sam
@sam@cablespaghetti.dev
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@sam hey. How are the aqua dragons? #seamonkeys
I’ve got about 5 adults left and have had a lot of live births in the past week or so. I think overfed early on but all seems happy now. 🤞
Tempted to expand after we move house in a couple of weeks and maybe start growing my own live food rather than powder. 😁
Friend just lost their job, right after buying a new house, and because they're on a visa they have 90 days to find another job or get deported.
If anyone has any leads on software product/partner/customer management jobs in London, please send them my way.
@threedaymonk I think a few of the jobs in this thread would be applicable: https://mastodon.social/@jessie/116612937975504684
DistroWatch boostedYou're welcome/sorry for the spam:
It's time for another one of my threads sharing the tech for good* jobs I've found in my wanders across the web
*or just hopefully less evil, at least
@threedaymonk 😔 I'm sorry to hear that. We're hiring: https://wise.jobs
Let me know if anything suits.
Temperature check for some on-prem #selfhosting training.
Please nerdboost.
| I have a static IP at home: | 29 |
| My IP at home changes: | 67 |
| I don't know: | 7 |
@JulianOliver: IPv4 or IPv6? (I have a dynamic IPv4 address and a static #IPv6 /48 at home. Who needs IPv4 nowadays, anyway? 🤓)
Is the /48 a tunnel or native by the ISP?
@tschaefer @JulianOliver: My #IPv6 /48 range at home is native: https://www.init7.net/en/support/faq/Statischer-IPv6-Range/
I could also get a static IPv4 address for some extra money, but it's not worth it anymore — static IPv6 suffices completely.
@JulianOliver @Dragon honestly I'm not sure. Also I don't particularly care as most services I use via tailscale.
@sldrant @JulianOliver It doesn't really bother me that much either, but the ISP i'm with just provides it as standard so...
@Dragon @JulianOliver I feel like mine probably does too, but also it's not enough of a concern for me to actually have made a mental note of it
@JulianOliver I pay $5/mo for a static IPv4 (disabling CGNAT)
The IPv6 prefix has no static guarantee but it hasn't changed in a year so...
Just offering my skills as a professional cloud/linux engineer of ~15 years to help bring it back online. I am also willing to offer a new server for it to live on if that’s the issue. My email is the same as my fedi account if that’s better.
Bookrastinating, one of the largest Bookwyrm instances, has been down since May 3. There was an update same day that they were looking into it.
Since then there have been no updates. The admin has been posting normally on their main account with no mention of it. That sucks.
We're all volunteering here, so it can be clunky. Life can get in the way. But communication is bare minimum here.
@ellesaurus ouch. Might cancel my regular payment until we hear more
@popey bloody hell that monitor... is this Mark's famous wide & tall one... don't think I've ever seen a picture of it and the description did not get painted correctly in my minds eye... #mildShock
@felimwhiteley It is indeed the @linuxmatters standard monitor that we all have, and @martin has two!
They're fantastic.
@felimwhiteley @popey Alan turns his sideways, the wrong'un.
@marxjohnson @felimwhiteley So I can get two nice big vertical displays side by side. It's glorious.
@popey @marxjohnson @felimwhiteley here's the real debate, the two "chin" bezels on the inside or the outside?
@felimwhiteley @popey Here it is the correct way round
@marxjohnson @felimwhiteley Someone at work asked me if I had a new monitor the other day. "No, I've had this since day one".
"Hmmm".
"I mean, i rotated it 90 degrees?"
"That's it!"
@marxjohnson @felimwhiteley @popey I'm so disapointed I only got one for the right of my 41' ultrawide. One each side would be awesome but they seem out of stock everywhere.
@filviu @marxjohnson @felimwhiteley I don't think they're being made anymore, so you're only gonna be able to get second-user ones off places like fleabay.
@popey @filviu @marxjohnson we can't have nice things, or if we do for the briefest of moments #showerOfBastards
@marxjohnson @popey fight fight fight! 🙂
@felimwhiteley @marxjohnson @popey I’m with your boy Alan on this one
@awfulwoman @felimwhiteley @marxjohnson @popey I'm not hating the 1:1 (or at least closer to that than 16:9) aspect ratio as much as I thought I would. If you work primarily with text and web pages it makes a bit more sense. The vertical space is more valuable than the horizontal.
