Luke @Luke@mastodon.sdf.org

@solderpunk Howdy. Wanted to suggest an edit to the orientation file if I could be so bold. In 2.1.2 Troubleshooting it could be mentioned for sftp only users that if there are having permissions problems they could transfer files with the command sftp put -p filename so transferred file has permissions of the destination directory. Tiny thing but might help someone. Ta!

Night night fediverse, see you tomorrow.

Thanks to the generosity of @solderpunk I've got a new gopherspace on gopher://circumlunar.space which I've now got to pull my finger out & use. Planning on doing weekly posts.

Monkman & Segull's Genius Guide to Britain looks amazing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bl1vp2/monkman-seagulls-genius-guide-to-britain-series-1-1-england

"University Challenge icons and real-life best friends Eric Monkman and Bobby Seagull are on a road trip with a difference. Feeding their insatiable appetite for knowledge, they visit Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales in search of hidden gems of British scientific and technological ingenuity."

Off to watch BHAFC v Spurs later this afternoon, not too confident of a good result for Brighton though..
Will be only my second home hame of the season. #football #soccer

WT actual F: https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/09/21/inenglish/1537528934_632413.html "British tourist in Tenerife found with turtle in vagina after night out partying"

just been getting in the series Sacred Games on Netflix.. Very good so far. Makes me want to read the book it's based on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Games_(TV_series)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/20/mdma-makes-octopuses-more-sociable The undersea and the ecstasy: MDMA leaves octopuses loved up

Being in love is like taking opioids: http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/love-is-like-cocaine

Why do our users insist on using the Libraries in Windows Explorer to save or open files? Causes nothing but bother in the long run it seems. Is there a way to disable it?

Totally forgot but I saw an Apple Maps car the other day and it looked like it was doing an Apple version of Google's streetview.

It's Freshers Week on campus and a colleague found this list a new student had dropped. At least they got their priorities right!

Coca-Cola is eyeing up the cannabis market https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/coca-cola-eyes-cannabis-market-in-push-beyond-sluggish-sodas