Simon Poole

Sigh, how do I tell my #OpenStreetMap colleagues that there are people that just can't follow instructions and that throwing more (and more complicated) options at them how to solve their issue is not going to change that a jota.

Wie schön einfach:

If the sun refused to shine
I would still be loving you
When mountains crumble to the sea
There would still be you and me

#LedZeppelin

Playing „Cards For Christianity“

So ein gutes Motto. Darf also gerne umgesetzt werden. Dann bitte einfach hier kurz Bescheid geben.

#Fedikirche #CardGame #Kartenspiel #Chrisianity #Glaube #Bibel

Noch so ein Aberglaube, der sich beharrlich hält: „#Eisheilige“. 🙄

„Trotzdem bezeichnet der DWD die Eisheiligen als einen "mystischen Platzhalter" für die generelle Spätfrostgefahr. Nach Berechnungen des Deutschen Wetterdienstes trafen Tiefsttemperaturen für die Eisheiligen nur in einem Drittel der Fälle zu. Das sei sehr wenig für einen Witterungsregelfall.“

https://de.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/11/wetter-eisheilige-2026

No serious person could write this line without understanding it's both meaningless and deceptive. There is no such thing as confirmation of data destruction under these circumstances and the claim here is an attempt to provide reassurance to those affected where honesty about the limits of their knowledge would have been better. #Instructure #Canvas

Nachrichten im Radio: Gleich nach der Meldung, dass der hirnverbrannte #Tankrabatt 1,6 Mrd. € kostet, kommt die Meldung, dass der Studierendenbeitrag pro Semester erhöht werden muss, weil das #Deutschlandticket teurer geworden ist. Finde den Fehler.

Hello #parents — I imagine most of you have received some kind of communication from your kids' schools about the #Instructure / #Canvas data breach. I'm collecting examples of how schools have communicated the issue to parents and students (and *if* they've communicated directly to students).

Shoot me an email if you have anything you could share: [email protected]

I've really got to sort out tagging from posts made on the @posts account. This is highly relevant for #EdTech #Privacy and #DigitalSecurity

Well, Laibach are making me laugh again with the new LP. I've occasionally wondered what would happen it they represented Slovenia at Eurovision and at least three tracks would do it. https://laibach.bandcamp.com/album/musick #music #laibach

The word 'meltdown' in the context of "I'm having a total meltdown" or "you should have seen the meltdown this toddler was having" #etymology

Bestürzung hier, Bestürzung da. Ich bin auch bestürzt, dass es zum vermeintlich dritten Mal nicht geklappt hat. #einmalMitProfis

omg now we have John Apple? It's too much.

#JohnMastodon #TimApple

Nach allem, was ich vor allem in letzter Zeit darüber gelernt habe, ist der #Klitoris-Neid wesentlich plausibler als der Penis-Neid, Herr Freud!

Wird wirklich Zeit für die Kamera am #Fahrrad.

Heute, #mdRzK und danach #mdRzA: Verkehrsberuhigter Bereich, Autofahrerin kommt mit > 30 km/h entgegen und schneidet die Kurve. Ich bedeutet ihr mit einer Geste meine Meinung zu dieser Aktion. Sie stimmt vermutlich hupend zu. Rast danach jedoch einmal um den ganzen Block, um anschließend ohne Sicherheitsabstand neben mir und meiner Tochter herzufahren und mich zu beschuldigen, mitten auf der Straße zu fahren.
Ja, so funktionieren diese #Carbrains.

Aldi have some Easter Walkers Sensations, chilli and chocolate flavour. i had to try them, naturally, but I don't think the world is quite ready for dessert crisps. #crisps

Late evening thought: 'devops' increasingly means mitigating the damage that 30,000 typescript packages can do to a system. #devops #sysadminlife

I was playing #SuperLiam when someone called me on WhatsApp. This caused me to stop ducking, right as four fireballs came along all at once. I had 10% health left and was almost done with the level. I had no chance.
I'm not even mad. We both laughed about it.

@Audio_Obscura Come back, there's a great music community here. Try the #indiebeat and #NHAM tags, maybe even #bonkwave if you're curious.

It appears that ChatGPT uses Cloudflare workers and other dynamic DNS services to retrieve content to respond to queries - specifically images in the issue I'm looking at. Fortunately, they at least use the GPTbot user-agent for these queries, so if you were suffering from this kind of traffic it's relatively easy to block. #sysadminlife #chatgptisnotai

It’s (almost) time for #CloudFest #CFHack! 😍

Is there any way to watch the #AUSvIND cricket that's going on right now live without a subscription?

