@pikesley that’s not a hat, he’s just doing that thing where you stick your boxers on your head because it looks funny. He’s even got the grin for it.
@bynkii @hazelweakly If clicking links and opening documents on the link-clicking document-opening machine is a security issue, that's not the responsibility of the person whose job it is to click links and open documents.
Someone else needs to make those activities safe. Probably the same person who sends out phishing emails to the people whose job it is to read emails and click links.
@CatherineFlick will this be the year I successfully make pancakes, or it will be another year where I just make a horrific mess of my kitchen while swearing profusely? Pancakes truly are my nemesis.
GitHub Codespaces. For when you accidentally put your work laptop in your bag before going out to work on personal stuff.
Also a shout out to the dispatchers, who are doing similar but over crap phone lines talking panicked members of the public through it.
Watching Ambulance on iPlayer and as ever blown away by paramedics, paid an absolute pittance to do twelve hour shifts in some of the most stressful situations imaginable.
@james this a) is horrible and b) grimly amused me, because yesterday I saw someone saying “if you want advice on how to walk ask the person with mobility issues, not the person who’s been able to walk since the age of two, because the former has thought about it way more”.
#uk government just going full fascist now.
“No protestor should be able to evade justice” obviously implying that the #homeoffice views all protestors as criminals (which of course, they do)
@solderandchaos GitHub Pages. Drop some markdown + image in the right place, push to GitHub, website is updated.
Get yourself a manager who when you say “I’m fried, going to put down this project and work on some easy stuff for a couple of days” whole heartedly backs you on it.
@CatherineFlick @jonty the only acceptable version of that song: https://youtu.be/BRWuYBPsyR4?si=-VLYb4xPAeUz5L8W
@jonty it’s without fail children’s TV themes that get stuck in my head. It was the fucking Poddington Peas the other day, a show I haven’t seen since the mid-90s at the latest.
@hugh it has thankfully mostly passed now. Sleep cycle is still a bit screwed, but making sure I got some decent exercise and cutting back on caffeine has helped a lot. Winter always screws me over, during summer I’ll naturally want to go out for a walk in the evening most days, which just doesn’t happen when it’s dark and rainy.
Apparently some XBox influencer ran a *7 hour* crisis meeting with other influencers on Twitter today to discuss the terrible news that MS might publish a few games on PlayStation. Not confirmed, just a vague rumour. Some people desperately need more in their life than a games console.
@gsuberland I have a similar “don’t bother writing tests and setting up linting” rule for side projects now, for similar reasons. I’d be endlessly starting things and getting bored before actually building anything I intended to.
Threw a couple of peanuts to a crow that was hanging out on the grass outside my window earlier this morning. Now every ten minutes or so three of them rock up and shout at me until I chuck them some more.
@Edent if you get a smart plug which reports current this is relatively easy, either by detecting a spike in current and then starting a timer for however long rice takes, or detecting a spike followed by activating an automation which notifies when current drops back down to baseline for a few minutes. It’ll take a few tries to adjust for baseline and wait times if the cooker is (as someone else mentioned) cycling on and off.