Paul Gailey

14 Dec 2024

London's grey was yellow this week, big thanks to Snapchat. Spectacles are: -powerful -non techie friendly -outdoor viable -highly sociable -dev available now Snap devs can mash http, passthrough, and an array of APIs for ace rapid prototypes with Spectacles ✨ Ahoy #XR devs, you tried them?

youtube.comThis is what happens when Americans takeover a British chocolate icon 🍫🇺🇲 #chocolate #palmoilYouTube video by Deliciously Guilt Free

#Chocolate and USA youtube.com/shorts/5D59j...

youtu.beJames - Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)YouTube video by JamesVEVO

Shout out and 🤜 to all the #sysadmin the backport #php late nighters, the climate concerned, Whipple warriors, CA livers, lovers, carers, the grieving, all your base belongers, born of frustration, and any other miles standish proud youtu.be/Io2Cl1u5gmU?...

Who knew prepandemic HP sauce tastes NO different to the AI era stuff?

...my dad's house even had prebrexit food that remained edible.

Stop buying baby wipes

You thought losing old tweets was bad, much of the web will rot even faster now with the php vulnerability....not only was peak open web a distant past, but the web itself is becoming rot . Go outside

youtu.beThe 3.35m Turning Radius "Street Menace" — smart #2 Test DriveYouTube video by YC-CarReview

Looks like a brilliant drive youtu.be/iyiWUyawsFo?... 🖕#suv

I worked at BBH and Motive Media for 5 years in the nineties. Creativity and impact assured. Ads and so much, too much, content these days are unimpressive endless Slop.

why dont radio phone-ins/talk tv etc discuss the agro/food supply disaster from the summer heat in europe? why can't they raise the issue of climate change thats happening faster than ever and is so obviously damaging, why do they obsess over the petty when the real problems abound?

Claude after a brief chat

theguardian.comWorld’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy useThe injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

David Attenborough first openly raised the issue of acidification of the sea over 15 years ago.... the twenty tens and twenties will forever be the lost decades www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Sismo #earthquake... At least a 3.5! #murcia

se ha notado bien...

3.3 muy cerca....very close by #sismo

14 Sept

Barbara Streisand makes 4 out of 10 of the Grauniad today. Impressive.

newscientist.comClimate change news, articles and features | New Scientist

14 Sept

ps. The world is melting.... www.newscientist.com/topic/climat...

theguardian.comGeorge Osborne calls for UK to rejoin EU customs union and boost tradeEx-Tory chancellor says economy has ‘fallen off a cliff’ since Brexit but rejoining union could be ‘quite simple’

capitain obvious speaks ... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.comSour times: pickled onions enjoy revival as Britons think outside the jarWith sales up 12%, pickles are moving beyond traditional role as a side to become an ingredient in their own right

Because >50 www.theguardian.com/food/2026/se...

My solar array is limited to 4.59kWp by virtue of 9 X 510w panels, yet this week, due to the supercharging "cloud edge effects" 🌤️😶‍🌫️ ...this was generated 🤯 #homeassistant

..like the sun powering about 4 hairdryers simultaneously at full pelt. It's wild how much power we can harness and also thus save with smart routines and automations in Home Assistant.

4 Sept

Good to share good news.......10th TAC (CT scan) since CA Whipple in April 2023: status NED: No Evidence of Disease ....

4 Sept

CA diagnosis is increasingly common, as is survival, even for pancreatic related. #pancan DMs always open.

4 Sept

Biggest regret about installing solar panels was deferring it

theguardian.com‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approachingEvent is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis

3 Sept

But linkedin still prefers to talk about privacy... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

soundcloud.comDr. Julie Carpenter - The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness And The Human Gaze - ROI 671 - PodcastDr. Julie Carpenter, senior fellow with The Ethics And Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, joins the "ROI" team to discuss: The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness An

1 Sept

Synthetic socialness, human obsession with relationships with machines...'Rosie' the robot ' aka Roomba...in Spanish culture 'Maria' was often the nickname for families' dishwasher since 1970's remember 'Annanova' from Orange? Or corporate web design romanticising chatbots? ..humanity loss continues

Julie Carpenter, PhD@jgcarpenter.com

I was interviewed about my book "The Naked Android" and how we are culturally negotiating a world with humanoiod robots in our everyday life. soundcloud.com/kalaradio/ro...

