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The MMC Repair Café is a free community event, managed by the Fix it Group 23 and located at the MMC Café, focused on repairing things.
thefixitgroup23.com/mmcv-repair-...
If you're sick of the animated gifs in the WordPress plugin installer screen, this stops them 👍
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/anima...
If you're having trouble importing WordPress sites to LocalWP on Ubuntu 24 with a 'libaio' related MySQL error, this will probably fix it
community.localwp.com/t/unable-to-...
This whole story was wild 😆
screenshot of portainer showing a list of docker containers, volumes etc
Docker didn't make any sense to me and Docker Desktop kept filling my drives up. Portainer (community edition) finally helped me get to grips with it!
www.portainer.io/resources/ge...
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LocalSend is an Airdrop alternative that works cross platform. Working great for me on Mac, Linux and iPhone
localsend.org
Breaston repair cafe 7th of March - jewellery, watches, small electricals, sewing and bikes
breastonrepair.cafe
Found out why I dislike dark mode aside from it being harder to design well - I have an astigmatism like 50% of folks hlockeux.substack.com/p/why-dark-m...
Outputting web pages to PDF using JS = 50% elation and 50% shouting at the screen
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Good insights there, thanks. I ended up laughing out loud at the SEO Sabotage checker too 👌
Just migrated a client site from WordPress to Grav CMS - getgrav.org - and while it was a learning curve, it's a much better fit for their small, rarely updated site. Pageload is faster and no more WP updates required!
HORSLEY DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BY-ELECTION WIN GRN: 43.6% REF: 35.5% CON: 13.9% LAB: 3.8% ADV: 1.9% LDEM: 1.4% GREEN GAIN FROM REFORM Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party both at PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ
🎉 Green GAIN from Reform! 🎉
💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!
What are datacentres doing to the UK’s 2030 clean power goals? Good points about moving our grid away from fossil fuels vs just enabling more AI datacentres...
www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/what-ar...
Free version of 'Prime Mover' worked perfectly to split out a WordPress site from a multisite install
(And they seem to love planes 🤷♂️)
wordpress.org/plugins/prim...
Affinity design/illustration/photo suite is now free to use and had over a million downloads in a week - a real alternative to Adobe's price gouging monopoly
petapixel.com/2025/10/30/a...
Put ZorinOS on a 2016 Macbook Air and it's fantastic - modern design, Bluetooth keyboard just worked and apps easy to install 👌
If your old Mac or Windows 10 PC isn't getting OS updates any more, Linux could keep them running for longer.
zorin.com/os/
This piece suggests Meta is dragging its heels on reducing the (very large) number of scam ads on its services because they're concerned it will materially hurt revenue (the article estimates they make as much as $16bn a year from scam ads)
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
[🔉Open Letter] We join EDRi and 125 organizations in raising concerns over the forthcoming #EU digital omnibus proposals.
Now is NOT the time to give up hard-won protections for digital human rights.
Read the letter 👉 www.whattofix.tech/publications...
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]
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Attention UK Users Thanks to your lovely politicians, it is now illegal for Venice to offer a free tier of service without requiring a credit card. UK users must now purchase a Pro account and be at least 18 years old. "Buy a Pro Account" button Learn more about the Orwellian police state in which you live
Venice AI copywriters aren't messing around 😮
old macbook air running fedora linux
With Apple and Microsoft's greed pushing millions of laptops towards landfill, I keep as many as I can alive with Linux. Already rescued about a dozen (most went to local schools) and have a Lenovo and 2017 Macbook Pro to do next.
byintention.co/laptop-phone...
GREEN PARTY COP DEMANDS Make polluters pay Fund climate justice Keep fossil fuels in the ground End deforestation Deliver a global just transition Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
It is a pivotal moment in our history.
So what needs to happen at COP30?
💰 Climate Damages Tax to make the polluters pay
⚖️ Fund climate justice for the Global South
❌ Keep fossil fuels in the ground
🌳 End deforestation by 2030
⏩ Global just transition now
Agreed and I wonder if it's because code is blocked in some systems for security reasons, or gets smushed into a block?
The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are missing with the aim to improve your code in the long term.
piccalil.li/blog/program...
Today, security support for Windows 10 ends, rendering up to 400 million computers unsecure to use in the largest case of premature, planned obsolescence to date.
Latest blog from Ugo Vallauri, co-director @therestartproject.org, on why this is such a big issue and what's being done to solve it:
A staggering waste of resources in the name of profits, props to the Restart Project for all their great work. Recycled quite a few old laptops with Linux myself 👌
