Matt Seymour @realmattseymour@qoto.org

Evening Glow - view towards the Wolds

@chicgeek always good to find a twitter follow in the fediverse.

I've phoned UPS to schedule a collection and, as per usual, their phone system makes me want to hurt people... specifically whoever's responsible for it. That may not be reasonable, but there you are.

Today I’m mostly building my, long overdue, Aruba OS8 test rig and much of the day so far has been spent watching ArubaOS boot.

There’s a girl in this shop pissing herself while reminiscing over an advert for green giant branded frozen peas.

This should be applied to every film with pun based dialogue. Think of the time we’d all save. https://youtu.be/JMG1Nl7uWko

This morning I am making Yorkshire Parkin. There may be some debate as to quite where this gingery, oatie, sugarbomb originated but somewhere in the North of England seems agreed on. Yorkshire seems as a good a place as any.

Sufficiently high bit rate HD looks amazing on my LG TV. I can’t tell the difference between good HD and 4K at any sensible viewing distance. I can now buy an 8K Tv. There’s barely any 4K content right now so this is just what nobody needs.

My current favourite thing is the album Chris by Christine & The Queens. Can’t get 5 Dollars out of my head.

All sources of news and media are full of the ongoing march to somrt sort of catastrophic brexit situation and it's irritating me this evening, so I've spent some time looking at the photos from my last European holiday (I don't take many) to Florence. What a beautiful city.

On Friday I roamed the campus restoring WiFi APs that had decided to stop working for reasons. Covered 7 miles.... To make up for that, today, I haven't left the sofa.

This continues to be distressing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45775309

Of course I can only do what I can do. I carefully watch my energy use, we have no children, we no longer have pets. I primarily cycle commute & gently push my employer to avoid wasteful practices. None of this is enough of course. It requires politicians, government, to take control of the situation. Unfortunately the current UK government are a collection of idiots with such a free market obsession they clearly will never do anything.

So that whole Bloomberg story about the fiddled Supermicro boards... Didn't really make any sense to me.

Here's a good analysis of the possibilities: https://www.servethehome.com/bloomberg-reports-china-infiltrated-the-supermicro-supply-chain-we-investigate/

And the key point....