• dickturpin (66)in #ai • last month

  🧠 Knowledge is Power — AI Is Its Great Equaliser

  From Monks' Manuscripts to Machine Minds: How Power Fears Shared Knowledge I saw a post on Mastodon yesterday alluding to AI being the spawn of Hitler! I laughed so much that a little bit of wee nearly

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• dickturpin (66)in #davidbowie • 2 months ago

  David Bowie Exhibition - The Visit

  Over a year ago, I noticed that the V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) had acquired the David Bowie archive and was planning to create a dedicated venue for it, so I waited for tickets to be released.

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• dickturpin (66)in #davidbowie • 2 months ago

  David Bowie Exhibition - Preparation

  image source I've been lucky enough to secure tickets for the David Bowie exhibition at the V&A Storehouse in London, which I'll be attending tomorrow, Saturday, 27th September 2025. As you can imagine,

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• dickturpin (66)in #cotswolds • 3 months ago

  Just walking about.

  Taking Charlie for a walk, I decided to 'go exploring'. Instead of heading down into Bourton, I turned right and after a short walk, I came across one of those Public Footpath signs for Windrush, Charlie,

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• dickturpin (66)in #blog • 3 months ago

  Choo choo!

  Given it rained off and on while we were in the Cotswolds, we decided to go on a steam train ride from Broadway to Cheltenham Race Course.

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• dickturpin (66)in #cotswolds • 3 months ago

  Japonica Cottage

  The wife was determined not to go to North Devon, so to ensure we went somewhere different, she booked Japonica Cottage in Bourton-on-the-Water, Cotswolds. I've never been in that part of the country,

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• dickturpin (66)in #blog • 3 months ago

  Clarkson's F̶a̶r̶m̶ Pub.

  I've just spent a few days in the Cotswolds, and I'll write another post(s) about that. This is a bit out of sequence, to be honest, as we visited The Farmer's Dog on our last day on our way back home.

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• dickturpin (66)in #dogs • 3 months ago

  What did you say?

  Walking with Charlie this morning, we met up with a big dog we've not seen in a while. I've no idea what breed it is; it looks like a German Shepherd, but its long coat is greyish silver with overtones

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• dickturpin (66)in #ecency • 3 months ago

  Hmm? Ecency

  That's not good.

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• dickturpin (66)in #fail2ban • 3 months ago

  Fail2Ban (to block hammering IPs automatically)

  Someone's knocking on the door! Over the past week, I had my Friendica instance hammered by login attempts and bad bots. This is the process I used to track down the culprits, configure Fail2Ban, and set

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• dickturpin (66)in #ozzy • 4 months ago

  Ozzy Osbourne and me.

  Unless you've been living under a rock, you will know that heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne has his funeral in Birmingham, UK, today. Now, before I go any further, I don't have any of his music. I liked

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• dickturpin (66)in #dogwalk • 7 months ago

  Can I pet that dawg?

  The UK is currently experiencing a rare phenomenon: we have sunshine and temperatures above 20 °c. I usually don't take the dog 'up the park' especially in winter, as it gets too muddy. I usually walk

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• dickturpin (66)in #computer • 9 months ago

  Work in IT they said...

  Sticky Notes My third job after leaving school was as a Tea Broker. If truth be told, I wasn't really one; I'd bluffed my way into it, having been employed as a trainee tea broker in my previous employment.

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• dickturpin (66)in #avatar • 9 months ago

  Avatar

  Ping @skyleap Are you still creating avatars? You've done a couple of mine, and I was wondering if you could do a St Patrick's Day one. Obviously, I'll reimburse you.

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• dickturpin (66)in #newkitchen • last year

  The new kitchen - Part 5

  While you can buy doors from DIY shops, you need to go to a dedicated door shop if you want something nice. Bridgtown Doors is not a million miles from us, and it's pretty much the go-to location for doors

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• dickturpin (66)in #ecency • last year

  The new kitchen - Part 4

  If you have a new kitchen, it makes sense to have a new radiator, especially if it is probably forty, if not more, years old. I'd bought a new 500mm one from Wickes, where we had the kitchen from, and

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• dickturpin (66)in #newkitchen • last year

  The new kitchen - Part 3

  "Sixty-seven quid? I like that price!" The wife looked at me with that look that has taken wives years to perfect: Why did I marry you? No, it wasn't sixty-seven pounds, it was sixty-seven packs!

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• dickturpin (66)in #newkitchen • last year

  The new kitchen - Part 2

  Bye, bye doorway. How we managed for the last twenty-odd years with our former small kitchen is beyond me. The constant moans of "Can you get out of the kitchen? There's no room!" had been a

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• dickturpin (66)in #newkitchen • last year

  The new kitchen - Part 1

  We've lived in our house for around twenty-five years now. Probably about twenty years ago, I offered to give the kitchen a makeover. We didn't have much money, so I figured some new work surfaces and

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• dickturpin (66)in #socialmedia • last year

  Mr Bluesky

  image source The other day, a friend said, "I'm surprised you're not on Bluesky Pete." If anything, I'm looking to downsize my Social Media presence, not increase it. One of the key features

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