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• Post #4245862

  As England* fast approaches full-on drought, and as water continues to leak from our shitty old mains pipes even faster than it’s evaporating from our inadequate number of reservoirs, and as the local water monopolist sends us yet another unctuous email about how we all have to pull together to save water (and the investment of the French and Canadian pension funds that own it), I ponder once again just how many of this country’s ills are the direct and predictable consequence of Margaret Thatch...

• Post #4208193

  Puppington at 6 months. Such a pretty girl. #DogsOfMastodon

• Post #3996102

  Imagine how angry Bill Hicks would be if he were still alive today.

• Post #3983982

  John Healey is an interesting choice as Chancellor. Don't think anyone saw that coming.

• Post #3858487

  Found my new favourite otter meme.

• Post #3559637

  I mean, really. #DogsOfMastodon

• Post #2206160

  Please admire my puppy’s very smart new tie.

• Post #1910277

  So, here's a thing. I've been trading mark-ups with a vendor for a client on a licensing deal, and the feedback coming back from the vendor has been increasingly weird. Well, I finally got to talk to them today and it turns out they don't have a lawyer and have just been feeding my comments into Claude's new legal macguffin. Which explains why an agreement that should have been sorted out in two days took two months. Apparently Claude thinks I'm a very goo...

• Post #1723770

  This dingus has had all her shots and is about to be let loose on the world. Be afraid. Be very afraid. #DogsOfMastodon

• Post #1361260

  Please can I ask the Fedi hivemind for some computer advice? I own a Surface Go 3. It is showing its age. I've eked some extra life and performance out of it with Linux, but it really just doesn't handle heavy modern websites well and even with the Windows bloat taken away it struggles. Thing is, I really like the form factor. So, is there a machine like the Surface Go 3 but more powerful? I don't really want an Android tablet or iPad; I prefer a "proper" desktop OS. Sugg...

• Post #959211

  Today seems like a good day to reiterate my occasional observation that you are free to talk as much as you want on more or less any subject you wish, but that doesn’t mean anyone has to listen to you, give you attention, or take you seriously.

• Post #948720

  There is a special place in heaven for plumbers who will come out on Good Friday.

• Post #948719

  Oh fuck it looks like pi-hole is allowing AI contributions now. Or am I misinterpreting this? https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/6580

• Post #948718

  There are like nine seagulls on the roof of my house. I'm a good thirty miles from the coast. It's going to be quite the storm, isn't it?

• Post #948717

  Just made the puppy jump by farting. I have reached my final Dad form.

• Post #948716

  RE: https://mas.to/@hedders/116342042447763228 It was, indeed, quite the storm. Our house is up on top of a hill, and it gets All The Weather smack in the face. Huge amount of noise. No damage that I can find, although it seems we only got the edge of it. Those poor buggers up in Snowdonia got the full force.

• Post #924644

  Please consider my ridiculous puppy. #DogsOfMastodon

• Post #889167

  Secondborn put a bucket hat on the puppy. #DogsOfMastodon

• Post #587300

  Well, I bit the bullet and did an in-place upgrade to Zorin 18 on my gaming PC. I fully expected it to go sideways, and I had a USB key ready to do a clean install and restore from backup. But ... it just worked. The upgrader did disable a couple of third party repos (for perfectly good reasons), but adding them back was the work of a moment. I'm genuinely impressed.

• Post #587298

  Finally got around to watching Sinners. DAMN. I see what all the fuss is about.

• Post #563210

  Christ on a broken bike, what a day. Am in an absolutely filthy mood. Not in any way fit for human consumption. Reset, go again tomorrow I guess.

• Post #563208

  BIG stretch. #DogsOfMastodon

• Post #563207

  Do you like little-known history? Do you like mild chaos? Do you like sausages? 'Course you do. Here's @mrbiffo and Sanja in Berlin, looking into the history of the humble currywurst. There's a lot more to it than you'd think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2fcZpp4t1I

• Post #509325

  X is where you find the people who think they run the Internet. Bluesky is where you find the people who think they ought to run the Internet. Mastodon is where you find the people who actually do run the Internet, and kind of wish they didn't. (WIth apologies to Yes, Minister)

• Post #258948

  Mrs H is absolutely glued to the Winter Olympics. I'm dipping in and out, but I have an abiding question about a number of these (very impressive) events. How do you learn how to do them without dying? Like, the skeleton and luge stuff which is basically throwing oneself down a very slippery tube? How do you get started doing something like that and not immediately end up in a crumpled and bloody and broken heap?