Rob Pickering
@rob.pickering.org
Hills and lakes for fun.
Also dangerous with SIP, WebRTC, BGP, Javascript, ML & chainsaws.
Know too much about how the Interwebs work.
@robinjpickering on less advanced platforms
www.pickering.org for semi-professional opinions
Also dangerous with SIP, WebRTC, BGP, Javascript, ML & chainsaws.
Know too much about how the Interwebs work.
@robinjpickering on less advanced platforms
www.pickering.org for semi-professional opinions
100% AI generated. This really isn't hard.
April 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
100% AI generated. This really isn't hard.
The view from the top deck at "the most scenic bus stop in the UK", but are there any better? #LakeDistrict
April 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The view from the top deck at "the most scenic bus stop in the UK", but are there any better? #LakeDistrict
Getting out for a walk is an incredible way to leave all the doom behind for a few hours and today was incredibly beautiful.
March 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Getting out for a walk is an incredible way to leave all the doom behind for a few hours and today was incredibly beautiful.
A cautionary tale about trying to get an AI agent to present a slide deck at FOSDEM this year:
www.pickering.org/ai-presentat...
Lessons learnt, but was it a good idea badly executed, or just a straight bad idea?
www.pickering.org/ai-presentat...
Lessons learnt, but was it a good idea badly executed, or just a straight bad idea?
February 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
A cautionary tale about trying to get an AI agent to present a slide deck at FOSDEM this year:
www.pickering.org/ai-presentat...
Lessons learnt, but was it a good idea badly executed, or just a straight bad idea?
www.pickering.org/ai-presentat...
Lessons learnt, but was it a good idea badly executed, or just a straight bad idea?
Coming to the end of another wonderful day.
January 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Coming to the end of another wonderful day.
Another stunning day again today, could get used to the yellow thing in the sky.
January 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Another stunning day again today, could get used to the yellow thing in the sky.
This was the skeet as it seems I'm now blocked.
I've obfuscated the handle as the person saying it doesn't matter and I don't want to cause them problems. Just highlighting my disagreement with their, to me, entirely illogical position.
I've obfuscated the handle as the person saying it doesn't matter and I don't want to cause them problems. Just highlighting my disagreement with their, to me, entirely illogical position.
January 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This was the skeet as it seems I'm now blocked.
I've obfuscated the handle as the person saying it doesn't matter and I don't want to cause them problems. Just highlighting my disagreement with their, to me, entirely illogical position.
I've obfuscated the handle as the person saying it doesn't matter and I don't want to cause them problems. Just highlighting my disagreement with their, to me, entirely illogical position.
And...
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
January 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
And...
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
Pushed on and sheltered for a bit to be rewarded with...
January 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Pushed on and sheltered for a bit to be rewarded with...
Until I could almost reach out and touch it... but got rather wet in the process.
January 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Until I could almost reach out and touch it... but got rather wet in the process.
Which only got better...
January 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Which only got better...
What a day today.
Storm over, I was enticed out by a rainbow...
Storm over, I was enticed out by a rainbow...
January 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
What a day today.
Storm over, I was enticed out by a rainbow...
Storm over, I was enticed out by a rainbow...
I'm used to views with the tops of hills disappearing into the murk, but it is grim down south today.
They've lost the tops of their buildings.
They've lost the tops of their buildings.
December 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM
I'm used to views with the tops of hills disappearing into the murk, but it is grim down south today.
They've lost the tops of their buildings.
They've lost the tops of their buildings.
This place really does fill me with the same hope and wonder as the early Internet. I've been here 24hrs and blown away that 52nd Speaker of the US House of Representatives just liked my whimsical skeet about UK telephone boxes.
November 16, 2024 at 9:24 PM
This place really does fill me with the same hope and wonder as the early Internet. I've been here 24hrs and blown away that 52nd Speaker of the US House of Representatives just liked my whimsical skeet about UK telephone boxes.
And a privatised phonebox, from that brief period in the 1980s when PTT was deregulated and everybody invested tons of money in a very short lived payphone splurge. Then we invented mobile and they all went bust.
November 16, 2024 at 12:48 PM
And a privatised phonebox, from that brief period in the 1980s when PTT was deregulated and everybody invested tons of money in a very short lived payphone splurge. Then we invented mobile and they all went bust.
Very early postbox. Deposit under the archway at St Barts out of the rain. Empties from roadside.
November 16, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Very early postbox. Deposit under the archway at St Barts out of the rain. Empties from roadside.
First use of postcodes on the planet
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 PM
First use of postcodes on the planet
Parcel post service
November 16, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Parcel post service
Here'a a K1 at Tyneham just for fun. That K2 and K6 are two of several along Grand Avenue, Smithfield Market. They are still there because they are all listed. Loads of them in there as I guess they would have been used by traders to take orders in the days before mobile.
November 15, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Here'a a K1 at Tyneham just for fun. That K2 and K6 are two of several along Grand Avenue, Smithfield Market. They are still there because they are all listed. Loads of them in there as I guess they would have been used by traders to take orders in the days before mobile.
One of these two has something in common with a mountain, but which one? (and where are they)
November 15, 2024 at 1:33 PM
One of these two has something in common with a mountain, but which one? (and where are they)