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Ashley Pinner

@neothermic.bsky.social

Yeah, I was also @neothermic on Twitter. Tis still me!

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10 distinct emails from ifixit asking me to confirm my subscription. One on the 8th, four on the 9th, one on the 10th, three on the 13th and one so far today (14th)

10 distinct emails from ifixit asking me to confirm my subscription. One on the 8th, four on the 9th, one on the 10th, three on the 13th and one so far today (14th)

@ifixit.com So I've said yes. A few times. How many more times do I need to say yes to the newsletter?

14.10.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
It's a scene from A Few Good Men, but I've made it way less saturated and shifted it more blue in tone, to mimic a trend of "gritty" remakes.

It's a scene from A Few Good Men, but I've made it way less saturated and shifted it more blue in tone, to mimic a trend of "gritty" remakes.

It's fine, I've done the modern gritty remake for you!

18.08.2025 09:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

+1 to the ADHD floordrobe here. There's only enough room in my room for one chair, the one I sit in at my PC. There's plenty of floor for the floordrobe though. Though the real reason I'd die if someone asked me to empty the floordrobe is the wardrobe is full of LEGO. *shrug*

16.08.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Aha. This explains the TGV! Some good company!

13.08.2025 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The problem with a missing await is that it'll come to you eventually.

12.08.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Chat GPT assuming this is a light curve plot, despite it being an image I just drew on with a splatter brush in photoshop.

Chat GPT assuming this is a light curve plot, despite it being an image I just drew on with a splatter brush in photoshop.

The specific image I used to ask ChatGPT "what's this". There's no real data here, it's just me drawing a roughly straight set of points with a few 'spikes'

The specific image I used to ask ChatGPT "what's this". There's no real data here, it's just me drawing a roughly straight set of points with a few 'spikes'

Yes, this confused it, my terrible photoshop job:

08.08.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking at that plot, I ponder if you can provide it any rough approximation of the same shape and get the same wrong answer..

Actually, that's an idea...

08.08.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, that'd be a country-leaving event for me too. Too dangerous to stay and wait for the courts to eventually rule that illegal like the 7 years it took over the legal concepts of GRCs.

08.08.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is pepsi ok?

07.08.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What'd really help the UK move towards EV more is just better public charging infrastructure. I thought it was ok in the UK, and then had a trip recently in Denmark/Germany in an EV. Oh boy are we lacking decent high-kW chargers here in the UK!

05.08.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Accuracy to +/- 0.01%?

02.08.2025 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hypothesis: this is the intersection of Twitch's rules on skin exposure and the ratio between skin exposure and donations/subs/bits. Want to expose more skin, but you can't "undress" the avatar more? Then giving them more skin surface area is a way around that problem. In this paper I will prove...

02.08.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A VPN is a solid idea. I'm also somewhat tempted to SAR various entities in this new 'agw verification' space and see what potential clusterfuck is awaiting us when one of them eventually gets hacked.

26.07.2025 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it worksβ€”thanks, Kojima The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.

For a semi-non-serious answer: www.pcgamer.com/hardware/bri...

But yes, I agree, the fact this is required is absurd.

26.07.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh is this a new joy awaiting me upon my return? I have been enjoying more reasonable countries. :/

24.07.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations, that is a system. I hope this notification finds you in one of those six phone spots.

23.07.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That feels like a very easy DoS if the AI just keeps doing these as they come in.

21.07.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gender Assigned By Small Child? πŸ˜„ Also interesting the chosen pronouns switches between sentences. Always fascinating how a mind develops concepts like consistent narrative and people.

10.07.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Because this would matter, eastings & northings, or lat & lon? I kinda wanna generate this list just to see what the 'order' is.

06.06.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm enjoying the fact that it all came undone because he.. didn't have a food processing licence. Nothing about anyone reporting the fraud!

30.05.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hmm. Tic-Tac-Toe?

29.05.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tag?

29.05.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In this case the answer was "Yes", but his phone was on silent! The next question would be "do you drive someone to their door in this scenario?" :D

29.05.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When we said that you needed a killer hook...

24.05.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Clingfilm, blankets and boxes. Clingfilm each item, blanket it into the box, transport that.

18.05.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hvad er deres navn?

17.05.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

See if it exposes the PHP version in the response headers?

17.05.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If we're going to get persecuted for being different like the X-Men, at least we could have random powers to go with it!

18.04.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Hey google, set a reminder for about 7 hours with the name "complain at Barry on discord""

14.04.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is either bikeshedding/law of triviality in action, or just a weird sticking point in negotiations, but it's very clear the person complaining in the image hasn't seen either!

14.04.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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