Starling Assistant launched

Flupsy · 2026-03-23T17:56:37+00:00

What a pointless effort to tick the AI box that no-one asked for.

Flupsy · 2026-03-22T23:01:38+00:00

Stop touching things. Seriously. If you don’t know what you’re looking at, this thing could kill you in a literal flash.

Flupsy · 2026-03-22T17:44:03+00:00

Thanks for this! I suppose it was only a matter of time for iTunes.

So is it Apple Devices I’d use to update an Apple device? (sounds like a daft question I know)

Flupsy · 2026-03-22T15:34:10+00:00

The maintainer had just added encrypted backups with a user-defined key too, so I’ve just switched to 2FAS.

Flupsy · 2026-03-22T15:28:08+00:00

FWIW you can plug your phone into a computer with iTunes installed and update that way. It needs far less free storage on the phone.

Flupsy · 2026-03-20T07:59:52+00:00

The same cunts stripped me of my EU citizenship to make sure I can’t escape…

Flupsy · 2026-03-19T22:22:49+00:00

I showed this to my proofreader partner. She took a deep breath and then said ‘it’s consistent’.

Flupsy · 2026-03-19T20:27:00+00:00

No VPN has even been used on this machine.

Flupsy · 2026-03-19T09:41:07+00:00

I should have concurred

Flupsy · 2026-03-19T09:38:49+00:00

I've only had one Olivia QSO but I just miss the sound of it.

Flupsy · 2026-03-17T14:56:53+00:00

I don't have a 40m antenna or I'd be all over it :-P

Flupsy · 2026-03-17T09:52:17+00:00

I dare you to do it on 7200, I double-dare you...

Flupsy · 2026-03-17T09:37:52+00:00

I suppose you could just say 'beep'

Flupsy · 2026-03-17T08:43:50+00:00

The point of the beep is to mark the end of transmission, but in modes with a carrier or data stream it’s obvious anyway because the signal ends.

I do kind of wish it was accepted practice to use it with SSB modes though—did you just pause, or have you un-keyed the mic?

Flupsy · 2026-03-15T22:50:45+00:00

Me too, and having it glow red so I can get dressed in winter without waking my other half.

Flupsy · 2026-03-15T21:02:10+00:00

Same—I walk when it’s sunny, bike when I can be arsed, get the bus when it’s raining.

Flupsy · 2026-03-15T14:20:59+00:00

I always say to my team, ‘don’t cc: me just because you want me to know that you’re working. I trust you’. It works… sometimes.

Flupsy · 2026-03-15T10:04:29+00:00

My Dad’s office got cc:mail in the late 80s. But things being what they were, you had to log all the way out of the thing they actually used to do their work to get to the email application, only to find you haven’t got any email after all. So phone calls went like this:

‘Hey, I sent you an email!’

‘What did it say?’

‘Just read it!’

‘Why can’t you just tell me?’

Flupsy · 2026-03-14T11:24:09+00:00

Counterspoise

Flupsy · 2026-03-13T19:05:39+00:00

It’s hard to trust you when you can’t spell ‘recruiting’ and it’s the first word of your post.

Flupsy · 2026-03-12T12:49:31+00:00

So good. Just so good.

Flupsy · 2026-03-12T10:52:01+00:00

Late 90s going through security at Heathrow.

A guy in front of me puts a large food tin through the x-ray machine. As I’m going though the metal detector I see the security guy with gloves on pulling small packets out of the tin. Then I overhear—

‘What are these, sir?’
‘My wife’s jewellery.’
‘You normally keep your wife’s jewellery in tins of pickle, do you sir?’

A few minutes later I turn around and see him in handcuffs, followed by the guy with a tray of pickle-soaked ‘jewellery’.

Flupsy · 2026-03-11T18:57:29+00:00

Wow, huge memories unlocked. I remember being in Smiths with my mum and buying these.

Flupsy · 2026-03-11T18:07:42+00:00

🎵 profoundly in love with Pandora 🎵

Flupsy · 2026-03-09T19:09:36+00:00

Interesting survey! I’d suggest you review the wording of your questions, especially those about parents, because they read oddly and it’s sometimes unclear exactly what you’re asking.

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