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apicultor

@apicultor@hachyderm.io

In a sense, I am a beekeeper, hence the username.

I work in the rail industry trying to secure all the things: tons of legacy infrastructure which is now being networked.

Never forget: there is no cloud, there is only other people's computers.

I break shit for fun. Sometimes I even fix it afterwards!

They say that "life is what happens while we're busy making other plans", and they're right; tot i que la vida m'ha allunyat de Catalunya, tinc moltes ganes de tornar a casa.

Geek. Aspie. Poly.

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ldodds, to random
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Turns out you don't get a great frame rate when you try to run Doom on checks notes E.coli.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/you-can-play-doom-using-gut-bacteria-but-the-framerate-is-atrocious

apicultor,
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@ldodds The site you are linking to (rockpapershotgun[.]com) forces tracking cookies unless you pay, which is absolutely illegal in the EU.

Here's another source that isn't user-hostile; I suggest you replace the link in your post with it:
https://www.destructoid.com/phd-student-doom-running-on-cells-video/

luckytran, to random
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An NPR reporter collected samples of raw milk from 4 farms in Texas, and asked a USDA-authorized lab to test for bird flu. The lab refused to do it, because the farms wouldn't give them permission to test, even though permission isn't required. Wow.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251647612/a-bird-flu-outbreak-among-dairy-cows-sparks-new-warnings-about-unpasteurized-mil

apicultor,
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@luckytran Sounds like they should name and shame the lab, and then give the samples to one who will.

foone, to random
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The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.

apicultor,
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@gsuberland @foone 1204x768?

whitequark, to random
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looks like i have successfully turned (as well as an RTL8211FD devboard I got from Aliexpress) into a fairly decent network interface card :D

this applet is written idiomatically and with no modification of the core USB framework (using the abstractions every other applet is using, rather than direct access to libusb or something), in a single-threaded CPython 3.12 asyncio event loop

iperf UDP: 79 Mbps TX, 91 Mbps RX
iperf TCP: 56 Mbps TX, 60 Mbps RX
latency: <10 ms

apicultor,
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@whitequark Are... are you bit-banging Ethernet?!

jon, to random
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“Cooperation” between state owned railway companies Slovenia 🇸🇮 and Croatia 🇭🇷, don't you love it

Train 1273, summertime only, runs whole way Pula 🇭🇷 - Divača 🇸🇮

On HŽPP site: shows Pula - Buzet (border station)
On SŽ site: shows Buzet - Divača

Only 🥁 Deutsche Bahn 🇩🇪 shows the whole lot 🤪

On SŽ site: shows Buzet - Divača - screenshot
Pula - Divača on Deutsche Bahn site

apicultor,
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@DiegoBeghin @jon Planning is absolutely what Germany does best... and definitely not execution.

Lines up perfectly.

jon, to random
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Ha

If only my knowledge of EU law had the desired impact this fast every time 🙂

My father wanted to pay a EDF French electricity bill from a Belgian bank account, and was told that this was not possible because the bank was outside France

I formulated a stern email to EDF for him, in French, stipulating this was not allowed as a reason within the Single European Payment Area (SEPA), and within a few hours they relented in a grovelling email!

apicultor,
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@jon Whenever I have experienced IBAN discrimination in France, I have sent this PDF and they have changed their tune right quick.

May it serve you (and your father) well.

https://www.economie.gouv.fr/files/files/directions_services/dgccrf/presse/communique/2021/CP-CNPS-DGCCRF.PDF

jon, to random
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Trenitalia seeking more business in France

Good trains. Sensible company. Thoughtful offer. I wish them well! And some international trains - to Genova and Madrid - are being considered, as well as operation of 16 carriage trains to Lyon

https://www.railwaygazette.com/passenger/trenitalia-seeks-more-business-in-france/66351.article

apicultor,
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@jon I am absolutely fucking overjoyed to read that headline. I wish them nothing but the best.

Great trains, too.

>investigating options for high speed services from Paris to destinations such as Genova, Marseille and Madrid

Wouldn't it be embarrassing if FS started serving Paris-Madrid before Renfe? Yikes.

apicultor,
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@jon AFAIK Renfe has been waiting for authorisation from the EPSF, which issues same on a sector-by-sector basis.

