Paco Hope #BLM @paco@mastodon.org.uk

I'm thinking about doing this for my summer project. I've never quite done something involving so much AC/DC and hardware. Might take a long time. https://www.instructables.com/Replace-Your-Pool-and-Spa-Controller-With-Raspberr/

Rewatching Conan the Barbarian. Common Sense Media is exactly right: “Raunchier and bloodier than you remember.”

Showing it to my 18-year old and 15-year old sons and I’m realising how much PG-13 crap they watch. No, boys, this is what adult movies are.

Happy Easter.

Combining #AprilFools and #minecraft. The web site is ready. We will launch at 00:00 GMT on 1 April 2021. If you or your kids are into minecraft, my teenage son and I built this. It's funny and fun. Check back on the web site for details.
https://www.nickhope.world/aprilfools/

This is really interesting. https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/
#superhero #sex

If you're into #minecraft, my son and I are launching a fun April Fools server with all sorts of weirdness, challengs, and funny things. Watch this space for more details.

I made a very small change to this #Google web page. See if you can spot it. I just made it a bit clearer.

I somehow don't think this person has read my blog. If you think that my blog on #blacklivesmatter has something to do with homeowners insurance, that's ridiculous.

Between eyeglasses, conference call headset, and occasional COVID masks, it feels like my ears are as much a handle for my face as they are a way to hear things.

I've been running iRedMail for my mail server for a while. Running your own mail server is a lot of work, if you do it right. But I think iRedMail makes it about as easy (and free) as possible.

Can we just admit that "special gift guide" is little more than advertisements elbowing out the content that I pay a subscription for? And it's either paid advertisements that are masquerading as spontaneous "news" about products for me to buy, or it's unpaid advertisements. And we don't free adverts that in an online world already overrun with adverts.

I'm amused that my blog post "Cosmic Rays Did Not Change Election Results" got a lot of hits in November 2020. :) https://blog.paco.to/2017/cosmic-rays-did-not-change-election-results/

I think this is a dumb take on passwords. There's the flip side: if you're intimate (or married) and everything is going well, you might NEED that access. And lots of companies don't LET you have 2 logins (e.g., telephone, power, insurance). And even if they did, it wouldn't protect you from a bad partner. It's just not well thought out.

https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-stop-sharing-your-passwords-with-your-partner/

#dolphins swimming down the coast at #OBX North Carolina.

Sometimes I see a complaint from the freeze peach crowd that they want their rights online to be the same as their legal rights.And that's when we get into the difference between privately owned online and "public" online. To me, "public" social means gov't owned and operated. Which means tax me and provide me a service via the gov't. I'm fine with that, but I don't think many libertarians and free online speech advocates are. Bit of a catch 22.

I had a PC that, for various reasons didn't sync time for a while. I fixed the reasons and it synchronised with a time server. It doesn't surprise me that error logs get some timestamps wrong. But you'd think that the TIME part of settings would get this right.