Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 18hI just read that the USAF is planning to operate the B-52 until 2050. A century. That's pretty amazing. 🤯 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026Still waiting for stats to trickle in for a lot of the #EU, but you know how I said #EV sales were 38.3% of new vehicles in #France in August? Well it's up to 41.7% for September, another 8% month on month. Still on track for the "Denmark effect", where 35% was the tipping point and it very […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 010
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026Running 20m of cable underground through a duct when some stupid kids have removed the pull-cable is not simple. Fortunately I still had the pull-cable, so improvised a mouse with a piece of carrier bag and sucked it through with a vacuum cleaner. Plain(er) sailing from there. 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026"Software company screws up its latest release" shouldn't be front page news. OpenAI twist it to sound scarier/cooler than it is and the mainstream media just lap it up. 🙄 www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm5y5nynl… #aibbc.comOpenAI scraps rollout of new AI model over safety concernsThe firm also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems. 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026As a recovering Brit, I still find it really weird to travel around Europe with no passport, just an ID card. 🤯 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026A client who shall remain nameless has asked if all #Drupal security releases go through their Change Management committee before going live. I failed to resist pointing out this is a terrible idea, due to the time sensitivity of the releases. I can't even. 🙄 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026Chihuahuas don't like selfies. This was a rare opportunity. Normally she senses the camera and leaves! 😂 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/20261,338 kilometres in an Audi A6 e-tron. Impressive stuff! www.electrive.com/2026/09/25/audi-a… The other thing that's impressive is the normal WLTP range of 777 kilometres. People don't really look much at range for ICE cars, but that's […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026That thing where people just reach for #AI without thinking. I just saw a suggestion that you could use a #Redmine webhook so that 'Custom AI agents can subscribe to events: "When a high-priority bug is created, summarize it and post to incident-channel".' Errr. Why would you even?? 10 lines of […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 100
Reposted by Greg Harvey 🌍tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026I had a few thoughts on why techbros always say these embarrassing, weird things tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-testtante.ccThe TestJensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It’s painful. You feel your mental capabilities decaying with every minute of listening … […] 3234
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026This is how broken the system is right now, with the US at its centre: "The Palestinian leader was addressing the annual gathering via a video link because had been denied a US entry visa." Wtaf? The PALESTINIAN LEADER was denied a visa to attend the UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY? I'd love to know on […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026You know how hundreds of thousands of people who can't afford a Ferrari Luce said it was shit? Turns out the people who can afford one (ergo, were allowed to actually sit in one and test drive it) disagreed strongly […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026It seems to me OpenAI are just a sliver away from corporate criminal negligence charges. 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026Oh dear. It's not getting better quickly... We're now Wednesday, the software update was Saturday. 😬 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026RE: mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/11731684… I think most of us can relate to this. 😬mas.to 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026After the SECOND induction hob in as many years blows up in Sardinia, the electrician decides to tell us it's a common problem if you don't have surge protection. If he'd told us the first time I'd have installed an RCBO there and then and we wouldn't be buying a *third* induction hob. 🙄 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026Does anybody know anyone freelance with real Power BI to #Drupal integration experience? Boosts appreciated. 🙂 #powerbi 005
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026RE: cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/1173… OMG no. Another reason not to visit the USA.cyberplace.social 101
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026Produced some content for @mauriceetharry this evening. If Laurent likes it, it'll go live tomorrow. Just a short piece about the wines of #Sardinia. 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026This kind of shit is insane. I mean, I'd go as far as to say it's not really a democracy any more if the biggest chequebook wins, no? edition.cnn.com/2026/09/21/politics…edition.cnn.comDemocrats privately sounding alarm on GOP spending ahead of midterms | CNN PoliticsTop Democrats across the country are privately warning that they do not have enough cash in the November midterm battle to capitalize on what could be their party’s best political environment in over a decade and are at serious risk of leaving winnable seats on the table. 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026Realised my daughter and my son have two weeks of matching holiday in February. Frantically making holiday plans! (This is what happens when you have two kids at completely different stages in the education system. I imagine more than two and you're basically screwed...) 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026Week-end upgrade going well then, Co-Op Bank! (I would not want to be in IT for them right now. They've just been bought too.) 001
Reposted by Greg Harvey 🌍Captain Packrat @captpackrat.pawb.fun.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026Snoopy's little bird friend didn't get a name until June 22, 1970! 002
