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Tenebris Nox

@ tenebrisnox @feddit.uk

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Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash… and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!

  • Baron Munchausen

  • Major UK supermarket to stop selling mackerel in coming weeks

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  • Salmon next, please. Shut down the horrendous Salmon farms.

  • Energy bills to fall in April in price cap change and charges shake-up

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  • And, of course, energy prices will fall incredibly and they'll never be the need for price caps ever again and the "clean" nuclear waste can be recycled into toys and distributed to children to play with in this New Jersusalem.

  • John Lewis pulls out of housebuilding business

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  • Unless these housebuilding firms make huge sums of money, they really aren't interested.

  • Russell Brand latest: Comedian pleads not guilty to new charges

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  • He was one of those early grifters who saw the transition to para-politics and then God as a means of making a brand (of Brand).

    That anyone ever took his spirituaity or politics or his cringe comedy or acting seriously is beyond me.

    They had PILES of his Bookie-Wookie in Waterstones once.

  • Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order

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  • I'm super-suspicious of the "massive increase in shop theft" stories. I'm sure it has happened, does happen and has increased as poverty goes up in the UK. I'm just dubious about the gangs robbing stored made-to-order.

  • LibreOffice Online, a self-hostable libre office environment, is coming back!

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  • I think Libre Office is fantastic and I'm glad to see the back of Microsoft. But I miss how useful mail-merge was and how limited it is in Libre. It's my only small complaint among so many cheers for Libre.

  • Energy bills to fall in April in price cap change and charges shake-up

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  • Wait until the next "price cap" in three months... and the one after that in six months... and the one after that in nine months (that'll raise the cap even higher). It's a con-game and we're the suckers.

  • how do you browse and collect art digitally?

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  • In terms of saving art you find, take a look at sef-hosting Pinry. I've run it for 4+ years. There are plugins for Firefox and other browsers.

  • Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? - Monthly Review Press

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  • What a weird response. Glad you read more into my comment that I did.

  • Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? - Monthly Review Press

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  • This has been a repeated acusatiom on the left for many years: that the Frankfurt School was a means of undermining Marxism and actual revolutionary groups. It probably wasn't needed as Stalin and his gang were doing pretty well in doing that on their own.

  • ‘Seasons have become confused’: the people struggling in UK’s relentless rain

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  • It rains in the UK. When the Romans invaded they noticed how cloudy and rainy the place is. Still is.

  • If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?

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  • That's one of the other big issues. I have the same worries about how digital-only gaming has become. My kids seem to prefer digital downloads and really don't believe me when I warn them that they have absolutely no control over what they "buy". But they look at me like one of those crazy old-timers who just doesn't understand the modern world.

    I started with Logseq and then quickly moved to Obsidian (which I think is great). Over the last couple of months I've started using Emacs with Org (partly for the challenge and partly because it seems to be able to do pretty much everything).

  • If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?

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  • I did make the jump... into unemployment. But still much happier. I love teaching and would join an authentic, child-centred school at the drop of a hat - but not willing to be complicit in the toxic horror show that's current UK education.

  • If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?

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  • Former English teacher here. My self-hosting origin is that I had 20 years or so of teaching materials I'd collected in OneNote over that time and simply wanted to have offline copies so that I could feel that if ever something went wrong with Microsoft like getting permanently locked out of my account, then I had a means of restoring everything. Microsoft makes it practically impossible to export to a working backup.

    After spending a LONG time trying everything to get back ownership of my materials, I understood the need to move my digital stuff away from big tech. I bought a Synology NAS, learned how to use Docker and then took more steps. About the same time I started using Fediverse apps and learned a great deal from the discussions and links there. My greatest "learn" has been keeping notes in plaintext files (and not getting seduced by nice shiny new apps that are actually horrors that want lure you into a future subscription).

  • Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK

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  • Thank you. That was actually weirdly interesting in terms of the specificity (while also being quite broad). I can't imagine how many hours and meetings and people were involved in that.

  • Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK

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  • Have the courts come to an actual definition of what (animal) milk actually is? Last I read, neither EU or UK could define it. Milk's content differs so much from brand to brand and there's no set standard. Presumably other than it comes from an animal of some kind.

  • ‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10

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  • Benzion Freshwater.

    Surely that's a made-up name? Do you have to have a name like that to be a billionaire?

  • Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows

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  • Why doesn't your company provide parking? Why should other people not be able to park because people with business vehicles hog residential parking?

    I live in a road that's nearly 150+ years old. Not sure that the planners foresaw vans and monster-cars. They were probably more concerned with horses and carts. I doubt trademen parked their carts and hitched their horses outside of other people's houses in the street.

  • Starmer says he won't 'choose between' the US or China

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  • I don't blame him. Choice of one stable and expanding authoritarian regime and one unstable and expanding authoritarian regime. Do the Chinese police hold nurses down in the street and shoot them?

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