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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Jun 29, 2026

Replying to @Tijn@dosgame.club

@Tijn@dosgame.club Yes. It's also how I learned Photoshop and from there got into Adobe's products. Where I still am; they've done well out of me all because I was able to learn for free whilst a kid.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Jun 28, 2026

Achievement unlocked! We occasionally hear an #icecream van bleating out its eerie call nearby, but either it's just before tea time, or despite pounding the streets around the house I've abjectly failed to locate it. NOT TODAY! Not only did I hear it, but it was after lunch so prime pudding time, not only did I find it, but I actually flagged it down and it stopped! Four and a half decades old and FINALLY I obeyed the "Stop Me And Buy One" commandment. Just don't ask about the price.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social

@mattblaze@federate.social Absolutely. And the tendency to assume the worst, because, sadly, that's all too often the truth, is leading to a worrying collapse of trust across tech, and even worse behaviour in some.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Jun 25, 2026

Replying to @lmorchard@masto.hackers.town

@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Decades ago a colleague microwaved fish in the office for their lunch. It was so bad we almost had to evacuate the building, and the awful smell is buried in my nostrils to this day.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Jun 24, 2026

Replying to @girlonthenet@mastodon.social

@girlonthenet@mastodon.social I was in our local Budgens earlier. They had their AC cranked up to insane levels. It was icy cold. Utterly brilliant. Admittedly, they'd probably frown upon you doing date night kinda activities in aisle 2.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Jun 02, 2026

Replying to @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Sounds like what a drug dealer would do.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 31, 2026

Replying to @revk@toot.me.uk

@revk@toot.me.uk Aww shit. Hope it goes easy on you.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 21, 2026

Replying to @girlonthenet@mastodon.social

@girlonthenet@mastodon.social I'm reaching the age where such exams become recommended. This is all good knowledge about what to expect. Thanks to all.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 17, 2026

Replying to @revk@toot.me.uk

@revk@toot.me.uk A momentary brown out overnight perhaps? That just knocked over a few microcontrollers?

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 16, 2026

That was the best explanation of the voting I've yet seen. #eurovision

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 16, 2026

Yet again, #EurovisionSongContest blows large scale staging out the water. So. Many. Lights.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 16, 2026

Neighbour is welding his railings next door.

He warned me, no problem.

But still, I keep jumping at the sound of electrical arcing and seeing the shadows of the spark dance through the windows.

Turns out electric arcing is a trigger noise for me.

Bzzzzzzzzzttt!

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 15, 2026

That was quite a good evening of recreational networking: #UniFi router connected via #Wireguard to a #Mikrotik.

It took a bit of jiggerypokery around firewall and NAT rules on the UniFi, but eventually - thanks to a Reddit comment or two - I have persuaded the WG client to act as a site-to-site VPN.

I'm quite pleased.

The key? Adding a NAT bypass rule to stop the UniFi masquerading the LAN into the WG VPN. And a PBR rule to direct VPN traffic accordingly. And some FW rules for the incoming.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 13, 2026

Replying to @fesshole@mastodon.social

@fesshole@mastodon.social I mean, no, we're really not, but whatever. Please continue fucking the cute girl next door but please submit future fesses to update us with your adventures.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 11, 2026

Replying to @fesshole@mastodon.social

@fesshole@mastodon.social Time to make like a shepherd, and get the flock outta there?

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 10, 2026

I am pleased to report that just now I encountered the PERFECT alignment of bathroom floor linoleum, slight dampness due to the shower being recently used, and whatever my socks are made of.

...When I balanced on my heel and span around slowly, it sounded like I was letting one rip. Loudly and slowly. Repeatedly.

It was so convincing, $child2 angrily told me to get the spray out.

I'm still chuckling about this, an hour later.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 10, 2026

Replying to @weirdestate@eigenmagic.net

@weirdestate@eigenmagic.net Would you like to play a game?

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 10, 2026

Replying to @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange

@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange Goodness me!

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 10, 2026

Replying to @SerialWhiner@beige.party

@SerialWhiner@beige.party That's such an ominously moody photo! I love it. Hope the storm passed uneventfully.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 08, 2026

Replying to @interpipes@thx.gg

@interpipes@thx.gg It is all so deplorably shit.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange

@simonzerafa @catsalad @bagder I'm pretty sure you can ask the Mayans.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

@neil * doffs hat *

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 04, 2026

Replying to @theplaguedoc@glitterkitten.co.uk

@theplaguedoc Owwwww!

