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proactiveservices

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System Admonisher, tech support in Hampshire, UK. A screeching voice of the minority. I read your email.

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bagder, to random
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Remember to take the #curl user survey 2024 - if you can spare a few minutes.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/05/14/curl-user-survey-2024/

proactiveservices,
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@bagder Every year I think "how can he not get 100,000, easily?" and every year, people surprise me.

proactiveservices, to random
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lmao, the person who's phone alert went off three minutes late just got a second alert. They had their alerts disabled.

update: another two just went off

proactiveservices, to random
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I wonder how many people follow .

proactiveservices, to random
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Uninstalling Microsoft SwiftKey (now SwiftKey AI) from my Android phone. I've used it for years as it's what came with the phone and wasn't Google. I have despised seeing it constantly blocked in my security software, knowing I have the telemetry switched off, knowing it's still spying on me.

The switch to Thumb-key was painful for the first day, merely infuriating for the next few days, slow until the end of the first week, now two weeks in I'm almost semi-proficient. And not being spied on.

proactiveservices, to random
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i absolutely despise software and services that just go nuts without a working Internet connection.

Directly connected my laptop to an RPi via Ethernet cable. NetworkManager doesn't add an IPv6 LL address by default because "no router bad", and even worse, keeps dumping the LL address every time its connectivity check fails, which...breaks connectivity.

proactiveservices, to random
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BingChatInstaller.EXE should not be running on a computer without consent.

proactiveservices, (edited ) to random
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is currently being run on two planets. Other than rocky planets, which are getting boring now, which astronomical body will curl next be run from?

proactiveservices, to random
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Had a dream last night that @revk was showing me around @aaisp towers. Started in his office while he was struggling with a spreadsheet that wasn't printing correctly. Offered him some pointers then he was off to an important meeting so I went to hang about with the tech support crew.

My dreams are usually more interesting and abstract than this.

proactiveservices, to random
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In episode 65535 of "when does fiddling with computers turn into work?" we again discuss the probabilistic nature of this question.

proactiveservices, to Ubiquiti
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confirmed that for nine hours some users had access to others' equipment and networks, and received others' push notifications. It appears to have taken Ubiquiti 14 hours to even acknowledge it.
https://community.ui.com/questions/Bug-Fix-Cloud-Access-Misconfiguration/fe8d4479-e187-4471-bf95-b2799183ceb7

kim, to random
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I'm now contemplating an xkcd-style graph of average mobile phone height over time, and wondering when the minimum occurred. Someone who isn't me do this please?

RE: https://fediverse.fun/notes/9tq27iqilyn202w9

proactiveservices,
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@kim also can we plot it against "average amount of play between the battery and the chassis" because I love a story with an easy ending.

floppy, to random
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Happy .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day

proactiveservices,
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@floppy I took a simple purple hand towel, but it's an adoptee so is special to me.

revk, (edited ) to random
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OK I’m going to float an idea on here. It looks like we won’t be able to cancel a “broadband switch” from losing side. So won’t be able to do “anti slamming”. Shame.

But to switch using OTS you have to have a match on surname (using some fun, and vague, rules for accented characters).

So we could allow customers to set any surname on a line, and use as a sort of “password”.

After all, you can call yourself what you like, and we have to accept changes to personal information.

proactiveservices,
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@revk If this is added as a feature I will immediately be using it. I have to protect myself from unscrupulous organisations and ISPs fall into that description frequently. Whatever I can do to place my own padlock on my service, I will do.

halla, to random
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I love lentils, and I love chickpeas, so when today's lunch place offered lentil soup with chickpeas, I didn't hesitate.

It turned out to be a watery concoction made from stock cubes and maggi liquid, with a handfull of lentils and chickpeas added, and a dollop of over-age yoghurt.

It wasn't worth the effort of spooning it up, so no lunch for me today. It wasn't even worth complaining about, because I wouldn't have been able to say anything that wouldn't be sarcastic.

proactiveservices,
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@halla if it's any consolation I managed to carbonise some food so badly the other day, that it was reduced to a homogenised slurry of fundamental elements. Let's just eat out today.

dev_ric, to random
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Has anybody else found that the notifications have stopped working on the Android Mastodon app? Unsure if this is somehow related to the Bing API saga too, or if I've broken something in my settings, but I'm instead receiving notification emails because my instance doesn't think I'm active in the app, and the app just isn't doing push notifications at all. Getting a tad irritating now!

proactiveservices,
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@dev_ric I don't use it, but this week I've seen a few other people mention this problem for both the official and, I think, iOS apps.

Gordonbp, to random
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Which is more secure - Bitlocker (in Windows obviously!) or an encrypted HDD/SDD in Linux?

proactiveservices,
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@Gordonbp Well Microsoft will store your Bitlocker keys without informed consent, on an insecure platform, so that's a solid data point.

i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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what happened why do i have 40+ follow requests

proactiveservices,
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@i_lost_my_bagel 40 people want to see more Chromium users cry into their keyboard

proactiveservices, to random
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@i_lost_my_bagel I hear you may be blocking Chromium users from your Web site.

I'm sure you're aware that this makes some people cry into their keyboard.

giggle.

proactiveservices, to random
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I shouldn't have to drop into bcdedit to get windows to tell me that the reason it's stuck in a recovery boot loop (with no logging) is that ntoskrnl.exe is missing.

something went wrong :( is about as useful as microsoft get these days.

proactiveservices,
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@srtcd424 I'm going to have to give up and beg for a hint on that one!

proactiveservices,
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@srtcd424 You know I think I've seen reference to LILO over the decades but hadn't ever looked it up.

proactiveservices, to random
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What we need: microsoft to not landfill countless devices with windows 11
What they've given us: AI computers just to search our files

paul, to random
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As the UK government have decided changing the geometrically incorrect footballs on UK street signs is a danger to safety on the roads, Matt Parker has now decided to try to change the design of footballs in the English football league to match those on UK street signs

Say Yes to mathematically complicated footballs!

https://mathsballs.com

(Non-UK Signatures welcome)

proactiveservices,
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@paul No signatures welcome, it's an abuse of the petitions system and a waste of time.

CenturyAvocado, to random
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My grandfather has 600 watts of lights in his living room. !
Shown in the photo is just one of two pendants with 3x100w bulbs!

Mind boggling that over half a kW is used to light just one room.

proactiveservices,
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@revk @CenturyAvocado heh yeah, although I can't help but look at them as crappy ceiling heaters that have very bright power lights. who'd buy or use such a thing?

faassen, to history
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I recently reread the novel 1984, written in 1948 by George Orwell. It's famous.

It's interesting to see how much its own time informed it.

In the 1984 London, rocket bombs crash into the city regularly and are shrugged off almost casually. Bizarre!

But 3 years before the novel was written, V2 rockets still crashed into London.

1/n

#history

proactiveservices,
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@faassen My late father was a young man during WWII and when he had time off from working or serving, he would sometimes lay in a park and would see the V1s fly over London. The way he told that story made it feel very casual.

Jackiemauro, to SanFrancisco
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Just your friendly(???) neighborhood heron (???)

I don’t know much about birds, but it was cool.

#SanFrancisco #GoldenGatePark #birds

proactiveservices,
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@Jackiemauro It probably looked at that blue house and thought "I don't know much about houses, but that is cool".

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