penguin42 @penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

Apparently you can donate a boat (or car, or pretty much any other vehicle) to the #EFF:

https://eff.careasy.org/home

<sigh> A year since I've been on public transport (a tram); I was already wondering if it was a good idea, but a friend was up that weekend.

Tim Hunkin is starting a 'secret life of components' series; for those who don't know him, he's a nicely crazy artist/mech hacker who does weird automaton/games, and has presented a series on 'the life of machines' (mostly home white goods) many years ago. Recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZN0PBBzEHw

We should be shipping vaccine factories around the world, not vaccines.

and https://gitlab.com/ScumCoder/splix/tree/patches/splix does seem to work - wahey!

Hmm, my Sammy ML1640 printer is getting touchy - it seems to be USB resetting and dieing after the 1st page; someone seems to have made Splix patches for my new M2026 that I'd bought ~3 years ago and been leaving on the side after finding splix didn't work for it; seems worth a go, especially since the fixer references my G+ moan about it not working ago!

So the reason I kicked off this poll was that for a long time I'd been using bc; had considered using python from time to time, but I'd started using gdb in the last few days - it's nice short command name, does FP by default, but you do have to 'p ' for each expression.

Physicists cabling are always crazy; look at all that twist&flat...

https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2021/02/Seaquest-Fermilab_3.jpg
from : ( https://www.quantamagazine.org/protons-antimatter-revealed-by-decades-old-experiment-20210224/ )
#science #electronics

You need to add some numbers, what do you use:

This obit was an interesting read; a crazy explosives expert with a bizarre career path; Doctorate with no degree, studied fatty acids in the brain, interpreter for a Japanese emperor visit, and disarming bombs; not a bad life I guess!

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sidney-alford-obituary-262tcr08l/

#covid19 sigh, while the UK averages are going down nicely; hear in north #manchester it's cooking away; about 3x the national average.

Number validation & limits: '..an NHS error mistakenly listed him as just 6.2cm in height Liam Thorp was told he qualified for the jab because his measurements gave him a body mass index of 28,000.'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-56111209

I hate cpio options; everyone is nonobvious.

#covid19 15M vaccinations in the UK; OK, good - still only about 1/9th the way there, for 2 doses for everyone, and that's before we have to deal with SA variants. Says he impatiently waiting for his.

Hmm, so I wonder how this relates to oddball cabinets like mine and @mansr where they're shit cabinets compared to the rest of the echange:
https://digitalwholesalesolutions.com/2019/10/the-bt-openreach-pstn-and-isdn-2025-switch-off/

I did like 'brctl', still the magic on iproute2 seems to be:
ip link set ethXXX nomaster
ip link set ethXXX master brBBBB

to remove and add a device to a bridge.