I'm looking for a cheap N150 small form factor PC for testing purposes. Are there any brands on Alibaba that are worth looking at or keeping away from? Boosts appreciated, thanks. #hardware #n150 #computers

Apparently these are worth "silly money" these days? I can see lots of auctions with ambitious prices but do they actually sell for £100? #RadioShack #PlaneAndTank #RetroGames

Heddiw, ro'n i'n cyfieithu'r meddyliau o E.L. Wisty yn y Gymraeg.

'Gallwn fod wedi bod yn farnwr ond ni chefais y Lladin erioed.'

#dysgucymraeg #petercook

Well, I certainly didn't have a live version of 'Nag Nag Nag' on my bingo card this year... https://cabaretvoltaire.bandcamp.com/track/nag-nag-nag-live-2025-single-edit #cabaretvoltaire #music #nowplaying #thesoundofyoungsheffield

Heute mal wieder auf der Königin. Die Rigi.

#schweiz #berge #panorama #ausflug #natur #rigi #aussicht

I'm amazed that in the midst of all the newness of the Quays, this looks much the same as it did in the late 2000s. #salfordquays

Ich habe mal meinen Weg für ein Backup mit Autorestic aufgeschrieben.
Vielleicht hilft es auch dem Einen oder Anderen.

https://thepipes.ch/blog/backup-mit-autorestic-einrichten

#backup #restic #autorestic #datensicherung #anleitung #blog #howto

Eine klassische Photobombe. Während ich tief in der Hocke bin, den richtigen Bildausschnitt suche und dann abdrücke, läuft unser lieber Pudel mitten ins Bild. Entstanden ist ein Bild, das ich sehr mag und hier gerne mit euch teile.

#fotografie #pudel #hund #photobomb #wasser #aare #natur #sonne #licht #schnappschuss

On my way to #WCNL 🚂

To round off the #cloudFlareDown and #githubdown we had an hour long power outage this morning .... seriously considering getting a power station for the coffee machine because of that 😉

The new Craven Faults LP sounds like it's going to be another chunk of analogue modular loveliness. And made just up the road. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2zNtlR5ZdU #music #modularsynthmusic #electronicmusic @electronicmusic

November 1994 I did a company internal presentation on IPng (the competing proposals that would eventually give us IPv6), more than 30 years later I'm still exclusively using an IPv4 network at home ... sigh.

#EUnet #Internet #Nostaliga

Ich möchte eine Cloud, aber nicht selber hosten und natürlich aus Europa. Raus sind Proton (zuteuer für mich), pCloud (zu wenig Vertrauen meinerseits), Tresorit (zu teuer für mich). Noch gut im Rennen ist die kDrive von Infomaniak.
Mein Budget ist 5-8€/CHF und ich will eine Sync App für Mac und Linux.

Habt ihr da noch Tipps?

#cloud #europa #switzerland #tipps #gesucht #alternative

One of the depressing things about looking back to 88/89 is that is when open systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(computing) really started winning, networking and the #Internet being one of the levers that worked in our favour.

But instead of getting a multitude of interoperable operating system we ended up with a duopoly.

#EUnet #Nostalgia

#FotoVorschlag 'Bäume'

Der Baum, nachdem er vermöbelt wurde.

#Werbung #Tisch #Holztisch #Möbel #Witz #Humor #Kreativ #Rohstoff #Nachhaltig #Ökologisch #Oekologisch #Fotografie

"One of the main problems of the "Internet" today is that it is -near- to impossible to earn money from "non-connectivity" services.

This is less a technology problem .., it's
just practically impossible to find a service to provide that somebody else is not doing for free."

myself, ch.network, July 31st 1992

I suppose this still kind of holds true for ISPs which was the topic of the discussion at the time.

#Internet #EUnet #Nostalgia

In "stuff that I've forgotten", did I coin the term "transit" (in an ISP context)? https://diswww.mit.edu/menelaus.mit.edu/com-priv/11171 probably not, though nobody else is using it.

In any case an interesting discussion that underlines how different the early Internet was from the fairy tales that are popular these days.

#Internet #EUnet #Nostalgia

PS: turning that mailing list archive in to something more readable might be a worth while undertaking @brewsterkahle

Sigh .... trying to not rant about @wikipedia having so ridiculously bad entries for both #EUnet and #OpenStreetMap

Being a primary source has really massive downsides sometimes.

...
I don't have any mail archives from that period (for obvious reasons), but maybe somebody can remember.

What I'm specifically trying to pinpoint is when we started registering CH domains for UUCP sites, it doesn't seem this was announced anywhere that has survived the not quite 4 decades and maybe we just sent a mail at the time. So the UUCP maps might be the only way to at least roughly date it.

