GP

@gpshewan
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I live in Northumberland (UK) with Herself.
She works in Renewables (Finance and Risk stuff), I work in Technology (For too long now)

I have nothing important to say, this is all just personal

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Websitehttps://www.gpshewan.com
Favourite quotes“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats” “Anni, amori, e bicchieri di vino - non si contano mai” “La vita non ti aspetta, o la vivi o ti fotte” “In vino veritas”

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/us-climate-damage-research

One day you get to that age where life consists of managing a list of things to fix, making sure you’re eating enough fibre and stretching, and wondering if that new twinge is something to worry about or its just because you slept ‘wrong’.

I have a set of Mackie CR4 speakers, and they’ve finally succumbed to the problem with the L/R powered speaker switch.

I’ve ordered some contact cleaner, hoping a squirt or two will sort that out. Really not looking forward to soldering it. But ifixit is there to help if I need to

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mackie+CR3+CR4+L-R+Speaker+Selector+Bypass/145037

Mackie CR3 CR4 L/R Speaker Selector Bypass

These speakers provide really good sound for their price, and it seems they accomplished that by using some cheap components. It is a known issue...

iFixit

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116286540925560722

That would just be one user account. The service connects with each user's account through a browser making it a bit annoying to detect. So you can block the developer but anyone else could use the same tool to scrape your posts and feed it into a slop machine.

Heads-up for anyone who doesn't want their posts scraped and handed over to an LLM.

https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116286099611905851

(Quote replaced with link since I was blocked.)

🚨 Urgent: The EU Parliament voted against #ChatControl earlier this month – to the displeasure of Big Tech and, ironically, child protection groups. Now they’re pushing for a re-vote.

Re-doing a vote that already has a clear outcome is not how democracy should work.

Stop #Chatcontrol. Share this. Contact your MEP 👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Global commerce disruption was a lot more fun when it was "big boat stuck in Suez canal" and not "irrational old men with too much power play pew-pew and kill innocents".
Getting a little closer to saying the quiet part out loud
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg547ljepvzo
Oil traders bet millions ahead of Trump's Iran talks post

Market data shows the amount of oil trade rose before the US President said he would postpone attacks on Iran's power plants.

BBC News

Silently seething as I need to watch a webinar but the provider used doesn’t support Linux or will not give any indication of what codec I need to use. Do some research:

“Use Google Chrome”

That’s me done for the day