Been trying to contact a shipwright, ANY shipwright, in France, to help with my annual boat maintenance and, is it a French thing that NOBODY EVER FUCKING ANSWERS THEIR FUCKING EMAIL?
Do not make me fucking phone you. I am neurodivergent and I don't speak French.
@GreenSkyOverMe means they're both using the Messages app on an apple device (iphone, ipad, mac). secondarily, that they can confidently send other media eg: photos, videos to each other; it doesn't depend on phone networks to work (once each end knows the other is on iMessage, it just goes over internet) and is secure (end-to-end encrypted)
Just replaced my old Apple TV 4K with the newer model that is also a Thread border router. I now have two: the HomePod Mini (WiFi) and the Apple TV (Ethernet).
And OMG, Thread is so much faster & more reliable!
@Rachel Lawson I get where you're coming from, as I isolate my wifi IoT stuff on a VLAN, and Thread doesn't play nicely with that unless you put the border router on a VLAN too (which, given the nature of border routers, is unlikely to work out well).
But I profoundly fucking hate 802.11 as a home automation standard. It's profoundly unsuited to it and I am backing away from it anywhere I can, and unlike Zigbee, Thread actually seems to work properly in an environment with multiple manufacturers' gear.
I'll probably skip it. I want to pass the 2K to my parents and get a 4K for myself, but I would need to swap the remotes otherwise my father is going to throw that thing out the window, and I don't blame him.
Any idea what we can do to mitigate remote contacts using animated GIFs for their avatars and causing zombie worker jobs because PHP can’t handle the format? It started as a small issue, but more and more people (especially on lemmy) seem to be using these avatars and it’s causing a significant administration headache where I have to find out which contact is responsible by manually searching the SQL database and then server blocking them.
If Update Contact failed gracefully it would be less of an issue, but it doesn’t. I’m sure I can’t be the only one seeing this?
@Sarah Brown @Steffen K9 🐰 You need to use the underlying package manager of the image to install the relevant dependencies, and then restart either Apache2 or phpfpm to take the changes into account.
On Debian-like: apt install imagemagick php-imacgick
@Hypolite Petovan @Steffen K9 🐰 Rather irritatingly, despite the docker image apparently being based on Debian Bullseye and Bullseye supporting php-imagick, there's no installation candidate available.
@Hypolite Petovan @Steffen K9 🐰 Rather irritatingly, despite the docker image apparently being based on Debian Bullseye and Bullseye supporting php-imagick, there's no installation candidate available.
root@347d4a56513c:/var/www/html# apt update
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease [116 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease [27.2 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease [44.1 kB]
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main arm64 Packages [7955 kB]
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/main arm64 Packages [286 kB]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates/main arm64 Packages [16.3 kB]
Fetched 8444 kB in 1s (6423 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
19 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
root@347d4a56513c:/var/www/html# apt install php-imagick
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package php-imagick is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
@Sarah Brown @Steffen K9 🐰 @Hypolite Petovan Maybe it is something Alpine Linux specific. I Am also using Alpine and I also had this error all the time. Either the one you posted (gd-webp cannot allocate..) or another one. Currently I only see this one, but very often :
Fatal Error (E_ERROR): Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 96485376 bytes)
I tried to allow more memory, up to 2048M.. it didn't help.. (now I am using 512M again) I don't know why this happens. But I understand it is not nice, having the admin log section full of it. 😕
What PHP version and memory_limit do you use? ( I use PHP 8.3.10 and 512M)
Until the last year or so, I had believed something more or less along the lines of "England has been uniquely stable over the past 1000 years. Other countries have had bloody revolutions (France, Russia) or pulled themselves together out of fragmented parts (Germany, Italy) but England has missed out on all that, the elites here have always known how and when to soften and to give up a little power in order to avoid those excesses".
@goatsarah Listening through The Rest Is History podcast has disabused me of this idiotic idea. We've had just as many usurpers, revolutions and civil wars as anywhere else, it's just that the English have had better marketing.
