sam

@sam@cablespaghetti.dev

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. AuADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Formerly known as @sam@running.cafe.

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[?]sam » 🌐
@sam@cablespaghetti.dev

Time for another blog post, about hosting a fediverse instance on my ancient Raspberry Pi. Obviously I had to share it on the fediverse.

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


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    [?]sam » 🌐
    @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

    If you’re reading this you have been successfully migrated as a follower to my stupidly underpowered Raspberry Pi hosted instance. Let’s see how it does with nearly 700 followers. 😆

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      [?]sam » 🌐
      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

      @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk that boost did not help my load situation. 😆 I may have some work to do for this to be properly stable.

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        [?]sam » 🔓
        @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

        @taavi@wikis.world I’ve only tried the one built into Cilium. So far no complaints.

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          [?]sam » 🌐
          @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

          @gmc@friends.chasmcity.net @hugo@treehouse.systems Does Thunderbird do DNS over HTTPS by default like Firefox and is that causing some weirdness?

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            [?]🐙ptoothfish🐙 » 🌐
            @ptoothfish@mastodon.nz

            putting AI in everything, dire warnings from the 70s-80s [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

            Their primary claim to fame seems to be constructing just about everything with (unstable) advanced robotics and software. From doors to lifts, to toaster ovens, drinks machines, vacuum cleaners, and "personal massage units"—everything has been built with a full GPP or Genuine People Personality. This means that even a set of airlock doors has emotions, hopes, dreams, intelligence, and worse of all, the capacity for boredom. It should come as no surprise then, that the majority of these devices have a neurotic streak a mile wide.

            The company motto is "Share and Enjoy." This is widely adaptable, from synthesised drinks to the company of a robot, or "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with", as their robots are described as by the aforementioned Marketing Department.

            The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

            Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."

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              [?]Ross of Ottawa » 🌐
              @ottaross@mastodon.social

              You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.

              I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.

              (if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).

              The landing page has huge letters saying NO AI with a cameo of a duck. Smaller boxes note that AI-assisted answers and AI-generated images are removed as well.

              Alt...The landing page has huge letters saying NO AI with a cameo of a duck. Smaller boxes note that AI-assisted answers and AI-generated images are removed as well.

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                [?]hackaday » 🌐
                @hackaday@hackaday.social

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                [?]Timothée Ravier » 🌐
                @siosm@floss.social

                I've been elected to FESCo! 🎉 [1]

                Thanks to everyone who voted for me. Feel free to reach out if you want to have a chat.

                If you did not vote for me, feel free to reach out as well if you feel confortable sharing why.

                Now back to the work to make Fedora and all the Atomic variants awesome!

                [1] communityblog.fedoraproject.or

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                  [?]Year Progress » 🤖 🌐
                  @year_progress@techhub.social

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                  [?]Claire McNab » 🌐
                  @2legged@mastodon.ie

                  On 23 Dec 2025, the lost a huge contest. used the 's own power against it.

                  In July, the UK banned as "". Arrests for supporting PA total ~2,500, mostly older people. is the latest.

                  UK public opinion opposes the arrests. But Greta's fame takes the disdain global.

                  If Greta is convicted, the UK globally looks cruel. If she is acquitted or uncharged, it globally looks weak.

                  The UK govt has trapped itself, with no way out.

                  Against a black background, a photo of Greta Thunberg is overlaid with prison bars. On the black background, the capitalised headline above the photo reads "THE TRIAL OF GRETA THUNBERG".

Below the photo, in lower case, is written the phrase "accused of terrirism for holding a paper sign".

                  Alt...Against a black background, a photo of Greta Thunberg is overlaid with prison bars. On the black background, the capitalised headline above the photo reads "THE TRIAL OF GRETA THUNBERG". Below the photo, in lower case, is written the phrase "accused of terrirism for holding a paper sign".

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                    [?]Mark Jackson » 🌐
                    @ispreview@mastodon.social

                    Cloudflare are Making Changes to Avoid Breaking the Internet Again in 2026 ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025

                    Cloudflare outage 18th november 2025

                    Alt...Cloudflare outage 18th november 2025

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                    [?]sam » 🌐
                    @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                    @ispreview@mastodon.social Quality journalism as always. Thanks for the nice summary. 🙂

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                      [?]Mullvad VPN » 🌐
                      @mullvadnet@mastodon.online

                      The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.

                      The lawmakers write: “Any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.”

