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18 years ago today I socially transitioned. Fuck me, that's a long time!


There will come a time when the Raspberry Pi Foundation does not require a super secret mythical combination of USB C power supply and cable that is only dubiously complainant and can only be obtained on the third Thursday of the months with no R in them.

That time is not now.

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@sparrowsion interesting, as my 4 has a random PSU and is totes fine, but the 3A with a pi specced PSU undervolts All. The. Time...
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@Kincaid @Sion [main] The 4 cares about the cable more than it cares about the PSU. They also fixed it for later versions of the 4.


Me: installs a new Debian

Also me: nslookup something.or.other

Me again: "fucksake!"

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I now ask interview questions about frustrating replaced commands to anyone who says they have a history with Linux.

"Which netstat flags have been replaced with other commands?" tells on a person

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@mark I also remember when the cult of of the parrotfucker decided that manpages were "deprecated". That didn't last.
@mark
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lol, ya. Man pages were always still available on the web. Not sure how anyone thought those wouldn't be used


Pi5 is fussy about its USB cable in the opposite direction to a Pi4: older Pi4s, if you used a USB Superspeed cable then it wouldn't come up. Pi5: if you DON'T use a USB Superspeed cable, it gets all arsey about booting from USB.
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so I’ve heard, 5V 5A right? not sure if any of my USB-PD chargers even support that particular configuration
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@joshie 🏳️‍🌈 I have mine on an Apple iPad PSU which does 5V/4A which it seems to like: the magic "I'm not going to be a twat about USB" flag comes on anyway.


Incels be like: Cattle have all the power. They have a monopoly on beef and milk.

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I am trapped on a train full of drunk footballists. Very very stressed.
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many years ago when smoking was still allowed on trains in the UK, I was in a carriage when a large group of fairly well lubricate lads came in. One was smoking and one of the others said loudly "you can't fucking smoke in here, it's a fucking no smoking carriage". They all duly left...


Was in Waterloo station just before 11 (waiting for a train). The police were there in force, looking very nervous. I think the fash (who, it turns out, were busy fighting the plod on Whitehall) may have overplayed their hand.


Gold loos: not only are they tacky as fuck; they would be really cold on your arse.

Maybe that’s why Trump is such a miserable fucker.

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@earthquake

At first I thought fracking, but almost all fracking in Poland is east or north of there. ...Maybe something top secret blew up underground?



The wave seems to finally be breaking, thank fuck!


Repeatedly, the trajectory of anti-trans politics is an immediate spike in panic / support, followed by a sharp decline.

As "parents' rights" panic collapses in the US, Canadian conservatives are setting themselves up for a losing battle. #cdnpoli

Anti-trans platforms lose elections - LGBTQ Nation
lgbtqnation.com/2023/11/anti-t…


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@mercedesallen And there will be no consequences for the suffering they caused. At a minimum there should be public, permanent oppo files on these monsters.
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@mercedesallen I’m sort of hoping this - the whole counterrevolution against any process made since the 60s - is all an extinction spike, like the anti abortion referendum in Ireland in the 1980s.

Not confident, but hopeful.




I appear to be developing a TP-Link Jetstream Switch habit.

They’re good switches though.



Which philistine decided to call it MOCA and not 1000BASE2?
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@Sarah Brown I want home networking with vampire taps. (Not really but I am sad I missed that era of networking)


Tesco were so preoccupied with the fact that they COULD, they never stopped to wonder whether they SHOULD.

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Increasingly getting the impression that MacOS Sonoma is a lemon, and best avoided.

Interestingly, when it bricked my M1 Pro MBP, and I had to recover from the recovery partition, it reinstalled Ventura.

And the new Macs ship with Ventura, with no Sonoma upgrade available.

Now seeing that the 14.1 update has screwed a load of webcam stuff used by remote workers.

I think I'm gonna keep my MBP on Ventura for now. My Mac mini server is on Sonoma, but all that's doing is hosting Linux VMs.

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@Miguel Arroz That sounds profoundly buggered indeed.

Touchwood I’m ok. The 6 days uptime is because of a power outage 6 days ago.

