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@octopus.energy your brilliant customer services have spent 2 months trying to get my smart meter commissioned with no success. Now the SEC has been amended to support 4g in the North, what do I need to do to get a 4g comms hub installed?! I'm at my wits end!

Donate to Support Nell's Memorial Fund to support young musicians, organized by Jude Smith On October 6 2024 Nell died in a car accident right after completin… Jude Smith needs your support for Support Nell's Memorial Fund to support young musicians

Thank you @tim-burgess.bsky.social We were so grateful to be there and chat to people about Nell. If people can check out the memorial fund it would mean a lot

www.gofundme.com/f/nell-smith...

Nell was my niece, a bright light that was extinguished far too soon.

If you had told me in 1996 that nowadays @mattvenn.net would be MCing to his own tunes as part of giving a lightning talk at Hackaday Berlin, while wearing a massive ASIC hat and custom ASIC chain, I wouldn't actually have been surprised, and I can't think of higher praise than that.

Where did you get that! Do want

The red disc of the sun touches the horizon as it sets, clouds are lit from below and the sky is orange

Sometimes I miss the classic Yokshire hills and dales now I've moved to the Vale of York. Not tonight though, so much sky.

This reminds me of the fantastic recipe for braised bacon and peas in Jacob Kenedy's Geometry of Pasta, which is delicious.

This seemed like a particularly sneaky compromise too. You've really got no hope of being immune to this sort of thing if you accept you aren't going to be writing everything from scratch.

Well, shit

Espressif’s Response to Claimed Backdoor and Undocumented Commands in ESP32 Bluetooth Stack | Espressif Systems Recently, some media have reported on a press release initially calling out ESP32 chips for having a “backdoor”. Espressif would like to take this opportunity to clarify this matter for our users and ...

Well, not actually as shit:
www.espressif.com/en/news/Resp...

Yeah

Well, shit

Sortition - Wikipedia

A good friend of mine argued that sortition would address many of the problems we see with modern democracy. Random selection by lot for a fixed tenure, it works for juries, could it work more generally?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

Maybe there's still hope for America

Charles Darwin from @lettersofnote: I loathe, I abhor the sea and all ships which sail on it. --Charles Darwin to his sister, 4 Aug 1836 I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before -- Charles Darwin to William Fox 24 Oct 1852 I am very tired, very stomachy and hate nearly the whole world. -- Charles Darwin to Thomas Haxley 10 September 1860 I am poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything -- Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell 1 Oct 1861 I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees. -- Charles Darwin to John Lubbock 3 Sept 1862

Legendary hater Charles Darwin

or openssl equivalent

Does it have to be python? If so, could you use subprocess.run to execute a curl -k to fetch the cert?

Regardless, it is definitely more fun

A bare tree trunk stands in the tree stand surrounded by branches I've chopped off with an electric chainsaw A big mess of needles and woodchips are scattered around

Trying a new approach to removing the tree this year: electric chainsaw. Jury is out on whether it makes more or less mess than just dragging the tree out through the front door.

I (only) just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024! #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com

Phew, that's been confounding, confusing, but most of all fun!

Yes, the Children of Time trilogy are all great reads, as are many of his science fiction books. He lives in Leeds apparently!

Part two of this really kicked my ass for a while. I've been able to console myself with the thought that i'm solving some generally applicable problem with most of the challenges, but this one, not so much.
"Keypad Conundrum" - Day 21 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/21

I feel your pain, I finally got this one today, after many, many failed ideas and bugs, the last of which only manifested in the actual input, not the examples, much to my dismay.

#AoC2024 day 16 part 2: tfw you finally beat your head against something long enough that it eventually succumbs to sheer bloody mindedness. I am proud I persevered, I am not proud of what I ended up with and I am not refactoring 😂

Alec Steele just did a review of cheap forging gear from amazon, just sayin'

I went for noravirus this year but I think you win @glenn.pegden.com !

Yorkshire Evening, Merry Christmas!

Stinking Bishop, Doux de Montagne, Brie, Ossau Iraty, Comte, Stilton, aged Gouda, Pont L'Eveque, Smoked Red Fox, Cathedral City.

One of these things is not like the others, but they're all going on crackers.

One Christmas I used a dozen eggs, 2 pats of butter and half a bottle of white wine vinegar trying to make hollandaise on Christmas morning for eggs Benedict, and still ended up with a runny mess. Now I sous vide my hollandaise on Christmas eve, and reheat it while I poach the eggs. This is the way.