1 Sept

#homeassistant combined with AI and AIiexpress microelectronics tat plus a Deye inverter and solar array and battery, is a stunning combination and 🐇🕳️🧲 rabbit hole magnet that I've been gleefully buried in since mid August. Netflix cannot compete.

25 Aug

My homemade peppermint kombucha is bliss

24 Aug

Managed to crash off my scooter first time in 5 years precisely the day I didn't wear my motorbike protection jacket 🧥... feels like having been run over... thankfully I had my motorbike helmet on, did not hit my skull and the vehicles behind me stopped in time...

24 Aug

asphalt becomes glassy with stupid heat and wear here ...that jacket has all sorts of padding to protect elbows and bones for a reason!

25 Aug

12 hours later my body is aching more than a Nirvana lyric 🤕

20 Aug

Managed to hack this together to bypass the invertor cloud solar panel data connectivity and obtain local modbus data to feed into #homeassistant for real time power management.... means I don't suffer 15 min cloud delays and can automate a plethora based on ☀️⚡panel & battery levels to other devices

20 Aug

...because some #modbus mappings were proving difficult to remap to #homeassistant I requested and just received a 46 page modbus protocol PDF from Deye....in Chinese. Let's see which AI can decipher the chunky document best 🤞 before token maxing out.

18 Aug

How different would the planet have become had those pesky hanging chads dropped off? #climatechange

17 Aug

The pillock speaks

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social

Reform UK MP (for a massively flood-challenged constituency) Richard Tice, on climate change: apparently NASA is part of the establishment and wrong about science and the need to reach Net Zero 🤦

Tice is a pillock

Does not bode well

Met4Cast@met4cast.net

This El Niño really is something else. Temperatures in the eastern Pacific are now widely 5°C above average, peaking at 6°C. Forecasts continue to push us deeper into Super El Niño territory. This event will re-write the history books on the impacts of events at this scale.

17 Aug

⛈️ lasted all of 3 minutes ... another week of miserable heat awaits

17 Aug

If you search it you'll find technical reasons why it's not generally plumbed in for households, however a simple bucket in the shower that collects water, which you empty into the toilet next time you pee is really not difficult.

14 Aug

2030 gen will look back in horror at the lost decade+ before

theguardian.comHot topic: why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the climate crisis?Extreme heat is harming wellbeing of ordinary people the PM champions, yet little has been said on the topic

14 Aug

Mainstream politics have always ignored green realpolitik www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com‘It’s going to be spectacular’: Millions flock to Spain seeking best view of total solar eclipseEclipse chasers, tourists and astronomers searching for the clearest skies to watch the two minutes of totality

12 Aug

Am getting in the mood to hike up #cullera mountain later www.theguardian.com/science/2026... for the #eclpse

5 Aug

In Spain we say they speak without a hairy tongue👅 aka Luis Figo pulls no punches 👊

5 Aug

Sheesh, he's only gone and offered Morocco the 2030 final in Casablanca to stay in his position, no doubt the FIFA peace prize winner in the Whitehouse will endorse that to hack off Spain who rightly expected to host the final in the Madrid. What a torrid corrupt world we live in. Absolute shysters

2 Aug

#Sismo definitely felt that

@kosso.co.uk @documental.ly either of you gents connoisseurs of HomeAssistant by any chance?

#Brexit costs continue to screw things up.... If you have a Spanish mobile contract eg. With Orange and you are in UK and receive a spam call (who doesn't?) , even if you don't answer it, Orange bill you for each call, about €1 each time.

Do I follow any who has egg laying chickens?

theguardian.comYour worst fears about cultural collapse might be true – here’s what you can do about itWriter Sarah Wilson argues we’re hurtling toward the same end as ancient Rome and the Mayan civilisation – but there’s plenty to fight for

"We don’t know what’s going to happen – so live beautifully regardless.... or as Jarabe de Palo would say, Vivir es urgente. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...