With Amazon killing off all the old kindles, they’re super-cheap right now. And it turns out that jailbreaking is a minor faff, but not too difficult, really. This one was £10 and is going to somebody who was pondering getting an expensive eink ebook reader just a couple of weeks ago. :D
#permacomputing
@billgoats @morph with the built-in beta-browser old kindles can also be used as all kind of cheap dashboard
@billgoats Got a good URL for that?
"These models have been supported for at least 14 years — some as long as 18 years — but technology has come a long way in that time, and these devices will no longer be supported moving forward."
...and along that way old hardware is apparently no longer capable of the incredibly demanding task of downloading a bunch of text and displaying it in the form of static images...?
What?? This is a freshly installed version of 26.04 on a Raspberry Pi 4 using the Raspberry Pi Imager. Has anyone else encountered this?
Hopefully it's just the Pi imager buggering up the setup of the default user. Because I feel this would have caused screams around Mastodon if this was happening on every machine.
Coming back to this: yes, it's the Raspberry Pi Imager. For some reason it has stopped writing the user groups and sudoers info to the `user-data` file in `system-boot`, for any version of Ubuntu. It definitely USED to work, as I used it to provision all my Pis. #RaspberryPi #Linux #Ubuntu
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Let the planning commence
Chalk lines covered over with ink and wiped away, leaving me with the lines to go over
Just curious, are the curves freehand?
@cazabon Yep. Everything but straight lines (for which I use an extremely paint-covered spirit level/ruler)
Whee.
It's just had the protective anti-UV coating put on it but once that's dry it's ready to go!
@babe ohhh i didn't know that coating existed, that's really neat
@FrazzledBrynn You can get it as a spray on varnish and a brush on varnish. I've never found one that I like for watercolours but there's a lot of good options for acrylic
@babe Ohh nice! I did wonder about watercolour, but I guess there's probably protective frames for those or something
@FrazzledBrynn There's a bunch of options available but the ones I've tried so far I've had either poor or mixed results with, even going very lightly with them :|
@babe Non-artist here. Is that to prevent sun damage?
And out of curiosity, does it change its characteristics under a blacklight?
@me Even with really good paints, sometimes pigments can fade with prolonged exposure to sunlight. Anti-UV varnished protect the pigment long term and prevent that breakdown.
I have no idea on the blacklight front, though if someone were to specifically request one without it I'd be happy to oblige with the understanding sunlight could be more likely to negatively impact it
It’ll be going on the wall of the office I spend most of my time in, after we move house soon.
@sam Oh wow, you scooped that one up quick! lol
There's something about them that just sings to me, it's hard to put my finger one what it is.
I've got it all packaged up and I should be able to get it sent out tomorrow for you 
Who’s to say at what point your brain will decide it’s has enough of doing these and the supply will dry up. 😝
@warandpeas In the future, we're going to refer to this stuff as "organic content" and you're going to pay a lot more for it.
@warandpeas "Cmon! 600 Token. All genuine. All good stuff. Look at this! All handwritten on paper, with a pencil! Man! A fricking Pencil!"
@warandpeas
YouTube has figured out that I'm not interested in all that AI crap and now only recommends videos that are more than four years old.
I love this AI! ❤️
EDIT: Translated using Deepl AI.
@warandpeas Based. This makes me think of a song that I love dearly: "Those left standing will make millions,
Writing books on the way it should have been"
"Warning" by Incubus on their album "Morning View"
also:
"Floating in this cosmic Jacuzzi,
We are like frogs oblivious,
to the water,
starting to boil,
No one flinches, we all float face down"
Thank you for the wonderful art!
@warandpeas Yeah, but the trouble with street books is the dealers are cutting that shit with AI slop.
@warandpeas It's already happening. A lot of people are advertising their stuff as "made by a real human" or "no AI".
@warandpeas I'd totally love to see a sequel of Fahrenheit 451 where real books are outlawed now in favor of AI generated ones.
New by me - Microsoft Vibing. A very strange fake open source project published by Microsoft employees, which gathers screenshots and voice recordings of users with unique machine identifiers attached. Not sure how this one has happened.