@bencurthoys @goatsarah Fair. I think most of that view derives from Britain being the odd one out while everyone else was doing 1848/midcentury civil wars. We wrote that up as ‘look how stable we are as we loot the rest of the world’ and it was never internally criticised.
@Ben Curthoys lol, yeah. The Anarchy, 1st barons war, 2nd barons war, Wars of the Roses, Mary marches on London, 1st civil war, 2nd civil war, Restoration, Glorious Revolution, Jacobite Rising. Probably missed some.
My watch just informed me that today is my personal record for single day calorie burn. I can believe it. I am having difficulty moving now. strava.app.link/ak7QiUQwTMb
@Alexandra Lanes @gz You … you … shut up with your remarks about how I’m definitely not going to be trudging along Curbar edge in September 2025 wondering why the fuck I did this to myself.
BREAKING! In a move that the Liberal Democrat party hopes will finally deal with their transphobe problem, they have handed the Sudetenland to the transphobes.
In exchange, the transphobes pinky promised that they won’t demand any further concessions, “you know, for a bit anyway”.
A transphobe spokesworm was later overheard muttering something about what a shame it would be if something happened to that nice Poland you’ve got there.
Nothing quite illustrates the desperate need for proper civics education than a man with a policy platform of “stopping imaginary transgender immigrants eating your cats” being neck and neck to be US president.
These billionaires are funding malign influence campaigns that support Putin, Xi, and #PrinceBonesaw
Including coups, political violence & riots.
Including stochastic terrorism
Including voter suppression, election interference, & a judiciary to overturn elections
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@Npars01 I take issue only with the word "permanently". I reckon the instant they got the Treasonous Orange Fuckgibbon 'elected', they'd declare him mentally incompetent and put their own patsy in place using the bits of your constitution that's useful to them.
@Npars01 With Citizens United justice John Roberts & his accomplices paved the way for political prostitution, corruption & money laundering of new shocking dimensions in political businesses, tailormade for purchasable figures like Trump.
@Npars01 Those oligarchs are *some people*, not ***the people***.
They know very well, that for big money Trump's anytime for sale, whatever their wishes may be, disregarding right & wrong.
Those few people shouldn't be able to override the will of the people & the Constitution's implications, regulations & intended order, holding that the sovereign of all governmental power is the people, not a couple of super-rich egomaniacal wannabe-aristocrats longing to be free from the "burden" of commonly accepted laws, rules, norms & values (not valuables).
My mobile gameplay channel (Tekkan Plays): @TekkanPlays It's crazy how good phone games look these days. I mean, who would have thought we'd be playing game...
Now smartphones are mature products we’re into the annual “this is an incremental upgrade over last year. I’m so mad replacing my 2 thousand quid perfectly functional phone with one that’s almost the same for another 2 thousand quid” cycle.
My brother in Christ; have you considered just … not?
I’m upgrading this year. My phone is 3 years old and the camera stuff is worth it for me. My step daughter is getting my old one, which she is thrilled with.
@christineburns i was thinking of getting a new iphone this year, as it would be replacing an iphone 11 (five years old). I still might, but unless i decide i'm going to really try to make use of that camera... it's just a nice-to-have, not compelling.
possibly thinking of a watch 10, as that would be upgrading from... no watch at all. but then i remember i've never even liked wearing watches. you forget that while the keynote's playing… 🙄
@Colman I totally agree! No harm in investing to get the best tool to work for you long-term. The reference to two-year cycles was from the original post: people who buy the £2k phone and then complain that they "need" to buy a new one after two years
My iPhone 12 from a relative going strong and works just fine. I could get a new one but I don’t care that much. Looking to get the battery replaced (Apple will do this for you and keep / reseal it) which won’t cost too much and will keep it going for many years to come. I’ll probably upgrade in a few years when it’s actually slowing down
are you actually going to spend £2000 on a new phone? I'm a bit chary of upgrading my 2 year old £400 Android phone as camera wise the newer versions have gone from 3 to 2 lenses and probably added even more AI trickery to the imaging. They have also added a more powerful processor which simply means the battery would be dead more quickly: this one is fast enough for my needs and currently runs for up to 5 days. And it has both phone socket and SD drawer. And phones have now become phablets - they no longer fit it anyone's pockets or handbags so people end up hanging them round their necks. As it is my previous, now 7 year old, phone, which I keep in a drawer, does still work but the OS no longer gets updates and it wont 'see' 5G towers.
