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Jon Knight

@greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
81 followers 4 following 134 posts

Academic, techie, community rail volunteering, repairing-n-fixing, gardening, utility cycling, eco-friendly old hippy. [bridged from mastodon.online/@greenjimll on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Dave Robinson @dave.europhiles.uk.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
I'd prefer our currently scarce water supplies to be used for crop irrigation by farmers rather than filling paddling pools or washing cars. If we're going to continue to reliably grow crops in England (and Wales, probably) for summer harvest, we're going to have to deploy irrigation on a mass […]
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026
@WiteWulf @HowardGees yep: repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Raspberry_Pi_driven_digital_signage/9491051 share.google/DjIQEFHxYRG8LfZdS
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Beko Pharm @bekopharm.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026
This morning I heard about a hit-n-run on the *local* radio. A badly injured pedestrian was left at the scene. They are looking for witnesses. > To learn about the colour of the involved car please download our app at or visit our website at… This is where we are. Instead of just telling the […]
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Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A proud day for Irish science as Ireland joins CERN @cern.bsky.social as an Associate Member State. A huge step forward for research, innovation, and future generations of scientists. #CERN #IrishScience #Publicengagement #OpenResearch #STEM
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025
@WiteWulf Ha, my TV just shows black. Perfect for Johnny Nice Painter from the Fast Show though.... #pins
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025
@WiteWulf Interesting to consider how the change from an analogue to digital TV system has potentially changed the colour in the Gibson sentence. Especially to kids who will now grow up never seeing off-air static on the screen.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025
@WiteWulf Considering what the two constituent parts of the conjoined word are, I don't think they've thought this through properly....
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Gary @witewulf.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025
Hehe, it’s Freshers moving in week. It’s quite amusing to see them all dressed to impressed, immaculate in their best new clothes, hair and makeup. They’ll soon be mooching about in hoodies, joggers and sliders everywhere 😆
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025
On MS Teams, I've just had the banner appear: "Announcement As part of a recent update, some Teams you may have previously hidden are now visible again. If you'd prefer not to see them, you can easily hide them from your Teams view." This must be some new use of the phrase "easily hide" I […]
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025
I'm sorry: the Gimp was open and the images were just right there in front of me... #Trump #Epstein #captcha #signature
An altered captcha image with some of the tiles you have to pick replaced by several versions of Donald Trump's signature.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
@WiteWulf All going well I hope?
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
@greem Congratulations to them!
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Gary @witewulf.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
Urgh, what hellish time of day is this? 😬 It can only be #aLevelResultsDay2025, I don’t get up at this time for anyone else. Stay safe out there, people. May your calls flow and your courses be full! #ukhe
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025
I see the in-office staff suggestions system is working well. 😂😂😂😂
You asked/we listened suggestions board with just drawing pins in it.
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George E. — :usd::NM::ath::adhd:🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gme.bofh.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025
I don't manage a lot of infrastructure on the #Internet, but I manage quite a bit, and I am almost finished with #blocking the entire #UK over #OSA. I have no choice. The way the #law is written anyone who doesn't (and I don't believe in age-verification services as I find them a privacy mine […]
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pieceofthepie :coffefied: @pieceofthepie.n8e.dev · 29/07/2025
The governments initial reaction to the 378k signatures of the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" petition is, as expected, a big fat "No" #OnlineSafetyAct #OSA
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Jack C.M @foxmental.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
UK may be on verge of triggering a 'positive tipping point' for tackling #ClimateChange 🌎♨️. Via @physorg.news
phys.org
UK may be on verge of triggering a 'positive tipping point' for tackling climate change
The UK is now more than halfway (50.4%) to achieving a net zero carbon economy, which means it has reduced its national emissions significantly compared to 1990.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025
@WiteWulf I've been liking/retweeting your posts over there as I have to say I spend more time in Bluesky than here. So your posts are getting "out there".
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Gary @witewulf.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025
I’m struggling to understand why gov.uk wants to build “community health hubs” when we already have underfunded, privatised-by-stealth, GP surgeries and pharmacies. Fund the existing services properly, don’t waste money creating bureaucratic infrastructure to create new ones.
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Repair Café Isle of Wight @repaircafeiow.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025
Join us for our monthly Repair Café session at Quay Arts tomorrow! We're looking forward to helping you fix all kinds of items you bring in. If you haven't booked a slot yet, don't worry—you can still drop by on the day. We have a few open slots at 10:40 am and midday. Hope to see you there!
