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• dickturpin (66)in #dogwalk • 3 days ago

  Oh Deer!

  The wife rang me at work and asked if I could have the dog (Charlie) for an hour while she nipped for a trim at the hairdressers. Charlie and my employers are very used to each other, so it's not a problem;

  $0.60

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• dickturpin (66)in #blog • 4 days ago

  I Need to Have a Moan

  Before you start berating people, it's a good idea to get the full facts first. Yes, I know, probably the less confrontational approach would have been to say, "Excuse me, I was expecting some tablets,

  $0.41

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• dickturpin (66)in #blog • 14 days ago

  Sleight of hand

  A month or so ago I bit the bullet and invested in a new mobile phone. A Samsung S26 Ultra, to be precise. The one fear holding me back was 'Banking'. Ten years ago, if you'd asked me if I used my phone

  $1.69

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• dickturpin (66)in #blog • 20 days ago

  RIP Hivewatchers

  Hivewatchers is gone. I don't celebrate it, and I don't mourn it. image source: ChatGPT Hivewatchers is no more. Well, bugger me. I have to admit that came as something of a shock. While I like to tell

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  • - Author $1.37
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• dickturpin (66)in #trams • last month

  National Tram Museum - Again

  All images are mine unless otherwise stated. I have already posted these images to Facebook so that family members can see them. "Fares, please!" A few weeks ago, the wife and I took our grandson

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

  Krill Rewards

  For a very long time now, I've always felt that Hive is like a pyramid, or perhaps more accurately, a layer cake. Those at the top seem to have all the cream, those in the middle are doing OK with the

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  • - Author $2.08
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• dickturpin (66)in #support • 8 months ago

  Change the password

  I know I've said this a thousand times before, but! I couldn't do 1st-line support full-time; I really couldn't. You have no idea how much respect I have for those who do that kind of job, day in, day

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• dickturpin (66)in #money • 8 months ago

  I blame the chipshop!

  Our local chip shop is "CASH ONLY", he has notices everywhere written on fish & Chip wrapping paper saying "Cash is King!" and "No card payments!" never mind Jeff Bezos

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

  GhatGPT Witness Advice

  I was being moaned at that my Witness votes were about to expire and that I needed to do a Governance Transaction if I still wanted to be considered one of the good guys. I'm gonna hold my hand up and

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

  Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco wins

  Yet another story that's perfect podcast material IMO. In 2021 Tesco purchased VMware vSphere Foundation and VMware Cloud Foundation from Computacenter, which is a reseller of VMware. Now, in the murky

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  • - Author $0.48
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• dickturpin (66)in #ai • 11 months ago

  🧠 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 • last year

  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 • last year

  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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  • - Author $1.36
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• dickturpin (66)in #cotswolds • last year

  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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  • - Author $1.15
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• dickturpin (66)in #blog • last year

  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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  • - Author $1.22
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• dickturpin (66)in #cotswolds • last year

  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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  • - Author $2.30
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• dickturpin (66)in #blog • last year

  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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  • - Author $1.39
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• dickturpin (66)in #dogs • last year

  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 • last year

  Hmm? Ecency

  That's not good.

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• dickturpin (66)in #fail2ban • last year

  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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