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@greem@cyberplace.social @bloor@bloor.tw @mal3aby@mastodon.smears.org this is approximately the origin of my online handle
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James Seward
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I hobby code (mainly Python), have cats, tinker with/detail cars, and fiddle with FreeBSD. I like making photos. Playing with Internet stuff since '96. Interested in kernels, protocols, and inner workings in general. Intermittent cyclist. Cloudy Amazonian, and they tell me my opinions are my own. Jeg lærer norsk.
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Had a hand warmer while I was computering today, which was a problem because it was 30° in my office #caturday #catsOfMastodon
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@thedoh@hachyderm.io @cR0w@infosec.exchange on macOS you can run something like
eval $(pbpaste)
to run what’s in your clipboard without the command itself going in your history. You sometimes need “s around the parameter (like if it’s multiline maybe?). I’m sure Linux has an equivalent to pbpaste, but I don’t know what it is.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social @paul@notnull.space if [ "$( freebsd-version -k )" == "$( freebsd-version -r )" ]; then echo yay; else echo reboot pls; fi
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@thedoh@hachyderm.io @cR0w@infosec.exchange yeah I use that a bunch too :)
And of course, only for clipboard contents you trust. I mostly use it for things like setting temp AWS creds vended by a portal (for times I don’t have sso or other mechanisms)
Cats :(
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@dan@mastodon.durrans.com yeah on sites using Stripe there's a section under the credit card details asking for your phone number, and filling that in is what triggers the OneLink signup. It has small print about it but I still catch myself starting to fill it in and then realising!
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@stefano@social.stefanomarinelli.it @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe as in you swapped out the software for the instance and everything is happy? Interesting :)
(Mastodon has annoyed me with the asset build changes in 4.6 ;)
That’s cleared that up then.
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@pugmiester@bsd.network hah I also grabbed a copy of that last week! Flicked through some bits already and it’s definitely helped my understanding already
What is this?? Some water is falling from the sky
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If nothing else my instance traffic use sits within the AWS free tier for DTO (pretty comfortably really) and it irks me to have that used up by someone scraping thousands of mastodon tags I’ve never used myself
Setting up a new dash cam and it seems with suitable connectivity they can (if configured) live update location and stream video to anyone with the app?!
There’s quite a lot on the map, I wonder if all those users realised that’s what they were setting it to.
I will not be enabling any of that.
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@dan@mastodon.durrans.com thinking even if she can’t, maybe she could enlist someone to help if she has the kit :)
It’ll probably charge ok, but you may find it goes flat quicker than it used to now
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@dan@mastodon.durrans.com we ($job) have a bunch of interesting articles like that in the Amazon Builders' Library, complement the stuff in the Well-Architected Framework quite well. Always enjoy talking to customers about it :)
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@KiwiEV@mastodon.nz clearly you got it by putting potatoes in all the storage spaces and counting them, it can’t possibly be a trade secret
Introduced a German coworker to Crunchie, including that it was mandatory to make allusions to Friday
I can’t I’m stuck here forever
#caturday #catsOfMastodon
RE: https://social.neonpaws.digital/@FoxesInLove/116873507965029508
Rubber duck debugging! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging)
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#foxesInLove #comic
Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/821397996119932928
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net
Something terrible networky has happened between me and California this morning, apparently
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@dan@mastodon.durrans.com "He was disappointed by the reception of his poem and so prepared to read his 12-book epic but was prevented from doing so when his major intestine leapt up his neck and throttled his brain in a desperate bid to save life and civilisation, killing him."
Just thought of this, for no reason.
Obsessively watching the numbers as the solar panels charge the car
Just missing the ball pit
Yay :)
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@Edent@mastodon.social I use wallabag for read-later stuff, and linkding for saving useful stuff. I also have a middle ground for “useful thing I want to try/use/set up, but not now” (e.g. wrong device) of saving to linkding and marking it unread there (I don’t otherwise use the read/unread status).
I had to practice putting stuff in those and closing the tab instead of leaving it open to “read later”, and that has now become habit :)
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@dan@mastodon.durrans.com keep an eye on it as batteries often suffer for having gone completely flat. Have you seen the USB power bank-style jump starters? Very useful to keep on hand/in the car
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Who needs fail2ban when you have a while loop, awk and pfctl :)
Let me just check if my car has the “steering wheel” equipped
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@chiffchaff@tech.lgbt not sure... on my host it was showing up as garbage TLS connections (or requests) in nginx logs, so I just matched lines for that and added them to a pf table which blocked everything, and killed state on them too. looked like random residential IPs.
it's been affecting the whole provider since Sunday evening, they've been working on mitigating it with HE
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@bloor@bloor.tw have a look at tune2fs (it’ll have a man page), I think the -m option is the one. -l (lower case L) shows the current value :)
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@bloor@bloor.tw what filesystem is this? Some reserve space which non-root users can’t take so there’s some left for critical system stuff if it’s otherwise full (like writing to utmp as you log in so that doesn’t fail)