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@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”

I’m all for ridiculing these Call of Duty Cosplayers. But are US pals not concerned about the normalisation of having a paramilitary force being in your airports? “Hehe they’re not actually doing anything useful” no they’re not. They just need to be seen there until folk are used to it

French pals would have burned the entire country to the ground long before this stage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx298j7xg0yo

ICE deployed to US airports as security queues stretch for hours

Hundreds of ICE agents have been deployed to 14 airports, in cities including New York, Atlanta and Houston.

BBC News

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".
@SecurityWriter Interesting point. I asked Herself what she had to do and it had asked her to scan a credit card. As she’s the Apple Pay Queen that’s weird. So perhaps mine was ‘He has credit cards *and* has been around since the MobileMe days…he’s grand’
@SecurityWriter oh I hate everything about this push and I’m watching it carefully