@lucas@fitt.au
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lucas

@lucas@fitt.au

Just a bloke.
Here for the memes and the generalised nerdiness.
And Fractals.

Oh, and let's not forget the decentralisation of social media. I'm fully on board with that!

#Debian user, small-time #SysAdmin, #HomeLab warrior, terrible #Programmer, #HomeAutomation tragic, from #Australia and #MostlyHarmless

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lucas,
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@Fubarberry @Buffalox "Smarter Every Day" on Youtube did a talk pointing out the issues with artemis, to a room full of stakeholders.

it was glorious.

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Tack “&udm=14” on to the end of a normal search, and you’ll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

lucas,
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@Thekingoflorda @gedaliyah seems to be, yeah

lucas,
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@twei @Boozilla You're in luck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM

lucas,
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@USSEthernet @Murdoc why we used to ask them if one was blinking fast or slow, it made them actually look at the modem

lucas, to random
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In important reminder to myself on the front of the work machine.

lucas, to random
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Advertisements are basically Dick Pics from Corporations.

lucas, to random
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/privacy-and-protections

You have to pay microsoft to make CoPilot forget your query history.

I have opinions, they're mostly swear words and [autistic screeching]

lucas,
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@wjrii @JohnnyCanuck Way Back When(TM) I worked at a telco, we had a customer go over seas on a sales trip, used his phone like normal, and then came home to a phone bill up around $35k.

I don't know how much he made while overseas, but he wasn't that upset about the phone bill, outside of him kicking himself for forgetting to get a data pack.

lucas,
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@tigerjerusalem @boem the same level of integration they're showing off on youtube can be achieved with off-the-shelf eye trackers, soo.... maybe not?

lucas, to debian
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Either has forgotten how to write a boot record, or is eating them.

Either way, this machine was installed from a minimal .iso, booted from disk1, logged into, software installed (vim, curl), and on reboot apparently now has no boot records on any of it's disks.

I umm..

I Don't Know.

Maybe it's not Ghosts.

lucas, to TeslaMotors
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Hello drivers in

There is a petition to make Electric chargers accept "normal" payments (just credit card) instead of requiring an app.

It seems like a great idea, if you think so too, you should sign it.

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6056

lucas, to random
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One thing that LLMS have taught me:

Copyright only matters if you matter.

Specifically, "You matter" by the capitalism definition:

  1. You can afford better lawyers than the other guys.

Someone makes an emulator, and it allows someone to not pay Nintendo their due? STRIKE IT FROM THE INTERNET!

Someone consumes the sum total of all words on the internet and uses it to build a word-guesser?
I'MMA JUST GIVE YOU MY CHEQUE BOOK AND SHOW YOU HOW TO DO MY SIGNATURE!

lucas, to PostgreSQL
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with streaming replication to a pair of synchronous NFS shares that are backed by spinning rust arrays is a fairly large performance downgrade from a singe instance running on gen4 NVMEs, with all the dials flipped from "safety" to "yee-haw!"

Tune in for next week's episode of - Fire: Is it really hot?

lucas, to sysadmin
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Hello and people.

Have any of you heard of / used / know anything about ?

The business manager has arranged a demo unit to show up, and step one of installation is "send all of your traffic to some black box appliance on the network" and then "AI Will keep you safe"

Literally, that's all I've been told. "Give us your network traffic, AI will keep you safe"

Obviously, I'm building up some anxiety about this. Nobody has even given us a price yet(!)

lucas, to mastodon
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savvy peeps: is it possible to block DMs from an account you're not following?

I feel like this one change is going to reduce the spam a whole lot (for mysel, at least)

lucas, to random
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The excitement about in videos by @BrodieOnLinux are almost enough to get me to try it out properly.

lucas, to random
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What's going on with ?

I like the whole "A for " thing, but apparently it was working in a broken way, which is about to be fixed.

The solution is "join more relays" but in my experience that's just "see more cruft" - I don't want to be connected to a firehose of posts (many of which are in languages I can't read) I want to be connected to my interests, and for me FediBuzz was a great solution to that problem.

Is there a solution in the works?

lucas, to random
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For the people that don't live in UTC - the 4.1.3 update has gone live, and it builds and installs and I'm posting from it right now, and nothing has exploded.

lucas, to HashtagGames
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Airplane Landing Gear


lucas, to australia
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In honor of I present: A mossy rock with small ferns and a dead leaf at the Crystal Cascades,

The whole time I'm walking around with a camera, muttering "Mosstodon" to myself and shooting random things with Moss on them.

lucas, to random
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Went to dinner and there's a state vs state sports ball game on the TVs. The people there are getting rowdier with each passing score. I assume it's a close game.

As I'm checking into the hotel, I check the score cause they have it on too (it's a pretty important game of sports ball if you live in one of the states that are playing)

It's 20/nil to the state team where I am.

They're not celebrating a good game, they're celebrating the other team losing.

This is why I don't sports ball.

lucas, to stargate
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Watching through SG-1 for the first time in my life, and I must say, holy shit it's good.

The "science" is great. The characters are great. The late 90's technology is great. The CRTs everywhere, also great.

Stoat, to StarTrek

startrek.website is a partnership between /r/StarTrek and /r/DaystromInstitute from Reddit, they've both locked their subs over there for good. Follow @startrek for all your Trek needs. 🖖 :trek:

#StarTrek

lucas,
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@refugee @Stoat between google and the wayback machine, lots of reddit is still available, just not on reddit

lucas, to infosec
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or people I have a question.

If someone is failing exchange logins repeatedly from Microsoft's 40.99.0.0/16 subnet, are they a) legitimate user failing auth or b) someone else using azure to do credential stuffing?

More importantly, how do I find out myself? Whois says "that's microsoft" reverse DNS says "ask the azure DNS servers" and nmap said (for the host i was interested in) "that server isn't up" - but there it is, in my logs, failing auth for one person over and over.

lucas, to random
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I just heard a song I haven't heard in a long time: Tenacious D, Fuck Her Gently.

Just as funny now as it was when I was a teenager.

Either it's a good song, or I haven't grown up. I'm fine with either.

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