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SteelCon @steelcon.info · 23/04/2026

Remember, tomorrow is our second, and last, big ticket drop. Three sittings, 9:10, 13:00 and 19:00. Make sure you have your F5 fingers ready if you want to make sure you bag one before they sell out. ti.to/steelcon/2026

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Also Viasat and Gogo on the aviation side. Hardly household names.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Narrative Command has been in my head recently. Someone called for Starlink to be added to trains. Not satellite wi-fi, Starlink. Can you name another player in the space, especially on the consumer side?

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Wow, where from?? I can’t find a link.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I find them oddly cut and generally unflattering.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Lakes too for a big sherried malt.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Go on Facebook marketplace. See if anyone is selling PCs for cheap which you can cannibalise for memory.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I heard an interesting take that the 90s dot com bubble was due in part not to a lack of demand, but over investment in infrastructure which didn’t match demand. AI has a huge investment in tech, especially DRAM which has to pay back at some point. Could see the market flooded.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

For those of us in the U.K., this is very scary. If you’re reading my posts, you can also list many, many loopholes you could drive trucks through. youtu.be/OMYjfDgWXxQ

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The UK Wants Mandatory Surveillance Software on Your Phone #news #britishpolitics #uk #ukgovernment

YouTube video by Thomas Pearson

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Micron - one of three major vendors of memory in IT - is shutting the Crucial retail business to focus on selling to vendors and data centre owners. Restricting supply to retail as prices are soaring by huge jumps. youtu.be/9A-eeJP0J7c

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WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron

YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Also Johnny Briggs, Press Gang, Round the Twist and Knightmare!

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I like MagSafe charging stands because they’re pretty and easy to use, but also the costs/wattages involved are low. It’s telling how little wireless charging is used elsewhere.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

(Just to add, I think the EV ‘turbo’ Cayenne is a big and unnecessary and silly and I’d love one. I suspect the depreciation will be all of those things too!)

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

On a domestic supply, that’s around 95 amps, or what many houses would be fused for in total. More than that, if part of your justification for an EV is lower cost, would you happily double your home charging cost to not plug in a cable?

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I’m fascinated by the wireless charging on the new Cayenne. 11KW inductive charging over a gap of… 30cm? A quick Google suggests Qi wireless phone charging is 50% efficient. Wireless charging needs AC power to work too. So for the car to get 11KW you need to supply 22KW…

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I like the idea of Bond like Dr Who. Yes, there’s bits of lore that keep coming back, but the actors and characterisation is more reflective of a writer or a world mood. Craig Bond was a reaction to Austin Powers and Borne, just as others a reaction to the Cold War.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Filed for bankruptcy but came out the other side. Suspect these cars would carry Hoonigan branding no matter what though

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

(And I say all this as a Wetzlar bystander, never having owned one)

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Indeed. I just seems like using the L mount and giving it AF would have been a great step up from the Q experience. Why wouldn’t you buy an M and have the rangefinder over the EV1?

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I don’t get the new Leica. It’s like a worse M and a worse Q.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

You have to be rich to save money.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Aston Martin Lagonda doesn’t own the F1 team. Rather Stroll-led consortiums own both, and AML sponsor the F1 team to (what has been) about $20m a year.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Oh, oh, I read about this somewhere. Basically there are no standards for maximum brightness or effectiveness of auto dimming lights, but brighter means safer according to drivers (and to some extent EuroNCAP?) so they whack them up.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The Nurburgring is so, so long and has its own rules around safety cars and safety procedures in general. I’m sure he’ll smash it in one weekend anyway.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

That’s new to me. Thank you! I’ll Give it a try

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I’ve downloaded Halide for the iPhone, simply because it gives you the option of processing with the Apple image pipeline or their own zero impact engine. Also, trying to use an actual camera more…

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This is the answer to why computational photography can be a bad thing. It could see this as a mistake. Lower contrast, boost the shadows, even out the exposure and… ruin it.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

100%. And better to be honest early than the usual no customer data accessed > some customer data, but only X > whole database taken pipeline we often see.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I disagree with the cybersecurity folk who demand full comms on exactly what happened hours after an attack. I’d rather something considered was released a week later.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

(Also, imagine you’ve finally achieved your dream of racing in the NLS, and the day you do your classroom session Max walks in…)

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Happy “Max Verstappen goes to the classroom for his Nurburgring B permit” to all who celebrate.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

“Cars…. And lamp posts, bridges, other public infrastructure”

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Are all the racists in the pay of Big Flag?

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Lunchtime reads are like a scene from The Devil Wears Prada, where underlings pitch you options and you cast them aside with a withering look.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Your LFA in the reserved spot by reception, while Andrew hides his Plaid Model S in the exec underground parking structure.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Easy for you to say, as you look out your floor to ceiling office windows at the Motoring Podcast campus. The serfs in the news mines, while R&D work on newer tin foil hat technology. Those SMMT registration numbers don’t write themselves!

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

How annoying do you think Norman Cook finds the first two bars of Praise You? He must have heard it A Lot during making the record, but also for the last *checks notes* 26 years… God, I’m old.

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Chris Ratcliff @chrisratcliff.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

You came across well! Quite varied - which seems appropriate - but the Steelcon stuff was interesting.

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