#raspberrypi Rasperypi 500+ launched today. 16GB and 256GB nvme ssd. £172.80 whichsaly for me, makes it uncompetitive to the good N100 boxes you can get on aliexpress eg £100 for 16GB/500GB. Decent keyboards don"t cost £70. https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-500-plus

The last day of summer? 76F with the sun over a distant London from Hampstead Heath. The Kenwood House pictures were just as brilliant - and free. #london

Suprise today. Both our Motorola Edge 40 neos updated to Android 15. The device wasn't on their upgrade list. If yours is still on Android 14 then you can force a system upgrade if you have an hour or so to spare. #lenovo #motorola #android #android15

Today in Littlehampton, West Sussex. #classiccar #mini #tr4a

Online Safety Bill When you find me on the same side as Nigel Farage and Marc Andreessen then something is very, very wrong. I don't think it's me. #ukpolitics #peterkyle

AI is even more dangerous than I feared. Fired up a bot to see whether it knew about someone. It did. Came up with believable info and i began to probe further. Discovered a shocking situation with one of our political parties. We had verifiable evidence and the bot drew up the evidence to […]

Bad day for Green News. BP dumped their green strategy to revert to focus on fossil fuels announce the biggest oilfield discovery in 25 years off Brazil. It comes with added CO2. See: https://www.cityam.com/bp-makes-its-largest-oil-discovery-in-25-years/ Meanwhile trying to travel green - […]

Elon is $29 billion richer today. A free gift from the Tesla board to keep Elon on board. Nice work if you can get it. More: https://www.cityam.com/tesla-board-awards-musk-29bn-in-shares/ #elonmusk #Tesla #uspolitics

Sydenham is on the cusp of five London boroughs. All are expensive for homebuyers so renting may be the only option. Average monthly rents are very different: Bromley: £1,634 Croydon: £1,525 Lambeth: £2,401 Lewisham: £1,778 Southwark: £2,353 Overiding factor appears to be distance from central […]

Any spot the disconnect? #england #football #ukpolitics

Those in South East London who need acute health care may have come to expect rather better care from GSTT (Guy's & St Thomas') then Lewisham & Greenwich Trust. The latter have some excellent people but also some very duff ones. The Trust management is apparently failing to act to cover the […]

"Behind every successful man - is a very surprised woman" Heard on BBC Radio 4: Limelight episode 3. #quote #feminism #Friday

For those using Linux who find the Mastodon web view a bit fussy - here's a Fediverse client app with a simple attractive interface to get straight to your account and posts of interest. Its Tokodon which is a KDE app and in the Debian, Ubuntu and other downstream repositories and hence […]

About 1,000 cyclists attended the unveiling of a “ghost bike” in memory of the latest young Londoner to be killed cycling in the capital. Jamal Pratley, 24, who lived in Hackney, died in hospital on April 18, six days after he was critically injured in collision with a van at the junction of […]

Smile of the week: Atari 2600 'absolutely wrecked' ChatGPT at chess. 1.19MHz eight-bit CPU trounced modern GPUs Story: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/atari_vs_chatgpt_chess/ #retrogaming #retrocomputing #chess #atari #chatgpt

The public does have the right to wild camp on Dartmoor, the Supreme Court has ruled. Five justices unanimously ruled today that the term “recreation” in the law governing the use of the national park in Devon is used “without qualification as to the form which it should take”. More […]

As the country gets richer, people get poorer. New figures from the Trussell Trust — which operates a network of over 1,200 food banks across the UK — has revealed that nearly three million emergency food parcels were distributed over the past year, equating to one parcel every 11 seconds. Of […]

More 20 mph roads for London recommended by TfL report: It found there were 35 per cent fewer collisions and 36 per cent fewer casualties on borough roads where 20mph zones had been introduced. In particular, children were even less likely to be hurt – with a 50 per cent reduction in […]

Fancy a free pint? Here are the Forest Hill pub in the scheme: * The Hill, 45-47 Dartmouth Road, London, SE23 3HN This is London wide so there are a lot more pubs you could crawl. Details: https://www.timeout.com/london/news/all-the-london-pubs-you-can-get-a-free-pint-in-this-week-051325 […]

I have a problem. I feel more at home with most immigrants than many Reformers. #ukpolitics #immigration #reformuk

Latest Mastodon point release is here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases #mastoadmin

#cycling #london Silvertown Tunnel opened today. The Grauniad quoted: “Expecting people to get off their bikes, wait up to 12 minutes and then lug their bikes on to a bus is ridiculous, especially when the entire area around the tunnel is dangerous for cycling and filled with high-risk […]

#uspolitics #ukpolitics "Stocks tumble" making a Republican President the enemy of business while a Labour Prime Minister tries to be the friend of business. What a topsy-turvy world we now live in.

Heathrow's third runway go-ahead was justified by aviation going net zero. But with no timescale or proven technology to get them there. This (paywalled) Telegrope article kiboshes hydrogen planes and rubbishes SAF being more than a marginal contribution. So aviation grows faster than fuel […]

Swanning about in Beckenham today. #postboxtopper #postbox #beckenham #bromley #london

Climate change is no more? The website showing the increasing co2 emmissions is no longer responding. Presumably nuked by Trump + Elon. Vandals. January figures were due today. Here's their last report: December 2024: 425.40 ppm December 2023: 421.86 […] [Original post on social.brainsys.com]

#mariannefaithfull #1960s A part of my youth also died tonight. RIP Marianne. https://youtu.be/_phZZgkT1Jk?si=apewNquJ5oEUcUHi

#brexit #Art #France Yet another Brexit Benefit: "British tourists will pay more to visit Louvre, says Macron French president targets non-EU citizens to help fund ‘special area’ for Mona Lisa" […]

#elonmusk #uspol #trump Elon's salute furore has, as to be expected, inflamed the liberal democratic world. The right are already using this to weaponise their perceived victimhood. But are we missing the point? If it was intentional - what was the intention? Elon is no fool and if it was to […]

Oh, look, potholes and AI. https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/ai-pothole-tech-is-good (Some of you have taken so much psychic damage from LLM-hype that your brain short-circuits whenever you see the letters AI.)

I did my first cull of followers today since I joined in November 2022. I was surprised it was only 33 of 186. My criteria was users who had not posted or replied in the last year hence not troubling my timeline. Sad to see Guardian journalists were over represented in 2024's no-shows. Also […]

#maths #joke "We had to make our own log tables, from trees with square roots" - Neil Barnes https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2024/12/28/christmas_1984_home_computers/

#london #cycling #fnrttc #christmas Battersea Power Station seen from the FNRttC Christmas lights ride last Friday evening.

#brandy Opened a bottle of brandy tonight. I rescued it from the sideboard of my late aunt who didn't drink. The dust was a clue that it must have been gifted many years ago. The label might give a clue - no barcoded detailed EU/UK label on the back […] [Original post on social.brainsys.com]

#ukpolitics #boris #books #nonfiction #publishing Remember the enormous advance, the launch, the serialisation and Boris plugging this book everywhere? Behold the result as folks gift books for Christmas. Unleashed comes in at no. 52 in WH Smith's […] [Original post on social.brainsys.com]