@electrocutie yeh i'm imagining something that's sage-dominant with salt & black pepper & I'm over here like 'yep, i'll eat way too f*ing much of that.' @goatsarah @6a62
I have two Linux and one FreeBSD. Since Sonoma they randomly hang after running for a few days. After this latest update (14.1.1) I had a hard time trying to even boot them up. UTM couldnโt start the VMs at all, didnโt get to the phase where it shows fhe big UTM logo in the window just before handing the console to the guest OS.
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 โpsychotic tiger in a bad moodโ.
@Llwynog yeah. Once youโre wise to their shit, you can defend yourself.
But if you donโt understand, and theyโre in a position of power over you, thatโs when they can do profound damage. A lot of us who were raised by them evolve coping strategies, but when youโre a kid having to defend yourself against the person who is supposed to be nurturing you, it causes life long damage.
We also tend to be on high alert for them, constantly. If someone behaves in a way that triggers my narcissist response, itโs instant fight or flight, with a heavy dose of grey rocking.
This has actually served me quite well, but itโs a fucked up superpower to have.
@Llwynog Iโm not sure I can put it into words. Thereโs usually something โoffโ about them. Very self absorbed as you note, and feeling the need to constantly have someone or something ready to blame, even for stuff that doesnโt actually require it.
When small things all align to make them the best / most hard done by person in the world. If it is a pattern then you can guess they are lying or just making stuff up to fit the narrative. For example Brenda said she wanted to move house when she retired because she didnโt know anyone in the village but my dad disagreed. Then he went into a care home but she couldnโt move house then because it would be too awful to abandon the friends in the village sheโd known her whole life.
@Adam @Eleanor LNR Blair @Sesquipedality @mobbsy Laptops don't generally have GPIO pins and suchlike. They also, IME, make extremely poor servers because of the form factor. Horses for courses.
@sesquipedality @lnr @mobbsy That finds me a zero for a mere โฌ26 including delivery, which I guess is an improvement but is still quite a lot for the minimalist option.
@lnr @sesquipedality @mobbsy Oh, I get that. It's just galling because there's SO MUCH MORE STUFF in a laptop.
It's like the cheapest cotton T-shirt is about a quarter the price of the cheapest 30x30cm square of cotton fabric. But if you don't want your fabric made of T-shirt material, you have to pay the extra.
@Sesquipedality @Eleanor LNR Blair @Adam @mobbsy Iโve found that if itโs doing video processing for HomeKit secure video, a 4 will will run the fan once every minute or so, for a few seconds, to prevent throttling.
So far the 5 seems to run a fair bit cooler. IME, 4S idle at about 60ยฐ. The 5 seems to be idling at 50ยฐ
So it seems there are still, despite increasing numbers of โleadersโ involved in โcryptoโ ending up in prison for being con artists, true believers in NFTs (if youโve 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 โAIโ. You probably shouldnโt buy it.
A number of Bored Ape Yacht Club holders who attended Yuga Labs' ApeFest event in Hong Kong have reported burns, damaged vision and โextreme painโ and suggested they were exposed to UV lighting at the event.
Killing Crypto with UV instead of Chlorine - ย Crypto. also known as Cryptosporidium. The CDC defines it as"one of the leading causes of waterborne disease, or disease caused by contaminated
Likely cheap white, UV LED arrays without filters, or UV disinfection lamps which must be filtered or positioned to (dramatically) reduce exposure and avoid damage.
(Edit: Corrected reference to this not being UV-C since a similar 2017 incident at a Hong Kong party WAS caused by UV-C disinfection lamps. Source: hongkongfp.com/2017/10/26/partโฆ)
Several partygoers who attended an event at The Landmark in Central last Friday have been left with โsunburnโ and light sensitivity in their eyes after apparently being exposed to ultraviolet lightโฆ
Just tried to listen to the โnew Beatles songโ and had to stop within seconds because the digitally extracted voice was so uncanny valley that I literally felt like throwing up.
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.
@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.
I heard part of it and it just felt flat and empty anyways.
If someone (good) makes a cover Iโll listen again. Just to see how it is. Donโt expect it to exactly blow me away. I get it if a massive Beatles fan find it exciting, but for the rest of us itโs just a song amongst songs.
@Sarah Brown Theirs is a particularly weird definition to me because the VPN I first met was the Sinister Greenend VPN, which is a collection of nodes and works very much like Tailscale.
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.
@Jay #FBPE ๐ณ๐ฑ ๐ช๐บ Yes. Most of us have been saying that for years. Now itโs crashing, but some are desperately hoping that their dreams of unlimited wealth can still be realised. They cannot.
Yeah I know someone who's well over his head deep in crypto. Despite all the research done on it, refuses to believe that it's the Ponzi scheme that it is. I sure don't want to be the one to tell him "I told you so."
@jaybhatt The difference between a Ponzi scheme, crypto, NFT, insurance, and many other schemes is that Ponzi failed at two things. He didnโt make it somehow legal, and he had the misfortune of getting his name attached to it.
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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 didnโt 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.
