J'ai eu mal qd mon vélo s'est pris 1 nid-de-poule & j'ai compris le vrai coût de l'austérité https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/04/crashed-bike-pothole-cost-cycling "Je suis en convalo depuis 3 mois: chute à vélo à cause d'1 nid-de-poule. On m'a transporté au CHU en hélico car […]

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Happy foxtober, Everyone

This is a strange timeline. https://unstable.systems/@AmyZenunim/115311692567583103

oh amazing DB Museum Nürnberg has an exhibition on the history of train toilets personally, I would’ve considered that a shit subject for a museum

OH: Don't talk to me about sophistication, I've been to Leeds!

I find the weirdest stuff on old computers. Handheld camcorder footage of the British Motorcycle Grand Prix in 2004 at Donington Park... and someone at Cambridgeshire Software House paid Uniqueway to turn it into an Acorn Replay movie. #retrocomputing

OH: "And now here's Nirvana with their hot new song, Smells Like Constructive Dismissal"

OH: “you do not act plural, just british and autistic”

I've said it for a long time, but Workplaces with unions usually did something to make people unionise, and absolutely deserve to have those unions. (nothing related to me, just been chatting to friends over lunch)

Fuck yes https://defcon.social/@deviantollam/115294126731245145

me: this is a great joke I should post it toot: *falls flat* me: posts a zero effort shitpost toot: *goes viral*

All these security vulnerabilities have great names, but my favourites are still EVILMAID and RUBBERHOSE.

<OH> There's plenty of stuff to traumatise children on the BBC <philpem> And now a party political broadcast from...

I love-hate NAND flash. In approximately equal measure. Love: storage density Hate: poor data remanence, bitflips If it wasn't for Reed and Solomon or Bose, Chaudhuri and Hocquenghem -- it'd be a useless technology.

Another day, another Extron scaler rescued from the scrap bin. IN1606 this time, bad flash. Took a few days of evenings to get X-Loader and U-Boot ported to it (turned out to be DDR2-SDRAM config register issues) but it works now. Sadly my IN1608 HDBT seems to have a bad FPGA.

It's annoying when something very broken escapes the WEEE bin. I need something like the "CYBER" tape (from https://loet.bar) but orange or red, and with "KAPUTT" text. mil.uk has "Unserviceable" tags but that doesn't roll off the tongue so well.

Doing firmware upgrades well: gpg-encrypted firmware Cursed: including the secret key in the rootfs. 💩💩💩: the passphrase is the company name. #infosec

"Transgender porn is one of the most searched categories - especially in conservative states. Private fascination becomes public disgust. People project their own desires outward, reframed as a threat." "The shame fuels the panic, the panic fuels the cruelty." (From https://youtu.be/MclD4GEIWac […]

The TI AM3505 makes me wonder what its design team were smoking with their DOS FAT implementation (in the bootrom and XLoader). It's astonishingly bad. Not just that but the chip itself makes my head hurt.

Bruce Schneier has a good high-level look at threat-modeling under an authoritarian government. Alas, it’s not amenable to a simple recipe approach, but involves carefully thinking through the tradeoffs […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Oh my dog, what have I done? #retrocomputing

I'm currently undergoing the deep realisation that it might have been faster to create a new ZFS pool and copy the data over with zfs send/recv, than to swap the drives one-by-one and resilver every time.

the AI bubble can't burst soon enough I'm tired of tweaking Prefork settings to stop servers from crashing down in a DDOS flavoured robots-text-ignored heap.

Just watched a video on the "millennial grey" decorating trend... I agree, it's boring and looks like something a landlord would choose. But I have no idea what I do want...

<philpem> nobody saw me lose 2TB on the zpool to a day-one snapshot I never deleted, but it's still embarrassing

Three drives replaced in the NAS, down from six. Twice the capacity. The power usage hasn't gone down, but the amount of noise in here sure has. Especially when I removed the 500TB RE2 and started cascading the newer 4TB drives into my workstation.

It's been called a RAID rebuild for donkey's years, and then ZFS decided it should be called Resilvering... (in other news, 8 hours to go, then another 8, then another 8)

I need to stop listening to Stupendium songs, they're absolute earworms. "Life gave you lemons, good heavens you're bitter" lives rent free in my head.

I wonder if MOXA ever expected someone to use one of their port servers to connect to FurryMUCK?

I promised some #solarpv photos - this is the complete setup. Fogstar 15kWh battery on the right Solis S5 hybrid inverter (3.6kW charge and invert) Wylex/Socomec solar isolator switch Jean Muller 160A battery switch-fuse Inkbird (Amazon special) temperature […] [Original post on digipres.club]

"It's a good event, the problem is it's in Croydon, but that's manageable. The overarching problem is that Croydon is in London, which is somewhat less manageable."

Forced myself to re-evaluate some old toots, specifically the "furries are shit" ones. The problem isn't "furries" specifically - I still love the storytelling and the art... the problem is the people who behave like they're kings of the realm, willing to use people like NPCs in a computer game […]

I'm going to try and get back onto some more positive tooting, sadly things have not been great recently. I've got some photos of the solar setup to share - I finished cleaning up the wiring this morning, and now have a heater socket fitted. Hopefully I'll have time tonight to fit the heater and […]

WD PA-RISC? Western Digital are bringing back old CPU architectures now?

If anyone's thinking of ordering from Western Digital direct - their Rotterdam warehouse seems to have improved their packaging vs. the reviews on their website.

[UK current affairs] "Violence and abuse towards retail staff driven by anti-consumer policies and poor customer service, research shows" I wonder if they'll get an Ig Nobel for that.

@philpem One of them is right. The others go to the No True Scotsman Hotel.

AI assistants tend to use the ✨ emoji to evoke a sense of magic. But it's also a good icon for the complete lack of understanding of what AI is actually capable of and how it's used responsibly

This could be Rotterdam, or anywhere Anywhere alone...

This morning I received a rather suspicious email from "[email protected]" purporting to be about a tool for monitoring processes on Linux. I am not convinced that's all the tool does. I've written about my suspicions on my blog […]

Imagine thinking there’s actually a rise in autism and not just a rise in parents willing to listen to their autistic children and not bully them into conforming.

It has been zero days since someone found a zero day.

When you order hard drives and the choice of courier is "random 5-7 day" and "express 2-day" and you just know it's Evri vs UPS.

Edinburgh, twinned with Ankh-Morpork.

Picked up some neat new stickers from @Henrieke The LaserDisk one was a gift for @xansteel, and I already have ideas for where I want to put the rest. I should probably start linking the storefronts with these little sticker haul posts, so we'll start with this one […] [Original post on tiggi.es]

My husband has indefinite leave to remain. It took us 6 years and £16,000 in visa, NHS, and lawyer fees for him to get it. Now we risk him losing his right to live in Scotland. This is terrifying for us & thousands of families. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

im in heaven,

I need to learn the secret of just... not giving a fuck.

i think what the entrysign exploit documentation doesnt fully capture is how wild the book they reference, 'the anatomy a high performance microprocessor: a systems perspective,' really is. i think if you went into this level of detail about zen 2 amd would fire you. probably because if anyone […]