@christineburns it’s incremental but to me that’s a good thing. Phones are good now, we’re making small improvements (like over the past year or four they’ve gradually gotten way more shatter resistant), they last long. You upgrade every 3-5 years and you get the sum of all the incremental changes. Much better than the days of FOMO when you skipped a year.
i've previously upgraded because the battery became too weak to hold a charge; although getting five years daily usage out of a somewhat fragile device is pretty decent in my books.
I did concider upgrading before hardware failure forced my hand in order to obtain a better camera until I remembered I have a compac camera that's still better than phone cameras which I have since bought a new battery for and use instead.
OK, so I basically have undiagnosed ADHD, and my life is organised to accommodate that, so I have no real interest in a diagnosis.
But I found myself wondering about this weird hypocritical thing that a lot of neurotypical people do, and that's regarding conversations. Neurotypical people will talk over each other constantly and interrupt, and so if you, as a neurodiverse person, have something useful to contribute, you too have to interrupt because if you wait for a gap, it will never come.
But while they allow interruptions from each other, they don't allow them from us. They'll stop for each other, bit for us they'll keep going too, until we shut up.
So I tried searching online for insight about why this happens, and I kept finding articles written by neurotypical people that were all along the lines of, "Hey ADHD people, here's how to stop interrupting us!"
And my response was, "you absolute, totally self-unaware, fucking hypocrites!"
And then I finally found something that explained it.
When neurodiverse people talk to each ot
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OK, so I basically have undiagnosed ADHD, and my life is organised to accommodate that, so I have no real interest in a diagnosis.
But I found myself wondering about this weird hypocritical thing that a lot of neurotypical people do, and that's regarding conversations. Neurotypical people will talk over each other constantly and interrupt, and so if you, as a neurodiverse person, have something useful to contribute, you too have to interrupt because if you wait for a gap, it will never come.
But while they allow interruptions from each other, they don't allow them from us. They'll stop for each other, bit for us they'll keep going too, until we shut up.
So I tried searching online for insight about why this happens, and I kept finding articles written by neurotypical people that were all along the lines of, "Hey ADHD people, here's how to stop interrupting us!"
And my response was, "you absolute, totally self-unaware, fucking hypocrites!"
And then I finally found something that explained it.
When neurodiverse people talk to each other, we generally have two goals:
Information exchange
Mutual enjoyment
Turns out that when neuro "typical" people talk to each other, information exchange is usually not actually that important, and they're doing something that we basically don't in these situations: they're setting and reinforcing social status.
We, of course, simply do not play this game, largely because IT'S COMPLETELY FUCKING STUPID AND PATHETIC, which means we are automatically awarded a "game" score of zero, and therefore do not get to speak.
And if we try to speak, we are "interrupting" and "being rude", even if we supply information which is relevant to the alleged topic, and even if we're literally the most qualified person in the room on it.
This explains why we can have conversations with other neurodiverse people just fine. We aren't playing the stupid rutting game.
I am honestly shocked by this revelation. Like, it's barely one step removed from picking ticks off of each other and eating them. I'm also massively fucking depressed, because this utter obsession that the neurotypical world seems to have with comparative status is a massive reason why we can't have nice things. They treat the world like it's pie, and they have to have a bigger piece than everyone else, even if that means their piece is far smaller than if they'd just cooperated to bake a bigger pie, and share it fairly.
