JdeBP

@JdeBP@mastodon.london
12 Followers
7 Following
707 Posts

The original plan was that this account was for London-related things.

This is (now) a limited-access account, on a signup-restricted node, for a select set of followers.

You probably should be following me elsewhere such as @JdeBP (politics free), @JdeBP (politics), or @JdeBP (senryu and tasks, oddly).

For the command-line and system tools, specifically, see @JdeBP.

WWWhttp://jdebp.info/
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JdeBPNov 27
Show threadJames T MonkeyNov 26
@WiteWulf EVs currently have the minimum amount of £195 I think. So if I were to do 5000 miles/year in an EV I’d be paying £345 - less road tax than I’m paying now and not including tax revenues through petrol.
JdeBPNov 10

Now that the node is on #Mastodon version 4.5, remember to go into your account preferences and ensure that the new quoting setting for your posts is as you actually want it.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/quote-posts/#defaults

#FediTips

Quoting other posts - Mastodon documentation

All about quoting content (your own posts, or those made by other people).

JdeBPSep 26
CTDSep 26
@ianb will more likely be “your unlocked phone please”
JdeBPSep 2
Show threadBen CurthoysSep 2
@cstross When Jessie and I lived in London in a little 2 up 2 down terraced house, the garden that backed onto ours had an absolutely massive tree in it that blocked all light to our garden, was destroying the fence, and would have squashed a house if it had fallen on it. The tree was in the garden of a council property, and everyone at the council agreed with us that it had to go.
JdeBPSep 2
Show threadBen CurthoysSep 2
@cstross But the woman who lived there absolutely refused to let any workmen through her house to access the tree, because the last time someone had gone through her house, some 20 years previous, they'd scratched her skirting boards with their horrible boots, and apparently she was unable to get over the trauma.
JdeBPSep 2
Show threadBen CurthoysSep 2
@cstross It was a happy day for us when she finally fucking died and the new tenants let the council in and the tree was gone about a week later.
JdeBPSep 2
Show threadChristopher PhinAug 5, 2025

Just to show off, they did Cyrillic too!

(Small serious point: with a name like Dmitry Lamonov, it seems reasonable to assume Cyrillic is at worst familiar to them, and possibly even the thing they did first, and I don’t like the framing that Latin letters are necessarily any easier than any other script just because I’m more familiar with them. Just a silly, throwaway line that I have made waaaay too much of in writing this caveat 😅)

JdeBPSep 2
Christopher PhinAug 5, 2025

Suddenly and viscerally obsessed with these letterforms. Why has that never occurred to me, and why is it the first time I’m seeing the idea??

(Font is ALS Lamon by Dmitry Lamonov.)

JdeBPJul 6, 2025
AppleInsiderJul 5, 2025
Even when used as a monitor for your Mac, an LG or Samsung smart TV will periodically capture what's on screen and send it to company servers. Here's how to stop that terrible behavior.
https://appleinsider.com/inside/mac/tips/how-to-stop-your-lg-or-samsung-smart-tv-from-tracking-you?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon
How to stop your LG or Samsung smart TV from tracking you

Even when used as a monitor for your Mac, an LG or Samsung smart TV will periodically capture what's on screen and send it to company servers. Here's how to stop that terrible behavior.

AppleInsider
JdeBPMay 9, 2025
mhoyeMay 9, 2025

I don’t use the name on my birth certificate day to day and I bet that at least three quarters of the people in the world born “Michael” don’t either. I have walked this earth for fifty years and nobody ever mentions that to me, or any Bob, Rob, Pat, Dave, Sam, Jay, and Kat out there .

If you’re getting worked up about chosen names but not married names, honourifics or even nicknames, what you're really getting angry about is that people you hate are allowed to make choices for themselves.