Paul Williams
mastodon 4.5.18-eigenMuso, PHP Dev, father and stuff. Whadjuk country, Noongar land.
Spend too much time in #MineCraft or puzzle games.
Newly into Astrophotography. Trying to ‘be the change I want to see in the world’
I have no idea what plant this is apart from ‘some sort of cactus or succulent’ but it sits in a pot outside my front door and gets no care whatsoever. I believe my father in law waters it occasionally. But it has decided that this year is bloom time!
#bloomScrolling
OMG I was in a presentation. My phone in my pocket. It’s on silent. I feel it ring. I ignore it. It rings again I ignore it again. It’s probably spam. It rings again, now I’m thinking it’s my kid no one else would be that persistent so I check. It’s an unknown number so I ignore it. It rings again. And again. 6 calls from different unknown numbers but all left the same scammy message. Some robocall nonsense. Such a pain.
Went to take my drugs this morning and discovered they are all gone! Quick visit to the chemist today then!
I just started a message to a colleague with "Can you humour me please - sorry this sounds really childish and I think I already regret asking... but" and now I think i have to resign.
I saw mention on here this morning about a newly discovered old exploit for linux, but I didn't get that it affects basically every linux distro released since 2017.
Patches have been written, so update your boxes people!
https://copy.fail
full root access, effectively undetectable, on any machine that runs su.
#exploit #linux #patch #onlySafeComputerIsOffTheNetworkAndTurnedOffInALockedRoom
Discovered that we aren’t releasing our immense collection of historic film onto the free web because AI bots will harvest it and licenses and rights will not be recognised.
We are currently in discussions around allowing access through other gated means (memberships etc) but I want it open. I hate LLMs and all the infrastructure around them.
#historyShouldBeFree
#weAreInTheWorstTimeline
Dealer has been contacted. Drugs have been received. Another reminder that drugs are not cheap if they aren’t on PBS.
just started having a conversation about standards and how there were too many and thankfully remembered https://xkcd.com/927/ before we got to the second pane of the comic
@stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net Really enjoying your interview with (Mr) Sir David Attenborough. Half way through it at the moment. Thanks for putting that up.
Oh that’s new…
Mother in law (80s & #alzheimers) just sent me a text. It was a group text with her, and her again and me. The text was only her name. I know that wasn’t what she intended. I wonder what she was trying to do? Sounds like a visit is in order 🤪
How is it possible to create a group message with you in it twice??
I have been taken back to my youth... My kid's friends just turned up unannounced at our house at 9:30 at night, because they were bored and my kid wasn't with them.
Purely spur of the moment, having fun because they can. Reminds me of being 19 and carefree...
There is now giggling and story telling happening in my kitchen :partyparrot:


