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@cstross@wandering.shop I wouldn't even complain if that would mean came back
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Ben Hardill
@ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk
mastodon 4.7.3Working on @nodered@social.nodered.org at FlowFuse Inc.
Also Director/Founder Hardill Technologies Ltd.
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@danielbierstedt@norden.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social But that doesn't work. There are huge amounts of studies that show that humans are just not built to just "supervise" and not take part. They just zone out and stop supervising unless actively engaged in the task.
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@u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing @doctormo@floss.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social @danielbierstedt@norden.social You can't spell "cocaine" without "ai"
Anybody aware of something like the old Mu USB charger but upgraded to Gallium Arsenide and USB-C PD?
#USB
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@lina@ohai.social Hey, they are just spreading the word...
On a similar note we had a team at a previous employer who named all their test machines after Class A drugs, eventually somebody in upper management noticed and complained 😢
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@bagder@mastodon.social So this is logical conclusion of the python chardet library re-license.
Getting a court to rule is probably the only way to get a answer one way or another, but getting the LLMs to say definitively what is in the training set will probably be hard (claimed trade secrets).
Even if it's satire it won't be long
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@andypiper @ml @_elena
I got hit by this as well last week, 30% of all hits from the bot in the last 14 days.
I've not had any response from the email address they published on their bot page, so all those requests are getting 301'd to 100GiB gzip bomb for now
https://blog.hardill.me.uk/2026/03/12/wtf-facebook-doing/
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@sldrant @mainframed767 @arstechnica So all their senior devs will now be buried under code review and will all leave
I apologise to all in the UK for the upcoming cold weather...
As I have just put the summer duvet on the bed
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@bloor@bloor.tw There were stories of early EVs in San Francisco (a notoriously hilly city) being driven with early 1 pedal mode and then been taken home to house on the top of a hill. Charged to 100% and then just not stopping for the red lights at the cross roads at the bottom of the hill
I think I've worked out what was wrong with my VMs on Fedora 44.
Looks like the firewall rules that Docker sets up do not play well with the ones libvirtd adds.
Forcing Docker to use nftables rather than iptables/firewalld appears to fix things
https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/52612
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@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @danielbierstedt@norden.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social managers that do not engage with their reports, yes
Anybody got a UGreen NAS?
Do recent firmware have a built in remote backup capability that supports S3 buckets as the target?
I see conflicting messages online so want to check?
E.g. early suggests no capability and others saying they have restic support.
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@dpnash @revk @paco @davidgerard Surely the people to ask are the KLF (or K Foundation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid
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@combs I suspect they still don't have access to the database with the seller's contact details...
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@masek@infosec.exchange this will only get worse, I have stared to see stories about "Synthetic surveys" carried out by asking LLM to complete the survey rather than real people
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Yeah, sharing a link to your blog with 2 fediverse high follow count users can make even a Pi5 on the end of a FTTP line cry, load levels well over 100....
OK, scary time.
The backup finally finished (and threw a load of bad sector warnings)
Time to actually pull the fist drive out of the NAS and put in the new much larger one.
So seeing suggestions that the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Grand Prix will be cancelled.
Do we want to start a pool on
- Azerbaijan
- Qatar
- Abu Dhabi
Actually happening as well?
So OpenReach have picked the same sub contractor (we are now 3 contracts deep) as 4 months ago
So I am not confident they will complete the install tomorrow.
RE: @adamndsmith@mastodon.social
Some analysis of the Gemini transcript to see if the "Ai" had solicited this conduct would be interesting...
28 hours later the scanning of the files has finished and it's finally started to push the 1.6TiB over the USB 2.0 interface to the disk.
This may take a while (if my maths is vaguely right, probably looking at ~50-60 hours)
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@brunty bah, I see your 2 days and raise you 90+ days (FTTC to FTTP migration gone wrong), not that I'm still salty about it at all...
