It’s easy to dodge the politics at work on election day.

“Where were you between 10am and 5pm?”
‘Voting. Big queue.’ burp

Tut tut, Emperor!

Won’t someone please think of the unopened pork markets?!

They’ve got the big scissors ready and everything!

I was wondering “when are the conservative supporting media going to start flipping so they’re on the winning team?”.

Looks like “the day before” is the answer!

Someone else already raised the mains wired safety/budget issue, but I may have a side suggestion for you: Bulbs as repeaters.

I’ve added hue bulbs directly to my zigbee network, where they also act as repeaters.

The problem then was people switching off at the switch. This has been resolved by adding a little zigbee button by the switch (as people can achieve the function without the mains switch).
Which gives the bonus of being able to do different taps.

(So for example, I have one click as toggle on/off, two clicks is daytime+bright, press+hold is evening+dim)

This is the reason I haven’t gone down the smart light switches path yet.
Anything that I’d trust enough on 240v is out of budget!

I’ll let people in on a secret: I’ve quietly been working to that list for Unitedkingdom and UK Politics when I try to make decisions on whether a source is valid or not. That, and reminding people that DMG has other outlets, such as ThisIsMoney.

If people would like to codify it more formally, we can do that.

There is a bit of a chain of trust, however. Instance fills with spam bots? Defed.
Spam bots start making their own instances? Go to whitelists.

And as henfredemars says, because there is no financial incentive to grow the userbase, instances can slow things right down if the spam starts.

Did your pfp get deleted, or would you like one to be made?
@[email protected] has a flair for MS Paint, and would probably be keen to make you one!

So that’s why people have started modifying their cars to have the indicators always-on!

Please try to calm down a bit mate.

We can appreciate your frustration: It is not a fun situation when the main options for the government both support the horrible things happening in the Middle East.

I can promise you, we don’t enjoy it either. People choose to vote tactically to put the most pressure on the lesser of two evils, and avoid an even more questionable result (CON+REF+DUP coalition, anyone?)

Hopefully, one day we can see AV coming into practice. And we can see MPs better representing the votes of the nation.

And until then, we can continue to put pressure on bad situations, via the small parties, via protest. But not by cutting off our noses to spite our faces.

Please be civil with people on feddit.uk. Shouting is not civil.

It definitely threw me the first time I was out of the house.
I decided the best solution was just to limit alerts to non-sensitive things.
While I’m generally very big on privacy, I really don’t give a monkeys if Apple/Google is relaying a message that says “Cat in garden!”

What is it you’re expecting to find at the bottom of this hole you’re digging?

And a very important section, that does not surprise me at all:

The low success rate of applications has been put down, in part, to an increasingly number of speculative applications being submitted. Industry reports show a rise in so called “phantom projects” in these cases, developers submit multiple applications for many sites, with the expectation being that very few will connect. These speculative and duplicate applications have seen the connections queue grow, increasing the work needed to progress projects.

It becomes a sad self-fulfilling prophecy. Applications take a long time to process, so companies fling lots in parallel, then only use the first to get through.
Which means that applications take even longer to get through.

Thanks for the post, it persuaded me to get off my bottom and add another one to the list.

I’m not sure if there is a way to quickly find this. The best bet is probably trying the bigger instances, and seeing if it’s accessible through them.

You’ve made me think now: it might be a nice project for a some instance admins to flag when an instance they had received posts from goes offline. (I should probably check what I have from feddit.de!)

For components and wires that are made to a spec, I feel far more comfortable buying from CPC or Mouser.
Amazon sellers just feel like a coin flip if the guy is going to ship you CCA 24 AWG instead of OFC 23, in the hope you don’t notice or bother complaining.

Also not helped by gammons migrating to the sunnier bits of europe, then talking about how GB news has it right.
So people in european countries get Barry, 60, as their reference for UK media, making it look more legitimate.

I was planning to keep bees, until someone informed me that honey bees outcompete native bumbles.

And I fucking love bumbles.

So now I’m modifying the garden to be bumble friendly, and living without enormous amounts of honey.