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Had a look at the Reddit crypto forums last night because who doesn't love a bit of schadenscrolling. They're still neck deep in Kool Aid, all going, "buy the dip! buy the dip!"

Guys, the people you are "buying" from keep going to prison for doing a runner to the Caribbean with the money. The only thing you are buying is new yachts for scammers.

READ THE ROOM. You have been conned. It's not nice to be conned, I get it. A guy once conned me out of 10 quid in front of Kings Cross Station in the 90s and I felt shit about that.

But you have been. Right now, you are throwing good money after bad. You aren't starting from where you were before you threw all your savings at these crooks. You are starting from now, and you are falling for the sunk cost fallacy.

You aren't getting your money back. Quit while you're behind. I'm sorry.

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yeah putting in the channel would have helped....

youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?si=rCrQbgโ€ฆ

This one. It's *bonkers*

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@Kincaid More amused that anyone with a camera phone thinks they're a TV channel these days ๐Ÿ˜‰


This is Uncleftish Beholding. If you havenโ€™t read it and donโ€™t know what it is, read it and see if you can figure out whatโ€™s going on! ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/110/dโ€ฆ
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what is fun is that I am surpisingly ignorant about [uncleftish beholding] and so when reading about it in any form it's always like learning not just reading, so despite being tired rn and unable to remember many of the words in English, I do feel like I learned something of the subject - familiar words are not necessary to advance the concept for me. The concepts, of course, exist regardless of our names for them and being able to learn from this demonstrates that beautifully.


I have something to say to those who said to us, when we told you that cryptocurrency was a tulip mania style bubble built on bluster, bullshit and suckers, that we didnโ€™t understand and were just bitter about missing out. It is as follows:

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA SILLY FUCKERS TOLD YOU SO.

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There is one good use for cryptocurrencies - crime.

Which is the only reason I can conceive of that Bitcoin has risen all this year. After we destroy most of our ecosystem, Bitcoin will be seen by the survivors as one of the many signs of the collective mental illness of our society.

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I like it when Doctorow says,
If someone's paycheck depends on them not getting something,
Those folks are going to go out of their way not to understand it.


Had a power cut. Now all my DHCP leases renew in a two minute window. Annoying.


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@Jaq W Except if airport security want to open it, they'll just cut the clingfilm off.

If you have hold luggage, consider vac bagging your clothes instead.

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@Jaq__W I'm fairly sure I've seen it advertised in an airport, but long enough ago I can't remember details.




I just got trick or treaters in Portugal. I was not expecting that.


Dark arts mastery: Created a Linux x86 VM on my M1 Pro MacBook Pro

Within that Linux VM, created a docker container of Ubuntu with some personalised stuff.

On that container, built another one with the OpenWRT builder for RPi 4

Used that docker container to build a new OpenWRT image

Booted it on a spare RPi 4 and restored the backup of my OpenWRT config to it.

Took my actual OpenWRT router down, inserted the flash card I'd just created, and powered it back up.

Everything. Worked.

If you roll your own router, it's useful to know that you can recreate it were it to go tits-up, and I can!

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OpenWRT is useful (using it on two APs currently), but boy can networking and setting it up be an endless circle of confusion:(

Good luck!

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Got a box for a router now, so itโ€™s going to be pfSense or OpnSense for now. Hoping they will give me lots of good features.

But swapping over will be a bit of a nervous thing. But also why I need APs ๐Ÿ˜€

Also running on open software, because I donโ€™t trust networking stuff anymore. Especially not the terrible ISPs:(

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@Becky I'll also note that you can't bridge VMs on 2 different VLANs to the same physical ethernet port on UTM and if you try, neither will work.

I discovered this in the traditional manner.

(UTM on a different VLAN to the one the Mac is using natively is fine, this only applies to VMs)

Which is why my Mac Mini has TWO ethernet ports both connected now.



transphobic language discussion

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I hadn't heard that term before, had to look it up.
Ugh, so offensive and totally stupid. Presumably, it came from that redundant, failed binary ideology.

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you know, when everything is heatpumps and FIR plates, the hauntings are gonna end...


Just watched the clock tick over from 01:59 to 01:00, as you do.
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Sarah Brown
@Becky Oh, is that when the US diverged from the EU? I keep thinking it was much more recently for some reason.
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The international conspiracy to make you get up an hour earlier is over for the next few months.



โ€œOpen the pod bay doors, Hal.โ€

โ€œIโ€™m sorry, Dave; I canโ€™t find anything like that in your Apple Music library.โ€

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โ€œYouโ€™ll need to unlock your iPhone first, Daveโ€

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child sex abuse

Every single time this stone is turned over, the Catholic Church is up to the same kiddie fiddling shit. Every time.


Spanish clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 children: Report


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The self-esteem therapy thing I got referred to by the local NHS is called Dr Julian. For some reason in my mind this has become Julian and Sandy. #ancientreferences #bbc #homeservice


Ukpol


This is local to me - Lib Dem South Cambridgeshire. lemmy.world/post/7413017


Ministers warn English councils not to adopt four-day working weeks




Pen fans! I have a Platinum Plaisir with some pink ink which keeps going scratchy on me even though the converter still has plenty of ink in it. Iโ€™ve tried cleaning everything out with water and letting it dry and itโ€™s a little bit better but it still seems to dry out in use. Any suggestions?

