Notices by 🆎 (bloor@bloor.tw)

Ham radio progress. My garden now has an ATU cabinet in it.

A repurposed, and spray painted gas meter cabinet, attached to a couple of fence posts, in fencing spikes in the ground.

Little bit of marine ply inside, and a SGC-230 and a RF choke (I’m going to try to run it balanced).

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@satanskrapfen

@0x0ddc0ffee Fastmail is good.

Took some mediocre snaps in London innit.

@eff eff off

I’m seeing one particularly irksome, self-entitled bawl from some parents of kids at fee-paying schools at the prospect of paying vat :

“We don’t get a discount on the tax we pay even though our child isn’t using a state school place!”

Fuck you! I don’t have any kids at all! I pay tax, some of which pays for other people’s kids to go to school! And you know what? I’m not moaning about it. Because I’m not a dickhead, and because I recognise that an educated society is a better society for all.

Nice rack; open fronted.

TIL...

... for real

@ryanc but imagine you can make a financial mistake bigger than almost anyone else alive in the world and still “win”. It may be genuinely he sees himself like some kind of god.

It must be a weird situation; to be so wealthy (or able to utilise the wealth of others) that you can buy a thing for 40 billion, ruin it so badly that it may be worth half of that in less than one year, and STILL be on track, by some accounts, to be worth one trillion by just a few years time.

It must be strange that how ever big your fuckup is, somehow inexorably, your wealth rises, almost as though it was a force of nature. What does that do to a person, mentally?

USB-C really is the MSG of the tech domain.

Everything is better with USB-C.

@patrickcmiller gotta find that 56 billion somewhere I guess.

@botvolution

It's been fucked by the tories.

My paying personally doesn't deprive someone of a dose, plus, my getting it actually slightly benefits everyone else by my reduction in probability of spread, and secondly reducing the probability of myself needing the support of the NHS should I get CV19.

So I don't feel it's morally questionable.

A few months back I asked people on here (I think) about what, if any, options existed for getting a private Covid booster shot. I (like almost everyone my age I know) got my first shot and 2x boosters ages ago. But that immunity has almost certainty waned now.

Today, I got the Pfizer booster shot, it cost me £85. Fingers crossed it helps me either not get CV19, or helps me not have massive effects if I do get it.

I manged to get it in a local pharmacy. It didn't hurt. It took 10 mins.

There’s a small UK company who buys things like Shelly devices and reflashes them to have “local only” firmware then sells them again. They have a company name that implies this - something like “localIoT” or similar. Anyone recall their name?

Many would venture the nuclear bomb as the worst invention of all time. Some might suggest leaded petrol, or social media even.

All wrong.

The worst invention of all time is the speaker phone on a mobile phone.

Yea, I’m on a train.

@GossiTheDog what monitor are you using for that? and are you happy with it?

My wife has joined a Facebook group, specifically for people all pretending to be ants. What a weird, but utterly harmless, corner of the internet.

This is a picture of the actual horn button on a new vehicle by Grenadier.

Not even joking!

BRB