Just realised the station code for Ledbury is very appropriately LED.
Posh Englishmen and reserved train seating are a plague. A man in a blazer and suit trousers was very upset at not getting his reserved seat for the 20 minute hop from Reading to Oxford on account of the entire train being cancelled and everyone being loaded onto the already full train after.
His wife had clearly had enough of his bullshit approximately fifteen years ago.
As is traditional I’m in a vestibule on the Reading to Ledbury train waiting for it to empty out at Oxford rather than fighting my way through and braining everyone with things dangling from my backpack.
A Deutsche Bahn train just went through the station. Double checking I’m on my way to the correct hacker camp and didn’t accidentally get a taxi to Germany.
I am on my way to #EMFCamp via the Royal Mail depot, where I will be dumping two large crates they were meant to pick up yesterday. Not entirely sure why I didn’t think of just throwing them in the back of a taxi yesterday.
Sooo, the bad news for my 9:15am train to #EMFCamp tomorrow is that Parcelforce failed to pick up the shipping crates with all my gear in today, so probably not making that train at least.
The good news is that I found the bag of googly eyes while packing so hit me up if you need any eyes.
Absolutely fuming that the one day a Royal Mail pickup doesn’t happen inconveniently early is the day I said it’ll probably be fine but I might have to bail if they don’t show up early enough.
@chrisd the EMF speed run link now points at a speedrun submission rather than a delivery submission! (Apologies for the out of the blue notification, I don’t have the password for the content account, and my Fedi server desperately needs updating so I couldn’t reply)
“There has been a change in your resting heart rate”. Yes, watch, no need to rub it in. It’ll go back down again in approximately 5 day’s time.
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Once again blown away by EMF attendee’s insatiable appetite for doing things. And to think I was worried nobody would sign up for shifts.
OH: “Please can I have my DECT number linked with my orga account”
“Sure, what’s the number?”
“DECT”
Love when a low grade troll is set up years in advance without even knowing it.
One of my neighbours is loudly playing Coldplay which is a thing I feel I should be allowed to demand an instant eviction for from the building managers.
> If, as suspected, you're reading this in the future a week away from opening, I'm sorry, and share your pain.
This is a comment I just found while working out how something works at 1:30am, a week away from opening. (It was fine, it was too perfect to leave locked away)
Idly opened The Orange Site. Witnessed somebody saying what a great idea building gigawatts of gas turbine power plants to power AI data centres is. At least spending too much time on that website has ceased to be an issue over the last year or so I guess.
I found a 1TB SATA SSD today and somehow it’s worth twice what it was when I bought it 5 years ago. Flash storage isn’t meant to be an appreciating asset lads.
@feijoa @mdione the secret to a well functioning wireless network is wires. Get some wired access points and put run ethernet/fibre to the places you want them. I like Unifi kit because it’s rock solid but really anything will be fine so long as you wire it. Mesh networks are generally snake oil which is deeply annoying to troubleshoot.
We’ve just received a report from site that the current ratio of people to 3D printers in the field is 2:1. #EMFCamp
I’ve just seen the Unaffiliated Village’s stamp and all I’m going to say is that you owe yourself a visit to get one. To say any more would take away the joy of experiencing it without further information for the first time. #EMFCamp
Spending my day working on "Gooseventure: The Valued Goose Game" which is the text-based adventure game I'm developing for #EMFCamp. It'll be available online after the event as freeware, but the current aim is for it to be playable in the EMF arcade next week.
At the risk of angering the gods and a million more tasks spawning, we are two weeks out and the end of my EMF todo list is in sight. I think this might be a first, at least since I fell down the orga rabbit hole in 2018.
Climbed for the first time in several weeks yesterday and my shoulders are really letting me know about it today. Don’t skip exercise for a while and then jump straight back in where you were before folks.
I just had an ad tell me Nando’s are “shaping the future with AI”, I can only assume they mean a different Nando’s because the one I know sells chicken.
Acast have decided I’m German. This is wonderful because I can tune out all the podcast ads much easier when they’re in a language I don’t speak.
Come on Sky. You and I both know that selling 900Mbps-5Gbps connections as being best for 4K streaming is only true if what you’re streaming is the raw video from every single camera covering a sports stadium.