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Went to an NHS vaccine drop in centre and said, “I had a single measles vaccine 49 years ago. Could I have an MMR please?”

No quibbles. I am now in the queue for an MMR.

I will not go blind because of Andrew sodding Wakefield.

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!Friendica Admins Any idea what the situation with the Docker image is? It seems like Phil isn't active and hasn't been for a while. Does anyone know if he's OK?

Hopefully he is, and is just taking a break. Does anyone else know how to generate a new docker image? At the moment, we're kinda stuck on 2023.12, which AIUI has known vulnerabilities.

Failing that, how easy is it to migrate an existing installation away from Docker?

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@Michael Vogel @Zoe O'Connell Heh, the basic mechanics of building a docker image given a base system and a set of stuff to install, I can do. I'm an utter beginner with stuff like GIt and suchlike though. Last time I was gainfully employed in software engineering, we were all about CVS.
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Charles ☭ is now tooting from queer.party

A lot of wifis want you to log in via a website, so the work around for that is that you can record a lynx session and play it back, which is essentially automating a headless interaction with a website. Then put that a cron job.

I've done this in real life to keep a raspi authenticated on a pub wifi. It worked for several days.

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Amazon Prime and Sky Showtime mailed me on the same day to tell me that I have to pay more to avoid adverts.

Thing is, guys, a NordVPN subscription is cheaper.

Avast, and indeed, me hearties. 🖕🏻

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From elsewhere, ukpol, me on Farage

It was noted that Farage is seen as “vulgar” by the people who inhabit the Tory back rooms, and my response was, “ I mean, come on. Looking at him you just KNOW he’s walking around in 1970s nylon y-fronts that he only changes once every 4 days.

The guy is basically every Sid James character from Carry On, but unironically.”

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@Rachel Lawson Just searched for a bunch of examples on Reddit. AITA is a good source.

Stuff like, “my sister was mean to me and I’m really upset lol”

Like, I can’t be the only one imaging them on the verge of crying and then suddenly tossing their head back and laughing.

@Rachel Lawson

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Breathless press: Fusion energy breakthrough!

Me: reading article “blah blah blah Lawrence Livermore blah

Me: This is nuclear bomb research. Nothing to see here. Also solar panels literally exist. Move along.


I swear, “fusion power stations” are the global death industrial complex’s fig leaf for bomb research just as “hydrogen cars” are the global death industrial complex’s fig leaf for digging oil out of the ground.

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“Look at me pretending to develop fusion power for A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PER KILOWATT HOUR! Muhahahaha! Nobody suspects me of getting round non-proliferation treaties, which I literally admit to doing on my website!”

Solar panels: “Am I a literal fucking joke to you?”

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America and France: Hi! We have world-leading programmes to develop and study high temperature deuterium-tritium plasmas, and also space programmes which use solid rocket boosters which you could hypothetically launch into a sub orbital trajectory with a payload of a few tonnes at very short notice. These are unrelated and very highly civilian normal things we are doing. Also, STAR TREK!

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“This lettuce is a deep state trans activist” theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f…

Britain’s ‘deep state’ thwarted my plans, Liz Truss tells US far-right summit

Former Conservative PM, whose tenure lasted 50 days, tells CPAC she fell victim to UK’s ‘establishment … its bureaucrats and lawyers’
David Smith (The Guardian)

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I love the idea of getting vaccine boosters, but understand that in some places it’s basically not possible. Consider the UK, for example, which is literally throwing Covid booster doses away rather than give them to people not in their “at risk” groups who want them.

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“So you’ve found this website because your ADHD is flaring up to the point where deciding to boil an egg because it’s nearly midnight and you have known for the last six hours that you need to eat, might as well be designing the logistics for a manned mission to fucking Pluto. Here’s a simple 87 point plan for getting yourself out of this funk. Point 1: have you tried not having ADHD?”

Who writes this bullshit?

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Honestly, I think this is a wakeup call for the fediverse. This time it was mostly harmless spam images.

Eventually though, someone is gonna use the same trick to send seriously nasty stuff to our servers, and our timelines. The sort of stuff that you need therapy to try and unsee.

We, collectively, need to try and stop that before it happens.

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Muppet be like, “look at what trans people made us do!”

dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/18…

A 'Christian' family moved to Russia to escape 'LGBTQ, trans,' but now they're 'ready' to 'get out'

The patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family of 11 had had just about enough of gay people in his country. “We didn't feel safe for our children there in the future anymore,” father Arend Feenstra told Russian media. “There's a lot of left-wing...
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@gz @Ghost of Hope All their planes have airstairs. They use both front and rear entrances (with ground steps for the rear one), and they only have two classes of boarding: priority (where you get to use the overhead bins) and non priority (where you do not, unless you’re in an exit row). You wanna use an overhead bin, you have to pay extra.
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Just had a moment of panic as my little fediverse instance started throwing out error messages and refusing to load images.

Turns out, while uploading a CSV file of instances to block for posting spam, I’d managed to create a defederation rule for a server with no name.

It didn’t like that, and the federation stuff started going a bit wrong.

Managed to remove the offending entry and all is well. Phew!

