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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-21 at 06:21

The UK government has decided to name its AI assistant "Humphrey", thus proving that they completely failed to get the joke in Yes, Minister. Presumably the next stop will be a tool for generating press releases called "Malcolm".

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/uk-to-unveil-humphrey-assistant-for-civil-servants-with-other-ai-plans-to-cut-bureaucracy/

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-20 at 16:08

I know it isn't really the point, but I am very much enjoying the flurry of cat pictures and cool songs that people are posting.

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-20 at 07:19

A day of juggling work with car repairs and domestic things. The rapid switching between mental modes makes my head spin.

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-18 at 17:53

@Laurenx Hello! Welcome to Masto! Do scan through my mutuals for some initial follows. The other thing here is to follow hashtags. Shout if I can help - it's a little different to centralised social media.

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-18 at 16:53

Well, I wasn't expecting to take my archery assessment today, but that's how it panned out. I passed, thankfully!

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-18 at 10:50

Is anyone else just utterly heartbroken by this whole Gaiman thing? I know it’s a selfish reaction and that what matters is the victims and not my feelings, but it’s hit like a breakup or a death. I really thought he was one of the good ones. The sense of loss is real.

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-18 at 10:02

Wife's view right now.

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-18 at 09:52

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/17/supreme-court-tiktok-ban

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-18 at 06:00

The migration to Fastmail is now done and the Proton account is deleted.

Couple of things I learned along the way:

1. Proton's export tools are a bit flakey and don't always bring everything with them on the first go. Do your export multiple times!

2. I really don't like Thunderbird as a desktop mail/calendar/contacts client. It's fussy and fiddly. Other recommendations welcome!

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-16 at 21:26

More in sadness than in anger, I'm in the process of slowly exporting my emails from Proton and importing them into Fastmail.

Which does seem to be very good, and has the small bonus of also being slightly cheaper.

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-15 at 22:02

Has anyone used Fastmail? Is it any good?

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-15 at 21:26

[#]3GoodThings

1. I did socialising yesterday and didn't make a total arse of myself

2. I shot a personal best at the range tonight

3. Secondborn made me laugh so hard I snorted water out of my nose

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-15 at 18:16

Meanwhile, my car has chosen to die. Which is fucken great.

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-15 at 16:25

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the more incompetent and chaotic the organisation, the more draconian and one-sided its standard contracts tend to be.

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-14 at 06:55

It's been a bit of a Tale of Two Open Source Projects these last 24 hours.

On the one hand, you have Eugen Rochko/Gargron ceding control of Mastodon to a non-profit. On the other, you have Matt Mullenweg further escalating his colossal public tantrum by banning people who talk about forking WordPress.

So much in this world of technology depends on personalities, doesn't it?

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-13 at 14:43

I’ve been drafting non-stop since 7:40am. I want a nap.

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-13 at 14:26

Who was it decided that scrollbars should become tiny thin almost imperceptible things that are almost impossible to manipulate cleanly if you can even find the wretched things, and can we please arrange for whoever it was to be yeeted into the nearest convenient sea?

Windows, Mac OS and Gnome are all guilty of it.

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-12 at 13:55

Nightfish

[#]RuinABand

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-11 at 21:42

Well, I has bought me bow. It is a thing of beauty, though I say so myself. Just look at this gorgeous riser ...

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Written by Hedders on 2025-01-11 at 10:47

Lovely morning out on the Forest.

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