Just got told I “know nothing about computer security” by someone posting boomer sucker bait “copy and repost this or Facebook will own your precious bodily fluids” memes on Facebook, and resisted the urge to say, “don’t quote the deep magic at me, I was there when it was written”, but FFS!
Tip for well-meaning people doing diversity monitoring: if your form expects trans women to, at any point, tick anything that says “male”, then that is profoundly offensive and most of us will just lie to you.
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.
I am once again begging them to stop thinking they know better than the whole world when it comes to USB C power delivery. If Fred in his Wuhan shed can make shit that powers up without you feeling like you’re playing a game of fucking Myst, RPi with their impressive collection of computer science degrees and personal computer heritage should be able to.
Given how they were told of by the AUTHOR of the power delivery portion of the spec because of what they did to the 4, you'd think they'd have made *some* effort on the 5.
@ajlanes network stuff is all black magic to me. I've tried to configure firewalls and bridges and stuff and it's always been an exercise in bafflement.
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.
@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.
Well, if they were different, you could've shouted 'the other team is better' and then hijinks would've ensued!
The best you can do is look up a random controversial victory on google for the team and say that out loud when in trouble, and they'll be stuck in a loop of self-congratulatory talk, letting you off.
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.
@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.
@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.
@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 couldn’t start the VMs at all, didn’t 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 “psychotic tiger in a bad mood”.
@Llwynog yeah. Once you’re wise to their shit, you can defend yourself.
But if you don’t understand, and they’re in a position of power over you, that’s when they can do profound damage. A lot of us who were raised by them evolve coping strategies, but when you’re 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, it’s instant fight or flight, with a heavy dose of grey rocking.
This has actually served me quite well, but it’s a fucked up superpower to have.
@Llwynog I’m not sure I can put it into words. There’s usually something “off” 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 doesn’t 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 didn’t know anyone in the village but my dad disagreed. Then he went into a care home but she couldn’t move house then because it would be too awful to abandon the friends in the village she’d 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 €26 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 I’ve found that if it’s 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 60°. The 5 seems to be idling at 50°
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.
A number of Bored Ape Yacht Club holders who attended Yuga Labs' ApeFest event in Hong Kong have reported burns, damaged vision and “extreme pain” and suggested they were exposed to UV lighting at the event.
Killing Crypto with UV instead of Chlorine - 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/part…)
Several partygoers who attended an event at The Landmark in Central last Friday have been left with “sunburn” and light sensitivity in their eyes after apparently being exposed to ultraviolet light…
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.
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 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.
@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 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 Yes. Most of us have been saying that for years. Now it’s 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 didn’t 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 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.
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.
@🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @Rev. Roger BW 😷 AIUI, he's like that in real life. Some people are profoundly socially awkward, and he's one of them. It's orthogonal to him being a total arsehole.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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I need a drink.
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