixSerenity @Nimbius666 Paranoid Westerners ignore two obvious things - one is that even China has a limited number of spies who speak English or other European languages so would only deploy them against high value targets (not average person), second is the exfiltrated data has to get out by some means, spies can't magic up endless data bandwidth to Beijing. I just spent two entire evenings keeping potential hackers out of a telephone system and they were obvious by their data traffic, and I don't have whole resources of GCHQ..What happen more is manufacturers of otherwise legitimate Chinese phones working with Western adtech companies (as I get news notifications about obscure stuff like UK vehicle licensing, *not* latest propaganda from Beijing)
(DIR) Post #B2Mdw36W1RWyj11dKa by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2026-01-17T03:48:25Z
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Snagged one (1) #Filofax from 1987, less common Wellington which as name suggests is made from a rubber type material rather than #vinyl / #leather - when I saw it was red and black I had to get it as it matches the colour of my car - and I wanted it to store my car maintenance log / petrol diary (I'm keeping my Winchester for other day to day notes and plans as its been with me since 1992 when I got it at a reduced price from some random shop in Reading)It came with 2004/2005 diaries, old Tube/Underground map (still showing Surrey Quays as Surrey Docks and missing the DLR!) and a ratty set of dividers, and needed a bit of cleaning#1980s #vintage #reuse
(DIR) Post #B2Mdw4Ao2yYc2c2Zeq by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2026-01-17T03:53:36Z
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Cleaned up the #Filofax binder with same stuff used for car interiors (its very similar material) and a detailing brush, it looks a lot better now#1980s #reuse
(DIR) Post #B2Mdw5THDmvU4Bgq5Q by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2026-01-17T04:02:15Z
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Unusually for any #Filofax of that era, it has a #magnetic clasp rather than a snap fastener (as is now common on mobile phone cases) - black paint on this was worn off so I resprayed it as I already had the part used rattle can from repainting the centre caps for my alloy wheels.I wonder how many people here can work out *why* this particular variant, in spite of being robust (more so than fake or real #leather) and fitting in perfectly with late #1980s #aesthetics and #design may not have been that popular back in the day (its a rare find second hand, although possible some folk have held on to theirs as they are durable)What mishap could befall someone using one, as offices started becoming more high tech?😉 #reuse #vintage
(DIR) Post #B2ejye2XCcs7Tx9vZQ by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
2026-01-25T21:31:41Z
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@ArabellaLovejoy @src_esther @villavelius They guarded the highway for some time until the crane went away (at one point it perched on the traffic officers vehicle!)This is the official account of the Rijkswaterstaat (they are the equivalent of England's National Highways)https://social.overheid.nl/@RWSverkeersinfo/115949814574339437