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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 23h

crushing. as a healthcare professional & as a human, hearing the health system failed is always awful - but as described herein, institutional transphobia in our NHS killed this young woman. I've donated below to try and prevent this happening again, please consider it too 👇 go.cpf.sh/joelle

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Justice For Joelle | Trans Legal Clinic

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@fallenhitokiri I migrated off Proton last year and no desire to go back 🙂😅

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I currently use @fastmail who are great, except their file storage solution has some ridiculously small file limits which render it unusable for me. I do not self-host email & Important Files™ for resiliency reasons. I wish to have one supplier for both email & files. Since my FastMail […]

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@k I've seen lots of Fritz in Estonia, does it also exist where you are?

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Note: I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing. The economics are pushing old & polluting cars off the road which survived only because fuel was cheap so, even with higher maintenance costs, they were overall "good value". This obviously ignores externalised costs to society. The war in […]

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Not sure it'll be worth buying and fixing cheap cars if fuel prices stay like this. I save money doing work myself but the unit cost of EV motoring is just so much lower, and far less maintenance is needed overall. I'll have to move on to cheap EVs...no such thing right now!

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

If I lease an EV through Octopus at say £300 (including insurance and maintenance) but save at least £140 per month in fuel that makes the net cost to me ~£120 The purchase price of my car was £3500 and assuming it needs the same in keeping it going for 5 years (optimistic, needs a cambelt & […]

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

It'll be interesting to see the SMMT registration figures for this year and whether there's been another swing towards hybrids/EV. I expect the used EV market is running rather hot right now with oil prices where they are & more affordable cars being sold on as people trade up.

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

The price of diesel is now effectively £2/litre so it costs about £140 to fill my tank which at 46mpg gives me a range of 700 miles: 20p/mile Assuming an average electricity cost of 26p/kWh and a Polestar 2 with efficiency of 287 Wh/mi, that's about 7 […] [Original post on social.crablab.uk]

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Further crane update: the red one is being dismantled and taken away by another small crane.

Road closed, with a section of crane on a truck

A section of crane being lowered onto a truck

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@merlin apparently not the right number, since you had to go back!

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Laptop replacement becoming increasingly necessary. Unsure why it's randomly cutting out; felt initially like a thermal thing but it's not even that hot or under load. 🙃

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Do I happen to know anyone that is (or knows someone) in proximity to Keswick, Cumbria?

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Further update: it was raining hard this morning so I didn't get another photo, but several sections have now been removed and are lying on the ground. It's Interesting that there's holders for the huge retaining pins & circlips. I didn't like the look of the ladders; felt very exposed...

Big green sections of crane lying horizontally on the ground behind heras fencing.

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Crane update: the "top bit" has been removed now, and you can see how the Mammoet crane works. It's even got a "landing gear" for the end of the jib. Seems they only removed the top part today, not sure how quickly the rest will come down.

Looking up at the crane. The red one is fully erect and the top of the green one has been removed

Same view, showing the red crane stowed again

Landing gear at the end of the red crane, on the ground.

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Systems integration at rLab: the music system (snapcast + mpd) can be visualised on the displays

Two LED displays.

One has LukHash - H8U and an EQ visualisation

The other displays the screensaver: IP addresses

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

A crane is being dismantled near my office, which requires the assembly of another crane by further smaller crane :neocat_shocked: Craneception? (I don't know logistically how this operation will work. The crawler crane is taking up the length of an entire street)

Skyscrapers in the city of London. There's a tower crane attached to a building with part of a red crane in front

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

The mist was atmospheric, although it did make climbing back up to the peak a little disconcerting.

Someone walks along a ridge in the mist. You can't see the vertical drop either side or very far into the distance

A crow and a seagull on the peak in the mist

Looking through the cloud the tarn is just visible

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

The Lake District is rather nice

A few over a mountain with clouds passing by the peak. It's green and rocky in the foreground.

Looking down in between the mountains to s lake/tarn. Still cloudy

A large lake from above, still overcast.

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Can't believe the Ordnance Survey don't mark the correct term for a bread roll on maps

A map of the north of England.
Cumbria: bap
Lancashire: barm cake
Cheshire: batch
Yorkshire: tea cake

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Did you know: you may telephone from here (rLab). We now have 3 competing phone networks: Øl Telecom, Telekline and rLab Telecom :blobthumbsup:

British Telecom sign from the 80s on the back of a door. It reads: you may telephone from here

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

It lives! Thanks @ands & James at the hackspace - you've done so much to get this going 🙂 Now we've got another to get working in time for Congress! Or maybe eth0...one year on.

