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David Cantrell 🏏DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2026-02-26

Received today via @postcrossing - this home-made collage card. The #stamps are, from top left to bottom right, from #Yugoslavia, #Switzerland, #WestGermany, #Netherlands, #France, #EastGermany, and two from #Hungary

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A collage postcard. The background is a page from a book with text in German, torn diagonally in half, glued onto brown card, which shows through in the tear. It has been decorated with patterned "washi" tape and in the bottom right corner an image of an open suitcase. On the left and centre the sender has added postage stamps (all used) from various countries, some of which no longer exist.
David Cantrell 🏏DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2026-02-06

My latest @postcrossing correspondent said that amongst other things she's into #owls, #ScienceFiction, and #Cryptids. I think that every single one of these birds is a #SuperbOwl.

#philately #Cinderella #CinderellaStamps #WorldAltTextChampionshipEntry #postcrossing

Photograph of a postcard, showing the five native owls of Britain. Each is shown twice, once in flight and once perched. The artist is Alexia Claire who can be found on Etsy.Cinderella stamp - a label that has the form of a postage stamp, with serrated edges, a purported value, and so on, but is really just a decorative sticker - showing a vehicle floating in the air over a city. There are people standing on the vehicle and banners flying from it. It appears to have a raised bridge like a pleasure boat, but also a cabin and a flat deck like a pickup truck. I suspect that the designer was drunk. It bears the text "Mars postage" and the value 35N along the bottom. Postage rates have obviously gone up since I last posted a Cinderella from the same series, that was only 15 Novas. The stamp is printed in black on a white background, and is stuck on a white postcard.Two Royal Mail first class stamps from their recent "Myths and Legends" series, one showing Black Shuck, a ghostly black dog which supposedly roams East Anglia, and the other showing the Loch Ness monster. Both also bear a profile portrait of a proper Charlie.
David Cantrell 🏏DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2026-02-01

From the Architects' Journal. If that's one of those buildings that are "so hard to reuse" then I'll posit that it's because they're fucking hideous and no-one wants to reuse them.

OK OK, I know what the real reason is - it's because the buildings aren't very good and need lots of work to make them fit for modern purpose. And renovations attract 20% #tax, unlike new builds.

#ReadTheAltText #Architecture #EcclesiasticalMillinery #LeeVanCleef #WorldAltTextChampionshipEntry #hashtag

Image from "AJ" (Architects' Journal, whose logo is at the top). It bears the headline "Why is it so hard to reuse buildings in Britain?" and then has a black and white photograph of a 1960s office block with an enormous concrete galero hat outside. The galero is a very wide-brimmed hat with a shallow domed crown, mostly known for being worn by cardinals in the Roman church. Lee van Cleef wore something similar in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, although the crown on his titfer was a bit different. Underneath the concrete hat thing is what looks like the entrance for the building.
David Cantrell 🏏DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2026-01-30

@kevie @beersofmastodon #BeerOclock you say? Well OK then. If I must.

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A nonic pint glass, full of delicious boozahol. And next to it an empty bottle of Woodforde's Wherry ale. One of the finest beers in the world. It is through the easy availability of things like this that we know that England is God's favourite nation. The glass carries Föroya Bjór branding, because I nicked it from a boozer in Tórshavn many years ago. To get it home in one piece, through the tender mercies of airline baggage handlers, I stuffed it with socks and wrapped it in underwear dirty from a week's hiking. In the background is a screen bearing the very toot to which I am responding.
David Cantrell 🏏DrHyde@fosstodon.org
2026-01-26

@sjvn these days it comes built-in to Mac OS.

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Screenshot of iStat Menus on my Mac, showing current memory usage. 6 GB "wired" (ie, not eligible for swapping out or compression - kernel stuff, some from VMs etc), 19 GB "active" (ie in use for all kinds of reasons), 4 GB "compressed", and 33 GB "free" (which includes things like the filesystem cache). It's also using 1GB of swap. Little-used areas of memory are proactively compressed so that if the system suddenly needs a load of memory it doesn't have to wait so long for stuff to be swapped out. The various types are represented both in text and in a cumulative bar using blue for wired, red for active, yellow for compressed, and black for free. In these modern times when even a low-end machine like this one has 12 extremely fast CPU cores, compression makes a lot of sense. When the system is under heavy memory pressure you can see it making trade-offs between compressing RAM and swapping stuff out, and it generally makes the right choices - I very rarely notice the sudden stutter in performance that is a good sign of something I'm interacting with hitting swap.

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