Brutkey

Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Diagnosis: printer was not plugged in.

Recommendation: plug printer in.

Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Ooh! New project which looks useful to self-host.

Ah! Clear installation instructions, or even an apt package.

Oh! "curl pipe sudo bash this script", docker, yarn, pip, node, appimage, cargo, just host our own VM :(

Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Age verification: what’s the harm?
If you have not read @girlonthenet@mastodon.social's latest post about the #OnlineSafetyAct , that's your evening sorted.

(G has been on the receiving end of Parliament's attempt at defining "pornographic content", so writes from her own direct experience.)

https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/age-verification-whats-the-harm/

Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Tomorrow, I will be doing the tech support equivalent of juggling while riding a unicycle (which I can do :)):

Troubleshooting a printer problem over the phone.

Thoughts and prayers, please.
πŸ–¨πŸ–¨οΈ

Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

World Wide* Web

* Offer not available in the United Kingdom.

Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

You are the first person today to say "thank you".
This comment, from someone in a customer-facing role, made me more sad than is probably reasonable.

Neil Brown
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including

Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers
I kid you not.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/england-faces-5-billion-litre-public-water-shortage-by-2055-without-urgent-action