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.

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[?]Sam » 🌐
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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 » 🌐
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    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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      @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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        Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

        signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-0

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        @linuxmatters@ubuntu.social Castamatic on iOS. This is making me feel like I need to get some self hosting going on with audiobookshelf though.

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          [?]Sam » 🌐
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          @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social I was really disappointed when I googled this and Howard Jones the ex-frontman for Killswitch Engage hadn’t done an Iron Maiden cover of The Prisoner…

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            @ispreview@mastodon.social @revk@toot.me.uk Quality journalism as always Mark. Glad I made the call to invest in 4G kit instead of Starlink at my new rural house. Amusingly this did have a Starlink ad at the bottom of the page for me though. 😆

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              [?]Sam » 🌐
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              @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party @sam Let’s see if this video will send over Snac…

              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. 😁

              Alt...Aqua dragons tank backlit with a grow light containing 5 adults and a bunch of babies.

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                [?]Sam » 🌐
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                @threedaymonk@sonomu.club @sindarina@ngmx.com Lots of jobs going, I’m sure at least one will be applicable https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9fin

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                  [?]Sam » 🌐
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                  @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party
                  @ellesaurus@toot.lgbt I’ve just sent them a message offering help. Maybe they’ve got fed up with running it. Hopefully we can get it back up because I don’t have my reading data from the past couple of years anywhere else…

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                    [?]Sam » 🌐
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                    @popey@mastodon.social Oh wow! They finally pulled it off! 🎉

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                      [?]Sam » 🌐
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                      @stefan@social.stefanberger.net @billgoats I’ve hacked my Kindle 4 to run the https://trmnl.com/ software which I find highly useful. Jailbreaking was a bit of a faff but well documented at least.

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                        [?]Sam » 🌐
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                        @theplaguedoc@glitterkitten.co.uk @babe@glitterkitten.co.uk Me too! 😁

                        Blue particle trails artwork above a computer monitor

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                          [?]Sam » 🌐
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                          @awfulwoman@indieweb.social Something with the switch to sudo-rs?

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                            [?]Sam » 🌐
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                            @BoxyBSD@bsd.cafe @gyptazy@gyptazy.com I thought the service was supposed to shut down at the beginning of the month? Have you had a change of heart?

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                              [?]War and Peas 🧿 » 🌐
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                              Cartoon by War and Peas, titled "After the AI Apocalypse." A shady figure in a fedora, sunglasses, and moustache opens a trench coat to reveal books pinned inside. The left side reads "REAL" and "100% NATURAL," the right side reads "BOOKS BY HUMANS." The figure whispers, "Psst." Black-and-white illustration on a pavement background.

                              Alt...Cartoon by War and Peas, titled "After the AI Apocalypse." A shady figure in a fedora, sunglasses, and moustache opens a trench coat to reveal books pinned inside. The left side reads "REAL" and "100% NATURAL," the right side reads "BOOKS BY HUMANS." The figure whispers, "Psst." Black-and-white illustration on a pavement background.

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                              [?]Kevin Beaumont » 🌐
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                              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.

                              doublepulsar.com/microsoft-vib

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                              [?]Sam » 🌐
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                              @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party Have you also watched almost every PicoCosmos YouTube video as well?😆

                              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…

                              Aqua Deagons tank with heater temperature probe, grow light and air stone.

                              Alt...Aqua Deagons tank with heater temperature probe, grow light and air stone.

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                                [?]lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: » 🌐
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                                The cat's out of the bag! My latest book, "The Secret Life of Circuits", is available in early access:

                                lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/secre

                                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.

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                                [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                Update on the /Aqua Dragons/brine shrimp I got for “my kids”.

                                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. 😆

                                Alt...An Aqua Dragons tank on a windowsill, with a small heater and illuminated with a pink grow light. Lots of tiny baby brine shrimp are swimming around.

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                                  [?]Totts [I and I] » 🌐
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                                  Fergal Sharkey was on 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

                                  sewagecampaignnetwork.org.uk/

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                                    [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                    @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party @sam I’m currently on holiday in Devon, maybe I should try and bring some back. 😁

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                                      [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                      @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party Thanks. Good to know you have positive results using the normal kit and a ludicrously cheap pump. If I get one I would probably get some kind of pump as I’m sure without anything they won’t live particularly long.

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                                        @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party Alright I’ve gone off brand and got a nice looking Aqua Dragons set. Then gone on a bit of an Ali Express spree and bought an air pump, pH testing strips, a salinity meter, a heater and some glow in the dark pebbles. 😆 It’s for the children…we need the bits for the science…

                                        Aqua Dragons Hatch 'N' Grow

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                                          [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                          @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party You’ve reignited my childhood enthusiasm for them. Never had a tank myself but always thought they were cool. Wonder if my kids would be into it.

                                          What’s your setup? I can see some kind of air pump?

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                                            [?]Socket » 🌐
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                                            🚨 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: socket.dev/blog/trivy-under-at

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                                            [?]shockham » 🌐
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                                            Been working on a small decentralised music search tool squirrel.band/, initially indexing sites using faircamp (by @freebliss).

                                            Currently grabs the sites listed on simonrepp.com/faircamp/ and in the webring (faircamp.webr.ing/) using each pages available RSS feeds, keen to add more sources if anyone has any suggestions.

                                            A screenshot of a website with the title "squirrel" and a search bar with text above stating "search to discover new music".

                                            Alt...A screenshot of a website with the title "squirrel" and a search bar with text above stating "search to discover new music".

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                                              [?]nixCraft 🐧 » 🌐
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                                              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.

                                              agelesslinux.org/

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                                              [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                              @ncopa@fosstodon.org @mjwin Another owner of some RPi 1s here. They are just barely usable in 2026. It would be a shame to lose Alpine support but I wouldn’t be too bitter about it. Much like with i686, it’s a question of when the maintenance burden is too much for the tiny number of users. 🤷

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                                                [?]Mandrake 🐎 [he/him] » 🌐
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                                                UK age verification public consultation, call to action [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                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):
                                                gov.uk/government/consultation

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                                                [?]Claire McNab [She/her] » 🌐
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                                                Highlight of the : The sent their man out to talk to Green Party canvassers.

                                                It did not go well for him. 😅🤣

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                                                  [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                  @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party I’m guessing from the name they are American. Best of luck to Ofcom trying to fine foreign businesses. They know their target market will just get a VPN when their sites get blocked in the UK. 🤷

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                                                    [?]Tom's Hardware » 🤖 🌐
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                                                    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.

                                                    tomshardware.com/software/linu

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                                                      [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                      @rachel@transitory.social @mmeier@social.mei-home.net I mostly just run this now across all my files. Also two. 😝 https://github.com/google/yamlfmt

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