England doesn’t like EU water cleanliness standards so it’s going to get its own with blackjack, hookers, and mercury.

But mostly mercury. theguardian.com/environment/20…

England to diverge from EU water monitoring standards

Exclusive: campaigners fear less rigorous methods could lead to more pollution in rivers and waterways

^{Helena Horton (The Guardian)}

While there are things in the cuisine of the USA that we, as Europeans, should take note of, they are far fewer and further between than most Americans like to think.

However, I am utterly persuaded that they're right about eggs "over easy".

I will not be taking questions.

Reading about state of understanding of gluten-related disorders, as you do. As research currently stands, about 1-2% of the population are though to have coeliac disease (the majority never diagnosed), and up to 13% more non coeliac gluten sensitivity.

Both of these, through habitual gluten exposure in childhood, may be causing a whole array of life long inflammatory conditions such as asthma, allergies, chronic fatigue, psychiatric disorders, and others. Basically large numbers of people with chronic health problems who can’t get doctors to take them seriously are quite possibly suffering the effects of chronic gluten poisoning.

It boggles my mind that this bastard grass stuff has intruded so far into our societies that it has become the staple foodstuff for massive swathes of the planet, and yet is basically poisonous to 1 out of every 7 people.

Just had to completely reinstall the OS on my Mac laptop because something in the OS got corrupt and it started going nuts.

Never had that before! Thankfully returning it to its previous state (well, one major OS back - it installed Ventura rather than Sonoma for some reason) was not too painful an experience. I guess I got to junk a load of cruft too.

Still, not how I'd planned to spend my evening.

Put my friendica installation on a VLAN. It made accessing it locally ... interesting.

So I can access it from outside. Fine.

But if I try to access it internally, the traffic just gets dropped. There's no firewall rule to handle the forward via external IP address loopback.

So I set up a forward, and of course, that was a stupid thing to do. Every other https service in the world suddenly and unceremoniously disappears.

So I change the forward to only be something looking to loopback via my external IP.

But the external IP is dynamic. The router will update the dyndns record, but it will not update its own firewall rule. I'd have to do it manually every time it changed. Very far from ideal.

But inspiration struck! I have my own DNS server! (pihole).

As of now, thegoatery.dyndns.org from within my internal network resolves to the IP address of the friendica box on the VLAN.

Done.