I bought an old Kyosho Inferno 1/8th scale nitro car to rebuild and convert to eletric. The motor had blown and been removed and the car was pretty worn out and tired.
Well godaddy has decided to stop allowing people with less than 50 domains to automatically update their DNS records. This means I can't keep Merlins-Bar automatically pointing to my server if my IP changes!
The useless cunt's didn't even have the decency to inform anyone they were doing it!
Fuck 'em. Time to change to a better company. There might be some disruption until it's sorted.
My 17 year old beautiful big sweet boy has suffered with mouth inflammation that makes eating difficult and painful for about 18 months. He's had injections every 3 weeks to help with it but slowly it got worse. Over the weekend we decided it was the right time to call it.
I was playing around with LMStudio, an ai chat system you can run on your own computer. It can use various freely available LLM models to provide chat assistance like chatgpt. I asked it about lasagne... yikes!
In the UK the main opposition party to the government managed to get a enquiry started on Boris Johnsons, and the government of the time, handling of the pandemic. The group running the enquiry are currently interviewing various people about what happened. They also already have emails and phone messages from that time from most of the people involved. Some of the revelations are mind blowing, like BJ thinking that a video he saw on youtube of a guy blowing a hair dryer up his nose was a viable way to deal with with covid! He then raised this issue with the UK's 2 top scientific advisers in a top level government meeting!?!?!
This video is a great guy called Phil who talks about UK politics every day. He often talks about Brexit disasters and government corruption. I enjoy his videos, but it's a shame it's real and not a comedy!
Sadly I'm not joking. My new house is a semi-detached so I share a wall, and a chimney, with the house next door. The house next door is a rental and the owners have been doing repairs on the properties they own. They have been replacing roof tiles and removing the end chimneys, each house has a chimney on the end of and a shared chimney in the middle. I guess they think removing the chimney means less to go wrong and less chance of it leaking in the future.
The other two houses they own locally have already been done and they only removed the end chimney and left the middle chimney alone. For some reason today they started on my neighbours roof and before anyone knew what was happening they removed the middle chimney. It's a major fuck up!
It is without question illegal to dismantle someone's property without them giving permission first, and I wouldn't have given permission anyway. I have taken photos of the hole in the roof where the chimney was as well as the numerous damaged tiles where bricks from the chimney rolled down the roof and broke them.
Thankfully my neighbour next door is great and she's given me the name and mobile phone number of the person managing the repairs. I've sent them a message and will hopefully hear back soon. I'm going to wait and see how they react before I do anything else. Once I get a feeling for how they are I will decide whether to take legal action against them or not.
I've only been in this house just over a week and some bastard has already fucked it up!
Other than this I'm enjoying being in my new home.
I'm moving this weekend and the server will be down from Saturday or Sunday until Monday. It's possible it'll be down Friday and may be intermittently up and down as I move stuff around in old house getting ready to move.
So I just got confirmation from the local authority that I can build a workshop in my garden exactly where I want it.
Normally I wouldn't need permission for this as it's below a minimum size that requires planning permission, but because of the strange fact that my house is effectively built back to front means I had to get permission. *The back door of my new house is actually the front door!?!? XD
In the UK you need planning permission to build a shed in front of a house but not behind it. It's all pretty confusing! XD
But the good news is I can go ahead with it whenever I want without needing any other checks or permission.
I won't be building it until I live there, whenever that is, but it's good to know it won't be a problem.
Well there was a little power cut last night and the server rebooted. That's ok, it can cope with that. However I had fucked up my openvpn configuration, from months ago, and accidentally left my client connection details in the wrong place. On rebooting those client connections kicked in and caused the server to be unreachable. I didn't know that was the problem and have spent hours trying to figure it out. Problem is now identified and fixed.
Just another 'Go Fuck Yourself' from the universe :/
Today I have undertaken surgery on my original MX Ergo to replace the switches which had become a little trigger happy.
I'm pleased to announce the surgery has been a complete success. The original Omron switches have been removed and replaced with higher quality Kalih GM 8.0 switches which are quieter and will last much longer.
The patient is now fully recovered and back to work.
