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Beany wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2026 1:22 pm Nah, he's got an account so it should be easy to tell.

The map is fucked, but the itinerary is precisely what Americans like to do. It’s a lot to squeeze in, but it does work if you are relentless and have no chill :lol:

Anyway, I know nothing about security and PHP but the press are making this sound important

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live ...

Very nice speakers GG. I'm a long time Sonus Faber fan albeit I'm at their entry level with my Toy Tower floorstanders. What's your amp for them, I've always assumed they really benefit from a LOT of power.

I first came across them back around 2003 when we dropped into a friend of a friend who was ...

Very cool! Have you cropped that at all?

yeah, i bought a nail gun to do some battening in the garden. It saved me hours and because it’s a one handed operation i was able everything lined up way better and left a neater finish with small nail heads partially recessed compared to screws. This took me 4 hours on my own. Massive time saver ...

The missus asked if (told me) I could finish boarding out the garden shed/office and then fix the fence battens to the fence posts as the carpenters had run out of time (I e. got bored)

I decided this would help speed up the nailing part

https://i.ibb.co/ccBr3vvS/PXL-20261014-161654195.jpg ...

PSA: The latest OFCOM sweary word checklist has dropped:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/tv-radio-and-on-demand-research/tv-research/offensive-language/2026/quick-reference-guide-to-offensive-language-2026.pdf


I do understand why it’s needed, but by ...

I remember doing funding applications 6 or 7 years ago and having to crowbar machine learning, LLM or AI in the proposals, as funders got weak at the knees the moment they heard those words!

mik wrote: Thu Oct 15, 2026 12:46 pm I always lusted after the 309GTI more than the 205 1.9.

Yeah I know that’s a bit weird.

Same, I always had a thing for the 309 too. Mainly because I like being a bit of a contrarian and the 205 was so obvious.

It's going to end up with a global economic crash on par with 2008 or the dot com bubble, you know, those once in a lifetime crisis scenarios that I'm pretty sure I've gone through four of since leaving school....


My lodger is in his twenties and is full of wild starry-eyed obsession with AI ...

I don’t disagree, because much of global politics is posturing.

No government is going to row back on AI given that would be giving away perceived power akin to some form of global submissiveness.

God I love double entendres like that

My fave “you must have had to beat off a lot of American men…”

If the industrial revolution brought efficiency and replaced human muscles, it replaced them with a more dormant lifestyle and sitting at desks, which are causing many health issues. If our brains are replaced and subsequently atrophy in the same way, we'll just end up with a bunch of moronic idiots ...

Had a final EMDR session today, that stuff is magic :shock: it really tackles the core of any nervous system triggers, I'd highly reccomend it if you've got any stubborn issues that relate back to specific events. The main requirement is that you need to be able to hold a mental image of the scene ...

Added to kindle list. The dumbing down of the populace worries me and I wonder where it’ll all end up. We’re at the point now where colleagues are using copilot to write emails. I get using it for complicated or repetitive tasks but if you find it a struggle to articulate your thoughts or ideas ...

The irony it's all made with AI :lol:

I'm currently reading The Convenience Trap by Michael Gerlich which is all about how we are losing our ability to work through the tough part of problem solving, starting with a blank page, or negotiating through bad, mad or leftfield ideas. It's a bit ...

What am I missing?

Been watching the Rest is Politics interview with Burnham. It's mad how normal and relatable he is, I can't remember a PM in my lifetime who didn't sound like they were trying to spin everything.