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• Post #4142941

  Well today's #xkcd certainly maxes out the legacy-geek-o-meter https://xkcd.com/3277/

• Post #3988972

  Today's bugbear(s): Specifications which define a thing which can have more than one value but don't define how the ordering of that value should be interpretedSoftware that doesn't understand "short form" IPv4 CIDR addresses (eg. 172.16/12)

• Post #3958249

  @LevelUp@corteximplant.com I always have a small puzzle within reach for this, such as https://hanayama-toys.com/product/cast-news/ which I've still not managed to get into…

• Post #3829010

  @byterazor@geraffel.social I've not seen any work in that space at all - are you aware of any?

• Post #3716564

  RE: https://en.osm.town/@thibaultmol/116799005791501048 There's something awfully pleasing about this "remix" of the #BBCnews countdown with #trains

• Post #3258603

  In one of the #TNC26 talks (part of the Rebooting the Old Reliables session) one of the speakers mentioned an article about "Rewilding the internet". It's been around for a few years but is a fascinating and inspiring read… https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/ #rewilding #internetdiversity #digitalsovereignty #digitaldiversitity

• Post #2425721

  Just when I have time to start messing with the home network (to get a new router commissioned), the children come home and demand a stable internet connection.

• Post #2425720

  The Cuillin from Elgol, Isle of Skye, Scotland Taken: May 2025 Location: 57.147985, -6.108425 looking North-North-East #scotland #highlands #skye #elgol #cuillin #blackandwhite #photography #waves #mountains #sea

• Post #2425718

  Q: When is a link not a link? A: When it's actually a button masquerading as a link. Would someone be able to tell me why #Swale District Council decided to eschew the humble <a> tag and use <button> instead? The upshot, if you middle-click on a thing (to open it in a new tab), nothing happens 😡 #web #webdev #kent #faversham

• Post #1798874

  https://copy.fail/ Local Privilege Escalation in every Linux kernel since 2017 Hopefully no one is sitting on a low-privilege RCE... #linux #security #rce #lpe #cve #CVE202631431

• Post #899703

  Latest #firefox #ESR (v149.0) appears to have stopped reporting the HTTP error code when something goes wrong… in this case for a 403. It used to include the HTTP code and some useful words. In this error, it looks like the connection just didn't work rather than we got an error from the server. Is there a way to turn this back on?

• Post #848981

  My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … I am looking for a self-hostable web based application to be an inventory of the (real, rather than e-) #books in the house. It should be able to accept a list of #ISBNs as input for importing items and look them up (with covers) to ingest their metadata. It doesn't need #library style circulation (I don't want to run a library so don't want #Koha or equivalent) I've been using #HomeBox whic...

• Post #725051

  In the context of releasing updated packages that fix critical vulnerabilities, what does "Will be published imminently" actually mean? I'm looking at #Canonical (@ubuntu) right now, as some of the packages to mitigate #CrackArmor on Azure have been saying that since, at least, Monday. Any indication of a concrete date for this to be available? Ref: https://ubuntu.com/security/vulnerabilities/crackarmor#affected-releases #Ubuntu #Linux #Security

• Post #703136

  I have two main requirements when it comes to computers (or digital devices in general)… Decent #hardware that serves me rather than having rules baked in that stop me doing things (not possibly on most mobile handsets right now)Decent #software that serves me rather than doing the changing bidding of big-tech/ad-tech overlordsThat shouldn't be so hard… #DigitalSovereignty #adtech #bigtech #windows #macos #linux https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116209575645762087

• Post #703135

  Adding blur around the player they want you to focus on seems a bit… much. Just cos you can do something doesn't mean you should. And if you must do it, make it less obvious! #sixnations #irevsco #itv #rugby

• Post #703132

  ⚠️ Low #spoons alert Feel a bit running on empty at the moment. There's a lot going on. Be kind to yourselves.

• Post #703131

  So it turns out #Microsoft have never "fixed" the stupidity in #NPS where, when you get a new #certificate into the local computer store, you have to Open the PEAP settings screen and click ok (not actually change anything) to get it to pick up the new cert. It's been 20 years… #fail #radius #eduroam

• Post #487841

  This deserves a slow-clap for Apple… An update to macOS 26.3 is overdue. You can install it now or it will be installed automatically Yesterday, 20:06 #fail #macos #apple #slowclap