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@bloor This week the US FCC banned all consumer routers not made in the USA (so basically all)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74787w149zo
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@sldrant @mainframed767 The bit missing from the "Dark Factory" analogy is that they are carefully choreographed by humans with the lights on first, they don't just throw a bunch of machines in a box and shake it up before turning the power on.
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@mattblaze I think the red flag exercise is running at the moment, which I think is in that area of the world
Scratch that, Red flag is Nevada (Nellis)
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@andypiper last one aborted because "duct collapsed" 4 months later the dig team finally arrived and said nope all good
Just had one of those thoughts that will keep you up all night, luckily earlier me has actually already solved it, just in a not 100% obvious way when I first checked.
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@evemassacre@mastodon.social one assumes this was gold plated oxygen free banana and mud?
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@andypiper@macaw.social Ubuntu 24.04 is what I used.
I imported an existing disk image, but a fresh install also failed looking up the mirrors, so if it get's past that point then that should be enough and you can abort and delete
Thanks
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2466836
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@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io there is a header you can add to your email that disables it for the recipients.
x-ms-reactions: disallow
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@andypiper@macaw.social if you get a moment, try and create a VM in boxes and let me know if it has network access.
I have a open issue because my VMs can't see the outside world on my fresh install
hmm, does mosquitto not support bridge mode with MQTTv5?
Trying to bridge from EMQX to mosquitto 2.1.2 with MQTTv5 and bridge mode enabled and it fails with "protocol error"
Turn the protocol down to v3.1.1 and it woks
I can only assume somebody's "Agent" mined my contact details from my contributions to Node-RED, but this is just a bizarre email to get on a Saturday morning.
Also how many 29 year old high school students are there?
But anyway, I'm not in the mood to train your LLM
When are @mikrotik@mikrotik.social finally going to remove the force "admin" user on the web login page?
I've disabled the admin user, having it override my password manager and have to remove the default every time is a real pain in the ass.
Have it check if admin is active first or make it a checkbox to no default please.
The "spare" drive is plugged into the USB port on the back of Dad's NAS, Backup is started, now opening the pool on how long it will l take to push 1TiB over USB 2.0 to the disk (still probably quicker than over the broadband).
Will I get to pull the old disks out before next weekend (and then how long will it take to populate them one at a time)
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@dtl@8bitorbust.info A lot of gamer hardware (coloured lights on water cooling blocks and the temperature thresholds for when the pumps kick in ) can now configured by WebUSB to prevent having to write custom apps.
Forcing people to user Chrome to configure hardware is a pain
(Or so I'm told from a bunch of podcasts I listen to about folks doing gaming stuff on Linux...)
TIL That Mastodon's media cache is LOTS of small files in LOTS of directories. When presented by this, Synology's HyperBackup is VERY slow to walk them all to decide if they have been changes & need pushing to the S3 bucket setup as a back up location. It took 14hrs to push 99GiB yesterday.
I added another couple of directories (totalling an additional 1.5GiB) and it looks like it's going to take another 14hrs to check again.
Need to keep this in mind for Dad's off site 1TiB of Photos
Yeah, it was time to swap these out
Looking at the date code on the drive I removed, March 1st 2014, so 12 years old.
Having built a solution around mosquitto auth plugins, working out how to migrate to something new, I need to reuse the same underlying mongo db that has the credentials stored in it.
Both of the plugins could could work with the existing database, but I don't think there is a current plugin that supports the latest mosquitto
Best thought so far is to move to EMQX and make use of the HTTP auth and write a little server to handle the auth look up
Hmm, Just wondering about a possible bug with the quote toot feature.
I'm seeing quotes with the pending message, but the quoted toot shows up in the Federated timeline before the quote toot before it is approved for the quote.
Now this could just be a timing thing on my instance, but I wonder what happens if the original author denies the quote, does that still leak it to the quoter's followers?
With a low enough volume on the Federated Timeline this is pretty obvious