Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
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Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot.
Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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I actually used to store a KeePass database on a floppy drive. Because it can be taken offline simply by removing the floppy disk. And since it's a floppy disk, you can very clearly HEAR it whenever a
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
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Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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@quad Yeah, you used to be able to hear what a computer was doing and thus know when it next needed attention.
First this was the teletype, paper tape reader and paper tape punch. Then it was the floppy disk. Plus there's the printer. Then there was the rattling of the hard disk.
But these days of SSDs all you've got to go on is the fan noise - when the fan winds down your build is finished. Despite being such a small cue compared to what we've had before this is still useful!
(Yes, I did hear of people back in the day putting a loudspeaker across one of the higher address lines (A14 or whatever) and claiming to be able to tell from the resulting music exactly which bit of code was running.)
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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@xankarn@mastodon.online If you go on a Myers-Briggs course (other flavours of psychobabble are available) you will be taught that only some people use things like "facts" and "truth" as inputs to their decision making processes.
Other people simply consider these things as irrelevant to their lives.
Fail to recognise this and you lose elections.
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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An entire article on people not going to restaurants any more, and not a single mention of the reason I don't (covid). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ljpxek5w2o
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@TimWardCam@c.im @mort@procial.tchncs.de NO LOVE for modern electronics where the paper manual is a 10cm square glossy white pamphlet printed in pale grey 4-point type that's so tiny and illegible I n
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @mort@procial.tchncs.de Yeah, I had one of those with something bought recently.
The warranty pamphlet *did* have a QR code which it said would take you to the instruction manual ... but actually it took you to a 404.
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If your device needs printed instructions for basic should-be-obvious operations, your user interface design is defective. (This is a Tesla showroom.)
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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Jan 04, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop That was written by a tech author. Why didn't the tech author not say "I'm not writing that, if those instructions are needed your product is crap"?
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So I called the 1-800 Got Junk guys to come and haul away some stuff from the house and paid them a little extra to help me move my citrus trees to the basement for over wintering. 🥰 They were really
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First real haul off the citrus trees and we gotta eat some lemons! There’s so many more to come. Amazing. 🍋🍋🟩 #garden
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So many! I’m very proud of my little lemon tree. There’s at least a dozen more on the plant too! 🍋🥰 #garden
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social "Lemon tree" isn't really a thing in the UK.
I first came across one in Portugal. I was making some G&Ts but ... "I've run out of lemon".
"So go out in the garden and pick another one" came the response. Luxury!
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Commanders specifically ordered Navy SEALs to fire on and kill two survivors of (alleged) drug boat sinking in September. "The order was to kill everybody". Analyzing this as an unlawful order or as h
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The worst thing here is we almost certainly lack functioning mechanisms to hold anyone meaningfully to account for these crimes. These were not heat-of-battle excesses or unwise orders from mid-level
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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@mattblaze@federate.social Well, there is such a mechanism, if the national legal system fails - the ICC.
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@TimWardCam@c.im @petergleick@fediscience.org maybe because of how violently senseless it is. The US NAVI is in international waters, far away from the US, destroying small boats with everyone onboard
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
@TimWardCam@c.im
Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot. Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.
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@wtrmt@mastodon.social @petergleick@fediscience.org Sure. But the same applies to multiple instances of the USA rampaging round the world killing people over a very long time.
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