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I have no advice, I'm just noting how autocorrupt has changed Platignum to platinum. Also, ironically, the old Platignum factory in Royston has long gone, having been roughly where the platinum refinery is

fountainpennetwork.com/forum/tโ€ฆ

Oh wait, there is a Japanese company named Platinum who also do pens, and no relation to the English company whose products were once so ubiquitous

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England doesnโ€™t like EU water cleanliness standards so itโ€™s going to get its own with blackjack, hookers, and mercury.

But mostly mercury. theguardian.com/environment/20โ€ฆ





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.

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Sarah Brown
@Roche Limit @Breadbin What the illustrious Breadbin should have replied with was, โ€œjalapeรฑo poppersโ€, because they are indisputably amazing.
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@rochelimit I canโ€™t handle anything spicy (as in I get very sick from it) so Iโ€™ve never tried them, so Iโ€™ll just have to take your word for it:)

Also lots of cereal and peanut related stuff went down here. If thatโ€™s your thing.




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 canโ€™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.

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I'm on the phone, so apologies that I can't easily link to things, but wasn't there some thinking that at least some percentage of that figure may not be gluten, but to do with modern industrial processes around wheat, Chorleywood Bread Process (CBP)?

Some people are absolutely gluten intolerant, and gluten sensitive, but at least a percentage that are sensitive may not be sensitive to wheat, but the processing of the wheat, and industrial baking processes.

This one interests me. And since I work in food purchasing, with a bunch of ex-chef and bakers, we've been nattering about it. It's anecdotal, but regular supermarket bread I find irritates me (I'm being polite here), but bread from our local microbakery (Lord that sounds pretentious), is absolutely fine. It never used to, it's something new over the past few years. The bread from the bakery also happens to be delicious, which is a nice benefit.

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@kianryan โ˜‘๏ธ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Itโ€™s an area where thereโ€™s considerable ongoing research, and AIUI about a decade ago the prevailing thought was that it was things like FODMAPs and amylase trypsin inhibitors in wheat causing issues.

But, AIUI, a lot of more recent research is finding direct, extra intestinal, innate immune activation specifically in response to gluten in people without any markers for coeliac disease.


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Trump
@FeralRobots @Tom Maxwell Im not talking about the republicans. Iโ€™m talking about the judiciary, and the democrats.
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Trump
@tommyyum
Democrats as such can't do anything specifically to stop him. Some specific democrats (like Tish James or Fani Willis) can, & are. & the parts of the judiciary who'd allow it are Republican - we're well down the road to judiciary-capture in the US. At this point our Supreme Court is just John Edwards' sense of propriety away from endorsing one-party rule.


Really interesting article about self driving cars and one woman on the front line of the evidence-based resistance against them driving without direct human control.


New word I have learned today: Dunkelflaute, the dark doldrums where little or no energy can be generated with wind or solar power. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkelflโ€ฆ
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@pseudomonas @chiffchaff (...bah, sad to see the Dinorwig visitor centre closed with no current prospect of reopening)


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.

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i have spent a month trying to get my PC to boot off install media as it needed nuking to the bare metal.

USB. nope. DVD. Nope. Spent far too long beating PXE with a stick. Got every other device to work except the PC...

Then today it just...booted from the network...except ubuntu now didn't pick up the win10 install

I HATE tech at times



Thereโ€™s something about pratting about in a chlorinated swimming pool (or maybe just a particular one) that seems to give me cold like symptoms the next day. Congestion, runny nose, sneezing, headaches. And this was with a nose clip!



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.

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Anyway, the squeaky bum time of anyone able to root my Friendica server being able to access my internal network is over.
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Potential gotcha: LuCI is available on all interfaces on #OpenWRT. WAN is moot because firewall and redirect anyway, but having it on the Friendica DMZ VLAN is very bad!

Itโ€™s no longer there.



So, oval sportball time. I feel morally obliged to support South Africa and follow my fatherโ€™s โ€œAnyone But Englandโ€ tradition.



When a devolved legislatureโ€™s presiding officer certifies legislation is within that legislatureโ€™s competenceโ€ฆ is that a vires check?

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The Northern Ireland Assembly website is โ€œtemporarily unavailableโ€ which I suppose is appropriate. (If annoying since it means I canโ€™t read it to inspect the Assemblyโ€™s processes)

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The buildersโ€™ merchants have a โ€œno reversing without a banksmanโ€ sign. Whatโ€™s the gender neutral equivalent? โ€œNo reversing without a bankerโ€?
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@molybdomantic Post-Bod: When the Milkshake Runs Dry. The Commissioning of Childrens Television in the late 1980s.
@ceb

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@pseudomonas @molybdomantic Banksy would be fun, ๐Ÿ˜„ . You could then sell the signs to art dealers afterwards.
@ceb @Adam


Heard this Scot on the radio talking about the maudlin in the forecast. Took me a while to realise he meant modelling!
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