Anyway, bit of a revelation to me. Shit one, but there we are.
The whole ranking thing is in some sense illogical - if I have a nice meal, why should it bother me that someone else have the same but with champagne?
I still think it makes sense from the perspective of evolution: People don't look for an 'adequate' partner, they look for the best/strongest/richest one available. I think that explains a lot of the dominance assertion, it's simply a way of shouting 'Pick me!'
As another suspected ADHDer I found this fascinating. I know I like to chat for connection too, sharing mutual experiences, demonstrating where we relate, like a dance of shared personal info that makes you feel closer to each other. Which again doesn't fit in with your NT examples. Also *hugs* and I have spent some happy times in your company listening to you.
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Additional info: I have an "Update contact" job in the worker queue that has been stuck for 6 days. The contact is: hexbear.net/u/Florn
As I've noticed previously, this is a contact with an animated GIF as an avatar. Every time this happened, blocking the contact, and deleting the job from the worker queue, fixes the problem.
Recently, Google announced a security issue in Google Chrome, titled "Heap buffer overflow in WebP in Google Chrome." Initially, it seemed like just another bug in the popular web browser.
@FeralRobots I doubt it. The common factor is apparently genuine accounts with animated avatars, and it's now happened several times. I think the Friendica worker has some sort of size limit for avatars, and when one exceeds it, it's not failing gracefully, but instead bunging up the system.
PSA, guys, yes, your animated GIF avatars are lovely. Also, the Fediverse consists of thousands of servers, many of which are self hosted. Consider whether your avatar which goes on for megabyte upon megabyte is maybe a little bit antisocial?
So my suspicion was right: it's animated GIF avatars which are causing this. However, rather than fail gracefully, I'm left with a zombie worker job which seems to persist forever.
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Have taken the plunge and changed the physical SIM on my iPhone 13 To an eSIM. I was previously dual SIMming with one physical and one eSIM, but now I’m dual eSIM and the SIM tray is empty.
!Friendica Support Hey all. Just upgraded to 2024.08 and the list of forums/groups from the column in the left has disappeared. Is there an easy way to get this back?
Just travelled with “Transavia”, which I found out afterwards is basically KLM/Air France (which is an airline I try to avoid) trying to do a Ryanair impression, and getting pretty much nothing right.
Welcome to this French marina. Thank you for paying us silly money to let your boat stay here for a bit while doing your hobby that will get terminally online people calling you a plutocrat who deserves to be killed by a giant murder dolphin over. Here’s what your money gets you.
they were always so terrible. I remember going to French marina bogs in the 80s with my dad that were literally just holes in the ground with a pervasive toilet/cigar smoke smell that still haunts me! On the plus side, how lovely to be in a French marina for all the other reasons, however much they are fleecing you 😀
The press seems to have switched from “Trump’s brand of irreverent fascism is so sexy, we love it” to “Trump is a pathetic loser, and we can smell his fear”.
It's like many in the press required the DNC to call Trump out on his BS before they would do it. Guess it always has been about the papers sold, the headlines that got clicks, the ad spots sold, the controversy generated more than anything else for them. Especially since our news is controlled by fewer and fewer companies and not journalists.
ultimately they want to be seen to back the winner and give the impression they were why the winner won. We see this in the UK media when the Murdoch press switch to backing labour when it’s obvious they’re going to win anyway so they can say “it was the Sun wot won it”. Leadership as the art of spotting which way everyone is running and getting out in front.
I do some TV work on the side and deep refection is not exactly something we excel at. Most stuff is rather shallow. But I get to play with neat gear and get into really cool places.
The story is whatever fascinates the media, who then become the story and feed the cycle.
It's great that the Harris team has managed to give them a new narrative to be fascinated by. This "happy warrior" story is working to feed the endless loop.
This is the first time the media's fascination with Trump's hold on what used to be considered normal people (which then amplifies the effect) hasn't been the focus of attention since 2019.