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                      [?]sam » 🌐
                      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                      @beasts@social.mythic-beasts.com I just migrated my running club’s website and mail to your service. It was a very smooth process, I think I’ll be a returning customer!

                      I did notice the Welcome, Email Verification and Request to join emails still reference your long dead Twitter account. Maybe it’s time to link here instead? 🙂

                      Links section at the bottom of an automated email showing a link to follow them on Twitter

                      Alt...Links section at the bottom of an automated email showing a link to follow them on Twitter

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                        [?]LibreWolf » 🌐
                        @librewolf@chaos.social

                        As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.

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                        [?]Lux :flag_genderfluid: » 🌐
                        @orange_lux@eldritch.cafe

                        @librewolf hi, and thanks for the message.

                        Just for me to be sure, that's something that comes from Firefox, and you missed it when updating the fork, is that right ?

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                          [?]LibreWolf » 🔓
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                          [?]Lux :flag_genderfluid: » 🔓
                          @orange_lux@eldritch.cafe

                          @librewolf thanks again. I love you guys.

                            [?]XNHQ » 🌐
                            @XNHQ@mastodon.social

                            @librewolf Thank you so much for deciding to not include Generative AI because I am tired of it. It is really nice.

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                              [?]Miakoda :neurodiversity: [she/her] » 🌐
                              @hellomiakoda@pdx.social

                              Huh. I did not know YouTube has a size limit on Watch Later.
                              Leave it to an AuDHDer to find it, eh.

                              5000.
                              You can have 5000 videos you've gaslit yourself in to being confident you will later watch.

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                              [?]sam » 🌐
                              @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                              @nixCraft@mastodon.social I’ve installed https://blue95.neocities.org/ on an old laptop my kids use when at their grandparents’ house. It’s a great blend of amusing and very functional. 😁

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                                [?]Dungeon Crawler Ben » 🌐
                                @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party

                                Man shits out diamond encrusted egg news

                                Stolen Fabergé pendant passed to police - quite literally

                                news.sky.com/story/police-reco

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                                [?]sam » 🔓
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                                @an0key@chaos.social @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk @aaisp I hope they realise how effective the fediverse is for advertising to their target audience. 😆

                                Currently on Zen (and happy enough tbh) but moving house in a couple of months and constant posts like this give me no choice but to take the opportunity to switch.

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                                  [?]sam » 🌐
                                  @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                  @vwdasher@weird.autos @slirt@weird.autos Ok now I want a rotary beetle…I didn’t know I needed one until today…

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                                    [?]sam » 🌐
                                    @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                    @leniwcowaty@fosstodon.org @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org Seconded. Have the mini and it’s as much of a plug and play experience as you’ll get with a 3d printer

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                                      [?]Dr. Christopher Kunz » 🌐
                                      @christopherkunz@chaos.social

                                      BINGO TIME! With CVE-2025-58034, Fortinet secures the crown in my Insecurity Appliance Bingo. This is technically a "high" severity vuln, but since it's being actively exploited and has landed a spot on CISA KEV, I'm admitting it.

                                      cku.gt/appbingo25

                                      Reaching a bingo took longer than expected, with FortiNet and Ivanti sitting at 5/6 vulns since about July. But now, there is a well-deserved winner.

                                      I'm now taking new vuln class and vendor suggestions for next year's edition.

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                                      [?]sam » 🌐
                                      @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                      @jamesb@duckduckpigeon.co.uk In my house it’s because my wife decides the coffee at work is substandard and just decides to take ours with her.

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                                        [?]Picard Tips » 🤖 🌐
                                        @PicardTips@mas.to

                                        Picard management tip: As soon as you find out that a person is truly toxic, get them the hell off your ship.

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                                        [?]sam » 🌐
                                        @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                        I definitely did not forget to set up the ACME cron job or certificate expiration monitoring on my website/fedi server, as a professional DevOps person… 😬

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                                        [?]K8sContributors » 🌐
                                        @K8sContributors@hachyderm.io

                                        Blog: Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know - kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/11/12

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                                          [?]Structured Success [they/her] » 🌐
                                          @structuredsucc@mastodon.social

                                          Executive dysfunction is a core component of ADHD and often involved in autism, depression, bipolar, and OCD.

                                          It's a big barrier with widely ranging impacts, from struggles getting started to being unable to stop, from memory issues to indecision.

                                          But, what exactly is executive dysfunction? 🧵

                                          A circle in the centre reads "executive functioning" with four faded, see-through circles below that.

