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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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!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.

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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@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.

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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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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 can’t 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.

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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.

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@kianryan ☑️🐙🏳️‍🌈 It’s an area where there’s 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.

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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.