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by gerdesj 1y ago
I've been doing Self Assessment for 25 years. In the first few years it was fill in a colourful paper form which won awards for clear English etc. Nowadays it is online with many details pre-filled in. At the end you can download a
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Don't bother - no idea what your parent is up to. Linux - the kernel is GPL 2 - that means you can use it to your heart's content. If you make changes, it would be nice if you shared them, please do. A Linux distro will generally
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"automate updates" A device can be woken up at silly o'clock and "apt update && apt upgrade && apt autoremove && shutdown -r now" can be run via cron. apt as deployed by Debian itself has opt
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by gerdesj 1y ago
You have sqlite, mariadb/mysql, postgres and more just for mostly traditional SQL. Then you have the others ... 8) It's time for change. VMware have tossed themselves off into limbo and MS seem hell bent on alienating a vast swa
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by gerdesj 1y ago
So why insist on rustup?
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by gerdesj 1y ago
On device. If you have say 16GB of GPU RAM and around 64GB of RAM and a reasonable CPU then you can make decent use of LLMs. I'm not a Apple jockey but I think you normally have something like that available and so you will have a goo
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Some years back an aunt and uncle owned a cottage in Devon (near Exeter) with 1649 carved into the wall by the front door. Cottages like that had a simple timber frame and cob walls, which is only a slight improvement on wattle and daub! C
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"1. Rust has had ten years since 1.0. ..." Rust insists on its own package manager "rustup" and frowns on distro maintainers. When Rust is happy to just be packaged by the distro and rustup has gone away, then it will h
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Guess what bulldogs were bred for 8(
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by gerdesj 1y ago
JSON++
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by gerdesj 1y ago
AI generated Chinese propaganda. Good skills but wank.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Oh dear. I didn't even mention my crocosmia stash by name and I pissed someone off. They are jolly expensive to buy and I have a good 30' by 5' bed stuffed full of them. A crocosmia plant in a pot costs about £5-20. I&#x2
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"the industry is spending over $30 billion a month (approximately $400 billion for 2025) and only receiving a bit more than a billion a month back in revenue." That's called a "bubble". Obviously, this time it is d
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Libre Office has a Logo implementation built in. You can have turtles whizzing around your documents and spreadsheets.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
All of which are very easily replaceable. That list is laughable for an example of lock in. I used to run AutoCAD on a 80286 with a maths co-pro with 1 MB RAM. It has changed somewhat since! Who gives a shit about QB? - you could just run
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Back in those days there were lots of unfriendly folk to worry about, not just the IRA. Its best not to stand out and paint "target" on yourself!
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I suspect there is more to this than meets the eye. I have had a Gmail email account since they were invite only back in the day and I run my company email system and by my company I mean my (ie MD) so I'm quite keen on it working. I r
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by gerdesj 1y ago
A fair few things want blob object storage like S3. NFS does not scale to ridiculous levels horizontally or vertically. S3 does things like de-duplication and other funky tricks. So if you want to use an app that needs S3 then you need to
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by gerdesj 1y ago
OP explains all that admirably in the section entitled: "Terminology: BirdNET vs BirdNET-Pi" I use both. I have a BNPi at home in our summerhouse with a mic on the outside. We live next to a park and the bird song can be deafeni
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Do people react in real life in the same way that they do in a simulation? I will suggest no, they don't. I think that a simulation is great for training but crap for experimentation. With a simulation you can help prepare someone to
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by gerdesj 1y ago
rspamd is my go to solution. Out of the box you get a lot of protection. I use Exim as my MTA but I suggest you use Postfix if you are starting from scratch, only because you will find a lot more write ups on it. The biggest issue is gett
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by gerdesj 1y ago
DR: MX and retry email has easily one of the best responses to failure modes ever and its ancient! Most smtp daemons will put outbound emails in a queue and run the queue. If the other end is unavailable then it will generally retry on a s
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"Given an at:// URI, how do you locate the corresponding JSON?" This is chicken and egg stuff. I don't get it and I've picked on the intro of the explainer. Why would I want "the JSON"? Yes, I did s
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Germany is quite content with some ridiculous vehicles and invented most of them. What stands out is say civvies driving on military number plates (UK until the 80s). In this case, anyone driving a banned vehicle - these beasts have sharp
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by gerdesj 1y ago
There are a lot of reasons for banning this beast and frankly some of the lessons are rather old. For example, in the '80s the UK military stopped using military number plates on "family" vehicles outside the UK. Yes, we use
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Took me a couple of seconds - Georgian .. as in the other country with a red cross on a white background (although you add a few extra crosses than England) I have no doubt that two very disparate languages and scripts will find a few simil
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by gerdesj 1y ago
“Be kind. Don't be snarky." Sometimes I think you can ignore the "rules" a bit - they are really guidelines. Your parent was clearly expressing exasperation and engaging effectively and intelligently.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
If we all spoke the same language - say French (lingua Franca) - then we might all think the same way too and the (human) world would soon become beige. I'm not knocking French but English is often known as a lingua franca - a descrip
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Old English is generally considered to have arisen post Roman conquest of what we now call England. It is largely an amalgam (my term) of quite a lot of other languages extant at the time and then it took a life of its own. Prior to the Ro
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by gerdesj 1y ago
What a lovely note. Very reminiscent of the old school Chrimbo catch up letters but with the hefty twist ("Soz, going to have to bugger off now - cheers!) I (Jon) lived in Twikkers too, a few years later than this Jon was born there.

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