mortimer

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[–] mortimer@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago

I use them all the time. Pisses me off when other road users don't. They're called indicators here in the UK and apparently if you pass an advanced driving test and get an advanced licence you don't have to use them all the time, particularly if there's no-one around to see them. Advanced courses are about thinking rather than being on autopilot, and so indicating out of habit suggests you're not paying attention to what's going on around you.

[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aye, it's a fucking shit show alright. Hide the cables behind some low wooden shelves under the TV and put all the devices on those shelves (drill holes in the back of the shelves for the cables to go through). Otherwise stick that big black hairy god-awful pimp carpet over the whole lot of it and velcro it to the wall. Also, you need to get a good plasterer. That back wall is a fucking disgrace.

[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

HTML. I wanted to go full retro with it, although the parsing of the RSS feeds are done by a little PHP script.

[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cloud Atlas was brilliant.

[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Tom Hanks.

I've never seen a bad Tom Hanks movie.

[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's okay, I sussed it out. Thank you anyway. I wanted it to fit in with the look and feel of the rest of my site and I eventually managed to do it in the section labelled ''Terminal 3" at media-underground.net

It can take about 20 seconds to parse the feeds, but I don't think there's anything I can do to speed it up. My RSS reader takes just as long.

[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He'll be dead by the end of the year. Some Lee Harvey Oswald quiet loner type.

[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

If they've got access to the news, they might want to stay up there until the Orange Man croaks.

[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Here at 'Bumpkin Watch' our investigative journalist team have uncovered the real reason why weirdy-trimmed-beardy JD Vance uses his initials rather than either of his actual forenames. At first we just assumed it was some kind of a hillbilly thing like being called Gomer, Cletus or Booger, but it actually turns out it's because his real name is even more shit than any of those.

Vance, whose parents were siblings, was actually christened Jebediah Doofus on August 3rd, 1984 by his mentally ill mother, Trixie-Bob, at the Middletown Confessional Calvinist Church, Ohio after she escaped from the local mental institute with the one day old nipper.

His father, Goober Charles Jnr (renowned crystal meth manufacturer and three time near miss KKK Grand Wizard) passed away eight months earlier in what has only been described in the local 'Middletown Gazette' as "a freak washing machine accident". According to sources, Goober, "was at the local laundromat" and "got his frayed neckerchief caught in the machine's drive belt during its spin cycle". Apparently he had been "raking for loose change through a removed rear panel".

Initially christened with the surname Bomen, his mother changed it to Reynolds when she married her sixth husband and uncle, Herschel Beauregard "Burt" Reynolds III.

Quite where he got the surname Vance from has remained a mystery for many years, however, having recently tracked down his old juvenile detention buddy Virgil Buford, we can confirm that he adopted it from the famous UK Radio One disc jockey and heavy metal enthusiast, Tommy Vance, whom JD had become enamoured with during his early years. Sources have disclosed that he used to tune in to his step father's portable shortwave radio every Friday night during Uncle Herschel's weekly weekend "fishing" trips, although Buford did remark that "the only fishing Ol' Burt ever got up to was for some well worn pussy."

"I can't believe he's got to where he is today," Buford added, "to start from such humble beginnings and end up third in command of the country under Elon is one hellava achievement."

https://txt.fyi/0bca2ba9a9f78be5

[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

"Is that Kung Fu?"

"No, he's only had 2 pints."

[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I tried using an exit node with Tailscale and couldn't get it to work either. I did find a fix, but realised I really didn't need an exit node for what I was using Tailscale for, so never carried it out. It was something to do with applying additional settings on the web GUI if I remember correctly.

[–] mortimer@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I can see an experiment coming on. Give your snake two dishes and see which it prefers.

 

I'm looking for something that will embed a selection of RSS feeds on a website so that it essentially does the same thing as an RSS reader but displays my follows on a webpage. I know 55sketch has simple-rss on Github but I'm looking for something that will pull from various sources and list the articles in order of newest first. Anybody got any idea where I might find such a thing?

 

The animated clock app icon is exactly 2 minutes behind the actual time.

 

So, if the Chinese don't have an alphabet and use only pictograms comprising of over 6500 characters, how do they type on a keyboard? Do they have really large keyboards with over 6500 keys or do they just say "Screw Mandarin" and type in English (which can't be true because I've seen Chinese characters on webpages/spam emails)? Is there some kind of algorithmic key pressing magic that goes on in order to produce said characters?

 

At least 17 people have been reported killed in Israeli attacks since dawn across the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian news organisations.

Gaza’s Government Media Office said Israel carried out “horrific crimes” over the previous 24 hours with 34 air strikes that killed 71 civilians across the Palestinian enclave.

 
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Orac-ify (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by mortimer@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
 

Do you think it's possible to make one of those virtual personal assistants (Alexa for example) speak like Orac from Blake's 7?

I will only ever use one if I can get it to sound like Orac.

 

Free and Open Source Speed Test. No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.

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OverTheWire - Wargames (overthewire.org)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by mortimer@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
 

Having recently returned to Linux after a twenty year hiatus, I'm currently enjoying OverTheWire as a good terminal refresher.

OverTheWire offers various wargames that let you practice and test your skills in security concepts. You can join the chat, visit the game pages, and connect to each game using SSH on different ports.

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