Buckshot

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[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

Cave people didn't have lead poisoning either

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago

Several years ago I was working on water sites and they didn't even have accurate info about the stuff on their own sites. The head office staff thought they did though. Just the computers did not match reality. Running many of the sites was entirely reliant on the knowledge of site operators who were all about to retire. There was no younger staff being taught anything either.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

Not really answering the question but have you ruled out medical issues? You could be describing our dog and it turned out he's got pretty bad hip dysplasia on both sides. Because both are bad he doesn't limp at all and the outward signs are really subtle but he's now on a bunch of pain killers and has gotten much better. He's also booked in for a hip replacement next month.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 56 points 6 months ago

I've worked on SCADA systems. The most the keyboard was used for was logging in then then putting something heavy on it stop the computer going to sleep. System was entirely controlled by the mouse and head office didn't consider that 1 person might be monitoring 4-6 computers on their own for an 8 hour shift and enforced a 5 minute idle lockout on all of them.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

I've been using silverbullet.md

Its more notes than wiki I guess so depends what you're after.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

I use restic but I switched from Borg because of the cloud features. Outside of that, there's not a lot of differences really. If you're happy with Borg keep with it.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This doesn't really seem like a new problem. It wasn't so long ago that most news was disseminated in text form which has been easily faked forever. The solution should be improving the ways of verifying the information we receive. I guess the main difference now is most people would see a video on social media and believe it. 20-25 years ago I was taught not to believe everything you read online and that hasn't changed.

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

National insurance is supposed to be for our state pension but it's only paid on earned income. I have no idea but I wonder how much it would raise if it was paid on all income?

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its the area of a town that has all the retail shops. A lot of towns have a road literally called High Street but the term is generalised to mean the main retail area of a town. Typically smaller shops in the town centre rather than out of town shopping centres and retail parks with larger stores and dedicated car parking

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

I use audible, then download with audible-cli and decrypt with ffmpeg.

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