Interesting commentary recently by Patrick Boyle mentioning a lot of people are linking this "era of scam" (crypto, AI, drop-shipping, passive income, etc) to moral hazard effects of the 2008 bailouts.
My understanding of it is that many in the US (which seems to be worst affected) went into 2008 thinking money was somehow a proxy for your "score at life" but came out of it thinking wealth was some kind of puzzle box to be cracked.
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.
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.
!Selfhosted I have an #OpenWRT router. Letโs 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 Iโve 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.
I am a total beginner in this regard, but maybe maybe this could help you:
Check out PBR - policy-based-routing. On OpenWRT there is an app for this task, vpn-policy-routing (together with luci-app-vpn-policy-routing for a GUI inside LuCi). This app helped me to route all traffic coming from my PiVPN to the WAN interface, instead of my commercial NordVPN. Now at home all my traffic goes to NordVPN and when I am not at home I can easily VPN into my home network.
@glasgitarrewelt Thanks. The routing is less the issue than creating the interface that sends traffic to the Tailscale exit node. AIUI the way Tailscale operates on OpenWRT is to provide an interface whose destination is the tailnet, not an exit node.
Iโve 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.
Iโve only recently set this up, but initial testing seems to have this working as hoped.
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.
That's a rhetorical question. The worst thing in the world is bedbugs. They are the manifestation of pure evil. I have literally never seen one and yet the very thought of them strikes utter terror into my heart. I once eradicated a colony of harmless booklice on Scarlet (our boat) because of mistaken identity. Sorry, guys.
Anyway, there's currently a huge problem with them in Paris, which means that any random short haul plane you get on in Europe is:
A: Likely to have been to Paris recently and,
B: Pose more than a negligible chance of having bedbugs on it.
I'm flying to the UK next week, and while I am entirely without aversion to thermal warfare, spreading diatomaceous earth everywhere, and filling my environment with pesticides which probably don't work any more (damn you, Darwin!), prevention is far far far better than cure, because as I understand it, pretty much everyone who has ever had a bedbug infestation has post traumatic stress disorder from it.
So I am enacting a new policy. From now on, my ca
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What is the worst thing in the world?
That's a rhetorical question. The worst thing in the world is bedbugs. They are the manifestation of pure evil. I have literally never seen one and yet the very thought of them strikes utter terror into my heart. I once eradicated a colony of harmless booklice on Scarlet (our boat) because of mistaken identity. Sorry, guys.
Anyway, there's currently a huge problem with them in Paris, which means that any random short haul plane you get on in Europe is:
A: Likely to have been to Paris recently and,
B: Pose more than a negligible chance of having bedbugs on it.
I'm flying to the UK next week, and while I am entirely without aversion to thermal warfare, spreading diatomaceous earth everywhere, and filling my environment with pesticides which probably don't work any more (damn you, Darwin!), prevention is far far far better than cure, because as I understand it, pretty much everyone who has ever had a bedbug infestation has post traumatic stress disorder from it.
So I am enacting a new policy. From now on, my cabin luggage on planes is a dry bag. I have a dry bag rucksack from Decathlon. Small, portable, easy to carry, air tight, bedbug proof.
@Andy Buckley Well the OpenWRT builder doesn't run on ARM, and the only x86 box I own is a knackered old MacBook Pro, 2015, that I once poured beer through by accident and currently has some ancient crusty barely functioning Ubuntu on it.
Also, TIL: The OpenWRT web interface, Luci, by default listens on 0.0.0.0:80, (via uhttpd) which one may think is madness, because you don't want the WAN or non admin VLANs accessing it.
So I changed it to 192.168.1.1:80, but it turns out that this is pointless. It was always firewalled from the WAN anyway (and indeed, port 80 and 443 incoming are forwarded to my Friendica server), and it turns out that it still accepts connections from other VLAN subnets because of funky loopback shit.
So you need to firewall the router from potentially hostile VLAN subnets and just allow DNS and DHCP via port forwarding (if that's how you roll) through anyway.
(Aside, I wondered what the fuck the "input" zone forwarding was on the OpenWRT firewall. Turns out it means traffic aimed at the router, and only the router. Live and learn.)
And also, if you try and bind it to the main LAN, it comes up before that interface does, notices the interface doesn't exist, and promptly quits.
And then you have to go in via ssh and start it manually.
So don't do that. It's set
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Also, TIL: The OpenWRT web interface, Luci, by default listens on 0.0.0.0:80, (via uhttpd) which one may think is madness, because you don't want the WAN or non admin VLANs accessing it.
So I changed it to 192.168.1.1:80, but it turns out that this is pointless. It was always firewalled from the WAN anyway (and indeed, port 80 and 443 incoming are forwarded to my Friendica server), and it turns out that it still accepts connections from other VLAN subnets because of funky loopback shit.
So you need to firewall the router from potentially hostile VLAN subnets and just allow DNS and DHCP via port forwarding (if that's how you roll) through anyway.
(Aside, I wondered what the fuck the "input" zone forwarding was on the OpenWRT firewall. Turns out it means traffic aimed at the router, and only the router. Live and learn.)