                                          Alt...A circle in the centre reads "executive functioning" with four faded, see-through circles below that.

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                                          [?]linker oriented programming 🏳️‍⚧️ [she/her] » 🔓
                                          @linuxenjoyer@blahaj.zone

                                          dhh gnome blog [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                          RE: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/?p=5245

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                                            [?]nixCraft 🐧 » 🌐
                                            @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                            End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.

                                            The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.

                                            This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.

                                            Source
                                            support.mozilla.org/en-US/foru

                                            Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it

                                            A screenshot of support.mozilla.org

Forum name: SUMO community discussions
Title: End of Japanese community
Text by user named marsf that reads:

Hi, I am a locale leader of SUMO Japanese community. I have contributed to the Support over 20 years, before the beginning of support.mozilla.org.

Today, November 4, we decided to end our SUMO Japanese community.

In October 22, the sumobot was introduced to Japanese KB articles. I cannot accept its behavior and no words.

* It doesn't follow our translation guidelines.
* It doesn't respect current localization for Japanese users, so they were lost.
* It approves its direct English MT immediately for All archived KB articles.
* It approves only in 72 hours after its updates, so we lost our work to train new contributors.
* It has been working now without our acceptance, without controls, without communications.
* Over 300 Knowledge Base articles are overridden by sumobot.
They are all happened on the product server, not on staging server. I understand that this is mass destruction of our work and explicit violation to the Mozilla mission, allowed officially.

Therefore, I (marsf) declare:

* I quit to contribute to support.mozilla.org.
* I prohibit to use all my translation as learning data for SUMO bot and AIs.
* I request to remove all my translation from learned data of SUMO AIs.
However, individual Japanese contributors may want to work in their responsibility. It is their choice, we don't care nor support.

Bye.

                                            Alt...A screenshot of support.mozilla.org Forum name: SUMO community discussions Title: End of Japanese community Text by user named marsf that reads: Hi, I am a locale leader of SUMO Japanese community. I have contributed to the Support over 20 years, before the beginning of support.mozilla.org. Today, November 4, we decided to end our SUMO Japanese community. In October 22, the sumobot was introduced to Japanese KB articles. I cannot accept its behavior and no words. * It doesn't follow our translation guidelines. * It doesn't respect current localization for Japanese users, so they were lost. * It approves its direct English MT immediately for All archived KB articles. * It approves only in 72 hours after its updates, so we lost our work to train new contributors. * It has been working now without our acceptance, without controls, without communications. * Over 300 Knowledge Base articles are overridden by sumobot. They are all happened on the product server, not on staging server. I understand that this is mass destruction of our work and explicit violation to the Mozilla mission, allowed officially. Therefore, I (marsf) declare: * I quit to contribute to support.mozilla.org. * I prohibit to use all my translation as learning data for SUMO bot and AIs. * I request to remove all my translation from learned data of SUMO AIs. However, individual Japanese contributors may want to work in their responsibility. It is their choice, we don't care nor support. Bye.

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                                            [?]Rory McCune » 🌐
                                            @raesene@infosec.exchange

                                            Three high severity CVEs in runc announced today seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q4/1, which present a risk of container escape, worth making sure you're patching!

                                            It's not necessarily widely known but runc is a core component in most Kubernetes clusters. Often times you don't install it directly but get it as part of other packages like containerd, but it is there launching all the containers in your cluster.

                                            From a first read through of the advisories, one quote that particularly resonated with me :-

                                            "it is very difficult, if not impossible, to run an untrusted program with root privileges safely."

                                            It's been good advice for a long time to run containers as a non-root user and even where the container needs to run as root, with user namespace support available in Kubernetes, it's a lot easier to avoid the risks of running containers as the host root user!

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                                            [?]Aurora » 🌐
                                            @getaurora@hachyderm.io

                                            Hello Fediverse!

                                            We now have an account for Aurora on here :)

                                            Our stable branch is getting ready to move from Fedora 42 to 43, hopefully next week. Also at the same time we are working on our new ISOs that will use the new Anaconda WebUI installer.

                                            We hope to get this to "beta" stage with the F43 stable release.

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                                              [?]sam » 🌐
                                              @sam@cablespaghetti.dev

                                              @grifferz@social.bitfolk.com A fine vintage. The 2.6 series is what I was using when I really got into Linux. Fond memories.

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                                                [?]LibreWolf » 🌐
                                                @librewolf@chaos.social

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