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Anyone know of a reasonably-priced 4G (or later) USB stick that'll Just Work™ in a oldish Mikrotik box? It's sitting on top of a rack in the datacentre to give me emergency access when needed, currently using a 3G USB stick I had lying around. Ideally I'd like to find a stick that'll be willing to pass through a public IP address to the host, but I haven't been able to find anything that seems to do that. The current 3G stick insists on NATing, so if I have to accept NAT, it's no worse than at present - I just maintain an outbound tunnel to a third-party VM I already have elsewhere and log in through that. It's one more step I could get rid of though. At the moment one solution I'm seeing is to replace the whole Mikrotik box with the cheapest one that has a cellular data modem built in for circa £100, but it'd be nice to generate less e-waste and (hopefully) spend less by replacing only the USB stick.
[UPDATE] [PEW] VoIP and SIMs :
Phasing out of 3G on data SIMs3G is being phased out by all mobile network operators, and will stop working for our data SIMs in early September.
The data SIMs we provide already support 4G. In a small number of cases it is possible that devices are too old to support 4G, in which case the device is sadly obsolete and will need replacing in order to keep connectivity.
You will be emailed if we think your SIM is one which is in …
Tech types, I’m a hardcore proponent of owning my own data and content. I’m looking to figure out a POSSE workflow—Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere—to connect a personal site, Bluesky, and Mastodon. If you’ve already invented the wheel, I’d love to hear how. Thanks!
This is insanely good. Anime girl becomes self aware and uses Blender.
Source: https://twitter.com/kensyouen_Y/status/1820748563338637581
Huh, interesting, mammals won’t reproduce unless they feel that their children will be safe.
Anyway, I’m sure that’s not relevant to any discussions about human societies.
If you take a social media sabbatical, don't announce it.
Just make your last post something fun like "I wonder if there's a bear in this cave?"
The deed was do'ed (last Thursday).
Now my mum seems to not recognise me more often than previously (although that might just be progression of her dementia), and my sister's dog, Comet, who was fine the first time he met me after the dehairification, growled at me this evening when he saw me in bike gear and bare-headed. Took him a while to grudgingly accept me again.
On the whole, I think I like it though. 🤷♂️
Do you know why humiliating fascists is good?
Because definitionally they are weak-willed cowards
they are emboldened when they think the average person will let their escalation slide
they are small and scared to act when they think there is a chance they'll be confronted
wide-spread humiliation and disdain is a fantastic way to keep them feeling unsupported
I don't mean laughing it off and not taking them seriously, I mean actively making them feel judged and afraid of humiliation and confrontation
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokesexistentialcomics.com
A lot of tutorials would be 10 seconds long if the given task was done in any shell at all instead of trying to finesse Windows Explorer into doing anything more complicated than drag and drop.
I wish people didn't fear the command line.
Over a 1000 boosts 👇, sharing the joy that we mobilised across the country n showed who we really are 💕
Tonight in Brighton. This represents Britain #AntiRacist #AntiFascist #NoToIslamophobia #ukpolitics
Better, less clumsy headline;
"Antifascists outnumber Fascists in protests across the country"
#FuckTheFash #UKPOL #ukpolitics
This almost feels like magic. A ferromagnetic alloy made from to non-magnetic metals!
"Bismanol" is an alloy of Bismuth and Manganese, developed in the 1950s by the Naval Ordnance Lab (as hinted to by the -nol in the name).
To make it, I melted 32.9g of Bi and then added 7.0g of Mn to the melt. The mixture was heated to ~800°C and then poured into a mold.
The ratio or the quenching might not be optimal to reach maximum magnetism, but I am pretty pleased with the result.
"The best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest. Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being."
This is the speech of the year. I've always found it remarkable how easy it is to hate – it's a primal emotion that often comes from ignorance and requires no intellectual effort.
It took a long time to write this.
I feel it will take longer to process.
Gonna miss the hell out of you, 'Neer. Travel safe, and I'll see you on the other side.
Proud of #bristol tonight. Easily 3-4 thousand people in attendance, all here to oppose the far right. Such a welcoming and tolerant atmosphere.
The far right did briefly show, but quickly realised they'd bitten off more than they could chew and vanished.
As far right protests were planned all over the U.K. tonight, Walthamstow in East London is being overrun...by anti fascist demonstrators!
Just look at that crowd. Good work.
U.K. anti fascist group Hope Not Hate has supplied a dossier to the police which we believe identifies the main instigator of the riots in Merseyside, who compiled the list of far right protests tonight, including the one in Walthamstow, London in the photo in the above post. He has also called for the assassination of Nick Lowles, leader of Hope Not Hate, and the U.K. Home Secretary.
More details to follow.
More photos from dozens of towns and cities in England tonight where far right protestors were massively outnumbered by counter demonstrators.
Thousands of people stood up against racism in towns and cities across the countryThe Guardian
Health-conscious UK people: due to fash riots, it's likely there'll be Section 60AA orders in place: this permits police to ask you to remove your mask IF they *reasonably believe you are wearing it to conceal your identity*. However, this needs to meet certain conditions.
As with any other time a cop asks you to do something, always ask "under what power". For Section 60AA powers, first of all it needs to actually be in effect where you are *and* meet the other conditions.
Ugh, of course he had to say "new" affordable housing. Couldn't just say lack of affordable housing. Because the solution is always build more houses, build more houses!
Sore spot, sorry. Everything except that one word is dead on.
Regardless of what happens to any particular website, back up your stuff if you care about it. You should never, ever keep anything important on a single hard drive or a single website. You don't need to be fancy about it, either. Just copying your important stuff to a flash drive every couple weeks is better than not having a backup at all.
If you want to sync things to a cloud provider, Proton Drive gives you 5 GB on their free plan. Mega gives you 20 GB for free. Both use Zero-knowledge encryption so your data is yours and yours alone to use.
Those aren't referral links. I just want folks to have working backups so they don't have to worry every time an issue happens on a single website. Please, please have a working backup of your stuff. You never know when you'll need it.
Screw it, fursuit Wednesday. Rules are made to be broken. #Fursuit #Unicorn #VintageApple #vintagecomputing #FursuitFriday
A throwback from early '22. Light is mighty proud of her PowerBook!
Content warning: re: Death, "The Right Time" to Demand Change
You know, "now isn't the time to talk about this" is what we hear whenever something bad happens.
And it sucks to hear when YOU TRIED TALKING ABOUT IT BEFORE AND NO-ONE CARED THEN EITHER.
So fuck off.
