Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦🇵🇸); EMF☎️2462

realcainmosni@mastodon.me.uk

Security MSc; PhD research student. Linux, networking, internet, offensive/defensive security, comedy, films, science, and space flight. And cynicism. Lots of cynicism. (<a href="https://birdsite.mastodon.me.uk/users/realcainmosni" class="u-url mention">@realcainmosni</a>; AKA <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ChocChipSec" class="u-url mention">@ChocChipSec</a>, @realcainmosni.bsky.social). If I know you, add me...Why "*real* cain mosni"? Because there was a bogus Cain Mosni on Twitter who had taken the alias I had been using, uncopied, for a decade. And why Cain Mosni? Read it backward.

Posts

Post #3757082
Oh, dear god, no...! I just had another idea for a @phones@social.emfcamp.org service. The ideal number for it - 1969 - is not available, and besides I don't have the time to build it. I'm struggling to get another project working. 14:32 UK time,Thursday 16th marks the 57th anniversary of the Apollo XI launch. Wouldn't it be fun if you could dial 1969, and listen to the archived radio traffic in real time from 57 years ago...
Post #3636256
UK Tax returns have gone digital, which is fine in principle. What is not fine is that pretty much only paid solutions are acceptable for submitting a return. If electronic tax returns are mandatory, the government should be providing a cost-free means. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769610#action (Hats off to a couple of people I follow that first raised this.)
Post #2170868
Over 700 quid for a one day hire of a Range Rover. 😆😆😆 (No I was not looking for a Range Rover.)
Post #2170866
So will people be running Meshcore or Meshtastic at @emf? As I understand it, Meshtastic is unlikely to cope well if floods of people turn up using it. (Yes, that was a deliberate pun.)
Post #2170865
Do you use #Google #Chrome? Something you need to know, that&#39;s likely chewing up your disk space and hammering your bandwidth: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/07/chrome-silently-installs-a-4-gb-local-llm-on-your-computer/5230893 From @lproven on #TheRegister (who don&#39;t appear to have an official Masto presence).
Post #2170864
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21k21vnmgo
Post #2170863
For some reason - I presume current stats - Which are highlighting this scam again... https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/scam-alert-new-parking-fine-scam-text-aj5wx1j3trT1
Post #2170859
I&#39;m already double busy, but this might be of interest to some: https://www.europeanmovement.co.uk/emwandsworthmerton/living_with_brexit_divide
Post #2059408
Quote posting is coming to the default Mastodon clients. As a precursor, the settings are already available in user preferences to control who can repost. Settings &gt; Preferences &gt; Other: &quot;Who can quote&quot;
Post #2059403
meetup.com really has gone to shit, hasn&#39;t it? Piles of totally irrelevant &quot;recommendations&quot;, which it so happens are mostly waiting-list only, and guess what: access to the waitlist is a subscription service. Unfortunately, whilst I don&#39;t have any interest in any of their fluffy, happy-clappy social recommendations (made, I should point out, to my &quot;professional&quot; account), one of the industry events I am interested in is also wait list only, bu...
Post #2059402
Qualified and licenced workers are unemployed and homeless on the streets. Meanwhile one man is deluded enough to think he has the right to expect to be paid a trillion dollars a year. Funny ol&#39; world, innit?
Post #2059401
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jdblair/115609917863140498 🤦🏾‍♂️🤣
Post #2059400
[edit] February&#39;s [/edit] DC4420, Tuesday next week. See https://dc4420.org/ The Greene Man 383 Euston Road London NW1 3AU Nearest Tube: Great Portland Street. (Regents Park and Warren Street both short walks away; Euston Square and Euston a brisk 10 minutes.)
Post #2059399
Next week: https://www.meetup.com/londonlinux/events/313040521/
Post #1546047
RE: https://mastodon.social/@LillyHerself/116356827742217635 It has been obvious for upward of 2 years, but here, very visually is why Xitter (as in &quot;down the&quot;) should be abandoned by anyone with a scrap of decency.
Post #1546046
Hmmm - posting on #LinkedIn from Linux seems to have been borked. And it is so cumbersome and sluggish to render. When you think they can&#39;t get any worse, they managed to confound you.
Post #1546043
&quot;Golden Rule, motherfucker.&quot;
Post #266691
In light of the current political situation between the UK and the US (over Greenland, particularly, but brown-nosing the Tangerine Troll in general, and the threat of withdrawal of service by the tech bros to vital industries) I find myself oddly pleased that my previous employment ended. @RoryCJ sets a very important question. Several NHS trusts rely on my former employer&#39;s platform, and several others rely on similar competitors. https://open.substack.com/pub/rorycellanjones/p/can-uk...
Post #6469
@cstross@wandering.shop "Bubble"? What bubble?