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I live in Northumberland (UK) with Herself. She works in Renewables (Finance and Risk stuff), I work in Technology (For too long now) I have nothing important to say, this is all just personal 🇪🇺 #InfoSec #Privacy #Technology #Italia #Cooking #Travel #Languages #Art #Science #Europe

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2026-08-23 20:31:50 UTC

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@nprofile…0hde I’ve asked that question for about a year, always met with blank stares. Same stare we used to get running pandemic scenarios for BCP work

2026-04-03 15:14:44 UTC

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@nprofile…3src my jaw got lower and lower with each part

2026-04-01 17:12:40 UTC

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@nprofile…3src that’s a really good brief. And I’m sure nothing to worry about that they put the time and effort into it 😬

2026-03-25 11:44:53 UTC

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@nprofile…y4qv Yup. Anyone who thinks this is all “Think of the children!” is naive. But Apple generally don’t share more than necessary. I did try to have a look and it just looks like a flag (probably from a payment method) that would return a ‘yes’. So in my particular case, for now, I’m grand with it.
Anything else that asks me right now and doesn’t accept 1/1/1900 can go whistle.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/declaredagerange/requesting-people-share-their-age-range-with-your-app

2026-03-25 11:16:53 UTC

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@nprofile…y4qv When IOS upgraded it came up with the age verification thing. I just clicked ‘next’ or whatever and it said ‘Ah yeah, you’re grand’
Didn’t have to upload anything. Either the age of my account with Apple or credit cards sitting in wallet 🤷🏼‍♂️
(Age verification is a dumb thing, but I didn’t have to do anything for this)

2025-05-17 23:23:55 UTC

Mastodon was busy for Eurovision. Like the old Twitter days. People having a shared experience from all over. This is a good platform.

2025-05-13 19:31:30 UTC

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@nprofile…x759 The Rode is superb. But I use Rode connect on my Mac and a microphone arm. It needs to be close to you and I can manage that without it being seen on camera like some influencer. Have not tried my speakers with it (I use a headset plugged into the microphone) so I must test that.
I also tried the camera route (with the battery pass through) but it was just a pain so the Elgato facecam really works well (once you tweak it)

2025-05-08 18:25:03 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w I feel that. I remember leaving a budget meeting very late (and a bit pissed off) in the wilds of Bavaria. Couldn’t find anything open and had to rely on a protein bar in my luggage…didn’t help my mood.

2025-04-22 22:20:07 UTC

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@nprofile…e5sk there must be a site that tracks what he said against what is delivered surely? I would like to refer a lot of people to it

2025-02-13 00:05:33 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w zero folllowers and no posts? I don’t stress about it, instablock

2025-02-07 21:04:56 UTC

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@nprofile…xk9j I’ve had it on every Mac for nearly 18yrs. Not worried 👍🏼
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/964/632/741/715/145/original/44cf67702e5b56f2.jpeg

2025-01-27 10:21:55 UTC

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@nprofile…d6h6 I think you’re making the assumption that these kinds of things are being deeply planned out by clever people…that may be your first mistake.

2025-01-22 15:45:22 UTC

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@nprofile…fle4 I’m running Qwen2.5 7B on my iPhone and Deepseek R1 and Llama 2 7B on my laptop. I have no need to pay for someone’s expensive data centre. My data isn’t going anywhere and this year I’m going to explain that to a lot more people so word gets out - you don’t need these guys.

2025-01-15 21:39:43 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w We did, love having a chat with them when we go in now. Mango Kush cartridge and he said it would taste familiar…it does. Herself has done a deep dive into what she wants to try next. She had a very stressful Leadership session. One of those where you need a bat to either knock things back or to whack people with. At the break, took a hit and she says it worked wonders. Metaphorically just twirled the bat instead of using it.

2025-01-15 21:25:43 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w At this stage I’ll be renting a server in Switzerland and rolling my own for a lot of things.
The tea is grand! Also have some drops. Herself is going to try the water soluble ones next tea restock. We also have a ‘vape pen’ thing that has been named the chill pill pen and lives on the mantlepiece in case someone has had a stressy Teams meeting

2025-01-15 21:17:43 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w Yeah guaranteed it was just drone mentality. You know the (generic) C Suite. Not many of them can be approached with ‘What the hell are you smoking?’ by lower levels.
I’ll still wait.

2025-01-15 21:11:35 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w A daft comment from the CEO about the pick. I think I’ll wait for a Board reaction before going self hosting

2025-01-04 09:03:54 UTC

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@nprofile…x759 Ah the crows adore unhooking ours, hurling them to the ground, popping the lid and pulling out the balls. Then the wood pigeons, blackbirds, robin, tits and sparrows have at it. But it is very cold right now so very essential for them.