NS train display showing a static image, back on the wall mount

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

I am happy to offer the follow up to the "is the JR Pass worth it?" social.crablab.uk/@hugh/11711883663…

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

After publishing the results of Discovery Week, we can now give you a first sneak peak at Mastodon 5.0, our next big version. It will bring a new visual look to your screens, a refreshed and calmer layout, as well as a new composer […]

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

I'm not about to reinstall the duel-rate meter set up I specifically got rid of (I've got the water tank on a smart relay) which is no cheaper than Octopus Tracker. I guess EPC hasn't caught up with this concept. So I guess I can add some insulation to a hot water tank (which I don't use) to […]

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

I don't intent to rent my flat, but the recommendations are a bit silly. The most applicable one (roof insulation) is not within a leaseholder's gift and economically infeasible. Even when the roof is resurfaced, the structure will not be rebuilt and doing so (to add insulation) is maybe 100x […]

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Didn't realise the Govt. was intending to raise the rental EPC requirement from F to C. There are exemptions but my experience of EPCs are they're very arbitrary. For my flat, they recommend: - roof insulation: flat floor in a block of flats, requires […] [Original post on social.crablab.uk]

We are standing up for renters by setting new energy efficiency standards across both the PRS and SRS[footnote 66] to ensure that tenants benefit from cheaper bills and more comfortable homes. As part of the private rented sector enhancements, landlords will need to upgrade their properties to meet EPC Band C across 2 metrics by October 2030, unless their property has a valid exemption. We anticipate that this will lift hundreds of thousands of households out of fuel poverty by 2030.

EPC scorecard showing:

Current 33F
Potential 78C

Breakdown of property’s energy
performance

Features in this property

Features get a rating from very good to very poor, based on how energy
efficient they are. Ratings are not based on how well features work or their
condition.

Assumed ratings are based on the property's age and type. They are used for
features the assessor could not inspect.

Feature Description Rating
Wall Cavity wall, filled cavity Good
Roof Flat, no insulation Very poor
Window Fully double glazed Poor
Main heating Room heaters, electric Poor
Main heating control Programmer and room thermostat Good
Hot water Electric immersion, off-peak Average
Lighting Good lighting efficiency Good
Floor (another dwelling below) N/A

Air tightness (not tested) N/A
Secondary heating None N/A

Steps you could take to save energy

Step 1: Flat roof or sloping ceiling insulation

Typical installation cost £900-£1,200
Typical yearly saving £1,305
Potential rating after completing step1: 64D

Step 2: Hot water cylinder insulation

‘Add additional 80 mm jacket to hot water cylinder

Typical installation cost £20-£40
Typical yearly saving £24
Potential rating after completing steps1and 2: 65D

Step 3: High heat retention storage heaters and dual
immersion cylinder and dual rate meter

Typical installation cost £800- £1,600
Typical yearly saving £314
Potential rating after completing

steps1to 3: 76C

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

TIL: the Vienna Convention doesn't actually specify whether prohibitive signs should have the "oblique red bar". The requirement is the outer circle is red, and any bar likewise. But bar or no bar, a red outer circle is a prohibitive/restrictive sign […] [Original post on social.crablab.uk]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibitory_traffic_sign

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person.

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

@bnfone you just need to sit further away! 😉

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

@bnfone > I don’t want a logo or branding on the front and all bezels should be the same size Why? 😅 I use ThinkVision monitors personally. Something like this, perhaps: www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/accessories-…

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@Speed Hey! @eloy was asking for a picture of the EH speeding fine - do you have it? :)

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

🆕 blog! “Public Transport - Don't Make Me Think!” In the last year, I've been through over a dozen cities and used public transport in all of them. It is wild just how confusing and complex buying a ticket can be. While some cities obviously take a user-centred approach to ticketing, others […]

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

We have data... Pinout of the boards will be available soon. Controller and power supply have been scrapped.

An LED matrix at a jaunty angle with a line illuminated mid-scan

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

NS train display continues to...not work. We now have a Frankenstein from two displays 😣

NS train display connected to many power supplies.

There's a stack of speakers behind

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Downloading 100GB is when I wish I'd bought more bandwidth.

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Anyone got experience of Android alternatives to Airtag? Moto Tag seems to be the only product, but rather unobtainable. Or I guess I just get an Apple ID and an Air Tag...?

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

I would really like to organise a pallet shipping of Spezi to the UK. Does anyone have the facility to go to HIT and palletise a load of crates?

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Brake update: helps when you have the correct tools (physical and digital). Pistons in the calipers are still *really* stiff and the parking brake is probably going to need replacing on both sides... But it's all back together, bled and working 👍

Open laptop next to an axle with tools and a catch tray below

Two brake discs. One more mashed than the other.

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

2nd job of the day didn't go quite so well... The grinding noise from my car is indeed a very worn pad testing up the brake disk, but unfortunately the piston won't retract. Car now immobilised at the hackspace. Rewind kit and brake bleeding apparatus enroute...

Disc with one totally mashed and one slightly less mashed pad on top

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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

I wonder why my dad's PC was overheating...

CPU fan on a motherboard, covered in dust.

Heatsink with the fan removed showing it caked with hardened dust

Heatsink removed showing dried thermal paste and the socket itself covered in dust

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