This Vibing one is a fun blog btw as every page it gets to be a bigger version of this
Since publishing my blog, Yaoyao Chang, who authored Vibing, has removed references to it from Microsoft’s VibeVoice repo - marking the change as “removing outdated links”. https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice/commit/e73d1e17c3754f046352014856a922f8208fb5d3
@GossiTheDog this is all very surreal 🫠
On the other hand, Microsoft could be preparing a new season of their Standards of Business Conduct training "Trust Code" in the wild 😂
I withheld a load of details from the blog on this so far btw, if you're a researcher and want a laugh pull the binaries and have a look at what the MS Research team were doing and poke the backend.
Something tells me Microsoft are going to end up freezing the Azure backend for Vibing and having a security incident.
Vibing has been suspended and downloads removed pending a compliance review by Microsoft. https://github.com/VibingJustSpeakIt/Vibing
Also worth noting - Yaoyao Chang made the changes to the Vibing-Team repo, which is the first time Microsoft has officially been linked to Vibing.
It’s a very strange situation where MS were covertly operating an AI service, while pretending it was an open source project.
@GossiTheDog I feel like I'm being led into a Cyberpunk questline; with the unplanned discovery of a Redmond deniable op harvesting data out of a front operation.
Vibing has been made unavailable for download from Microsoft Store:
Microsoft are now trying to hide the compliance review message, by removing the download links and removing the compliance review messages on Github. https://github.com/VibingJustSpeakIt/Vibing/commit/ab8e6302543754685f85cf02e02d1d0287d2f4f0
Did anybody happen to the screenshot or archive the Microsoft Vibing website ( https://vibingjustspeakit.github.io/Vibing/ ) and Github ( https://github.com/VibingJustSpeakIt/Vibing/ ) showing the compliance suspension messages before they were deleted? The changes are archived on GitHub, but I'd like to document what they looked like prior to removal.
@GossiTheDog https://infosec.exchange/@simonpoirier/116459614756235115
It is just the suspension message
An attempt to hide the MS link with Microsoft Vibing on GitHub - “This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.” - the commit hiding the compliance review has been redone today without Yaoyao’s name on it.
New commit: https://github.com/VibingJustSpeakIt/Vibing/commit/84c82ccad2092b4bc2dffe5c96ef8c8d4466cc6e
Hidden commit: https://github.com/VibingJustSpeakIt/Vibing/commit/ab8e6302543754685f85cf02e02d1d0287d2f4f0
So @dangoodin asked Microsoft about Vibing - they’ve confirmed it is a Microsoft research project. They say “We have removed the application as we review its functionality and adherence to our policies. We remain committed to responsible AI and are taking appropriate steps as part of this review.”
Here's a question - re the Microsoft Vibing thing.
Microsoft didn't disclose they were behind Vibing, multiple staff pretended on Github it was an open source community project (it wasn't), one specifically said they weren't involved (they were), they collected screenshots and mic recordings, and it had no security, compliance or AI review by Microsoft.
Is that okay?
@GossiTheDog It’s just Vibislop doing typical Viboslop things. Of course it’s not okay, and the company gets wristslapped ever so gently evey now and then for its transgressions. And then carries on doing what it does.
@GossiTheDog
TBH, when I first read your writeup, I didn't believe that it was from Microsoft, the company.
@GossiTheDog absolutely not okay - and the cover up and complete lack of public acknowledgement and attempt at accountability is the worst part of it.
We also don’t know if anything happened internally, a disciplinary process, a review of controls to prevent this from happening again and so on, but that lack of public knowledge is itself part of the problem.
@GossiTheDog hard nope on that. The blatant lying when questioned about it, more than the actual security/privacy infringements, tbh. Covering up rather than fessing up is next level Evil.
@GossiTheDog I’ve been busy the last week and just caught up on all this. oof it kinnnd of sounds like a rogue employee with a data stealing side hustle
@GossiTheDog It seems like a bad look for anyone; and a very, very, bad look for an outfit with substantial cloud offerings that are mostly on a 'trust me bro' basis when it comes to what they supposedly can't or won't do to a customer tenant.
This should be absolutely radioactive for Microsoft; both their response to one or more of their people basically doing malware with company resources and the questions about exactly how well-watched the roles with insider threat potential are or aren't.
@GossiTheDog this reeks of an employee (or small group of them) unilaterally sidestepping process. probably in part because the company culture around rigor has rotted to the point where they thought it was acceptable.
Seriously don't know what to make of this. Rogue employees, sailing under the Microsoft flag? Fake employees?