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2025
@WiteWulf Can I just check: are these old UPSes and battery packs likely to appear on Peckham market soon? #DelBoy
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2025
@WiteWulf I'll be amazed if they get as far as the roundabout on Ashby Road to be honest.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025
@repaircafeiow Do you have a tool sharpener at your Repair Cafe? One of my relatives who lives in Ventnor asked me about sharpening their garden shears, as that's what I do up here at our Repair Cafe in the Midlands.
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Repair Café Isle of Wight @repaircafeiow.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2025
Looking for a sustainable way to fix your beloved items rather than tossing them out? Join us at the Repair Cafe at Ventnor Exchange (10:15am to 12:30) this Saturday (24th May)! It's a great opportunity to bring in your broken gadgets, appliances, and other items for a little TLC from our […]
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 17/05/2025
With AI we can now directly write legacy code, skipping the annoying waiting period for no one who understands it being around anymore.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2025
@WiteWulf You can vent the unedited ones at me if you need to: I'm used to it seeing as how well I manage to piss people off. 😉
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2025
@costasamaras.com Luckily they've got just the chap for doing them both poorly.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2025
@WiteWulf I'm thinking I really need to, er, "check something" in the Biomechanics research lab. Mostly because that's partially underground with hardly any windows... unlike the office I'm sitting in which is already doing a greenhouse impression.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025
When your road signs are designed by C programmers.
Temporary road sign reading "Road close here. 0 May for 3 days"
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025
Increasingly glad we decided to shutter the Green Living Forum before the OSA kicked in. I wouldn't want to be a volunteer admin having to check, store and keep safe a load of age identifying information for several thousand random people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yljn2…
bbc.co.uk
Ofcom finalises rules for tech firms to protect children online
Websites will have to instate age checks and tighten up algorithm recommendations for young users.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025
Chrome with more "AI" stuffed into it. Just what I need from a web browser.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2025
@WiteWulf I get told that gardening is good exercise and helps keep you fit and young. Which is a lie because I often discover an hour after flopping into the sofa post-gardening session that I've suddenly become 96 and can barely hobble to the kitchen!
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Gary @witewulf.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025
Can someone *please* explain to me in simple, factual, unemotive terms why the world continues to stand by and watch as Israel murders Palestinian civilians in Gaza? Along with the aid and utilities blockades this has all been acknowledged as clear war crimes, but the rest of the world continues […]
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Gary @witewulf.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025
Today is, sadly, the day I stop playing framed.wtf If your cookie/ad/tracking preferences doesn’t include a “None of the above” button and I have to manually turn off many, many switches you have no respect for me 😔
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2025
@WiteWulf Yeah, I guess its still easier to do that than nail an old Android tablet to the nearest telephone pole for your "Have you seen this cat?" poster.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2025
@WiteWulf Oh, Happy Birthday on here too!
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Gary @witewulf.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2025
Well, today just got 100% better. Caught some cretin posting a Reform UK flyer through my door and took great delight in telling them to take it back and shove it up their arse. There’s a time and place for polite political discourse, this is not it.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2025
@WiteWulf Ah, so that's how you get added to US Government war planning WhatsApp groups.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2025
@WiteWulf But the advantage is that you can now use the new Switch 2 joysticks in the kitchen and lounge as well as the hall. Sorry... I'll get me coat... 🤣
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Gary @witewulf.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2025
I mean, why would they use Hall effect sensors? They literally don’t wear out, like the mythical lightbulb that never blows. Controllers with a limited-by-design life cycle are a money-making decision, to sell more controllers mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114297…
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Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Switch 2 joysticks won’t use Hall effect sensors to avoid stick drift But Nintendo promises "redesigned" Joy-Cons are "smoother" and "more reliable." https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/04/switch-2-joysticks-wont-use-hall-effect-sensors-to-avoid-stick-drift/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm;_social-type=owned&utm;_source=mastodon&utm;_medium=social
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Gary @witewulf.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2025
So how come it costs £90 to renew a UK passport, but only £14 for a driving license? 🤔
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025
Just been reading about #AI assisted #vibe_coding. At first glance this looks to be to software development what the Juicero was to consumer electronics.
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2025
@WiteWulf Oh, so _you_ had the one copy all along!
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Jon Knight @greenjimll.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2025
That annoying thing when you find an interesting new library on a nicely documented website, download and play with it for an hour or two finding some issues, then take a look at the github issue tracker only to see the first posting saying that it is abandonware, followed by a load of people […]
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