2025-01-04 00:07:47 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w ‘The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying’? I read that many years ago and it’s always stuck with me.

2024-12-24 09:50:19 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w She is very dangerous. I hope 2025 is not an interesting year in Europe

2024-12-24 09:26:26 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w She’s not daft. Italians are ‘meh’ about it but it helps her on the world stage and in the EU. Scholz was dithering and no one was listening to Macron (and the UK left the EU) so there was a gap there.
Not fond of her, don’t trust her, but she’s clever

2024-12-21 11:59:10 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w Yeah they’re running low on a lot, and as it’s not a mass produced thing they can’t just restock easily. Day 3 on their stuff. Seems grand. The recommended brew time is no good for me (3-5mins) but 10mins works okay.
Now introducing the tea to a pal in Scotland who could really benefit from it.

2024-12-21 00:06:26 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w Same here. I went to that place. Thoroughly lovely people. Gave me a free sample of their oil, but I’ll stick with the tea for now. I’m still in science/testing mode

2024-12-13 12:02:35 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w Yup, also sceptical so I’m very ‘Well, shit’ at the moment as nothing else has changed. I feel a little…slower is the wrong word but mind not racing which I think is helping with HRV during sleep. So that’s got a knock on effect to all recovery metrics. One bag in a pot, 20mins soak and two cups around 22:30hrs. Just a random box picked up from H&B.
It’s worth exploring more.

2024-12-04 17:00:01 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w not what I would have guessed (I’d watch that)

2024-12-04 16:29:38 UTC

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@nprofile…cl5w sort of interested in where it ended up, but know better than to ask
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/595/499/665/821/099/original/70ab5349c7040bf5.mp4

2024-11-25 20:18:14 UTC

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@nprofile…kam5 I have a 2163 day streak on Duolingo and have been quite happy paying for it until recently. It’s going downhill a bit and so I’ve cancelled my subscription. Moving to Babbel instead who had a good deal on lifetime access

2024-11-24 18:45:24 UTC

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@nprofile…6h3y @nprofile…eyyt Connected experiences has been around well before copilot or LLMs. It’s for editing suggestions, data insights, translations etc, etc. While folk should be wary - I’m suspecting this is unfounded panic

2024-09-08 17:50:28 UTC

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 I think what concerns me more - is search regardless of browser is becoming beyond broken. Not even sure a company could start again

2024-07-13 19:42:25 UTC

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@npub198t…hasj I was obsessed with that show as a kid. Fun fact: it was the first place I saw Windows being demonstrated. Young me > 🤯

2024-07-12 17:35:55 UTC

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@npub1uw8…88kr when in doubt, all of them

2024-07-02 19:32:15 UTC

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@npub1vcl…k6t3 Oh I may already have a reputation of demanding they show me the benefits against cost, security and sustainability

2024-06-01 21:12:16 UTC

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@npub1vcl…k6t3 ugh I’m probably looking for a perfect world. You are required to report (so be more open by force) in Europe so I think it’s more about regulation with teeth in the US that will move the dial

2024-05-24 22:54:07 UTC

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@npub1utv…87lr ah man, everything comes to an end. How I felt around that time when it was launched 👇🏼
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/498/523/743/512/290/original/e4152926206e6d25.jpeg

2024-05-22 08:45:33 UTC

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 not bad advice for dealing with privatised water companies, profiteering energy companies and Brexit import issues 🤷‍♂️

2024-05-21 20:15:03 UTC

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@npub1vcl…k6t3 local save for user only though (for now)

2024-05-09 22:30:54 UTC

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@npub1uw8…88kr 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

2024-05-01 20:16:33 UTC

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@npub1lrv…tth9 I thought that, but then I read that the supercharger network is well out of date and not great for the latest cars, so this is likely to hurt Tesla owners more than anyone else.

2024-04-29 22:18:24 UTC

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@npub1psd…9sr7 current thinking not Sunak will call an election the minute a whiff of a serious leadership challenge comes?

2024-04-23 23:12:42 UTC

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@npub1vcl…k6t3 that’s why I argue that marketing/presentation skills should be on every security teams CPE plan
“But we’re technical!”
Good luck with that

2023-09-03 23:04:53 UTC

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@npub120z…33r2 allow posts to Stories from the camera roll, not just direct from the camera

2023-08-26 20:22:41 UTC

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@npub1khx…geyg oh that’s an angle I really hadn’t thought of. Very true

2023-08-04 22:41:47 UTC

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 we still haven’t had it. But beginning to feel like Robert De Niro in the Deerhunter - Russian roulette scene