They're dragging their heels to maintain SNCF's monopoly on the route as long as possible.

apicultor, to random
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@soatok I found this super helpful, thank you!

https://soatok.blog/2022/12/29/what-we-do-in-the-etc-shadow-cryptography-with-passwords

You might want to update it to reflect that Bitwarden now supports Argon2id as of v2023.2.0:
https://bitwarden.com/help/kdf-algorithms/

apicultor, to random
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Real shit right here. Mad fuckin' props to both you and your wife, @0x00string

https://infosec.exchange/@0x00string/111061491707388395

apicultor, to random
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@t54r4n1 https://heatmap.news/economy/tokyo-anti-car-pedestrian-paradise

apicultor, to random
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Excellent post by @cks regarding how quickly boxes get probed after having their FQDNs included in a Certificate Transparency log (aka having a TLS certificate issued for them):

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebProbeSpeedNewTLSCertificate

Lively discussion on Hacker News too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38620927

This is actually why I use only wildcard certificates when possible — not for security by obscurity, but why stick your head out of the trench and call attention to yourself when you don't have to?

apicultor, to random
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https://www.railtech.com/all/2023/11/20/fs-introduces-new-night-train-like-hotel-from-rome-to-the-dolomites/

jon, to random
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Trying to help a friend get from Madrid to Paris 8 June. And I want to 😭

€122 for the best timed TGV train to Paris €97 is the cheapest
Cheapest flights from €43
Other flights €54 - €74

apicultor,
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@jon Yes, but one of those choices is going to be fucking misery, and the other one is going to be beautiful views, free internet access, and a picnic which can contain a bottle of wine and a corkscrew.

apicultor,
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@jon Don't forget to add a few euro in Madrid and at least twelve in Paris to actually get back into the city.

If you are booking very close to departure, then the price isn't great either way.

Did you look at Madrid-Lyon via Renfe and then a Freccia or Ouigo from there to Paris?

gsuberland, to random
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ugh, turns out it was probably the GPU in my wife's machine that died and took the PSU with it. new PSU doesn't even flicker on when GPU 12V is attached.

suspect a hard short across 12V0 rail on the GPU, but need to check. but too much back pain to carry on with diagnostics today.

apicultor,
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@gsuberland What happened with your back?

apicultor, to random
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@GrapheneOS https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266628172100007X

apicultor,
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@GrapheneOS Has it been entirely remediated since it was written in 2021?

kwf, to random
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Fun demo of the difference that galvanizing makes. The left stack of nails are bright finish, where the right stack are galvanized, so the zinc kept them from rusting when I left them out overnight

apicultor,
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@kwf They only galvanize the top half?!

jon, to random
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OK, this was too niche, even for Mastodon

Here are the answers
Number 1 - Ukraine 🇺🇦 - 109 , 36.7m people, 2.97 per million inhabitants
2 - Estonia 🇪🇪 - 2 Towers, 1.3m people, 1.54 per million
3 - Lithuania 🇱🇹 - 4 Towers, 2.7m people, 1.48 per million
4 - Macau 🇲🇴 - 1 Tower, 0.7m people, 1.43 per million
5 - Armenia 🇦🇲 - 3 Towers, 2.8m people, 1.07 per million

France 🇫🇷 has a paltry 39 towers, so just 0.6 per million
https://gruene.social/@jon/112240887202694502

apicultor,
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@jon Ukraine?! What. 🤯

Moosader, to random
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I feel bad that I spent $6 on pre-cut fruit at the grocery store my last trip, but here I am eating fruit for once instead of letting whole fruits just rot in the fridge. :/

apicultor,
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@TomF @Moosader One day, you should walk into a French grocery store and see just how big the cheese section is and how good (almost all of) it is compared to nearly anything you can find in North America. It will ruin North American "cheese" for you forever.

And on your way out, stop by a boulangerie and get a "baguette tradition".

THEN go to a fromager (just like a butcher, but cheese) and you won't even want the cheese from the French grocery store.

I... I don't even have words.

koalie, (edited ) to random
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RIP Laurence Victoria Taranto Mercier

My mum passed away on Thursday 25 April 2024. She was found on Monday 29 April. She died in her bed, in her sleep, and didn’t suffer. I don’t remember when I last spoke to her. Probably over a year ago. The last time I wrote about her, 8 months ago, to put into words that I had finally given up hope to get along with her, we had stopped speaking to each other 6 or so months prior.

https://blog.koalie.net/2024/05/12/rip-laurence-victoria-taranto-mercier/

apicultor,
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@koalie I'm sorry for your loss.

toplesstopics, to random
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wait what just happened

apicultor,
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@toplesstopics Sounds like a thirsty idiot.

jon, to random
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Deutsche Bahn is introducing transparent noise protection walls

https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/pressestart_zentrales_uebersicht/Mehr-Durchblick-weniger-Laerm-DB-entwickelt-innovative-transparente-Schallschutzwaende-12861336?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

But what’s missing?

Graffiti

It covers every sound protection wall everywhere in Germany. Perhaps these transparent walls are a little easier to clean? We can hope..?

apicultor,
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@jon >But what’s missing? Graffiti

Methinks we won't be waiting long... 😂

jon, to random
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“Kon­trollen an deut­scher Grenze sind rechts­widrig”

Interessanter Fall. Nicht zuletzt, weil der betreffende Wissenschaftler die gleiche Frage (Maßnahme um eine Identitätskontrolle oder eine Grenzkontrolle?) verwendet, die ich seit Jahren benutze.

https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/vg-muenchen-m23k223422-grenzkontrolle-zug-deutschland-oesterreich-rechtswidrig/

apicultor,
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@jon But will anything actually change?

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