Interesting times. "UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data" https://archive.ph/5QXk3

Does this setting work for other people? Since getting a new phone, Google Wallet *always* requires me to verify (even if my phone is already unlocked 🙄) for public transport payments... Getting annoying

My local pub has formed a CIC and is buying their leasehold! If you happen to be a patron of the Castle Tap, do take a look. I hope the independent, welcoming and quirky pub continues to flourish with their *superb* selection. https://thecastletapcic.co.uk/

Hmmm.

#netthier is so mainstream it's in the FT https://archive.ph/2U8Ci

This baby is MareNostrum 5 in the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre. Ranked 11 on top-500 and it has plenty of blinkenlights to prove it. I got to see it yesterday. The GPU racks are the ones closest to the camera with the CPU ones (with more leds) further back. https://top500.org/system/180238/

Finally got round to reconfiguring my desk to support 1 cable operation for a ThinkPad 👍 Bonus: the USB doesn't drop out halfway through calls, and I'm hoping the display driver might not either 🫠 (This is complicated by being duel-input from a desktop […] [Original post on social.crablab.uk]

@Peetz0r I have some items to return to warehouse...

sometimes i send people videos over imessage instead of voice memos. i’m clearing out space so i’m gonna post some without context. most of the time it’s just me workshopping impressions

I have 3 spare back-on-track.eu maps if anyone in the UK would like me to post them one. Something happened and it took them over a year to post me one, so I received some extras.

Shuttle 0 has been returned to its rightful owner 🫡

I'm running out of cumin cheese. Is there a good shop near #eth0? 🤔

You can tell it's the end of the summer by looking at the huge traffic jam of cars, all with one person in them 🤨

My Proton plan renews in November. What alternatives are people using that are broadly equivalent? Encrypted email, calendar and file hosting are a must with multiple custom domains. I remember a thread I contributed to, but now cannot find 😭

Of course @eloy has the best 404 on the internet. https://eloydegen.com/404 #netthier

Serious Business Invoice* *In Comic Sans MS

Hard drive neutralised :neocat_gun:

CPC's website (https://cpc.farnell.com/) has been very broken since yesterday :( I hope everything is okay

In August, we made a lot of progress on backend code updates... and, we also had some holidays 🏖️ Here's the more in-depth version of what the team worked on, in our regular engineering update. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/trunk-tidbits-august-2025/

TfL crowd control continues to be abysmal. Trains leaving empty on the platform because thousands of people are standing outside Liverpool Street and the idea of a "one way system" seems to have eluded them...

The blade server under my sofa is getting annoying. Do I replace it with some new disks in a relatively nice desktops PC (without annoying fans), or do I just chuck the £100 in disks at a hosting provider instead? 🤨

control panel

The rLab price list has been improved by @sevencoil Gebakje ✅ IE11 ✅ Questionable mounting method ✅ :neocat_approve:

Monzo used to offer a number of 3rd party savings products (fixed/flexible, ISA and not) through them - it was a pillar of the "Monzo as a control centre" selling point, as you didn't have to manage all these accounts separately. I wonder why they now don't? Maybe the challengers (Shawbrook […]

This does seem to be an issue... On the ferries I've travelled on recently there were numerous notices inside and announcements about disabling your roaming to avoid inadvertent use of these very expensive networks. It does seem like a bit of a flaw with the way mobile networks operate, that […]

Quality aerodynamic engineering from the Øl R&D Dept. Hackspace laser air extraction is up and running again

@hugh have you tried these? https://mcvities.com/en-gb/jaffa-cakes-cola-bottle-cake-bars I've not tried Spezi so can't say it's the same, but it definitely seems Spezi-inspired.

New 3D printer stands looking very rust protected ✅ (Not my welding, not the final finish)

Wasn't there someone on here who wanted some old floppy disks?

Since when did @signalapp Desktop become an even bigger dumpster fire?! Essentially unusable now. I have to delete the config file and set it up from scratch each time.

@eloy There is a question from @a51c about Øl Telecom's POTS at eth0 - can you help?

fediverse server that uses microsoft access for its db

New Jeopardy category: Spezi or not?

Better late than never, but time to share some of my #WHY2025 photos. The event started for me as a very wet and muddy field - the crane is saving itself with a road plate :blobfingerguns: Things did start to take shape, despite the weather, and I took on […] [Original post on social.crablab.uk]

this is what happens to nextcloud server if you post a nextcloud link on mastodon where a bunch of people follow you

still a proof of concept but installing stuff works on my makeshift app store! i dont wish legacy web design on my worst enemy. every part of this blows.

After 2 weeks at camp, my inboxes various are finally more in shape and I'm back up to speed with Obligations. Note to self: do fewer things, be less responsible

This is a brand new surface. It should probably not look like this... Part of the "road to nowhere" in Swindon

Another mine successfully visited.

We have securely rackmounted our hardware. It is now horizontally and vertically scalable :blobthumbsup:

Apparently the hackspace is now a Square Root stockist 🤝 They're a small bottler and, speaking to Ed earlier this week, it turns out he's bought an entire commercial printing press to screen print all his merch!

This is actually fairly cool; the UK holds the work record for longest self-powered battery train journey (200 miles) 👌 https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/converted-ex-london-underground-tube-train-smashes-a-world-record-83437/

"original Danish produce" Checks out ✅ #bornhack

Now that I'm starting to wrap the forms, the plan should hopefully be more apparent… #outputarts #inthestudio #installationart

"The internet would be a better place if all websites looked like this" - a colleague Referring to http://spezi.jetzt and http://ol-tele.com

Of course the Open House website crashes exactly at 12pm

Mikrotik was a mistake. Apparently the bridge does not want to bridge. Want to communicate with any local network device? Nah mate.

It appears Android cannot cope with my "Øl Telecom" approved connection :neocat_facepalm:

someone I know (cxiao) wrote a reverse engineering postmortem of a malware spreading on discord that I provided the sample for... I feel less bad now about popping it open in a disassembler and being like "what the hell is all this about" […]

I made it back from #why2025 teardown yesterday (onto the ferry with -4 minutes spare, and a telling off). My server broke halfway through the event, so it's catching up on 200,000 posts :slowparrot: Once those are processed and my new uplink is sorted, I'll post some on my photos from the […]