We do this to English words with the German past-tense prefix ge-. Today have I already gebreaded (German grammar optional). For bagotten it sounds more like an irregular one using be-, like benutzt.
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@Chris Packham @Rebeca To fit is. I think it’s actually two: one irregular - to fit (inside something) and to fit (a person for clothes) which is regular.
Apropos of a conversation on Reddit, the British etiquette of offering tea/coffee three times, and refusing on the first two, thus:
Can I get you a tea or coffee?
Oh, no thank you.
You sure?
Yes, I'm good.
I'm making one anyway.
Oh go on then.
Now here's the thing: most of my social circle are geeks with some type of neurodiversity going on, and one thing we value is a straight bloody answer.
So it will go something like this:
Can I get you a tea or coffee?
Oh, no thank you.
OK.
I wonder how many thirsty tradespeople I've annoyed in my life?
I don't really believe the "three times" etiquette is real. If it was, you'd notice a lot more people offering it to you three times before they accept the answer.
@Tathar is dragons! (public) My wife’s grandparents were like this when they were alive. Persuading them you really meant “no” to anything was like trench-sodding-warfare.
@Tathar when presented with the "must offer something 3 times to make sure" thing I occasionally after the third time just say "etiquette handshake protocol complete." Much to some annoyance 😁
@Bad Gardener Actually, yeah. If they refuse the first time I’ll generally assume that this is a contractor who just wants to keep interaction to a minimum and leave them alone.
I like repeat tradesmen, then I know whether to have kettle/coffee pot on for arrival, whether to get milk in or not... new tradespeople are *terrifying*
@Heather As I understand it, without a prescription it’s legal to buy them from abroad but not from the UK. It’s legal to possess them and illegal to supply them.
There are uk sites where you can have an “online consultation” with a doctor who will rubber stamp your purchase.
Finally some HRT is now available over the counter without a prescription at Boots
I've been torturing myself for decades. But a big glass of milk isn't a great deterrent to heat overload. Something with milk fat coupled with citric acid helps the most. Like plain whole yogurt with lime or lemon juice squeezed into it. Citric acid breaks up the capsaicin oils bonded to your mouth and throat, milk fat coats and sooths a bit. But just pounding milk puts a big strain on your digestive system, which makes Act 2 & 3 a lot worse than they have to be.
Network Rail invited me to take a tour of signalling through the decades, starting with the Littlehampton Signal Box - still operating semaphore signals - th...
There's a few semaphore signals left on the Hexham line. There's no significant junctions the whole length of the line, but there used to be, and it's double track, so I imagine under normal operation it doesn't need much attention.
A lot of the infrastructure has been reduced to short sidings and the like for engineering work. There's also crossing points between the tracks which spend 99% of their time normal. I suppose if you're at a possession to work, there's no real need to electronic signals.
Wasn't there something about an accident at a Thetford level crossing because that line was on a special, completely different computer system at Cambridge Power Signal box, which everyone hated using and was confused by? Or am I misremembering?
@Sion [main] NSTR. Basically as you say but the driver needs permission from the signaller to get the token. Level crossings seem to be either user worked, open, or automatic.
@Sarah Brown When I was up along the Cumbrian coast with @Ben Harris we got chatting with a signaller somewhere around Drigg. Apparently moves to upgrade the signalling along that route got nixed because it was felt having people on the ground monitoring train movements was better for the security of flask trains. (Both the low level repository and Sellafield are up there.)
@Sion [main] There’s a delay attribution code EXT ANIMAL for attributing a delay to “animals not under the control of Network Rail”. This begs a question, obviously.
Regrettably, there are people out there who seem to find a complaint in every activity. It is not that the glass is half-empty, it is that the glass it the wrong temperature, wrong colour, badly designed, and probably made in a country that they disapprove of. So grit the teeth and don't get wound up when these people come into your life (just hope they move on soon).
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