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  So, in my quest to simplify my life, I have started to decouple myself from the large privacy invading cloud and AI based services (Microsoft and Google, I'm looking at you), especially with regards to calendars. Emacs has built-in calendar, diary, and appointment capabilities. As I live in Emacs most of the time, these are sufficient for the vast majority of my calendar needs. However, until I achieve the holy grail of *Emacs on the go* (I'm getting there but not quite yet),...

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  Quasi New Bike Day After 10000+ km, I thought it was time to properly service my bike. New chain, chainset, bottom bracket, disk pads. Rides like a new bike! Thanks to Balfe's in Crawley for an excellent service. #BikeTooter #UKCycling #NBD #WorthWay #NationalCycleNetwork #NCN #NCN21 #Sussex #Crawley

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  The OS on the Pebble was updated in the past day or so. One of the news items says that there is now an "Extra Large" text size option, supposedly under "Display" settings. I cannot find it. Anybody else seen this? I have noticed, however, that the "Large" text size setting is now applied throughout the system. This really helps, especially for the settings menu. #Pebble #PebbleWatch

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  I use exwm (the Emacs window manager) on a Debian stable system. As far as I can tell, I have customised everything I can to bring up either eww or firefox when I need to browse the web (eww preferred but some sites need a graphical interface with javascript, e.g. my bank). Annoyingly, for some reason, opening a URL sometimes brings up librewolf. I cannot see anywhere in my config that references librewolf. Does anybody have any suggestion on how to figure out why librewolf is being run inste...

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  Just got my electricity stats from the energy company. April was a good month. Imported 34 kWh (average of just over 1 kWh per day) but exported 284 kWh (almost 10 kWh per day)! #SolarPower #RenewableEnergy #ClimateCrisis

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  I will be examining a PhD student soon. I have to read their thesis. I brought out my reMarkable e-ink tablet to use it to read and annotate the thesis. So much better than using a laptop or (even worse) printing it out and carrying 200+ pages around... I am continually impressed with this tablet. I have the first version which I bought when they first came out (10 years ago now?). I hadn't used it in a few months so it seems that there have been software updates. When I turned it on,...

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  Voted! But what a palaver: show polling card, they ask for name and address (even though these are printed on the polling card), show ID ("what kind of ID is this?" when I give them my bus pass), write down voting ballot numbers next to my name (secret vote; what's that?), go and vote (but only one person at a time although the stand caters for 4 at a time with dividers for privacy). #UKLocalElections

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  Anybody here have any experience on taking a bicycle (full size) on the Guildford-Gatwick route (via Redhill) with Great Western Railway? #BikeTooter #Rail #GreatWesternRailway #UKCycling

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  This is just plain rude. Edit: added some hashtags. #BikeTooter #CycleLane #Blocked #Crawley #Sussex

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  Lovely wild garlic growing all along a forest path. #Photography #WildGarlic #Crawley #Sussex

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  The bluebells are lovely this year (well, most years in fact). #Photography #BlueBells #Crawley #Sussex

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  Went out for a ride this morning. I started on the Worth Way (old rail line) and, as it was a lovely day, I just kept going, passing through East Grinstead and then down the Forest Way (yet another old rail line). Before I knew it, I was 25 km from home. So 50 km in total which is a lot more than I usually do. Totally knackered... 😀 #BikeTooter #WorthWay #ForestWay #NCN21 #Photography

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  @ricobeck Love the colours. Beautiful. Oh, and the bike as well. 😉

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  Excellent article, by Blain Smith (@blainsmith), on the need for a broader education, especially for computer programmers: https://blainsmith.com/essays/humanities-in-the-machine/ Thanks to Sacha Chua (@sacha) for including this in her most recent weekly Emacs news post. Edit: proper links for people mentioned. #Emacs #Unix #C

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  RE: https://mastodon.green/@SusiArnott/116345411384389787 For those of you in the UK, don't forget to vote next month! Local elections often have very low turnout but we are at an interesting point in terms of possible outcomes from this election which may have long term impacts on national politics. Every vote matters. #UKLocalElections2026

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  Happy Caturday to all that celebrate! Why do people buy cat toys when some brown crumpled paper provides hours of entertainment? 😃 #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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  Cycled the Downs Link from Christ's Hospital to Brighton via Shoreham-by-sea. A large segment of the route goes alongside the River Adur. We were lucky with the weather for once! Lovely day and a great ride. #Photograph #Photography #LandscapePhotography #BikeTooter #UKCycling #NationalCycleNetwork #NCN223 #Sussex #DownsLink