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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-24 at 16:18

I'm getting well hacked off with generative "AI" image shite being pushed onto my feed right now. Seemingly always without alt text, because… well, if you're feckless enough to post that stuff just for unpaid and exploitative prettiness, why would you bother with making it accessible? Not as if you give a toss, is it?

Strongly considering muting or blocking anybody posting that particular double combo of empty calories, even if they're trying to shitpost

[#]AISlop #AltText

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-24 at 12:51

Top floor of Mount Everest is at ~337 hPa, so probably! Electricity supply permitting..

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-24 at 12:46

Wondering if they can still boil kettles for tea in Scotland

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-24 at 11:10

Of course, #OpenStreetMap had already been updated. I should actually use it some time…

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-24 at 11:08

Anyway, in better news I fixed the nice bike saddle! It's been holding up fairly well since last weekend too. Seven quid part from the further away good LBS and a bit of assertive realigning/tightening was all that was needed https://urbanists.social/@achadwick/113822440728113274

I was a bit disappointed that [Edit: I already forgot its name] Bike Zone has closed though. Aaa.

[#]BikeTooter #Oxford

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-24 at 11:00

"but maybe it was ironic!!1" no, it never is

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-24 at 10:59

Yeah no, he wasn't doing a Bellamy Salute.

We know the history. Instead, you could just not boost gestures that are now unambiguously used to rally Nazis and intimidate their next victims.

Think: you could just not.

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-21 at 23:26

I was going to do something, but then the internet put a map in front of me and I got distracted

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-16 at 18:53

Seems to be mostly bike repair tooting from me right now. Winter's a pain in the bum for that

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-16 at 18:31

Guess some things do get through the kevlar strip #BikeTooter

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-13 at 18:29

It had a good innings. I got it on an early 1970s Falcon frame that I picked up for a fiver in the right hands down the council tip, and under a horrid tartan seat cover was this already broken in nice saddle that felt just right.

I think it had been linseeded in the past, it had dried out one or more times in its lifetime, and it was showing stretch cracks on top. Also, the rivets were beginning to protrude. Not shedding too many tears about getting a new one 😉

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-13 at 18:23

Heard a couple of little plinks behind me on the ride home, and later felt my seat sagging more than normal.

Goodbye, old friend.

[UPDATE: fixed it, with the right part from a LBS no less. Support your Local Bike Shop or Co-op.

Hello again, old friend.]

[#]BikeTooter #Brooks #saddle @bikes @cycling

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-11 at 23:02

I wrote a thing about making nice pixel-aligned icons with vectors for the Papirus development team, because somebody asked a question and their existing docs didn't cover more advanced pixelling

https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/wiki/More-advanced-icon-editing

[#]Papirus #Inkscape #TechnicalWriting #PixelArt

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-08 at 11:54

Me: It's not on , it's on <#>

Me: … (beat) … oh, right

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Written by Andrew C on 2025-01-06 at 16:48

glad to see we're maintaining good transport links with the infernal realms

EDIT: titled "Works on 'road from hell' to end after 23 years" on the webbed site itself

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dxn7rj27go

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Written by Andrew C on 2024-12-17 at 14:16

I think I'm going to start using disroot more for things. Its forgejo looks closer to back when GitHub and development was actually fun

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Written by Andrew C on 2024-12-17 at 14:15

I wrote up a quick guide about cross-compiling Syncthing for Lakka 5.0 and getting a working service running: https://git.disroot.org/atc/Notes/wiki/Lakka-and-Syncthing. Irony is, I don't actually use this directly as part of my toy gaming setup; I just wanted to know how to do it.

@retrogaming@a.gup.pe @retrogaming@lemmy.world

[#]RetroArch #Lakka #Syncthing #RetroGaming

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Written by Andrew C on 2024-12-07 at 15:23

o hivemind, what's a good place to buy thermal pads for delivery in the UK that's not Amazon? Overclockers, perhaps? RS?

(Recommendations welcome too, but it's only for a Pi 5 that I'm rehousing)

[#]electronics #RaspberryPi #AskFedi #ThermalPaste

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Written by Andrew C on 2024-12-03 at 14:21

Copilot key? No thanks, I already have a copilot key on tab-complete ✨

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Written by Andrew C on 2024-11-08 at 16:40

(⬆️ bit.)

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