And also, if you try and bind it to the main LAN, it comes up before that interface does, notices the interface doesn't exist, and promptly quits.
And then you have to go in via ssh and start it manually.
So don't do that. It's set to 0.0.0.0:80 in /etc/config/uhttpd for a reason, and we shouldn't fuck about with it.
Rolling your own Internet router is fun, but there are all sorts of fun ways to screw yourself.
The whole concept of gatekeeping the concept of transness has recently reared its head in such a way as for me to notice it. Specifically, I've come across the term, "TheyFAB", which is not a word I'd encountered before, although it comes with a lot of very obvious baggage.
I will say this. On the one hand, I have, over the last couple of decades since I transitioned, encountered a very small number of people who are trying to "attach" themselves to the trans community in ways which end up harming other people in that community by sucking up resources from people who really don't have many to spare, in the service of their own ego.
But it's really not many, at all, and not all have been assigned female either.
So I think my main thinking on stuff like this is that some people, if they're going round gatekeeping the identities of people who, realistically, have no meaningful impact on their lives, need to spend less time worrying about what other people have going on, and more time sorting their own shit out.
If a bunch of people aren't hurting you, don't go
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The whole concept of gatekeeping the concept of transness has recently reared its head in such a way as for me to notice it. Specifically, I've come across the term, "TheyFAB", which is not a word I'd encountered before, although it comes with a lot of very obvious baggage.
I will say this. On the one hand, I have, over the last couple of decades since I transitioned, encountered a very small number of people who are trying to "attach" themselves to the trans community in ways which end up harming other people in that community by sucking up resources from people who really don't have many to spare, in the service of their own ego.
But it's really not many, at all, and not all have been assigned female either.
So I think my main thinking on stuff like this is that some people, if they're going round gatekeeping the identities of people who, realistically, have no meaningful impact on their lives, need to spend less time worrying about what other people have going on, and more time sorting their own shit out.
If a bunch of people aren't hurting you, don't go out of your way to ruin their day.
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".
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 canโt 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.
Iโm in this bracket. I have asthma, chronic IBS, chronic rhinosinusitis since childhood, multiple allergies, Dupuytrens disease, ADHD type symptoms, and was starting to get rheumatoid arthritis in my fingers at the point when, thanks to @Zoe O'Connell gwtting a coeliac diagnosis, the household went gluten free.
And then the arthritis just โฆ went. If I accidentally consume gluten it comes back for a couple of weeks.
Most of the rest of the damage appears to be irreversible though, after more than 4 decades of eating it.
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.
@kianryan โ๏ธ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Itโs an area where thereโs 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.
@MrDaleSmith I have no direct experience of the US Washington "progressive" set, but I do have experience of their UK equivalents, and too many of them just think it's a bloody game.
@tommyyum I'm not so sure - outside of the MAGA, I don't think he's got the votes in a general election. Since 2016, he's lost 3 straight (2018 and 2022 midterms and the 2020 general).
My guess/hope is that moderate Republicans stay at home if Trump is the nominee. In addition, there's the 14th amendment issue that will end up in the Supreme Court.
@jaybhatt @tommyyum I worry less about him winning than about people who are crazy enough to do something if he doesn't. We haven't yet done anything to convince that lot it's better for them to sit tight.
@FeralRobots @jaybhatt @tommyyum Although to be fair, those same people will gleefully do worse if he wins, so even if his winning is improbable, it's still the bigger worry.
@petealexharris Well that's the thing, there's precedent to suggest that if they're sufficiently discouraged, most won't try anything. E.g. they tend not so show up at polls if they think their guy's gonna lose. I agree with @goatsarah that we could do more in that regard. But more than we're doing would entail Democrats ignoring law, which isn't something they'll agree as a party to doing. (Dem corruption tends to be an individual choice, rather than structural.) @jaybhatt @tommyyum
@tommyyum The principle motivating feeling of most American Republicans is fear. Even their greed is subordinate to & filtered through fear. (I suspect Tories are similar, AFAICS this is super common for conservatives in general.)
So 'stop being frightened of the guy who can unlease an overwhelming swarm of low-skill ratfuckers' is a noble aspiration, but one to which the majority of Republicans cannot obtain.
@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.
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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.
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.
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!
Iโm not sure Musk will have any choice in the matter. He canโt afford to reinstate the moderation that would be needed to meet EU law, even if he wanted to.
I want to preface this by saying that I am not, in any way, a furry. I wish those who are all the best with it, but thatโs not the angle Iโm approaching this from.
That being said, Iโm kinda mad that evolution took our tails.
Equal in length to my height, about 2-3cm in diameter, and scaly like a pangolin. Prehensile and strong enough to take my body weight.
Right, not starting anything, but normal countries have a general election should their parliament serially fail to produce a functioning (at least in name) legislature.
So without naming names, if any large federal republics with a 9 digit population in the western hemisphere need an intervention, blink twice.
I'm thinking of a western federal republic with 9-digit population which fits that description but doesn't have that option because that's not how elections work here...er I mean 'there'. (Unfortunately. Maybe. Who knows, in the place I'm thinking of triggered elections would almost certaily result in [even more] chaos.)
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