sam
@sam@cablespaghetti.dev
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https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html
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!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCf75M-Mspc
https://badvoltage.org/3x72
Windows is low on memory at Heathrow airport…
Cc: @slowe@mastodon.me.uk
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.
Openreach Give ISPs 48 Hours to Remove Lithium Batteries from UK Exchanges https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/09/openreach-give-isps-48-hours-to-remove-lithium-batteries-from-uk-exchanges.html
Binyamin Netanyahu’s long haul to New York to ‘avoid arrest’
Little, even tiny things to hearten my morning
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?
Feel free to boost 🚀
| 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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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.
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…
To celebrate Hackers 30th I present Plymouth boot screens
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
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!
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
BNIB.
I suppose I should find out how to make it work.
Perhaps not tonight.
I am interested in the historical use of these though. Dedicated telephone line that only gets called in an emergency?
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).
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Thanks for the hookup GitHub!
https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/2025/08/29/github-oss-fund/