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Randomly listening to Muse, and their weird conspiracy thing about how the "powers that be" want your "compliance".

And I find myself wondering, "comply with what?"

And honestly, the only thing I can think of is "paying taxes".

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You're the one currently making space inside your head for my ideas... 😁
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@Billy Smith I honestly have no clue what your ideas are, other than nationalising the water to make you pay taxes and not letting you buy a solar panel, or something.


Fell badly from my SUP yesterday. Initial tenderness in left knee which was bent at an awkward angle as I fell. Managed to paddle several more kilometres.

Later it swelled up and became agonising. Barely slept last night with the pain. Joint remains stable and able to bear load though. Got a compression bandage today. It’s helping massively.

Dr Google suggests that this is a grade 1 MCL tear. Mild, as the joint still retains full function. It just hurts like a fucker.

Apparently it should heal in 1 to 3 weeks. I’m hoping for 1.

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@Jack I’d put some bloody cross bracing in.
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@Jack I mean, this took almost none of my body weight laterally. I was almost in freewill at the time.

And it fucked it.

That's wank, that is. Stupid quadruped joint bodged into a bipedal leg and rotated 90 degrees.


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@antranigv Hehe. Like gallons, gah.

SI is superior in every possible way. It hurts to hear people argue for anything else at this point:(



Ok, have discovered the “for you” timeline view in #friendica 2023.12 and also limited default post display to 10 replies in the timeline, and have reinstated bluesky in my feed. I hope that will make the weirdness tsunami manageable.


Oh nice, got bluesky in my #friendica timeline now too! All my socials increasingly in one place!
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what was it like? Can you offer a taste for the benefit of us confused onlookers?
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@Alaric Snell-Pym It swamped my fediverse content with people shitposting about mayonnaise.


Went for a lovely Boxing day SUP paddle in the Ria de Alvor. A good 7km it was! Very pleasant.
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The bit that looks like sand wasn't; the tide was in.

But it got uncomfortably shallow at points.



Oh wow! The new Friendica release now has a list of abuse reports people have submitted to my server.

And there aren't many, but the few that have been submitted are from people who so truly, madly, deeply, need to FUCK RIGHT OFF.

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“Where the Karen has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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@A_C_McGregor
What if they just wanted to be Karening through the night? I mean it was bloody xmas 🎅

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@Sarah Brown
Please clear your browser cache or just hit STRG+F5 😀
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@Sarah Brown
Normaly, when you switch to a new Release of friendica, the Browser chache gets purged.
But to a Bug, that was fixed shortly after the release, it won´t get get purged and you have to do it manually -.-
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@anubis2814 As others have said, you need to flush the caches. That worked in Safari.

If you have an iOS Home Screen bookmark, it needs deleting and recreating.

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!Friendica Admins Getting a message on my admin page that there’s a 2023.12 release now. Can’t see anything on the official docker image though?

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The image is now up2date. Please have a look and tell me if it works.


LGBT conversion therapy (yes, including trans people) is now illegal in Portugal.

Penalties of people found guilty of trying to change sexual orientation or gender identity: up to 3 years in prison and, if the victim was a minor, a ban on working with minors for between 2 and 20 years.

Up yours, TERF island.

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Does anyone EVER have any reaction other than muttering, "oh, for fuck's sake" to the following?

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@    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
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IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
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@⠠⠵ avuko Especially since every different name that the machine is known by has its own bloody entry in known_hosts.
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This is one of my favorite things about using FreeIPA with DNS for SSHFP records. I’m sure there’s other ways of populating SSHFP values, but it’s the least terrible I know of.


Fellow trans women site owners: that HOA guy with the blocklist that blocks Nazis and trans women, but mostly trans women, is back on another instance. Just got the shock of my life when he showed up in my feed. It appears that his new personal instance is h-i.social.

You may wish to preemptively defederate for your own protection.

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ah, so am I so I should have picked that up. It's an odd mindset to want to deny to others rights your community has had to fight hard to achieve. But then I'm a middle-aged cishet white neuro(fairly)typical male
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@KeithC It's the British establishment "admit only the right kind of people and close ranks" thing. There were a few journalists who were transphobic, and it became a kind of loyalty test in order to be in the "in group" for them.