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Every so often I encounter someone who is very stridently advocating for understanding and sympathy for narcissists, to the point of sacrificing yourself to give them what they crave: supply.

And every time I smile, nod, and then instantly file them in the same mental drawer as “psychotic tiger in a bad mood”.

Never believe their bullshit, ever.

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With her mild dementia these days, not even from one sentence to the next. It makes it very obvious.


Picked up an RPi 5 with the active cooler. Very shiny!


Person in front of me in the pharmacy: Have you got something for a deep, persistent cough?

So how’s your day going?

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I am in Britain!

It’s a lot like in an ink jet printer were a country.




So it seems there are still, despite increasing numbers of “leaders” involved in “crypto” ending up in prison for being con artists, true believers in NFTs (if you’ve forgotten about those, they were briefly bigger than COVID 19 and about as beneficial to humanity) held a party in Hong Kong last night.

The organisers thought they were lighting the stage with black lights (like they have at LaserQuest to make your clothes glow).

They were not.

They were lighting the stage with UV-C sterilisation lights.

Apparently everyone involved is now in accident and emergency with extensive sunburn and BURNS TO THEIR RETINAS!!

In 18 months there are going to be a bunch of people wearing dark sunglasses and refusing to meet outdoors trying to sell you something expensive to do with “AI”. You probably shouldn’t buy it.

bsky.app/profile/danaweb.dev/p…

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I see the Slack people looked at their product and decided that what it needed was to be utterly, profoundly, ugly.



Just tried to listen to the “new Beatles song” and had to stop within seconds because the digitally extracted voice was so uncanny valley that I literally felt like throwing up.
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Like, there’s frequency components that should be there, even if distorted, but they’re just … missing.

60 seconds of that would give me a migraine.

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it's not very good anyway. You can see why Lennon didn't complete it himself. It's a bit like those horrible records where they take Johnny Cash (for example) and add orchestral arrangements. Shudder.
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@Susan Lewis Less than 30 seconds has left me on the edge of having to lie in a dark room in silence. No way am I able to listen to enough to make that determination.
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I heard it earlier. You're not missing anything. The Beatles split about an album too late as it was, without this unnecessary barrel scraping.
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I heard part of it and it just felt flat and empty anyways.

If someone (good) makes a cover I’ll listen again. Just to see how it is. Don’t expect it to exactly blow me away. I get it if a massive Beatles fan find it exciting, but for the rest of us it’s just a song amongst songs.



Ah, the glorious denizens of Reddit have definitively informed me that Tailscale, which implements a virtual network, privately, is “not a VPN”.

Apparently there is an entire generation of users who think a VPN is a personal porn tunnel.

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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=rCrQbg…

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 😉


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 didn’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.


!Selfhosted I have an #OpenWRT router. Let’s say I install Tailscale on it and want to create an interface that specifically routes to one of my exit nodes. Can I do that?

Everything I’ve seen about Tailscale on OpenWRT just provides direct router access to the tailnet (100.x.x.x), but I specifically want to route certain traffic to an exit node.

Can I do this? Do me proud, Fediverse! Hoping I can get good answers here without resorting to Reddit.

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I’ve done something similar, though not with openwrt. There may be a decent way to do this on the firewall, but I ended up using the ACLs available from the Tailscale console.

I removed the default allow all rule. I made a group called admins that can access everything and then added a set of routes that everyone on the tail net could access.

I’ve only recently set this up, but initial testing seems to have this working as hoped.

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I'm not sure this hits the nail for you or not, but I recently solved a question I had regarding tailscale and routing traffic through an exitnode that was using a VPN. Could be worth a peek.

Solution was Docker and Gluetun ✨

Check it her 👉 lemmy.world/post/7281194



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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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Alan Braggins
@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 it’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 😀

Also running on open software, because I don’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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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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@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.



“Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”

“I’m sorry, Dave; I can’t find anything like that in your Apple Music library.”



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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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…

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I wouldn't mind the blackjack and hookers at the swimming sessions. Gives something to do while drying off.

Oh, mercury. Oh.

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keep the fluoride and you'll be able to get full dental care from your water, cavity protection and your amalgam fillings will auto renew!