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Repairing my Ryobi drill battery

So I joined the Ryobi battery cult, but since their batteries are expensive I did the obvious thing and bought some off Amazon from random third party companies. The batteries seem to work well.

Federated Madness

You know this Mastodon thing everyone’s going apeshit over? Well it runs on a technology called ActivityPub which is something everything needs to support. It implements social media style following and so on using a protocol that anyone can use.

Gamedev, music, art and being creative

I am not a creative person, and I’d quite like to change this. There’s a bunch of creative skills I’ve never put the effort into improving and I think I might have some ways to overcome this. Let’s have a look…

Chat GPT pretending to be a BBC Micro

There’s a few of these types of video floating around YouTube at the moment. I figured I’d join in and have a play. Can I tell ChatGPT to pretend to be a BBC Micro?

How to disable Chrome’s ssl and hsts warnings

The modern Internet is full of nasty things, most users need protecting from themselves. Sometimes though, it’s important to be able to touch the sharp end of the Internet in order to fix it.

When did Linux get so complicated?

Today on “weird crap that seems undocumented on the Internet” we have DNS that doesn’t want to resolve and DHCP that is acting weird. My home DNS server decided it didn’t want to resolve things any more, and it took far too long to figure out why.

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