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026In August 38.3% of new vehicles in #France were #BEV cars. They are surging, and pure ICE vehicle sales are now under 15%. When sales crossed the 35% mark in Denmark, within a year most new cars were electric. With petrol well over €2 a litre I can only see September figures being even higher […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026Followed a YouTube video to change the washer pump on my daughter's Fiat Panda. Got halfway through removing the inner wing for access (which is a massive pita) then realised the video was for a Mk II and in the Mk III (hers) and later Fiat put a little, easy to remove panel for access to the […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 001
Reposted by Greg Harvey 🌍Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026Here's a question #AskFedi may be able to make some suggestions for. I'm looking for an open source security + privacy conscious nutrient tracker - for sporty vegan family member in middle of training for competitive sports. So shouldn't just be calories but also macro (and maybe micro?) […]fediscience.orgOriginal post on fediscience.org 008
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026So this is a fun one. #Element *refuses* to use #Jitsi for one-on-one calling, you can only do it via a #TURN server with Element Call. Luckily we had one of those, my colleague Nick set up a coturn server for Nextcloud Talk. So one-on-one is Element Call + TURN, as soon as there are three […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 100
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026Super impressed with how easy it was to set up #Jitsi. So far we are at: #Synapse - open source #Matrix server, shipped as a #Debian package #Element Web - open source Matrix client, shipped as a Debian package Jitsi - open source video conferencing software, you can add to Element as the […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 010
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026@neil Guess what I'm doing today! 😎 neilzone.co.uk/2021/04/running-jits…neilzone.co.ukRunning Jitsi on a Raspberry Pi 4 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026Anthropic: "Hey, we do open source stuff too!" github.com/anthropics/commerce-agen… Me: "Folks, open sourcing your agents is like a crack dealer offering a free pipe." 011
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026Vibe-coded a little #Synapse module to limit room creation to admins but still allow DMs. Will stick it on the company public GitLab.com profile later. 😎 011
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026Well, it looks like our new #Mattermost is going to be ... #Synapse (#matrix / @matrix) and @element Web to provide the web interface for people who don't want to mess about with a local client. It seems to do everything we need. The only thing that's a slight pita is needing to find a way to […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026This is significant for urban #EV owners in the #UK: www.electrive.com/2026/09/15/uk-rem… 004
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026"the goal is to scale hydrogen trucks by 2030" But... Why? The answer appears to be "the European Union’s Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR), which mandates hydrogen refuelling stations at key transport routes". Oh, ok, we're chasing lucrative EU grants. But seriously, this […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026Just found out our neighbour was found dead in his cell. I'm way more sad about this than you might think. He had his problems but he was a good neighbour and a nice guy on the face of it. And the primary carer for his girlfriend, who's basically disabled. He was a violent drunk, which is why he […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 000
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026Forest fires still not over. Just watched a squadron of Canadair flying back home to Nîmes after spending the afternoon fighting a fire the Ardèche. It's still too dry up there. 😓 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026Ripped from LinkedIn, I have no idea if this is true but it *is* funny. I can't tell if ChatGPT is trolling him or he's trolling ChatGPT! 😂 001
Reposted by Greg Harvey 🌍Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026Donald Trump gets a new podium. 🗑️ “The Trash Talker” by TinKicker in Dublin. See all 3 photos → worldartutopia.com/donald-trump-get… 1037
Reposted by Greg Harvey 🌍PoLiTiPeT @politipet.fr · 09/09/2026Alo Masto, ya des gens ici en train de voter ou de promouvoir la #PAN_4753 « #NutriScore partout » ? politipet.fr/4753 👇politipet.frn°4753 : Affichage obligatoire du Nutri-score 😋initiative citoyenne à l'Assemblée nationale 002
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026My daughter just passed her driving test! 🥳 And I just got the insurance quote.... 😭 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026Well, that's a first. I just received an email from the bank asking me if I've planned my funeral... 😬 100
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026The Tennis Club Coup is at someone else's house this evening. They've been at it for 4 hours and counting... 😱 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026More #ev adventures today, Renault and Hyundai. Went to Renault first, expected to love the Renault 4 and 5 but didn't really like either! The 4 is, well, a bit boring in the flesh. The 5 looks great, from the driver's seat everything is awesome, but the back? OMG how did they even manage to […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 100
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026Wow, I didn't think M$ Teams could be any worse, but they're working on it... 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026I think this is the coldest our house has been since June. 🥵 001
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026And the new Audi A2 e-tron - a "B-segment" small car ... HEALTH WARNING: SIT DOWN BEFORE CONTINUING ... will start from €38,000. I mean, who buys this?? #EV 201
Greg Harvey 🌍 @greg-harvey.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026Test drove the big battery Kia EV2 today. The motoring journalists saying it doesn't have a powerful enough motor have forgotten what normal cars feel like, it's absolutely fine! Tight turning circle, really comfortable, easy to see the corners, plenty quick enough off the line for urban nipping […]tooting.chOriginal post on tooting.ch 000