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• Post #4418494

  I noticed that signing in to Mastodon using 2FA didn't reliably work. Turns out my system clock was ~30 seconds behind that of the actual time (currently GMT +1 for me). On Linux distributions that have systemd, systemd apparently synchronises your system time with a time server automatically. However, I use Devuan (i.e. Debian but without systemd) so I had to do it manually. I used `htpdate` to set the time to a UK time server on pool.ntp.org like this: ``` sudo htpdate uk.pool.ntp.org `...

• Post #4371005

  A friend of mine just told me a friend of his reinstalled Telegram and reactivated his old account, to find that "self-destructing" messages he'd been sent had reappeared. So they were self-hiding at best, not self-destructing, and remained on the server all that time. One more reason not to use it. #Telegram

• Post #4313873

  Ooh. #KDE #Plasma 6.7 has dropped. https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/ #KDEplasma

• Post #3868998

  I notice the hashtag for #systemd seems a lot less angry now than it was, say, two months ago. Has all that about age verification blown over?

• Post #3865494

  Mae wir rhaid i fi ganolbwyntio ar wella fy neall acennau gogleddol... #Cymraeg

• Post #3840337

  Bluey dubbed into one of the world's oldest living languages https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c07y7r91vz9o #languages #language #linguistics

• Post #3818342

  It seems Joplin has had a little bit of a delay in its releases, and simultaneously seems to have been having an AI chat bot built into it in v. 3.7 and newer versions. V. 3.6.15's AppImage was about 150 MB; vv. 3.7+ are now at ~400 MB. https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/releases#release-v3.7.3 #Joplin

• Post #3763834

  Cymraegiwyr - Oes dihareb neu 'saying' yn Gymraeg sydd rhywbeth fel "torri eu coesau eu hunain"? Dw i jyst wedi clywed rhywbeth tebyg i hwnna ar y radio a does dim syniad gyda fi beth mae'n ei feddwl. >.< (Gobetihio na llythrennol yw e...) Oedd y cyd-destun yn ymneud â busnesau bach sydd yn dod i gyd i sioe o ryw fath, i rhoi neu dderbyn cymorth i'w gilydd. Doeddwn i ddim yn deall yr holl beth. #Cymraeg

• Post #3712345

  Unsquashable, yet washable. ❤️ #AnnWiddicombe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-3VSLyje4E

• Post #3448316

  Just read a brilliant description of someone's experience of their own #aromantic #asexuality, in particular regarding the difference between attraction and libido: "It's like sneezing. It feels good to let it out but it would be weird if someone else helped." 😆 #LGBT #pride

• Post #1009538

  This is *so* important. The survival of the language depends on, among other things, people's perceptions of who is "supposed" to speak it. The idea it's only white, rural people who speak it is completely untrue, and the more different people who learn it and speak it every day, the more it changes the face of what it is to be a #Welsh speaker. (In Welsh) Prejudice that faces black speakers of Welsh is "restrictive" https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymr...

• Post #968340

  https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.jbselfcompany.tyr This looks pretty cool #FOSS #Android #email #DeltaChat

• Post #968339

  Could anyone recommend an instance of #CryptPad or #Nextcloud that incorporates #Collabora as its web-based office suite, and which accepts public signups? All others I've found include OnlyOffice. #FOSS #FLOSS

• Post #871242

  Queers on Fedi: the modern alternative to Girls on Film

• Post #871240

  If AI agents are not human, what about estate agents?

• Post #871239

  Mlem #Caturday

• Post #687066

  Still one of my favourite photos ever taken

• Post #687065

  Back in 2022 I did a Banned Books Week display inspired by @Richard_Littler and #Scarfolk. Hidden underneath each book were little notes saying things like "Put that back", "You're on CCTV" and "Isn't the 'No' poster big enough for you?" It was to highlight that in many parts of the world - even those built on the buzzwords of freedom and democracy - a lot of books are deemed dangerous or undesirable by certain groups of privileged people who want...

• Post #687064

  "To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the centre of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud, a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is...

• Post #687062

  My mum and I did a terrarium-making workshop this afternoon. Let's see how they do. ☺ #terrarium #gardening #IndoorGardening #moss #mosstodon #houseplants

• Post #687061

  It feels like spring has finally sprung. Aren't hellebores lovely?

• Post #687060

  I recently discovered the website https://CommandingHands.co.uk/ It is in development, but it's so exciting to see something entirely free that aims to promote the use, teaching, resources for and profile of British Sign Language. The website should be fully up and running by the middle of this year. 👍 Genuinely excited to see how this develops 🙂 Hashtags: #BritishSignLanguage #BSL #SignLanguage #language #languages #linguistics

• Post #687053

  #NowPlaying 'Everything Had to Happen This Way' by Winterlight https://n5md.bandcamp.com/track/everything-had-to-happen-this-way

• Post #437771

  Is there a petition anywhere for UK people to sign, to oppose our Great Leadership's plans to put VPNs behind age verification? I've seen ones to oppose the NHS's integration of Palantir but not for that. List of hashtags: #politics #petition #UK #AgeVerification #VPN #UKpol

• Post #437770

  I have three #Meshcore devices. 1) a Seeed Studio Xiao nRF[something] which is set up to be a repeater. It has the antenna of my second device, a stock Wio Tracker L1 Pro antenna. 2) a Seeed Studio Wio Tracker L1 Pro, with the antenna swapped with that of my first device. As such, its antenna is a little flappy strip of something. 3) a Seeed Studio Wio Tracker L1 Pro, unaltered, with original antenna. Both devices 2 and 3 are companions. Why, then, does device 3, with its larger, more subst...

• Post #437769

  #AskFedi Is there a way to tell if a Fediverse instance/server runs on or is facilitated by Cloudflare, before signing up to it? (...besides the connection verification captchas you see sometimes.)

• Post #437768

  Sir Ian McKellan has always been pretty high up in my estimation and I didn't think he could go any higher, but he just has. https://youtu.be/wXq58BbhCO4 To just hold a room like that. Incredible. He was talking about ICE and fear of immigrants, and then quotes Shakespeare that he performed in the 1960s – straight out like that.

• Post #437767

  After a full day of charging in (late winter, northern hemisphere) direct sunshine, my new solar panel charged my power bank enough to recharge my #Meshcore repeater's battery by... ...somewhere between 6 and 10%. 🫤 Hrm.

• Post #437766

  Took my #Meshcore devices to work this morning. Three-storey building, and three quarters of the time got messages out onto the mesh, picked up by a repeater in London and bounced around the UK about 10 times. Pretty cool. :) Also I nearly misspelled "mesh" as "mwah". Mwahcore, anyone?

• Post #437765

  My Xiao repeater has died. Fell apart at the wire connections. My solar panel does a fraction of the job I expected it to do. Time for a change of plan. I've put the antenna back on one of my Wio L1s, and replaced the Xiao's one, so all three devices are now back to stock configurations. I'll turn one of the L1s into a repeater and see how well it does, and sell the Xiao, TP4056 and battery. Then later in the year I'll probably buy a better solar panel (than...