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can we at least redefine masculinity to include ass washing?

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@Luci for wry zings honestly, the fact that I always washed mine might have given me away when I was still in the closet.
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I’m all for personal hygiene and healthy habits. But it’s dead easy to stress someone out about the topic. Probably hit a nerve there I’m guessing.

Maybe a carrot would be good? Some collective light peer pressure that “other people like fresh people, not rank people”.

I mean it goes for everyone and all social situations when others are close. Stinky bad is a general thing. Don’t want to sit next to you if you stink.



It has come to my attention that some people think they need 5 gigabit fibre internet.

I am delighted to inform them that they do not. Stop wasting your money on bandwidth you can’t even fucking use, muppets.

You see your 4K smart TV what streams Netflix in Dolby ear destroyer 4K HDR supervision? It’s got a 100 megabit Ethernet port on it. Bet you.

You don’t fucking need 5 gigabits. Nobody does unless they’re running fucking Amazon from their front room or something.

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I used to work in an office of, I dunno, 20 people. We had a 1 megabit leased line and everyone was jealous of us. We also hosted a few hundred web sites of varying popularity from the server room - gotta do something with all the spare bandwidth...


Thoughts on airlines - long form blog post

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Thoughts on airlines - long form blog post
This was my EasyJet experience yesterday: quick, efficient boarding without any unnecessary boarding groups. Front and back doors open for deplaning too, so I got off without waiting forever. The flight itself was OK too, as there weren't endless and unnecessary announcements from the cabin crew - like how there was on Flybe. I usually fly with Ryanair and I can't call the experience much worse than KLM or Lufthansa.
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@Llwynog I’ve done fan stop to driving away in my car (via passport control) at Faro with RyanAir in 4 minutes.

I can’t imagine the “full service” guys coming close to that.




Urgh. I have mal de débarquement syndrome and it’s profoundly unpleasant.
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@Chris Northwood The treatment for it is hilarious. Unlike motion sickness, it is not an inner ear/visual imbalance. Anti emetics don't work. It's neurological.

Sitting in a car in the back seat and reading a book while someone drives works.



This last couple of weeks was the first time I have flown on “full service” airlines for years, after being a RyanAir frequent flyer.

Now say what you like about RyanAir, they understood the core brief of “airline”, which is “fly people places you say you’re going to more or less when you say you’re going to”.

The “full service” guys include a lot in the very high prices they charge, but it seems what they don’t include is what you actually want: a plane that goes where it says when it says.

I am … very disappointed in all of you. You know who you are. Go and sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done.

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Airlines have been undergoing enshittification for many years now and the rate seems to be increasing. Flying is just horrible these days.
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RyanAir, great budget airline as long as you're not taller than 150cm. Every time I have flown with them I haven't fitted in the seat. I wont use them any more. Jet2 is my preferred carrier.


What is it with smokers and their insistence on standing upwind? Fuckers.

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As I am in the Caribbean, I have discovered that there is quite a difference in what things cost. Take apple pies, for example: in Antigua an apple pie costs 9 eastern Caribbean dollars. In St Lucia, it’s 12. In Grenada, 10.

These are the pie rates of the Caribbean.



Airlines will straight up lie to you about where your lost luggage is, even after the point at which you call their bluff and show them the screenshot from “Find My”.
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@joshie 🏳️‍🌈 “Oh no, people are realising that we are lying to them” - and the solution is “stop them being able to find out” rather than “stop lying”.

Once the bag is back in my possession tomorrow, I will be filling in Virgin’s feedback form. My answer will be detailed.

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Front and centre in Miami airport, where we were last week, is a "US Veterans Lounge".

This makes me feel bad for referring to the UK as "Normal Island".

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Normal Large Chunk Of The Middle Of A Continent doesn't flow as easily, though.

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Your dress is amazing and I'm envying you being somewhere warm enough to wear it as it is 0C in Birmingham, UK, right now.


