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I have a voucher for a free vehicle MOT at a Halfords auto centre to be redeemed before the end of May. It’s of no use to myself or anyone else that I know and it would be a shame to waste it.

The first person to send me a DIRECT/PRIVATE reply will get the voucher and I’ll update this thread publicly to confirm it’s been taken.

Thanks!

some way to go with this colemak practice :-(

"Smashing it" considered harmful.

The harm caused is to whatever got smashed, obviously

Hello? Yes, I'd like to complain that people are complaining the BBC are making it easy to complain about their programming decisions

In a sign that the corporation is doomed to be criticised by all sides, the rightwing Defund the BBC campaign described it as “disgraceful” that the corporation was making it easier to complain about its coverage

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/10/bbc-flooded-with-complaints-over-prince-philip-coverage

Put a new battery in my quadcopter drone, let the magic smoke out :-( Not sure what I did wrong either

Falsehoods programmers believe about titles: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/tui-plane-serious-incident-every-miss-on-board-child-weight-birmingham-majorca

TIL that the BBC subtitle the Tardis whooshy sound as VWORP

(not going deaf, or at least not more so than usual, but the bike rollers make a racket and I otherwise have to turn the volume up a long way when pedalling)

Dishwasher (now sadly deceased) leaves our house the same way it arrived

#L369" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/blob/master/src/patchelf.cc#L369

maybe, yes

patchelf --debug says ignoring library '/nix/store/p686d12xrksl8ljahmqdv78q72jg5p3v-zlib-1.2.11-mips-unknown-linux-musl/lib/libz.so.1' because its machine type differs but readelf says it doesn't, so ...

If anyone was wondering, nixwrt head generates broken elf binaries with no rpath/runpath. Will dig into it when child is sufficiently asleep to move safely

#nixwrt is running again with currentish nixpkgs-unstable, yay

Picking up the context of whatever I was doing when I dropped it, that might take longer

But what if I don't want to become a plant?

Yay, it's rebuilding gcc again

(Long past time I picked up #nixwrt dev again, especially as it has open pull requests)

Heatmoulding my new (to me) #inline skate boots. I think I probably didn't cook them hot enough or long enough, but better to err on the side of caution.

I have been unable to find this book for so long that I gave up and assumed I'd lost it in a house move. Today, there it was in plain sight. L-Space is the only explanation

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/21/royal-family-consider-diversity-tsar-under-modernisation-plans we already have one royal head of state, why do we need a Tsar as well?

It's census day

ground-breaking technology

In some ways, the nicest thing about Airsonic is the "random" button. Finding that I enjoy listening to a lot more of the music I've collected than it would occur to me to play if I had to name the track

Perhaps this will be the necessary antidote for having just read Starship Troopers

damnit, I can see I'm going to have to learn how react reducers work

Open Source Google Docs Alternative CryptPad 4.0 Releases With New Look and New Features

https://news.itsfoss.com/cryptpad-4-release/

#privacy #foss

I'm the last person to suggest it's a faff getting anything done in an android app, but it took me a lot of faff to show a database query result in a popup dialog box https://github.com/telent/biscuit/commit/19e72f70f79bb94f12390d8b456e53f5cf1b80e8

I am very happy with my new soldering iron, which heats up about two and a half eternities faster than the old one it replaces. Haven't used it extensively yet, just fixed a couple of loose wires on my wall light

Strong contender for "Best telent blog post title of Q1" award - https://ww.telent.net/2021/3/6/the_ant_is_my_friend_it_s_blowing_in_the_wind