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Alex Willmer

@alex@social.moreati.org.uk

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Python and Ansible developer. Recovering Sherlock. Armchair supervillain. Pun usually intended. He/they.

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Joined November 14, 2022

Homepage:

https://moreati.org.uk

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https://github.com/moreati

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Alex Willmer @alex@social.moreati.org.uk · Jun 01, 2026

Replying to @Bette@mstdn.social

@Bette@mstdn.social the Sci Fi and Fantasy Stack Exchange has these questions regularly, there's a good chance they'll find it https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identification

Alex Willmer @alex@social.moreati.org.uk · May 15, 2026

Cursed: the RJ45 Euro Module with a short from pin 1 to 3 on the PCB, that I spent the entire afternoon diagnosing
Blessed: my network cable tester, that made it *only* half a day

Alex Willmer @alex@social.moreati.org.uk · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @jacob@social.jacobian.org

@jacob@social.jacobian.org a visit to Accident and Emergency counts as 5 hardware store visits

Alex Willmer @alex@social.moreati.org.uk · Apr 18, 2026

An overview of Privacy Pass - who uses it, how they use it, what it does, and how it does it. By @matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/04/17/anonymous-credentials-an-illustrated-primer-part-2/
#PrivacyPass #AnonymousCredentials

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Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange) - IOC.exchange

Alex Willmer @alex@social.moreati.org.uk · Apr 14, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 will ship sudo-rs by default, not sudo from https://sudo.ws. `/usr/bin/sudo` will be an `/etc/alternatives` symlink. sudo-rs is broadly compatible with sudo, but there are differences. A slight gotcha: if you `apt install sudo` (e.g. your existing devops scripts do this for all distros) then it will replace the sudo-rs provided binary, and your Ubuntu 26.04 installation wil be subtly different from out-the-box installations.

Alex Willmer @alex@social.moreati.org.uk · Apr 13, 2026

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk if you ever need more 3D prints, I'm happy to do them for cost of material.

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Alex Willmer @alex@social.moreati.org.uk · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @leah@blahaj.social

@leah cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq was uniform, but acpi_cppc/highest_perf showed variance https://gist.github.com/moreati/d5f8801ced535726f91b714d3a0d3051#file-cpuinfo_max_freq

Alex Willmer @alex@social.moreati.org.uk · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @leah@blahaj.social

@leah Hmm, it's possible the data is bogus. Both the CPU and motherboard came from AliExpress, so rebadging, half-baked firmware or other shenanigans may be present.