https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html

#snac #snac2 #alpinelinux #linux #raspberrypi

With everything going on in the world it’s nice to escape into a (vaguely) possible future where the universe might be a more positive and accepting place.

I’m sure it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but for me it’s comforting exactly like a perfect cup of tea…

#bookstodon

Windows is low on memory at Heathrow airport…

Cc: @slowe@mastodon.me.uk

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More of the departures board with the crashed machine for context

Steve Taylor (LeedsBeckettU) identifies five stages in becoming a racist:

a lack of security & identity prompts desire to affiliate with a group;

groups solidify themselves by identifying an 'other';

any empathy with the 'other' is denied;

all 'others' are lumped together & depersonalised;

the 'others' are then identified as scapegoats for failings that are driven by wider social processes.

Not sure this is anything really new but it's clear & plausible.

#racism
https://theconversation.com/racism-isnt-innate-here-are-five-psychological-stages-that-may-lead-to-it-264391

OH MY FUCKING GOD

PSA for anyone who interacts with US Woodworking Online Content while Living Outside The USA: “600 grit” is not “P600”, but, like, “P1200”.

THERE’S A SEPARATE IMPERIAL (sorry, US Standard) UNIT FOR SANDPAPER GRIT

i’m so fuckin steamed right now

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Table comparing USA “CAMI” standard versus EU “FEPA” / P-standard values. Roughly, 600 Grit is P1200, 400 Grit is P800, 360 is P600, 320 is P400, 240 is P280, 220 is P220, and the Grit and P values stay in sync from there down. No, I don’t understand it either.

@benlockwood

Full #AltText

One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.

Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.

House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”

House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”

Hey gang, I really need a job. UK, remote, something to do with computers.

I've been doing all sorts of software plumbing for a decade now, I can speak C, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, even a bit of Assembly for certain architectures in a pinch.

I might not be extremely specialized in any one area but you bet I can solve that one nagging problem you're not sure what specialist you need for. I've done frontend, backend, embedded, everything.

Please boost!

#FediHire #getfedihired

Nice 'PROUD TO BE BRITISH' hoodie you've got there, did China make it for you?

Reminder – Tomorrow is a Nationwide Mobile Test of UK Emergency Alerts https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/09/reminder-tomorrow-is-a-nationwide-mobile-test-of-uk-emergency-alerts.html

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Emergency Alerts UK Gov Test Image from Vodafone UK PR 010925

BNIB.

I suppose I should find out how to make it work.

Perhaps not tonight.

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A Klaxon No 2C

I’ve planned very little so far. Has anyone got any recommendations for things we should do while we’re there?

Food, music (rock/metal?), nerdy things and standard tourist things are all welcome!

Vielen Dank im Voraus

The language in which a post is written can now be set from the UI; you must configure the list of languages you usually post in in the User Settings.

Added support for bullet points in posts (lines starting with an asterisk or a hyphen, plus a space).

Added Dutch (nl_NL) translation (contributed by martijndeb).

Added Western Frisian (fy_NL) translation (contributed by martijndeb).

Mastodon API: Fixed repeated entries in timelines.

Added nodeinfo 2.1 support.

Fixed boosts from the command line not showing in the public timeline (contributed by xvello).

Updated several language files (contributed by zen and daltux).

Retrieving a post's replies is now possible via ActivityPub.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

Year progress: ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒░░░░░░░ 66.6%

Thanks for the hookup GitHub!

https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/2025/08/29/github-oss-fund/

Good morning

(It is currently part of the morning routine for the little horse to wait for the goats in that one spot where it's easy for the goats to climb on him, then he happily accepts back massages)

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A small brown horse, with a small brown goat standing on his back, while gently head butting a small black goat who's standing on an old hay bale next to the horse. They're in a muddy farm yard surrounded by a tall wooden fence. The sky above is hazy.

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Several goats of various colours and one tall fuzzy brown llama standing in a very overgrown grassy area surrounded by scrubby trees, happily chowing down on all the plants they can reach. The sky above is hazy.

I feel like this needs a hashtag. There must be more crashed public computer enjoyers out there…

Watching the premier of the Python documentary ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0 ). Reminded how the Python 2 -> 3 transition has a lot of parallels to the IPv4 -> #IPv6 transition.

On the second, I’m currently in Italy and mozzarella is plentiful and cheap. I’m making a good go of finding out the answer and will let you know (or I suppose I won’t if the answer is yes).

I’ve had this book on my “To Read” list for about four years, since reading the Wayfarers series back to back.

I put it off because frankly £10 for an ebook copy of a 150 novella is expensive and I was hoping it would get cheaper at some point.

Anyway, I’m at a point in my life where I’ve got a high pressure job, two demanding boys, a wife to keep happy and bills to pay. Frankly it all gets a bit much at times and I do find myself questioning the purpose of it all.

Honestly maybe I need to find religion, but in the absence of that this book is pretty bloody relatable to me right now. I will definitely be recommending it to others as a thought provoking quick read.

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Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Hardcover, 2021, Tordotcom)

AWS Client VPN now supports connectivity to IPv6 resources
Posted on: Aug 26, 2025
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/aws-client-vpn-connectivity-ipv6-resources/

#aws #ipv6

I remember reading a comment 10-20 years ago that said something to the effect of, "The Star Trek holodeck would be humanity's last invention."

There's nothing more potently addictive than a room that can conjure up every conceivable place, person, thing, whim, or desire.

I think what we're seeing with "AI" is a kind of "dialectical holodeck," where people enter in, wrap themselves up in a fantasy world created by a twisted algorithm designed to satisfy the user's curiosity and cater to their every verbal whim, and think it's their greatest reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT_psychosis

Hello Kitty

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An elected official stands on a podium in front of a huge crowd and says we’ve done it we’ve achieved world peace. “And every single person on earth is happy. The crowd cheers then the announcer says one more thing “one other quick announcement the owner of the hello Kitty IP recently stated that hello Kitty is not actually a cat. She’s a human girl who simply looks like a cat“the crowd is silent for moment, then irrupt into a total bloodbath of cartage, screaming, fighting and mayhem.

🗣️ "I notice a lot of 5xx errors from the application during scale-in of the pods after a spike period."

I was asked this question last week and spent some time debugging the issue. In the process, I realized there is confusion about how Kubernetes does (not do) graceful shutdown.

So, I decided to rewrite our article on graceful shutdown and augment it with some knowledge I gained during the years!

You can find the full article here: https://learnk8s.io/graceful-shutdown

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

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Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.

https://e-mail.wtf