Look at this erect cock!

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“A neurodivergent person with anxiety? I bet they’d love a voicemail!” - too many arseholes.


USB C: ok, now plug in for power

USB C: NOT LIKE THAT!

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Anchored in Dominica. Walked up through the rainforest to the old British artillery battery to get a view over the bay, and then to the fort that the British army built (or rather, that their slaves built. I honestly can't imagine the unspeakable evil and sheer misery it must have been to do forced labour in this climate).

Anyway, the fort is now a museum and the area around it, a national park where the rainforest has been allowed to regrow. More recently, the establishment of the national park was assisted with an EU grant. Dominica isn't in the EU, but it retains ties to Britain which was an EU member at the time.

Got to see our ship, the Star Flyer (foreground) anchored in the bay, with her sister ship, the Royal Clipper (background), from the fort.


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Just sailed alongside our big sister ship, the Royal Clipper, while passing into the lee of Dominica island in the Caribbean. Got a couple of very nice photos with the Fuji X-E4 and a 230mm zoom lens.

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@FeralRobots @Ozzy I got lucky with the lighting. For just a few moments the sun shone through a gap and illuminated her.


Most people think the the Great Lakes are the largest bodies of water in the United States, but it’s actually this hotel toilet here in Miami.

The amount of hydroelectricity produced when you flush it is enough to power a large town! #CoolFacts

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The thump of the toilet seat dropping before the flush sound makes it sound like a Saturn V startup with the turbo pumps
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I believe that’s one of the standard ones:) I’ve been institutionalized to the point that it feels normal.

We do have a low flush volume one though. They just added a pipe halfway up the water tank. I assume it’s so Redneck Bob can remove it.

Flushes hard as heck.



The hell is it with American hotels setting their AC to condense carbon dioxide out. Is it some sort of CCS strategy?

Fucking. Freezing.

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@RenewedRebecca Winter in Minnesota, not much humidity here:(


I’m in America by accident. I’d rather not be. Thankfully it’s only for 14 hours.


Why do airports put their luggage shops in the departure lounge?

Think about that for five microseconds…

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@Alessandro Muraro where they taking it after the buy it?


A watched goat never burns.

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I remember that you were fascinated with this last year too 😀



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@Gen X-Wing it was a price guarantee in the early days to encourage them to invest. It’s no longer defensible.
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Yeah sounds like BS:(

The government should have invested (and owned) instead. The people should own the power generation.

Anyone who disagrees should look at Norway and oil.


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@earthquake
I get email reports from the USGS and I've had 8 from Mindanao in the last 24 hours. They've ranged from 6.1 to 7.6, which is not funny. I've been in a 6.9 and it was pretty scary.
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@Sarah Brown There was stuff on the news about a 7.5 quake in between all the other doom. They issued a tsunami alert but seem to have got away with only minor damage and one fatality so far.


If neurosis about the English class system were a place, why would it be Essex?

Everyone either wants to be Eastenders or Midsommer Murders, but the reality is that they’re almost all petit bourgeoise, and utterly horrified at the idea.

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About to get on a 4 year old 737 MAX8-200. Hope it’s running current firmware.


!Selfhosted Anyone else using Mac minis as VM hosts for self hosting? My Friendica server is a Linux VM on a Mac Mini in my living room. The VM is bound to a VLAN tagged network interface so it’s completely firewalled off from the rest of my network. Also got a second Linux VM on the same box for hosting local stuff on my main VLAN (HomeBridge/etc).

I feel like they’re really nice platforms for this, if not the cheapest. Cheaper than one might think though; I specced up an equivalent NUC and there wasn’t a lot of difference in price, and the M2 is really fast.

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@Aniki 🌱🌿 As I said, I did the comparisons fully expecting to get a NUC. The Mac was cheaper at the performance point.

As for US prices, not especially relevant to me. Import taxes are a thing.

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Just to add to the Asahi Linux chorus - I'm self hosting a bunch of things, not on VMs but installed on the actual OS, and it's been incredibly fast and reliable. I do have thorough offsite backups happening because one should, but loving it so far.