penguin42 @penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

Bumped all my dependencies on my toy #rust project; not done it for a while, and there's always something that makes me have to stop and understand it.

#manchester science museum has a problem with the very leaky roof in the old building it uses for it's air & space collection; they've moved from using buckets on the floor to these bag-like funnels suspended under the leaks.
The glass and metal roof probably needs complete replacement which I guess is a huge job.

Some mushrooms found a nice yummy dead tree stump.

#wildlife #photography

Progress on a #kde RFE I filed ~5 years ago https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338796 (For something most old screensavers used to do - i.e. have an easy way to blank)

Damn! Just missed the roll over (of my electricity meter)

renameat is a Linux syscall, not a product for vegans.

My bed is a non-standard size at 3'3" x 6'6" - looking to buy a new mattress is a pain; a lot of places don't do custom sizes; and when they do they cost a lot more. But buying a replacement bed that's no shorter or narrower but not hugely wide is tricky as well - it's close to a US XL Twin; but we don't get those here. Heck knows where it originally came from.

I saw the first episode of 'Instinct' the other night; it very much reminds me of 'Perception' (which I gave up on after a few episodes). Both are about eccentric psychiatric professors/writers who end up helping police solve crimes; both have cameos from a ST:TNG actor (Perception has LeVar Burton as the Principle, Instinct has Whoopi Goldberg as the editor). A one off character in Instinct's 1st episode was named Moretti which was the cops name in Perception. Odd.

Anyone know anyone at Sainsbury's IT dept? Their self-service prints gift card statements that say 'Sainsbury???s card statement' I think I once saw a 'Sainsbury?s' but normally all 3. I guess working for a company with an ' in the name must be frustrating.

I seem to have mostly got rid of my new year cold which has made the last week even grimmer than the normal first full week of the year.