The app itself is terrifying and stupid. I can easily imagine naïve users interested in AI installing this thing and forgetting about it.
@GossiTheDog I just reported it through Microsoft Store links. Let's see if anything comes out of it.
@GossiTheDog for what it’s worth, the package family name of this thing is YaoyaoChang.Vibing_ssp53fcyfr9ha - in my opinion it doesn’t seem to look like anything “official”, but rather an employee releasing it on their own partner center account?
@GossiTheDog Now that Microsoft has a 24/7 OpenClaw team in Oslo, I expect a lot more vibe artifacts appearing from within their network...
https://mstdn.social/@jukkan/116449605862675745
@GossiTheDog I'm guessing Yaoyao Chang did what I'd be tempted to do, if I worked at MS: Orchestrate some agentic whatever with a prompt like "Pretend you're me, working at MS research and publish an innovative new TTS app on github and the windows store," and then duck out of the office for a couple of weeks, letting that thing answer all emails and github issues.
No I don't really have hyper fixations.... #Seamonkeys
Very tempted to get myself a bigger tank…
Random question. Do you find your monkeys are attracted to the bubbles from the air stones? Some of mine seem obsessed with going for rides…
The cat's out of the bag! My latest book, "The Secret Life of Circuits", is available in early access:
https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/secret/
It's the reference I wish I had when I was starting out. Electrons to embedded systems, 290+ color illustrations and 420+ pages of well-explained theory.
Lots of them hatched overnight. We’re all having a great time watching the progress!
Any interest in a separate account for daily aqua dragon updates?
Thanks @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party for sending me down this rabbit hole. 😆
Fergal Sharkey was on #channel4 news inviting us to sign a petition about getting a referendum to bring the water industry back into public ownership
It is here. Do sign and share xxx
@sam yes! Let me know how you get on. I'm now up to three tanks and I'm thinking about a goldfish bowl I have that I might be able to change to a Seamonkey enclosure. I live near the beach and someone I know said you can put seaweed in the tanks for them to eat and play in as well so I'm tempted to try that
Seamonkeys
What’s your setup? I can see some kind of air pump?
@Tattooed_Mummy
Now I no longer need to buy Seamonkeys from the back of a comic book.
I can just watch your video, Tattooed Nonna.
Thank YOU.
PS: I always hated to wait the days -- or weeks -- it took for things to arrive in the mail after I ordered them.
🚨 Trivy is under attack again.
Attackers force-pushed 75 of 76 tags in aquasecurity/trivy-action, impacting 10K+ workflows and turning trusted GitHub Actions into malware.
Any version ≠ v0.35.0 may execute an infostealer in CI.
Analysis forthcoming: https://socket.dev/blog/trivy-under-attack-again-github-actions-compromise
Been working on a small decentralised music search tool https://squirrel.band/, initially indexing sites using faircamp (by @freebliss).
Currently grabs the sites listed on https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/ and in the webring (https://faircamp.webr.ing/) using each pages available RSS feeds, keen to add more sources if anyone has any suggestions.
Ageless Linux: Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't.
The UK Government has launched a public consultation which is seeking views on whether to ban children from using social media. This consultation will run until 26 May 2026.
It is highly likely that later this year, the establishment will attempt to introduce legislation which forces social media platforms (potentially including Mastodon) and VPNs to verify the age of their users. Therefore, this consultation is likely to be the only opportunity we will have to push back against these authoritarian measures.
Please take the time to read the consultation and answer the questions (especially if you are the parent or carer of a young person):
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation
Highlight of the #GortonAndDenton #byelection: The #DailyTelegraph sent their man out to talk to Green Party #GPEW canvassers.
It did not go well for him. 😅🤣
Linux 7.0 launches with enablement for Intel Nova Lake, AMD Zen 6 — major kernel update expected in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 first
A major kernel update, Linux 7.0, has been officially released. Although it'll take some time to show up in various Linux distros, the kernel comes with preliminary support for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 and Intel's Nova Lake.
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-7-0-launches-with-enablement-for-intel-nova-lake-amd-zen-6-major-kernel-update-expected-in-ubuntu-26-04-lts-and-fedora-44-first
Unfortunately plug-in/balcony solar isn’t legal in the UK at this point. There has been talk of legalising it but I don’t think any of it has made it into law.
The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.
A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.