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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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.
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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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In case anyone reading this has been at an Ape Event in Hong Kong recently, here's a version of all the images with alt text.Bluesky Social
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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.
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*
This is Financial Advice
Clickbait Title: if the price is zero then you can buy all the sharesI tell you what, when you try and tell this story you either sum it up in ten minutes wi...YouTube
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.
If someone's paycheck depends on them not getting something,
Those folks are going to go out of their way not to understand it.
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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.
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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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!
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:(
@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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Ugh, so offensive and totally stupid. Presumably, it came from that redundant, failed binary ideology.
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“Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”
“I’m sorry, Dave; I can’t find anything like that in your Apple Music library.”
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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
Spanish clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 children, commission finds
Report finds 0.6 percent of Spain’s adult population said they were abused by members of clergy when they were children.Al Jazeera
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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…
England to diverge from EU water monitoring standards
Exclusive: campaigners fear less rigorous methods could lead to more pollution in rivers and waterwaysHelena Horton (The Guardian)
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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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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".
I will not be taking questions.
@rochelimit I can’t handle anything spicy (as in I get very sick from it) so I’ve never tried them, so I’ll just have to take your word for it:)
Also lots of cereal and peanut related stuff went down here. If that’s your thing.
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.
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 ☑️🐙🏳️🌈 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.
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.
Ex-fighter pilot, now researcher, challenges autonomous vehicle safety (BusinessInsider) - London Reconnections
The leading source for independent news and analysis about transport in London and beyond. Award-winning coverage of transport infrastructure and politics alongside stories about the history of the Capital's transport networks.Long Branch Mike (London Reconnections)
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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.
Still, not how I'd planned to spend my evening.
i have spent a month trying to get my PC to boot off install media as it needed nuking to the bare metal.
USB. nope. DVD. Nope. Spent far too long beating PXE with a stick. Got every other device to work except the PC...
Then today it just...booted from the network...except ubuntu now didn't pick up the win10 install
I HATE tech at times
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.
Done.
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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!
It’s no longer there.
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The “advising people on the internet that they can’t be dual tax resident” people are at it again.
They sound very convincing as well. Sadly, HMRC are less easily convinced.
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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 that’s not the angle I’m approaching this from.
That being said, I’m 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.
It would have been epic.
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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.
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“Don’t worry, Trump won’t be nominee”
“Don’t worry. Trump won’t be president”
“Don’t worry, the UK won’t leave the EU”
“Don’t worry about LePen”
“Don’t worry about AfD”
“Don’t worry, we can carry on with business as usual”
SOMEBODY FUCKING DO SOMETHING! START FUCKING WORRYING.
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I increasingly feel utterly alienated from the growing part of my species which seems to openly want to rush towards apocalypse.
WHY?!?!!?
I do not understand how this is happening, and why people enable it. I am happy with my dog, but am rapidly losing interest in humans.
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“Hey Siri, set cinema”
“Ok, which home? The one you’re currently in or the one two thousand kilometres away?”
YOU ARE LITERALLY A FUCKING HOMEPOD. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK?
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The Israelis are about to kill over two million people, half of whom are children, and the world is just going to let them.
How utterly monumentally fucked up.
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in reply to Llwynog • •@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.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •the endless guilt-tripping is their most powerful tool. Covert Ns are really insidious because they present themselves as shy, introverted, morally superior and even sweet, initially. They're masters at mental gymnastics.
Playing the victim, endlessly talking about themselves and constantly complaining are my three N red flags.
Do you have any advice on how to detect (covert) Ns before they can do much harm? Any specific behaviours to watch out for?
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