Google cloud has one UK data centre. How can any large/critical org imagine running something on it?

Some lovely bracket (?) fungus growing on a wooden railing; it's only a few cm tall.

#fungi #wildlife

Right, fitted rubber 'threshold seal' at the bottom of the garage door; bit of a job, but good to get it out of the way on a dry day.

lovely Pi Pico sdk function name 'pio_sm_set_set_pins'; the Pico PIO system has in pins, out pins, sideset pins and *set* pins; each type has a pio_sm_set_.._pins function to configure it, so this sets the set pins!

Right, covid booster had; I did have to remind the small local pharmacy to charge me for it. They only asked me name, date of birth and which arm

Ooh! Yes please ! I'd rather have Waymo, but hey, I'd love robotaxis in #manchester

https://www.taxi-point.co.uk/post/uber-launches-manchester-robo-cab-testing-with-pony-ai-and-verne-as-uk-expansion-accelerates

'resin bound gravel' sounds an environmental disaster; you take all gravel and sand and stuff and mix it in a polyurethane binder and spread it all over someones path. Where it will then chip off and bound to go everywhere, not even thinking about what happens when someone then digs it up to replace it by something else and you have something which sounds unrecyclable.

Tracing a PSU; most components are sensibly named - except 104 - there's a D104, a ZD104 and a L104. I've not found any other numerical dupes; shrug!

a 'sophisticared recording device'...'wrapped in toilet paper' - hmm!
(With a lovely Seeeed studio ad)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwg5jq4vlddzo

For some reason Sainsbury's lists Toffee Apples under fresh fruit.

Sorting file-selection dialogues by 'access time' is great - it seems to remember them on Linux; so now when I go to upload a picture in mastodon it's the one I recently edited/uploaded in my photo directory at the top.

This is a real recall (asbestos traces in the sand); Not that many of us look quite like the gonk on the left, but...