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• Post #3130916

  Remember when Sophie Ellis-Bextor's kitchen discos made The Event a little more bearable? Imagine being one of her kids. Imagine being one of the blokes who watched these videos and felt the need to comment, "great legs but can't sing for toffee". Yes Clive, we all bow to your creative endeavours and shapely legs also, while you invite us into your no doubt perfect family kitchen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUlg8E5RiVw

• Post #3130915

  How my life is going https://github.com/grafana/database-migrator/issues/11#issuecomment-4588816005

• Post #3130914

  The Bezos distraction Bezos suggests the average worker is taxed less, INSTEAD of taxing the wealthy more. This would result in governments becoming poorer, but that won't affect the wealthy because they don't rely on public services. He's pushing the same old austerity message. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWfT04fiinA

• Post #3130913

  Now that's a suspiciously high rate of compression… 2026-06-02T00:12:50.772150+00:00 graf0 mysqldump_restic[1687375]: Added to the repository: 169.651 MiB (3.367 MiB stored)

• Post #3130912

  Stop trying to make "smishing" happen

• Post #3130911

  What an awesome time of year for the CPU fan on my desktop to die

• Post #3130910

  Damn, for years I have been doing: # partprobe /dev/sda to re-read partition tables, when all the time I could have done: # blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda (blockdev is usually installed because it comes from util-linux; partprobe is from parted which isn't usually installed.)

• Post #3130909

  Wow, this enclosure actually has working locator LEDs. $ for i in {1..8}; do echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/class/enclosure/0\:0\:1\:0/SLOT\ 0${i}/locate; sleep 2; done

• Post #3130908

  What's going on with this Ebay listing? Title says 500G capacity by "Color" option allows to select 4TB. But the price then is about 10% of retail for the described/pictured Samsung 4TB 870 EVO SSD. And what is an "external,. Portable SSD"? Pictured is a SATA SSD. It all screams scam, but seller has thousands of sales and 99.9% rating. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/366424422618

• Post #3130907

  This is a nice Neil Diamond cover. Lee Fields -America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaUpVaFlI1g&t=12s

• Post #3130906

  tridge defends AI usage in rsync development. I'm still not over his use of Discord in rsync development. 😀 https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

• Post #2746961

  Canada's Alberta and Northwest Territories follow British Columbia's lead and go to permanent DST; will remain on UTC-6 from 1st November instead of falling back. Saskatchewan will probably decide to do the same. https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/message/WMQUDDWBMM46Q55LEHN7GUDCZIL3OQXM/

• Post #2746960

  A customer: "I suspect our plan is to migrate email hosting away from our own VPS - mailman3 is a bit of a disaster that I hate maintaining and I'm tired of being the only one managing our postfix, dkim, dmarc, etc and much of our email silently not being delivered to gmail anyway!"

• Post #2746959

  Homeless Sonny; Jasmine (black) and Gizmo (blue) using each other for pillows, at the Richmond May Fair last Saturday. My home file server has been broken all week so it took me a while to look at my photos! #Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

• Post #2746958

  My photo album tells me it's 5 years ago today that I was first interviewed to look after Spot. Back then he was 5 years old and just a couple of months out of kennels with his new family. That day he was more interested in investigating Bedfont Lakes. These days he's an old boy and mainly likes to be upside down on the sofa. 2021, 2021, last month. 😀 I'm seeing him and Dolly again in a couple of weeks! #Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

• Post #2746957

  "modprobe-wrapper is a very simple wrapper for modprobe that implements a whitelist of modules that are allowed to be auto-loaded by the linux kernel. It is mainly useful for attack surface reduction on servers with a relatively static configuration." https://github.com/s-fritsch/modprobe-wrapper

• Post #2746956

  I hope every candidate for Prime Minister watches this. "Why are the far right doing so well? And can it be stopped?" – Garys Economics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX3xtIjWRq8 PS Yes I do die every time I have to miss off the apostrophe, but it's a burden I am willing to bear

• Post #2746955

  As the years pass I never cease to be amazed just how much legit and important email gmail users are willing to have simply vanish, and they just consider that what email is now. There can be no greater condemnation of email as a thing we all pretend makes sense.

• Post #2746954

  [while watching a TV segment about an anxious dog] Absolutely no one: Jenny: I wish my anxieties could be cured by throwing lumps of meat at me

• Post #2746953

  30-post and counting thread on debian-devel arguing about what the license is/should be of the file that describes what license(s) the rest of the package is under, is one of the most Debian things ever. Not that I have any formal legal training, but I feel it is a mind trap to treat such things like collecting all the Pokémon. "I am imploring people to not spend precious hours of life worrying about this. :)", says Russ Allbery, entirely reasonably, but…

• Post #2746952

  I never noticed that the code on screen in The Terminator (1984) was 6502 assembly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NebvccLHutQ

• Post #2746951

  I'm interested in trying out apt-cacher-ultra, because I am a long time user of apt-cacher-ng but have been having serious issues with it for years now and don't see an end to them. I'm otherwise on the verge of just using a regular caching HTTP proxy. But their contribution policy gives me some pause. They only accept AI-assisted contributions. https://github.com/linsomniac/apt-cacher-ultra/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

• Post #2746950

  "Legends" (Netflix) is good. So is "Half Man" (BBC). Surprisingly, Jenny likes Half Man more than Legends. Really not the outcome I expected.

• Post #2746949

  The last two weeks in UK politics have obviously provided rather a lot of material for Private Eye's next episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaQ5mW4xp24

• Post #2746948

  TIL that Synology adds non-upstreamed metadata to its implementation of btrfs such that you can't mount a btrfs filesystem from a Synology device without building your own kernel. https://rant.mvh.dev/building-an-enterprise-homelab-part-5-the-synology-btrfs-trap/

• Post #2197930

  "How Many Days Has It Been Since a JWT alg:none Vulnerability?" https://www.howmanydayssinceajwtalgnonevuln.com/

• Post #2194229

  Changes: apt (3.3.0) unstable; urgency=medium * Drop warning about unstable CLI interface. A specific CLI version can now be requested using the --cli-version flag, and old versions can be deprecated on a reasonable cadence. Therefore, a warning is no longer necessary. https://lists.debian.org/deity/2026/05/msg00006.html

• Post #1944976

  Considering only the age assurance laws of California, Colorado and New York, they already conflict with each other in multiple ways. An operating system trying to comply would presumably have to implement all of them and give the correct information when located in each place, yet also know to NOT give the information that is prohibited in that place. And the way these things are written, it's the COLLECTION that is prohibited, yet in other cases retroactively required. https://lists.d...

• Post #1878738

  The crazy measures people are taking to try to protect their web sites from scraper bots these days. There's the Debian list archives which are currently banning some user-agents that are in use by exotic web browsers like… their own packaged version of Firefox. But it gets worse…

• Post #1877515

  First properly nice day of the year so Gary had a dip in Bedfont Lakes #Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop