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@PetraOleum@cloudisland.nz @Happyfishmedia@cloudisland.nz same here if it was rejected I wonder what set of criteria they are using
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Ye Gods this is literally James Bond shit.
You know when bluesky goes down it basically brings down the entirety of AT Protocol however if mastodon.social goes down while it would effect a significant chunk of activity pub users they would still be a significant chunk of the network posting about the biggest server on the network being down. This is due to big world (AT Protocol) vs small world federation (activity pub)
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@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange
Please don't start an argument
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@kravietz imagine a future where AWS goes down and stays down for days because the backup remote access solution that's supposed to be independent of their infrastructure and run by a third party turns out to rely indirectly on AWS and thay can't physically get into the data center because their access control system (Basically the "smart" locks on all of the doors) relies on AWS which is currently down
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@mavnn @cstross@wandering.shop @dryak@mstdn.science @whybird@aus.social it's kind of funny because when I was in high school it was still just barely in the era where a lot of stuff was run on prem when I was attending my high schools learning management system was run on a server physically located at the school (I was on good enough terms with the school's sysadmin to be able to get a look) when in some idiot put a backhoe through a fibre line down the street it kept working (after the schools it admin fixed DNS it's always DNS)
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@cstross@wandering.shop @dryak@mstdn.science @whybird@aus.social also yeah I can admit that don't really bother creating neat organised from the hierarchy is beyond what is absolutely necessary for some other program to work but at least I know that files and folders are there even if I keep about half of my files just disorganized in my downloads or documents folder
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@mavnn @cstross@wandering.shop @dryak@mstdn.science @whybird@aus.social it's all running on a cloud-based solution now of course I know this because I bumped into my old school sysadmin while I was attending polytech at a networking event thing that I was referred to while doing my course (we all had to go to at least one of them) and apparently he was very upset about the cloud thing he was told to move stuff to the cloud to save money in spite of the fact that he did the math and it was objectively more expensive
Ok I decided to play #KSP for the first time in a while and decided to play science mode finally got to do a mission that passed close to the mun and it technically succeeded (if I had any mods for life support it would have failed though) basically I didn't quite have enough Delta v to complete the burn to do my planned Aero break however the orbit I managed to get into is still unstable it's just going to take several hours of real time to actually land (and months of in game time)
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@nev@flipping.rocks well it appears that whatever you're doing is working because the original post appears to be gone
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@bodil this might finally be enough to make me finally beat the status quo and and actually reinstall my 10 year old Ubuntu install the thing has survived 3 drives, 2 laptops and multiple major version upgrades because I can't be asked to set everything up again.
For context I originally installed Ubuntu 16.04 during my last couple of weeks of high school at this point I don't know everything that I've got set up so it's going to be a pain but I'm probably going to have to fucking do it
Ok I finally got my main NAS drive converted to #Btrfs and after doing some of the initial setup things mostly running a defreg and balance I decided to run the bees duplicator and ye gods in only about five hours it's managed to free up almost 100GB of space and the ETA for actually finishing a full crawl is about a day and a half more in the end I may end up with almost a 1TB of free space compared to only about 500 GB when I was on ext4
#linux #Self_hosting
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@youwouldntverbanoun@mastodon.derg.nz deviled devil now that would be something
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@cstross so that post somehow makes me feel old as well despite the fact that I'm only 24. It also says a lot about how weird technological adoption was in New Zealand and in my household in particular
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@cstross@wandering.shop the main interaction I have with LLMs these days is figuring out the magic keywords that will cause it to put me through to a human
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems probably at worst you're probably within the first dozen (unless there was some internal dev version of the steam deck that had an FPGA built in for some reason)
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@cstross@wandering.shop I wonder if any of them have ever tried to fake it by scooping out the brains of a couple hundred poor "volunteers" plopping those brains into jars and hooking them up to VR and then hiding those brains out of sight while pretending that those "volunteers" got digitised (bonus points if they try something horrible like brainwashing them to believe that they are the same person to fake multiplicity)
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@cstross@wandering.shop @davidgerard@circumstances.run I vaguely remember you talking about something similar when it comes to believing your dead as the original idea for a third halting state novel except it was the reverse a brain implant which cured/compensated for the brain damage caused by a viral version of that but then Scottish politics destabilised and covid happened and you decided not to write it
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@cstross@wandering.shop well isn't that terrifying
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@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange @cstross@wandering.shop ok that makes marginally more sense after you edited your post
Fucking hell I started HRT a few months ago and wow I have noticed how sensitive my nipples are until now fucking hell
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@AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt the number of times I've had to wait my turn to talk only to forget what I was going to say is very large to the point where if I had a penny or for every time it happened in the last decade I would probably have enough to put a decent dent in this month's rent
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Fun fact in some locations your car radio might set its own clock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System#:~:text=Can%20synchronize%20a%20clock%20in%20the%20receiver
(note that while it is supported by the RDS spec I've never personally seen a radio station that actually bothers to broadcast RDS time)
Apparently sand theft is a really big thing
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@cstross@wandering.shop like the Neo is currently on the top of my potential new laptops list (my current laptop basically hasn't been a laptop for years the hinges are currently held together with bulldog clips and the battery only lasts about an hour and a half) but even if I do manage to scrape together the money for it (I'm on a more or less fixed income so that's no mean feet) I'll still probably keep using my old laptop as a quasi desktop machine
Ok snap packages are great and all but they should really have an option for an alternative that actually works I just spent two hours trying to debug something with steam and some modding tools and I've determined that my best option is to install arch (or something derived from it) or to go fuck myself because those tools absolutely won't work if steam is in a snap package (or flatpack) and installing steam any other way on Ubuntu is completely borked
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@feorag@wandering.shop hey it could be worse you could be doing a test/procedure where they insisted that you don't partake in anything caffeinated for 48 hours beforehand
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@isotopp@infosec.exchange and I now have to turn this on immediately
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@zzt if I remember correctly the law only applies to consumer operating systems meaning your script might (might) still work on the server/embedded but not the desktop version (which is kind of asinine because you can technically just install a desktop environment on the server edition and then they're basically indistinguishable but hey when did laws have to make logical sense)
You know when I wake up in the morning I keep touching my face even though I know that I'll feel stubble there and feeling that will make me feel like shit because dysphoria but I keep doing it for the same unknowable reason that people poke at a sore tooth (like there's no revelation or answer I don't know why I do it I just know I've probably do it for similar reasons)
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@damnyouwillis.bsky.social oh and number 1 lost the legs because I selected the wrong support type and they snapped when I tried to separate the supports (and I didn't have any super glue to hand)
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@damnyouwillis.bsky.social yours came out better than my first 2 attempts. These are attempts 1, 3, 4 (attempt 2 was a bed adhesion failure about 20 minutes into the print there wasn't much to see so it went straight in the trash) The 1, 2 and 3 were printed in 69.23% scale instead of the default 4 is 100%
Weird fact about me I am fine with being called a slut but I don't like being called a whore for the incredibly weird (and probably autistic) reason that it is generally technically inaccurate I personally do not accept money for or pay for sex (even if I have no problem with others doing so) words mean something and I don't like being called the wrong word
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@theonion good news it's Wednesday if you're in the Southern Hemisphere across the international date line
Me: its warm enough today for it to be practical to wear a skirt
Me 2 : but I dont have anything that's clean that has pockets and I need to do shopping
Me: I could just use a purse
Me 2: yeah but that requires that I open it to get my phone which is also my wallet which adds a whole extra 2 or 3 seconds every transaction and thats just awkward
Me: nobody seems to care when most other woman does it
Me 2: ... Yeah it's not like it's more likely they'll call me a fraud if I do something normal
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@damnyouwillis.bsky.social
The 1, 2 and 3 were printed in 69.23% scale instead of the default 4 is 100%
adding this cos I realised that my post got truncated when it got ported over to bluesky
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@gary_alderson@infosec.exchange @cstross@wandering.shop ok it took a couple of minutes of googling for that to make any sense whatsoever and I still don't quite get what you were trying to say
like all of those words make sense in this context especially after looking them up but I'm still having trouble passing them :D
Like that's just Kia and Nissan.
If I remember the news correctly Tesla employees were literally caught shearing videos of people fucking inside Teslas
The lesson for that being don't fuck someone inside a Tesla.
And honestly if you are doing it in a even halfway modern car even if it doesn't have interior cameras it probably has enough sensors to tell what you're doing
The fact that car companies are even claiming to collect that kind of data is extremely concerning
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@AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt this makes me feel better somehow lol
Right I've just signed up for a power company for the first time and as always with many types of online forms I am mildly paranoid that it didn't actually go through because of all of the ad blocking and stuff I've got because I didn't get a confirmation email immediately but with something like a power company it might not actually do it automatically it might just flag it for the attention of a human in which case a delay is normal
Ok I do like this outfit but the messy hair, glasses and expression make me overall look like a cranky librarian
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@cstross
*Technically RouterOS will do it over any network interface but without a quantum channel QKD is kind of pointless
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@youwouldntverbanoun@mastodon.derg.nz no I probably have my doctor do it
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@cstross@wandering.shop @gary_alderson@infosec.exchange dammm sorry I'll make sure to un at you from any further replies
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@Aaron_Davis@toot.cat yeah activity pub stuff is slightly more resilient because there are a lot more full self-contained instances whereas AL Protocol is basically just bluesky at this point (yes I'm aware that there are other people trying to run full stack blue sky but they are a rounding error at this point whereas there are other legitimately big instances other than mastodon.social and a whole lot more small ones)