Jon Gerdes

@buherator@infosec.place @badkeys@infosec.exchange

I installed a MariaDB cluster backed set of PowerDNS servers for that exact reason! There were a couple of other reasons but that was what finally made me roll up my sleeves.

@tribactam @fesshole

The last libel suit was quite a while ago - a quick search implies: 1986.

Nowadays, the news writes itself and let's face it Trump was given a $600M aeroplane by an Arab state and a weird pay off involving a football (soccer) "Peace Prize" and many more gew gaws.

Nowadays, no-one bats an eyelid when bets on oil mysteriously work out. White House staff have been told that insider trading is (only for rich people and) not for them.

Mr Hislop and co have always done decent journalism.

@seanb@mstdn.ca

Our (he's quite a few) King is a pretty shrewd diplomat and can be relied upon to throw some reason into the mire. It may not be much but its something.

Trump wants shiny gewgaws (remember the footie "peace prize")

We have a remarkable asset in the King and you can't influence someone if you eschew them.

CA, UK and the rest have already done most of the sabre prattling in the past, learned lessons and nearly moved on. The US just needs a little more time to get over its mid life crisis.

Bloody kids!

@corbet@social.kernel.org

You can simply ignore stuff that looks a bit shifty for a while and see what happens.

I don't think you have any formal contractual obligations or SLAs to anyone at all when it comes to Linux. You might have some sort of community obligation (whatever that might mean).

You are our documentor-in-chief and other unlikely sobriquets and there has to be a point where you can say: "Please bugger off and go and boil your head" although I have noted you tend to a more conciliatory style.

The frontline troops at LWN have always managed to get the tone just right in the harshest of discussions and diffuse them suitably.

@matthartley@fosstodon.org

PLA is printed at around 220C. If it melts, you are a proper ricer.

Nice job. Totally unnecessary and quite right too 8)

@randahl@mastodon.social

English is German(ish) with nobs on (Dutch is the other notable extant Germanic language, there are probably more).

Dansk has been loitering around on the periphery of German for quite a while and there is quite a lot of mutual linguistic exchange.

Slut -> Finished. That's just vocab.

Fart -> fahren. No idea why english doesn't have a fahren based verb for to go. I'm sure Dansk "I fart" translates to "moving" or "on the way"

Bad -> bath. Easy once you know that d-> th is a thing. The shared word "toilet" makes this a non issue.

Gods elevator: well a stairway to heaven is always welcome! How often do you see one?

@scottwilson@infosec.exchange

OK you have power and ethernet there and you are probably American, given those plugs and switches. That means you will have a multitude of regulations to studiously avoid at federal, state, county and city level 8)

I would remove all those blanking plates etc and cut out all that drywalling (plasterboard in english). Have a multimeter handy and know how to use it. Prove that you can see 110V AC on something like a light switch wiring and prove it goes off when you kill the building power.

Find out your areas' regs. Does power drop down or go up or whatever. You have both lighting and power out there, which are normally here (UK) two separate rings, per floor. However you will probably have a three phase input and all sorts of imaginative stuff going on.

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Hire a sparky to do the job. You will want a comms cab at the top with network stuff in it, including power and a few power sockets below for general use.

@openculture@toot.community

I was 10 in 1980. 1980 was 45 years ago (we are not done with 2026)

An essay from 45 years ago that deals with an issue of the day (at that time) might still be insightful but perhaps not.

The world has turned and it really is not what it was in 1980 (source: me!)

You might as well quote Homer (Roman bloke, not Simpson)

@nasa@social.beachcom.org

Anyone who has flown in an aircraft at 30,000'+ and looked out the window will know those colours are wrong. Clouds are not brown.

If I was feeling charitable, I might allow for some sort of window filter to protect from glare or something else.

If I was feeling uncharitable, I might suggest AI generated wankery or request you don't use a brown overlay - it looks really wrong.

@jorge@hachyderm.io

I've noticed that it spawns a ssh sess on port 222 I think, but I have never had to use it. I run quite a few Ubuntu boxes - VMs, laptops and, desktops - say 50ish - all pets rather than cattle, as the cool kids say.

@rbreich@masto.ai

Where about on your keyboard did you find those long dashes?

@nixCraft

How does that work with XFS with reflinks?