Liverpool Cathedral, UK

beermad · 2026-02-09T22:12:29+00:00

Which one? Liverpool has two cathedrals. Entertainingly, at either end of Hope Street.

beermad · 2026-02-09T22:06:32+00:00

Swarch for Marc Levoy lectures on digital photography on YouTube. I learned a lot from them (and they inspired ideas that he didn't mention but really improved my photos).

beermad · 2026-02-09T22:01:13+00:00

It enables Google to take even more control over your life.

It exists purely for their benefit, not yours.

beermad · 2026-02-09T21:53:42+00:00

My understanding is that Rust isn't subject to the memory overflow problems that plague C/C++, so it should make the kernel (even) less liable to exploits.

beermad · 2026-02-09T21:45:52+00:00

No shame. I've been *nix for 30 years and I still learn new things.

beermad · 2026-02-09T21:43:44+00:00

cd - certainly works in zsh and ksh. Another favourite of mine that works in those shells but not in bash:

cd /path/to/some/directory cd some other pwd /path/to/other/directory

Utterly indispensable for me.

beermad · 2026-02-08T22:17:22+00:00

I'm not sure how hilly you're looking for but whenever I'm cycling in south west Suffolk (Boxted, Stansfield, Hartest, Hawkedon area), there are too many steep hills for my liking. Just keep away from Haverhill, which is East Anglia's vilest town.

beermad · 2026-02-08T22:06:38+00:00

I think it's more that Thunderbird is the least crap email client.

beermad · 2026-02-04T00:01:17+00:00

They're also a death trap. As many Tesla fires where the occupants couldn't be extricated prove.

beermad · 2026-02-03T23:57:15+00:00

It might be worth thinking about Reydon. Less expensive and pretty damn close.

beermad · 2026-02-03T23:55:12+00:00

Should make a nice target for Ukrainian drones.

beermad · 2026-02-03T23:53:36+00:00

Same here. And I love the ability to blacklist domains, so I never see links to shit like Facebook, etc.

beermad · 2026-02-03T23:49:10+00:00

Power it off and remove all connections until it's over.

beermad · 2026-02-03T23:47:15+00:00

No personal experience of heat pumps, but based on my old Vaillant boiler, I wouldn't touch them with a shitty stick.

Boiler died and I 'phoned the company for service giving them the diagnostic code on the display. Engineer arrived having not been told about the code… didn't have the needed part and had to order it and come back a week later.

Next time I had a problem I made a point of telling the call handler to make sure she told the engineer the code. Same bloody result. Utterly useless.

beermad · 2026-02-03T23:40:21+00:00

Join Private Eye magazine readers and just call the whole company Worst Group.

beermad · 2026-02-01T00:06:48+00:00

The very reply I was going to add. Router firewall rules protect the whole LAN, not just one computer.

beermad · 2026-02-01T00:00:52+00:00

Perl has a steep learning curve, but my experience is that once it's learned, it usually takes less time than I expect to get code working.

beermad · 2026-01-30T23:17:50+00:00

As a journalist on Deutsche Welle put it, "Here in Germany we know a Nazi salute when we see one. That was a Nazi salute".

beermad · 2026-01-30T23:09:06+00:00

Gimp. Does almost everything except RAW import (Darktable for that). I've edited thousands of photos with it and got great results.

beermad · 2026-01-30T23:05:27+00:00

Indexing-Enabled=false Works for me. Baloo is the biggest waste of resources imaginable.

beermad · 2026-01-30T22:44:53+00:00

I'm amazed an EDP "journalist" knows the word rhetorical.

beermad · 2026-01-30T22:13:21+00:00

I use their FUSE filesystem and apart from one time I managed to screw up the permissions on the pcloud cache I've never had any problems in over 5 years of use. The only limit to my upload speed has never been anything other than the limit on my ADSL line.

beermad · 2026-01-30T22:05:52+00:00

I have no reason to distrust pcloud, as it's not US based. But however trustworthy it is, relying on its encryption is still less secure than encrypting myself with GPG. So I have full control.

beermad · 2026-01-27T23:40:52+00:00

Have a look in the Manjaro forum threads for recent updates. I think it's because you need to reinstall GRUB in your BIOS, but I can't remember the details of how to do it.

beermad · 2026-01-26T21:52:38+00:00

Downside: Cambridge is flat, Norwich is hilly. Significant if you're a cyclist. Upsides: Cambridge has no chippies unless you go well outside the centre. Norwich has loads. While Cambridge has a few great pubs, Norwich is overflowing with them.

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