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@hhf@chaos.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social on the free plan you get 120 core hours for free a month, so on a 32 core machine, a little under 4 hours lol
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Date I last completly hosed this instance: 2025-02-04
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@Yamakyu@shelter.moe @alice@lgbtqia.space @cwebber@social.coop "has no business going so hard" is also a fantastic review of good condoms, so it works on multiple levels.
Could I get the boys to stand still and look at the camera for a #dogsatpollingstations picture? Could I buggery.
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@arcaneoverflow@techhub.social @rasteri@mastodon.scot @mei@donotsta.re @bgpwtf@social.hackerspace.pl it was @aaisp@social.aa.net.uk who did that one, still one of my favourite useless pieces of tech :D https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html?m=1
Dexter was very unhappy we went to the garden centre without him today, so now he's asleep on my arm to ensure I can't leave again.
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@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk I've seen this used a few times by other password managers - Wayland's security posture prevents apps from typing into each other reliably, so when you want your password manager to autotype (because you can't paste into a window for whatever reason) someone came up with the horrible hack of rdp-ing into your own machine to get around that. I *thought* people had come up with better fixes now, but maybe I'm wrong.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social @iMeddles@mastodon.eddmil.es oh god every time I shout one of the dogs comes to the door to see what's up, and that's enough to disrupt the signal, this is torture.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social I am incredibly jealous of that nest. (And I spent 40 quid on a shitty indoor aerial that cuts out if anyone walks between the living room and the kitchen, but it's worth it not to have the goals spoiled on social media before I see them)
Sabastian Sawe's performance in the London Marathon today was incredible. Ever since the 2 hour mark was broken in controlled conditions, it was obvious it would only be a matter of time before it happened in a race, but I certainly thought that barrier would hold for a couple more years. For three runners today to go inside the old world record, and two of them sub-2 hours is an insane achievement.
I went for a nice 10k run this evening, and at the end of it decided to see how far I could run at the average pace they'd managed for 42.2km. I consider myself quite fit, but that pace is basically a sprint for me, I couldn't even make it to 100m before I was gassed. Truly unbelievable running.
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@arstechnica
As a note to anyone annoyed by this, as with most things Reddit screws up, going to old.reddit.com completely bypasses this fuckery.
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@masek@infosec.exchange gonna use this post as a chance to give a shout out to Valetudo for anyone reading this who is thinking about a robot vacuum - https://valetudo.cloud/ it frees your robot vacuum from its manufacturer's cloud, and will forever run happily with its internet access disabled.
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@jerry@infosec.exchange you kidnap roughly 10-20 million children, and force them to memorise a sequence of zeros and ones on pain of not recieving any gruel tomorrow if they get one wrong. You'd think that it'd be more expensive than an a pair of 20TB HDD in raid-1, but you'd be wrong...
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@jerry@infosec.exchange to get political for a moment, this is why US cars coming over to Europe scare me :p in the UK I pay far more for fuel (I drive a diesel honda civic, which some googling converts to roughly $6.45 per US gallon at the moment) but fully filling my car only costs ~$90, and I get around 600 miles from that tank of fuel...
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@bloor@bloor.tw no no, they're Spanish now, and like a boxing belt will be handed off to a new country every time the current holders play.
Spain's next match? Vs England in the Nations League in September, so hopefully we can win them back quicky and then hold on to 'em this time ;p
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@cstross
I got jump scared by this opening the Tesco app to update my shopping list. Truly a terrifying visage.
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@Edent@mastodon.social android, failed on the Android default calendar, worked in OneCalendar
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@ojensen@hachyderm.io I'm not an expert on Signal, but from what I understand, the signal server has no idea what the lifetime of a message is, and until it's decrypted on the device, it's indistinguishable from a non-disappearing message (which is one of the reasons you need to be really careful with multiple linked devices, as they can easily become a security issue).
At #Wembley stadium for My Chemical Romance tonight. I've heard good things about this tour, but they're gonna have some work to do, because the support act is Skunk Anansie, and Skin is absolutely killing it.
#MCR #SkunkAnansie
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io @david as a counterpont though, in the UK though, that's likely not true; given (functionally, if not legally) to get the government grant you end up with an air-to-water heat pump to use the existing radiators, which can't do cooling, because our government policy has never met a good solution it can't short cut into a bad solution ;p
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@firstyear@infosec.exchange
As an absolute passkey fanboy, I... Don't disagree with anything here. The tech is fundamentally a great idea, the *implementations* make me tear my hair out.
Today's hate is for LinkedIn, who will let me enroll a passkey (on a yubikey) in Firefox, but then won't let me log in using it (and won't even display the button to try the passkey log in)
And on top of that, they don't let you name the passkeys, so I just have 'passkey 1 - Firefox on Linux' and 'passkey 2 - Firefox on Linux', so if I ever lose one of these keys, rotating the correct one is going to be 'fun'.
Decided a 'feels like' temp of 34C was no reason not to go for a run.
It turns out, I don't make good decisions.
Been a while since I blogged, so it's time for the latest installment in "Edd massively over-complicates things with SSH certificates" This time, a post about how I got rid of the need to create a new sub account on my #Hetzner Storage Box every time I wanted to create a new VM and back it up with #Borg. Definitely easier ways to have achieved it, but it shows of the versatility of ssh certificates, and #StepCA that's powering them in my home lab.
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@bloor@bloor.tw I have most definitely said 'too many sockets' when discovering at a previous work place we had *24* running off a single 32A breaker, all of which had computers plugged into them...
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My current intent is to get the audiobook whenever it drops on libro.fm, but I wanted to ask (if you don't mind the question and have the data to answer) does people buying books on their with credits work out ok for the author? It's always felt strange just how much of a discount the audiobook-credits system on there (and audible I guess) grants.