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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        [?]Bad Voltage » 🌐
        @badvoltage@mastodon.social

        3x72: in which the OpenSSF are making some noise about how open infrastructure is not sustainable, and they have some thoughts... and so do we!
        youtube.com/watch?v=zCf75M-Mspc
        badvoltage.org/3x72

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        [?]Neil Brown » 🌐
        @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

        Roses are red
        Violets are blue
        To save and quit vim
        Use :wq

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        [?]sam » 🌐
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        It’s time to start a new #BrokenPublicComputers hashtag.

        Windows is low on memory at Heathrow airport…

        Cc: @slowe@mastodon.me.uk

        More of the departures board with the crashed machine for context

        Alt...More of the departures board with the crashed machine for context

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

          Not really a but I was amused to see that at least some (maybe most) of the VBB train ticket machines in Berlin run on Windows that hasn’t been activated.

          Train ticket machine with a German “please activate windows” watermark in the corner

          Alt...Train ticket machine with a German “please activate windows” watermark in the corner

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

            It’s time for another ! 🎉

            Here’s a screen at Starbucks with a double whammy of Windows that isn’t activated and a crashed application.

            This is a pretty sad hobby but I’m enjoying myself and so I will continue.

            Two Starbucks vertical screens, the left one says “Pumpkin is so back”. The right has a sideways error dialogue about an app that has crashed and a small watermark in the corner in German saying Windows isn’t activated.

            Alt...Two Starbucks vertical screens, the left one says “Pumpkin is so back”. The right has a sideways error dialogue about an app that has crashed and a small watermark in the corner in German saying Windows isn’t activated.

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              [?]sam » 🌐
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              Today we are at Marwell Zoo and we have a having a problem with libsvg on an ARM64 processor. I wonder if it’s a Raspberry Pi…

              A projector screen with a “Seeing Energy” sign next to it. On the screen is a lot of identical error messages. White monospaced text on black background.

              Alt...A projector screen with a “Seeing Energy” sign next to it. On the screen is a lot of identical error messages. White monospaced text on black background.

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

                Openreach Give ISPs 48 Hours to Remove Lithium Batteries from UK Exchanges ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025

                Fire sparks particles with flames isolated on black background

                Alt...Fire sparks particles with flames isolated on black background

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                [?]Wen » 🌐
                @Wen@mastodon.scot

                Binyamin Netanyahu’s long haul to New York to ‘avoid arrest’

                Little, even tiny things to hearten my morning

                archive.today/2025.09.25-14254 (archive)

                From the article, Netanyahu by an aircraft, text reads


Binyamin Netanyahu’s long haul to New York to ‘avoid arrest’
The Israeli prime minister’s aircraft took a strange detour which some speculated was to avoid entering the airspace of countries where he is wanted


The Israeli prime minister’s plane took an unusual circuitous route to New York in an apparent attempt to avoid entering the airspace of countries where he is wanted for war crimes.
Binyamin Netanyahu was on his way to speak at the UN general assembly where he has promised to “tell our truth” in what is expected to be a controversial speech. He is known for having used props and theatrics there in the past.
Netanyahu’s state aircraft, Wing of Zion, avoided Spanish and French airspace, according to the aviation website Flight Tracker.

The Times of Israel suggested that the longer journey was taken to avoid countries that are signatories to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has issued a warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest, alongside the former defence minister Yoav Gallant, for alleged war crimes.

                Alt...From the article, Netanyahu by an aircraft, text reads Binyamin Netanyahu’s long haul to New York to ‘avoid arrest’ The Israeli prime minister’s aircraft took a strange detour which some speculated was to avoid entering the airspace of countries where he is wanted The Israeli prime minister’s plane took an unusual circuitous route to New York in an apparent attempt to avoid entering the airspace of countries where he is wanted for war crimes. Binyamin Netanyahu was on his way to speak at the UN general assembly where he has promised to “tell our truth” in what is expected to be a controversial speech. He is known for having used props and theatrics there in the past. Netanyahu’s state aircraft, Wing of Zion, avoided Spanish and French airspace, according to the aviation website Flight Tracker. The Times of Israel suggested that the longer journey was taken to avoid countries that are signatories to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has issued a warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest, alongside the former defence minister Yoav Gallant, for alleged war crimes.

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                  [?]The Tattooed Nonna 👑 » 🌐
                  @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party

                  Before you vote in a general election, do you read the manifesto of all the parties or even the party You plan to vote for?
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                  No. I read nothing:5
                  I read a bit of the manifesto:25
                  I read the news papers:16
                  I read 'my' party's manifesto:7
                  I read all the party manifestos:28
                  Africa by Toto:18

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                  [?]sam » 🌐
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                  @awfulwoman@indieweb.social My wife did not appreciate this running the marathon on Sunday. 27 degrees in September!? 🤯

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                    [?]sam » 🌐
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                    @foobarry@mastodon.social Oh wow is that Windows 10 with old skool Edge before it was Chrome based!? That must have not been updated in a while.

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                      [?]sam » 🌐
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                      @PeterUpfold@fosstodon.org If anywhere was going to have people interested in this, it was going to be the fediverse 😁

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

                        Trying to get on the 19:50 to Heathrow at Berlin Brandenburg. Got here super early just in case.

                        The luggage check in staff are doing their best with a hacked together system (cables everywhere!) so they can print bag labels.

                        British Airways have flown out extra staff to try and coordinate the whole thing. Took us maybe half an hour to get our bags sorted, other airline desks are not coping so well. 😬

                        Now in the rather long security line. Not sure if that’s related to the vMUSE hack or just normal here.

