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My profile on my own Mastodon instance!

I'm most likely to be posting about #StreetPhotography, #UKPolitics, #gaming, #science, #infosec, #cyber, #linux, and wider #technology. Probably a fair bit about #cardiff and #wales too.

There will likely be many selfies.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

catsalad, to random

All aboard! 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃

rhys,
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@catsalad It's not stupid if it works.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to legal
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Totally forgot!! #WOMPWOMP #WOMPAGE in all caps!

‼️#BREAKING! 🔥 1/…

Via Anna Bower:

BREAKING: DC Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Donald #Trump is NOT IMMUNE from prosecution. #legal

UNANIMOUS!!!

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@GottaLaff 🥳

Somewhat unsurprising — it would have been a bizarre innovation if the ruling had gone the other way — but I think we can still be happy at this.

gamingonlinux, to random
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I'm allowed to take an entire week off from everything right?

rhys,
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@gamingonlinux Booked the week off. I'm going to enjoy the shit out of this.

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@PugJesus I do not know with what weapons the third world war will be fought, but the fourth will be fought with sea urchins, hedgehogs, and porcupines.

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@ShaunaTheDead @CowsLookLikeMaps The ProtonVPN app is native. It's basically a frontend to NetworkManager.

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@cinaed666 @twotone I also have the Forerunner 55.

Something to note is that Garmin watches are Linux-friendly and can be used without signing up to their cloud services. You can access the watch as a USB storage device and manually grab the .FIT files on it, which you can then import into tools of your choice (or convert to .GPX for wider compatibility).

GottaLaff, to random
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Nighty night folks.

You sure are smart, btw. Thanks for all the convos and comments (..that take me hours to go through; hence my slow and/or brief replies).

I'll post news if/when it breaks.

Be good.

On second thought...

rhys,
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@GottaLaff Your toots are a delight to read every day :)

noelreports, to random Dutch
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The Russian command is being forced to consider redeploying reinforcements from its priority area near Zaporizhzhia to the left bank of the Dnipro river as Ukrainian defenders step up their fight to control newly taken positions on this territory, UK Defence Intelligence reports.

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@noelreports Excellent. Forcing lateral reinforcement across a large and critical front is a strong indicator that a breakthrough can be found and exploited sooner or later.

rhys,
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@squidspinachfootball @marcos Syncthing syncs. It does one way syncs, but if your workflow is complex and depends on one way syncs that's probably not what you want.

Sync things between operational systems, then replicate to nonoperational systems, and backup to off site segregated systems.

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    rhys,
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    @GossiTheDog I've booked the entire subsequent week off.

    Baldur's Gate 2 is the best game of all time and Larian is a studio that can absolutely be trusted. Plus Ive played the early access to death.

    I'm going to love every minute of this game.

    rhys,
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    @jayrhacker @arudesalad This is exactly the behaviour that made nginx's reactor pattern implementation apt, with the side effect of accidentally making an extremely performant HTTP server in the process.

    rhys,
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    @flashgnash @Laser Connecting once with its ssh kitten resolves this by uploading appropriate terminfo files to the user's directory.

    rhys, to foss
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    I missed posting about it at the end of the year, but one change I'm making this year is to start donating more to F/OSS projects I depend on.

    In this era of hyper-monetisation, microtransactions, in-app purchases, subscriptions, data hoarding, tracking/telemetry, and many other varied facets of enshittification, I think donating to those who make free and accessible software without any of that stuff is pretty crucial.

    ben, to random
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    One thing I've learned again and again: if you haven't had anywhere near enough sleep, don't try and write code. You'll look at it the next day and wonder what the hell you were thinking.

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    @ben The same goes for writing words of any import.

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    @rutrum @jntesteves I have that controller. It's the best controller I've used — I greatly prefer it to my Series X controller.

    The back paddle buttons don't work for me with SteamInput in XInput mode though. Reading around, I think that's independent of Linux and a limitation of the firmware on them though.

    rhys,
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    @unhinge I run a simple 48TiB zpool, and I found it easier to set up than many suggest and trivial to work with. I don't do anything funky with it though, outside of some playing with snapshots and send/receive when I first built it.

    I think I recall reading about some nuance around using LUKS vs ZFS's own encryption back then. Might be worth having a read around comparing them for your use case.

    rhys, to mechanicalkeyboards
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    About a year since I got this to try to help alleviate my periodic hand and wrist pain. It didn't alleviate the pain; it eliminated the pain, and this has been a joy to write with every single day since I started using it.

    What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

    Tinkering is all fun and games, until it’s 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you’re about to execute… And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...

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    @jordanlund @fl42v I think this one could be recoverable if they had a terminal still active by using the dynamic loader to call chmod — or by booting from a liveCD and chmodding from there.

    That'd likely get you to a 'working' state quickly, but it'd take forever to get back to a 'sane' state with correct permissions on everything.

    rhys,
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    @fl42v I have thousands from my early days, but my only recent-ish one was pretty funny.

    On an Arch install that hadn't been updated for a while, in a rush, had an app that needed OpenSSL 3. Instead of updating the whole system, I just updated the openssl package.

    Everything broke immediately. Turns out a lot of stuff depends on openssl. Who knew?

    To fix, booted to the arch installer, chrooted into my env, and reverted to the previous version of the package — then updated properly.

    rhys, to chess
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    Bought a brilliant travel set, and, well...

    rhys, to linux
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    Sure, I might be a depressy mess right now, and sure, I'm alone and terrified as decades of complacency threaten democracy and global stability, and sure, I'm in a state of constant panic over our inability to identify, agree on, and champion truth as we decline into a dark age of misinformation, corruption, and war — but I also just won a discretionary bonus from my CEO for some cool work I did a while ago, so that's nice.

    Bought a silly flippy laptop with it I'm looking forward to -ing.

    rhys, to linux
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    I never got into Pokemon, but I'm really digging . Runs perfectly on too, with great performance even without FSR.

    Here I am riding my pet dragon.

    rhys,
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    And here I am flying around on my Nitewing!

    You can fly anywhere — including to areas vastly higher level than you where you'll die quickly — but flight requires stamina so it's not easy to whizz around and skip stuff.

    rhys,
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    This game has me hooked, and it's beautiful in its own way.

    It's so strange though. At this moment I have all my pets mining for me under dire conditions. I also caught some human slaves and put them to work too, but I felt bad so I sold them to someone who I now realise is a slave trader, and who I later found had a hidden torture and execution chamber hidden in an abandoned mine.

    The gameplay loop is very fun though. I don't like survival games but this one slaps.

    rhys,
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    @rainpoint @RealAccountNameHere Their venture investment has dried up after they used their last round of ~$250m to more than double their workforce in less than two years in a drive to capitalise on crypto shit. Now they've had their valuation roughly halved and are left in a really tricky position, desperately needing to monetise to survive.

    Spez was chasing an IPO in all the ways you'd expect of a modern techbro, completely misreading the NFT craze and the impact of enshittification.

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