#EUnet #UUCP #Nostalgia

Der Herbst ist schon auch einfach wunderschön. So eine ganz eigene Stimmung legt sich über die Landschaft.

#Fotografie #bewegt #Herbst #Fluss #Aare #Farben #Bäume #Baeume #Landschaft #Brücke #Bruecke #Eisenbahnbrücke #Eisenbahnbruecke #Wasser #fliessen #Abendstimmung #Sonnenuntergang

Just for those wondering: while we were connecting to the shared and #EUnet co-financed Internet access in Geneva at CERN at this time, and this was the actual first Internet presence in Switzerland operating since 1989, supposedly used by @timbl to demo the WWW in the same year*, we didn't actually provide local Internet access in Geneva till 1993 (we did have mail and news customers there though).
...

Have you ever noticed that when the invention of the WWW by @timbl is discussed CERN is in Switzerland, just to mysteriously change countries when the first Internet connection in the country is mentioned?

Must be a quantum effect.

#EUnet #Nostalgia

The next couple of weeks you are all going to have to suffer from a bout of Internet nostalgia from me as I dig through my archives.

This is from a February 1993 mail that I sent to colleagues at other #EUnet national orgs asking for them to update the POP (50 total) list I was maintaining, giving the current Swiss status as an example. I had completely forgotten that Basel had been our first POP outside of Zürich in June 92, Geneva, Berne and Lugano followed the same year. ...

Long shot but does anyone have a pointer to a reliable way to unlock a Xiaomi phone, specifically a Poco X3 Pro. I know it's a ridiculous process but there are any number of ways to do it online and I'd just like the one that works now. #Xiaomi #unlock

#FotoVorschlag 'Farbe: Orange'

Ein Sonnenaufgang vom 11. September 2028 bei Basel. Damals mit einer Olympus E-410 aufgenommen.
Wer Basel kennt, müsste auch diesen Turm erkennen.

#Fotografie #Sonnenaufgang #Basel #Schweiz #St.Chrischona #Morgenstimmung #Himmel #leuchten #orange

#FotoVorschlag 'Das Unsichtbare sichtbar machen'

Dazu ist mir sofort ein Bild von letzter Woche in den Sinn gekommen. Ein Spinnennetz voller Tautröpfchen, die dann im Licht des Morgens wunderbar funkeln.

#Fotografie #Spinnennetz #Sonne #Tau #Tautropfen #Licht #Raureif

In incompetent delivery service news, Evri's dropoff locker location map shows that there are lockers at our local corner shop. There have never been Evri lockers at our local corner shop, and the staff have to keep telling people that. It also means people try to send things to the non-existent lockers, so Evri's staff can fail to deliver them there. I wonder what their next name is going to be. #evri #evrifail

Die Chappelebrügg über den Wohlensee. Ich liebe ja die Farben, besonders von der Aare. Mir kommt da immer das Lied „Aare“ von Stiller Has in den Sinn. Der Text lautet:

Gang doch e chli der Aare naa
Dere schöne, schöne, schöne grüene Aare naa
Dere Aare naa
Lue wie d Velöle velöle mit ihrne Velo
Dere schöne grüene Aare naa
Dere Aare naa
Gang doch e chli der Aare naa

D Wällebrättler tüe wällebrättle uf de Aarewälle
Gang doch no chli der Aare naa
Dere schöne, schöne grüene Aare naa
Dere Aare naa
D Urlouber tüe urloube unger de Loube
När göh si o no chli der Aare naa
Dere schöne, schöne grüene Aare naa
Dere Aare naa

Lue mal wie d Hündeler hündele mit ihrne Hünd
Dere schöne, schöne grüene Aare naa
D Gynäkologe jogge mit ihrne Dogge der Aare naa
De träffe si d Hünd vom Grichtspresidänte
U zäme jage si Änte
Dere schöne, schöne, schöne grüene Aare naa
Dere Aare naa

Vo Bärn uf Thun, vo Thun uf Bärn, der Aare naa
D Aare geit is Meer
Im Tierpark hets Meersöili
No meh Meersöili
No meh Meersöili
Gang doch e chli der Aare naa
Dere schöne, schöne grüene Aare naa
Dere Aare naa

#Aare #Fluss #Wasse #Wohlensee #See #Bern #Brücke #Fotografie #Lied #Liedtext #Musik #Mundart #Schweiz #Farben #Grün #Flüsse #WelttagDerFlüsse

I'm super excited to be in #Gdynia next month to talk about the #CyberResilienceAct and it's impact on us as #WordPress and open source developers. 👀

https://gdynia.wordcamp.org/2025/