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Doing a cryptic crossword tonight, we each came up with a different but possible solution for this clue: Blue vehicle turning round yard (4)
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SolutionDepending on how you interpret "blue", you can have "racy" ("car" backwards plus "y" for yard, with "blue" as in "blue movie") or "navy" ("van" for the vehicle, and "blue" is a colour).The...
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Week 167: One for his nobhttps://po-ru.com/2024/03/20/week-167-one-for-his-nob#weeknotes
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It disappoints me when I see a good piece of writing with a piece of zero-effort generative visual filler image tacked on. You don't need it! Let your writing stand on its own! Adding art-by-the-yard...
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I'm playing around with Debian on an old laptop. While running "apt dist-upgrade" to change it to testing, I fumbled the new tab combo and managed to do something that instantly killed the current...
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After 22 years of faithful service, my Kensington Expert trackball has thrown off its mortal chains and ascended to the great e-waste pile in the sky. RIP to a real one, F in the chat, etc.
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Actually, no, my trackball isn't broken, it's just that the latest version of fwupd introduces a bug that breaks specifically that device, and even though it's been fixed in the next version, both...
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Week 168: Software updateshttps://po-ru.com/2024/03/24/week-168-software-updates#weeknotes
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We're looking at a better extractor fan for our windowless bathroom and the builders have recommended one that appears to be designed for people operating indoor cannabis farms!
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Typing an arrow (â) the way I always do: ctrl-space into Japanese IME, type "yajirusi" (= arrow), select the direction I want.I wish we had input methods for alphabetical languages that filled this gap...
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In any of the many Star Trek films and series, has anyone ever asked the replicator for none pizza with left beef?
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Now that this application is finally on Ruby 3.x (as of a few weeks ago), I'm getting a lot of use out of destructuring rightward assignment.
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I opened the door earlier to the largest bumblebee I've ever seen. As large as a ping-pong ball, it was.
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UKPol, LondonGenuinely worried that that nutter Susan Hall might win the mayoral election. It's the same electorate that voted in Johnson twice, and this time the Tories have changed the voting system...
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Over the past few days, I've had a wave of commercial spam to a made-up email address with the footer "You have received this email as a corporate subscriber within the meaning of the Privacy and...
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I don't know how podcasters manage some of these ad reads. I'd cringe down to the size of a small pebble.
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Just walked past a car in South London with Moldovan plates. That's a long drive.
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I've been enjoying ShÅgun, but the representation of women is very unrealistic.They have eyebrows, none of them has blackened their teeth, and their faces aren't caked white in mercury-based paint de...
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Despite the xz chaos, I'd still rather take the uncertainty that open source software might be subverted over proprietary systems and the certainty of Tim Apple or Satya Nadella preventing me from...
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And, of course, there are plenty of backdoor shenanigans in proprietary systems too. I don't trust the USA's spooks any more than I do the PRC'shttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
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