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 04, 2026

Replying to @russss@chaos.social

@russss@chaos.social Can confirm. Sometimes I see the Edinburgh Fringe operation we run as a pop up distributed office for 150 people, not a company running theatres. Power, internet, WiFi, phones, printers, windows updates.. And yes we also run a custom written CMS, self service portals for performing companies, ticketing website etc.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · May 03, 2026

Replying to @boffbowsh@mastodon.me.uk

@boffbowsh@mastodon.me.uk @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk That's brilliant. (The piss off bit, not the lawyer threat bit)

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @guyjantic@infosec.exchange

@guyjantic@infosec.exchange This is wonderful. Accurate and captures the zeitgeist perfectly.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @donni@mastodon.social

@donni@mastodon.social The horrors will continue until morale improves.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @ShiitakeToast@beige.party

@ShiitakeToast @TheBreadmonkey Awe you had me at vibrofingers ❤️

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social

@mattblaze Fascinating thread, thank you. I had no idea this existed, although now you explain it, it makes perfect sense.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @catsalad@infosec.exchange

@catsalad There's at least one Dyson stick vacuum that has a pair of conical carpet beaters, which claim to self clean themselves of hair. No idea if it works as advertised though.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @theplaguedoc@glitterkitten.co.uk

@theplaguedoc Don't look away or it'll move.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @alexhaydock@infosec.exchange

@alexhaydock Oh great, because HDMI, HDCP, CEC and EDID all work so seamlessly already, let's add more complexity.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @courtcan@mastodon.social

@courtcan @ObsidianUrbex I was just about to say the exact same! I adored the aesthetic in Loki. They did such a wonderful job imho.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Apr 01, 2026

Let's go! #artemis #nasa

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @james@burningnebula.net

@james Wow that looks absolutely delicious!

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Mar 29, 2026

Replying to @fesshole@mastodon.social

@fesshole@mastodon.social This is the way.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Mar 20, 2026

Replying to @lispi314@udongein.xyz

@lispi314@udongein.xyz @agreenberg@infosec.exchange Brian Krebs reported on it here. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/the-kimwolf-botnet-is-stalking-your-local-network/

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Mar 19, 2026

Replying to @chad__dup_35297@mstdn.ca

@chad I run a few controllers and all the ones set to automatically update did so last night. Thanks for flagging this issue though, it kicked me into updating the manually updated ones immediately rather than just getting around to it eventually.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Mar 05, 2026

Replying to @davidrevoy__dup_3654@framapiaf.org

@davidrevoy She's adorable. I've tried my hand at drawing characters like this, inspired strongly by manga. I have discovered I absolutely cannot do eyes. But you can. Your characters' eyes are so sparkly, so emotive, I can get lost in them. They set your work apart and bring every panel to life. Thank you!

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Mar 03, 2026

Replying to @Naich@fosstodon.org

@Naich@fosstodon.org That's one of the stupidest things I've seen. And I thank you for it!

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Feb 21, 2026

Replying to @OddJob__dup_29096@beige.party

@OddJob@beige.party Lasagne is awesome. Fact. I cooked a great lasagne on Wednesday. And, now you mention it, I would like some again right now.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Jan 29, 2026

Replying to @nixCraft__dup_2318@mastodon.social

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Yes, this is brilliant.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Jan 06, 2026

Replying to @dgar@aus.social

@dgar@aus.social Nice.

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Nov 18, 2025

Replying to @bloor@bloor.tw

@bloor For the record, this meme will never not be funny 😁

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Sep 12, 2025

Replying to @SuperSelena64@vmst.io

@SuperSelena64@vmst.io At least it's not Windows XP! (Although, then they wouldn't have a popup like this, so...)

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Giles of the Jungle @gilester45@twit.social · Jan 03, 2025

Replying to @airwhale@beige.party

@airwhale @TheBreadmonkey Yeah, but Morpheus was all like "Where'd ya think he is" and Lovejoy was all like "who knows" so they definitely left it open if they wanted.

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