Technologist, IT geek, broadcaster at @cambridgeradio, amateur photographer and radio ham M0LCM, IT infrastructure manager in Cambridge. Opinions my own.
Cambridge, England
Joined March 2008
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justgiving.com/fundraising/l… - at 298 miles so far for the month raising funds for the East Anglia Air Ambulance - may have to ride around the village a few times to clear the 300 miles!
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UniFi Travel router Giveaway!!! To enter like and RT this post, winner will be announced February 27th
hey @DouweEgbertsNL trying to report a manufacturing fault with some Tassimo pods but your website's contact page is broken @tassimo_uk
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the one software engineer at your company who actually understands the legacy code
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Can you see why there is no good will left in the NHS. We do 12h shifts 7 days a week. Is it too much to ask for hot food on the weekends?
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Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative:
Notion -> Appflowy
Zoom -> Jitsi
Jira -> Plane
Airtable -> NocoDB
Vercel -> Coolify
Heroku -> Dokku
Firebase -> Pocketbase/Appwrite/Convex/Supabase
Shopify -> Prestashop
GitHub -> GitLab
Slack -> Mattermost
Salesforce CRM -> ERPNext
Dropbox -> NextCloud
Mailchimp -> Mautic
Trello -> Wekan
Docusign -> Docuseal
Calendly -> Cal dot com
Datadog -> Prometheus
Google Analytics -> Matomo
Microsoft Office 365 -> LibreOffice
Asana -> OpenProject
what else?
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I had a phone conversation today with a very nice young chap from Pakistan. This is how it went:
"Hello, how are you today?"
"I'm very well thank you for asking, how are you and more to the point, WHO are you?"
"Madam, my name is Sanjit, and I'm calling you from Microsoft.”
"Microsoft, is that a city in Pakistan?”
" No Madam, MICROSOFT, the computer company. I'm calling to tell you that we have found a problem with your computer.”
"REALLY, that's quite concerning.”
"Yes Madam, it can become very serious indeed but thankfully I will be able to fix it for you.”
"No, I meant it's very concerning because I don't HAVE a computer.”
“You don't?"
“No.”
"Ahh, it must be a problem on your laptop Madam.”
"Don't have one.”
"Ipad?"
"Nope.”
"Tablet?"
"I have none of those things. As a matter of fact, I don't even have a telephone.”
After a few seconds of silence he said "Madam, you are lying to me now!"
I said "Well, you started it!!" and put the phone down.
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When I saw the French navy with bagpipes on a military parade, I was not expecting an absolute banger!
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If you missed the Aurora last night and / or would like another go, then it looks like there is a good chance we’ll have another display this evening.
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As you watch the Aurora this evening, it’s worth reflecting that you’re getting a rare direct glimpse of the power of Nature. Those charged particles causing the atmosphere to glow came from a sunspot complex 17 times the diameter of Earth and traveled across 90 million miles at a million miles an hour. Without our magnetic field to protect us, our atmosphere would have been lost to space long ago. Those colours in the sky are Nature reminding us that we’re very lucky to be here amidst the violence. And perhaps therefore also reminding us not to shite it all up :-)