                        CC @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

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                          [?]sam » 🌐
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                          @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Oh nooooo. Decisions were made at that company…

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                            [?]sam » 🌐
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                            @mansr@society.oftrolls.com Not too badly thanks. We’re currently at the Zoo. We’ve not done any museums or anything but still feel like we’ve experienced the city. I really love it here. If I had to live in a city I think Berlin would be high up that list.

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

                              @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Oh wow. This is right wing even for DHH. I will never understand why he’s got such a platform. It’s not like his business is particularly successful. Extreme/shocking views spread more easily I suppose…

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                                [?]sam » 🌐
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                                Having a great time in Berlin and the marathon went pretty well for my wife yesterday despite the heat. However I am increasingly worried about our flight home being cancelled with this luggage system hack. 😬

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                                [?]sam » 🌐
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                                @sergiodj@snac.sergiodj.net @grunfink@comam.es I’m running on Trixie but building myself from a clone of the git repo. Only because it wasn’t clear that the package was going to be maintained and updated quickly when I first installed. I might now switch over to getting the package from backports. 🙂

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                                  [?]sam » 🌐
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                                  @ahoneybun@hachyderm.io Oh that’s cool they are supporting slightly oddball hardware. 🙂

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                                    [?]sam » 🌐
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                                    @ahoneybun@hachyderm.io 3 is critical for me and I am amused that solution to 1 is on a fedora forum. I was an Ubuntu guy for many years but the Fedora ecosystem is just doing more interesting things these days.

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                                      [?]sam » 🌐
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                                      @teufen@mas.to I read both of those books a few weeks ago. I loved them, just like everything she writes.

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

                                        I just read “The long way to a small angry planet” by Becky Chambers again. I first read it a number of years ago but it always stuck out in my mind. I can confidently say it is my favourite book.

                                        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…


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                                          [?]sam » 🌐
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                                          @GoatsLive@mastodon.social I wish I was shocked but I’m not at all. 😆

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                                            [?]Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot: » 🌐
                                            @mainframed767@infosec.exchange

                                            To celebrate Hackers 30th I present Plymouth boot screens

                                            github.com/mainframed/Hackers-

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                                              [?]Emeritus Prof Christopher May » 🌐
                                              @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

                                              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.


                                              theconversation.com/racism-isn

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                                                [?]Robin ╰(ಠ_ಠ✿)╯ » 🌐
                                                @buzzyrobin@chaos.social

                                                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

                                                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.

                                                Alt...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.

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                                                [?]David P » 🌐
                                                @pewnack@aus.social

                                                @benlockwood

                                                Full

                                                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.”

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

                                                  @feld@friedcheese.us Hilariously .zip is a tld and someone has registered https://epsteinfiles.zip forwarding to a Bluesky account. 😆

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                                                    [?]Taylor - Romanceable NPC » 🌐
                                                    @dyke_du_jour@tacobelllabs.net

                                                    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!

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

                                                      Reminder – Tomorrow is a Nationwide Mobile Test of UK Emergency Alerts ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025

                                                      Emergency Alerts UK Gov Test Image from Vodafone UK PR 010925

                                                      Alt...Emergency Alerts UK Gov Test Image from Vodafone UK PR 010925

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                                                      [?]jamesb (MW1CGG) » 🌐
                                                      @jamesb@fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk

                                                      BNIB.

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

                                                      Perhaps not tonight.

                                                      A Klaxon No 2C

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                                                      [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                      @jamesb@duckduckpigeon.co.uk I’d ask why you bought this, but I know the answer is just going to be “Why not!?”.

                                                      I am interested in the historical use of these though. Dedicated telephone line that only gets called in an emergency?

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                                                        [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                        @mansr@society.oftrolls.com I think the Stasi and DDR stuff is more interesting to me than art tbh. Strange as that may be.

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                                                          [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                          @mansr@society.oftrolls.com Thanks. Yes that’s on the list now. Will see how much nerdy stuff I can convince my wife to do. 😆

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                                                            [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                            @jamesb@duckduckpigeon.co.uk Thanks! This is a good list to be getting on with. Maybe I can get away with one technology museum without my wife getting too bored. Sadly the East German motorcycle museum shut down.

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

                                                              @jamesb@duckduckpigeon.co.uk This is mostly a list of places not to visit. 😆 I’ll check out Trinkteufel and a kebab though!

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

                                                                My wife and I are going to Berlin for her to run the marathon in a few weeks.

                                                                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

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                                                                [?]The Real Grunfink » 🌐
                                                                @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                I've just published version 2.82 of , the simple, minimalistic instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:

                                                                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 useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.


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                                                                  [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                                  @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party This is so relatable. I’ve been to about two sessions in the last year and not many the year before that either. Who knows maybe 2026 will be my return to form…

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                                                                    [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                                    @UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com @johnelalamo@mcr.wtf It’s not a rat it’s a Siberian hamster!

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

                                                                      @DJDarren@mendeddrum.org @guffo@topspicy.social I am also the target market for this t-shirt…

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                                                                        [?]YearProgress » 🤖 💔 🌐
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                                                                        Year progress: ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒░░░░░░░ 66.6%

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                                                                        [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                                        @awfulwoman@indieweb.social This is a message I can get behind…I’ve just spent a week in basically a cabin in the woods and not opened a laptop. I would really quite like this to be a permanent arrangement.

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                                                                          [?]Jorge Castro » 🌐
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                                                                          [?]Prof. Sam Lawler » 🌐
                                                                          @sundogplanets@mastodon.social

                                                                          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)

                                                                          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.

                                                                          Alt...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.

                                                                          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.

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