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@Hypolite Petovan OK, so the docker image doesn't have a php config file. It has two sample ones in /usr/local/etc/php/. I Just did cp php.ini-production php.ini in that directory in the docker container and restarted, and it seems to have picked up sensible defaults, including the ones you mention above.
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@Sarah Brown @Michael Vogel

It looks like this. I get it via academicchatter@a.gup.pe which I do not want to block. It was way more two days ago or so. Allow Spammers for vegan steaks!

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PSA for small server admins. Spam bots are searching you out and creating accounts for spamming the fediverse.

Other admins are dealing with this by mass defederation of contaminated instances.

If you admin a small server, ensure that you have open registration turned OFF. If not, you may find yourself getting widely blocked.

I get that vetting registrations is work, but if you allow other people on your server, then this is part of what you need to do to be a good citizen.

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Thinking about UK Labour and the US Democrats, and their ideological clones across Europe.

Progressive parties seem have decided they don’t need to provide HOPE any more.

Literally the only people offering hope and the possibility for change for the better in the future are fascists.

And they’re liars, but if the only other option on the menu is “we will keep things exactly the same and stuff will slowly get worse. Fuck you, and be grey”, then I can understand the temptation to vote for ANYONE offering something different.

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It’s notable that none of the various articles on the far-right co-opting farmers seem to notice this - if the fascists are the only people offering hope to <any group>, while regular pols don’t give a toss, don’t be surprised at the outcome.

Nothing stopping Rutte or VdL saying “farmers need to be paid to apply their skills as the spearhead of better environmental management, forestry, river and flood management, etc etc ”, for example.

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political rant

@Alexandra Lanes @BashStKid They literally had "things can only get better" as their campaign song.

And now the attitude is like, "we must not make any improvements to anything ever. All the shit that the Tories did, that you're voting them out for? Not gonna change any of it. Tough titty."

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re: political rant
@ajlanes @BashStKid Aye. I recall the scene at quarter to 10pm on 1 May 1997
My mate: I've spoilt my ballot paper. You don't actually think Tony Blair's left wing, do you?
Me: I know exactly what I've voted for. One night of excellent television. Let us now get a taxi to my flat and watch it.
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it's just so *craven*

Like the facist press will savage them no matter what so fuck them and be bold and honest

Racist Uncle will vote Nazi^wReform no matter what so fuck him with a .303 and be bold and honest

And I understand that putting hard numbers on things is daft but for the love of god you can sell net zero as "yes, it's a bit up front, but you get *free* 'leccy for 6 months of the year and it fucks the Saudis and Putin with a wirebrush dipped in battery acid"

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A recent interaction on the fediverse:

"This term makes no sense to me. Does anyone know the history and why it is used? Don't explain why you think it makes sense"

Me: "This is the history. Its common and established usage across many fields. Why don't you think it makes sense?"

"I mean it when I said don't explain why you think it makes sense"

So I told them that I answered their question, but had no time for miserable cunts, and blocked and eradicated all trace of them from my own server's database, because I can do that.

Fucksake though. Some of the stereotypes here are true.

Do fucking better.

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The thing about the reputation that the Fediverse has for being full of "people like that" is that if you comment on it, they turn up.

Even when it's brutally obvious you're going to server block them for it. They can't seem to help themselves.

This is one of the nicest features here: with minimal effort, the tedious takes itself out.

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@BashStKid mp3s, pdfs, sheet music all here for you!

tomlehrersongs.com/poisoning-p…

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park

Lyrics: view or download PDF Sheet music: view or download PDF -- An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer, track 1 Album: stream playlist Audio File: download MP3 The Remains of Tom Lehrer (disc 1), track 13 Album: stream playlis…
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I've defederated from most of the worst of the "Mastodon HOA", and most of what's left gives me a pleasant and constructive social media space mostly without the massive knee-jerk navel gazing.

But sometimes a bit of it breaks through and ... yeah. Let's just say that the reputation that the fediverse has amongst those who mock and caricature us isn't entirely undeserved.

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@Uraael If I'm making main posts, I will go to the effort to add alt text. I recently did a long form blog with loads of images that didn't have it, which were all screenshots, and I don't always do it in personal or limited audience replies. Nobody gives me shit over that, possibly because of the scope of my interactions, or possibly because I've defederated from the worst offenders (especially that lot who are compiling the list of racists and trans women, but mostly trans women), or possibly because they know I'd just tell them to fuck off.

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I can only hope that one day the UK does similar to trans people. theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

‘This is where I apologise’: Polish state TV presenter says sorry to LGBT+ viewers

Activist Bart Staszewski hails ‘meaningful and necessary’ apology as opening new chapter for state broadcaster
Ashifa Kassam (The Guardian)

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re: Discussion of attempted murder of a trans woman
@Charles "Gender Ideology" ☭ H @Transgender World I think if it's all over the press being called a transphobic attack, anything I say in a place nobody is going to read anyway isn't going to make any difference.
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re: Discussion of attempted murder of a trans woman
@Charles "Gender Ideology" ☭ H @Transgender World In the uk a publication is in contempt of court if it creates a substantial risk that a trial will be impeded or prejudiced. I don’t think that’s the case here
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