floof.org
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.
Please stop calling Dragoneer the founder of FA.
He wasn't.
FA was created by Alkora and myself.
He just bought it and fucked it up.
This just smells so scammy. But they have the planned activation date and the second half of the postcode correct, and the phone number matches one on openreach's web site, so… presumably it's genuine?
I think it's a "proceed with extreme caution" situation.
They sent a grumpy followup message saying, basically, "okay, well, I suppose you didn't really *have* to reply and we'll assign the port to you anyway" and giving a link to a comms.openreach.co.uk URL which I'm quite happy to follow, which basically just says to make sure the ONT is present, plugged in, switched on and has a sane configuration of indicator lights on it, which it is and has. All good.
I just had another thought: the messages were from what looks like a normal mobile number, but perhaps it's actually a "special" number that costs more to message. If so, that would be why it failed; I have no credit on my giffgaff account, only my monthly goodybag (although it seems they no longer call them that, huh), which is a good protection against scam messages from expensive numbers trying to get you to reply without realising.
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A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes
https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/first-contact-with-k8s/
- fair observation
A journey into Kubernetes: key concepts from a systems engineer's perspective, with a detour to yaml-template-hell.David Ventura (Mumbling about computers)
"Here’s the real crisis facing the Tories: their older voters are dying off, and nobody’s replacing them"
Turns out Conservatism does not look so attractive to a whole generation of people who will never realistically be able to gain anything to conserve.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/07/tories-older-voters-conservatives
People used to shift rightwards with age. But the Conservatives have destroyed that prospect, and there’s no easy way out, says sociology lecturer Phil Burton-CartledgePhil Burton-Cartledge (The Guardian)
2:30 AM: Lying in bed, staring into darkness, sigh
6:30 AM: Three different alarms and I slept through them all :P
F U summer
Chess hasn’t been updated in almost 200 years and it’s obvious the devs have abandoned it. The greedy creators took your money and laughed all the way to the bank.
I remember back in 705 AD when chess was fun. Then they started adding stupid features no one wanted like “castling” and “en passant” instead of listening to player feedback and fixing game-breaking bugs. I’ve been complaining for years about the collision-detection glitch with the horsey. The ‘clipping-through-pieces’ bug has been abused to death and the lazy devs refuse to fix it.
Don’t support this awful behaviour and boycott this company.
[cave johnson voice]
Oh, in case you got a swapfile on an encrypted
btrfs partition, here's some advice the lab boys gave me: DO NOT make a swapfile on an encrypted btrfs partition.
We haven't entirely nailed down what it is yet, but I'll tell you this: it's a lively one, and it does NOT like the desktop environment.
Can a ghost and a zombie come from the same person?
I'm so amused by the image of a ghost looking on in horror as its zombified body staggers around...
Zombie: BRAINSSSSS
Ghost: This is so embarrassing. Please, Phil, pull yourself together. We were a lawyer, for Christ's sake.
Brief blog article: “Symbiosisware”.
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/symbiosisware/
that is interesting because it is the direct opposite of software that I often run into: Software written be developers who clearly do not use it themselves.
This is software characterised by having both flaws and just weird behaviour that no developer would accept in their daily use if they had any way of using an alternative or fixing the software.
I see this a lot in e.g. vendor supplied toolchains.
I like open source tools a lot for various reasons, but I can't think of a single example which has flaws or behaviour which drives you up the wall in the same way that a lot of commercial software does.
maybe I phrased things a bit too loosely. One specific example is a commercial compiler which comes with a kind of IDE which is just *terrible*.
For instance, it has rudimentary support for looking up symbols but sometimes this just ceases to work, and there appears no way to fix it outside of deleting your project and starting over, waiting for it to happen again. Sometimes it crashes etc.
A coworker routinely imports 3D models of PCBs and enclosures into FreeCAD and re-export them because otherwise our expensive suite for 3D work grinds to a halt working on them.
I don't recall ever running into something like this in OSS -- okay, perhaps in a few cases were it could be described as symbiosisware -- but in commercial software I'd be inclined to call it prevalent.
Edit: spello
@mk aaah, IDEs. That makes more sense.
In my day job I maintain toolchains myself, it so happens. We do have IDEs to wrap around those toolchains, but I never use them – I run the compiler directly from the command line. So indeed I wouldn't notice if the IDE had misfeatures, only the underlying compiler and linker etc.
(In fact I'm not an IDE user in any context, being long-term committed to emacs.)
#SelfHosting / #CommunityHosting / #ManagedHosting picks of the day:
➡️ @fedihost - PeerTube & Mastodon managed hosting
➡️ @mastohost - Mastodon managed hosting
➡️ @snikket_im - XMPP/Jabber managed hosting
➡️ @Cloud68 - Managed hosting for very wide range of FOSS services
➡️ @homegrown - Advising non-techy people on hosting their own online services
➡️ @adminforge - German-language site advising on self-hosting
➡️ @jellyfin - Host your own Netflix/Spotify-style streaming service
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#SelfHosting picks of the day (continued):
➡️ @Mastodon - Microblogging anyone can host
➡️ @news - Flexible social networking, works with many protocols including Fediverse, RSS etc.
➡️ @synoforum - Unofficial forum for Synology NAS users
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#SelfHosting picks of the day (continued):
The account below is a discussion group. Follow it to see its discussions in your timeline, mention the group to post to it. (More info about how to use Fediverse groups: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/)
➡️ @selfhosting - Discussion group about self-hosting & community hosting & managed hosting
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS PART OF THE THREAD, IT MIGHT SPAM THE GROUP.
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An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
Do you love hyenas? I hope you do! Because those cuties will be available on many new merch soon!
@Skiriki Exactly. Most of my -applicable- sex ed until I was in my 30s came from shoplifting a copy of "The Joy of Gay Sex", which probably became increasingly archaic, and (sigh) gay porn.
Do you know why I value guys who aren't all 'Let's meet up and fuck!' Because they -aren't- all 'Let's meet up and fuck!'
Me... Internet.
Once I met some people who could enlighten me about the endless choices there are, figuring out what I am, who I am became easier.
Data manipulation is at the heart of computation, and a system is said to be Turing-complete if it can be configured to manipulate data in a way that makes implementing arbitrary computation possib…Hackaday
I saw these photos on mastodon a few days ago about of the huge melt over 15 years of the Rhone Glacier…good to see it’s gained media attention, even if it is the result of climate deniers on X.
The speed of the glacier’s disappearance really should leave everyone in no doubt that #ClimateChange is real and human made.
#ClimateBreakdown
#Glacier
#ClimateDenialism
Married couple from Bristol attract awe and abuse on X with photos that show ‘staggering’ changes in the AlpsAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
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.