Retired InfoSec consultant, Christian, incorrigible tinkerer, interested in music, electronics, and how stuff works. Keen to share skills and enthusiasm.
@hertscc Why no mention on your website or on https://t.co/9JKYAu3NQJ of 4-way traffic lights in Harpenden at junct of Milton Rd/Topstreet Way/Crabtree Lane? They've been going on most of this week! How long??
We're Restart and we're on a mission to connect repair communities and help people repair their stuff🪛
We know that fixing devices is the right thing to do for our planet🌍pocket💰and people👩🏽🔧but it's often just too hard! We're trying to make it simpler and easier for everyone.
@NaturePodcast I've lost my RSS feed for the podcasts. Can only find a feed for all Nature articles on the website. What's the podcast rss feed url please?
@Tnargeel @markmiodownik I swear by low temperature solder containing bismuth. Add some to the joints and it stays molten long enough to easily lift the part off.
We are so excited to announce that we’ve been awarded #NationalLottery funding, in partnership @_wearepossible, to bring our 3 new Fixing Factories to London.
Thank you to @TNLComFund, Climate Action Fund and National Lottery players 💚
@ThatEricAlper For my 2nd home-build I had to disassemble and relocate MS Basic 'cos the 6303 chip had RAM at the bottom of memory. I was thrilled with my first test:
PRINT "HELLO"
HELLO
So I tried:
PRINT 2+2
5
@ThatEricAlper C'mon kids. If you haven't fed 700ft of paper tape into a machine with a 39 bit word length in order to compile and run an Algol 60 program ... ... you haven't LIVED!
@Jordan_W_Taylor An impressive list of improvements, granted, but comparison with petrol cars isn't saying much, given we're trying to phase them out. My VW Polo does over 60mpg on a long journey, and that's 120 person-miles/gal with my wife, or 240 pmpg 4-up.
@rekdt The Russians hate the French for their support of Ukraine. I'm sure their hackers would just *lurve* to apply this to all their ransomware servers.
@StABachChoir a sad day indeed when we said farewell to Andrew after a standing ovation at the end of the Mozart Requiem. And we had @johnmrutter in the front row clapping as hard as anyone!