I don't want to say I'm a genius but I've been running btrfs for the better part of 4 years and only just found out the snapshot feature requires a daemon process to make it run automatically.... As I said I don't want to say I'm a genius :halfy_mow:

[food, meat] When you're cooks are good but it sets off the CO alarm. This is steak and red wine pie with homemade chips and greens :halfy_crazy:

[politics, trans rights] UK continues to backslide on trans righrs. What's the guidance for schools when a child's gender identity being exposed to their parents/carers may put them in harms way? This seems incredibly one sided. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2k809vnx0yo

RE: https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert/116056950299738296 it just gets worse

fuck you _renames your mkinitcpio profiles to .pacsave and causes your system to be unbootable_

_comes home from holiday_ "hmm, server is awfully quiet" Server had some failing disks which contained the OS drives for most of the VMs :halfy_cry:

#scotiacon2026 And we're off :3

Still works ❤️

For real though if any mutuals are travelling up to Glasgow this weekend it would be nice to see you :halfy_wink: :blobfoxheart:

Scotiacon :scotiacon: is one day away :blobfoxscared: :blobfoxscared: :blobfoxscared: :blobfoxscared: :blobfoxscared: :blobfoxscared:

Study of nearly 6,500 people finds that trans people have no physical advantages over cis people after only a few months of HRT. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/trans-athlete-womens-sports-advantage-b2913479.html

New blog post 📬! https://half-shot.uk/blog/clip-plus/ In this article I go in depth about how I bought an old MP3 player off the internet and revived it to run Rockbox for only a handful of currency. Please do have a read and a share, and I'm happy to answer Qs on this post :)

New blog post 📬! https://half-shot.uk/blog/clip-plus/ In this article I go in depth about how I bought an old MP3 player off the internet and revived it to run Rockbox for only a handful of currency. Please do have a read and a share, and I'm happy to answer Qs on this post :)

We travel in style on the Eurostar.

Managed to revive a broken MP3 player I bought off eBay, blog post to follow! Really happy with this one because: 1) it cost me 20 quid. 2) there was very little info on this kind of failure, so hopefully the blog will help some other people avoid ewaste!

https://clairobscurexpedition33.bandcamp.com/track/spring-meadows-beneath-the-blue-tree :halfy_music: this is the morning mood music

https://half-shot.uk/blog/please-label-your-ai/ We start the year off with some OPINIONS. I got to the front of the "yelling at AI" queue so I made use of it. Please like, subscribe, and enjoy the little doodle :halfy_crazy:

Drew a doodle last night to remind me it's nearly Friday :halfy_sleepy:

https://half-shot.uk/blog/please-label-your-ai/ We start the year off with some OPINIONS. I got to the front of the "yelling at AI" queue so I made use of it. Please like, subscribe, and enjoy the little doodle :halfy_crazy:

every day I look at mastodon and I want to ditch it for something like sharkey, god those instances look so chaotic and beautiful. i'm here in my fediverse 3 piece suit and i want the comfy hoodie edition

Was looking at buying a iPod Classic to stick Rockbox on it to have a dumb little music player in my bag, but no those little fuckers have if anything only increased in cost since release. People are selling _broken_ ones for more than I bought good quality headphones for. Anyone got any good […]

The problem with baking cookies at home is then you have a ready supply of delicious cookies, except you now know exactly how much sugar and fat went into them. Anyway, I've eaten 5 today

blog post on the way describing zstd's compression level parameter, and how I found out that it was not linear as one might expect.

I'm massively late, but my Twitter account is gone now. If someone contacts you on @Half_Shot from X, then it ain't me.

[ukpol] Love this. Mr Jenrick MP wasting no time in blaming the previous conservative government for fucking things up. HE WAS **IN** THE CABINET OF THE SUNAK GOVERNMENT. How thick do they think we are???

Unfortunate news, I left my RAID in a bad state for so long it went from DEGRADED to BIODEGRADED :halfy_happy:

What does this even meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean?

Sometimes the ship may have sailed, but there is always a undignified dingy you can take before it's _really_ too late. I said this in another context and just liked the way it sounded.

Morning glampers, LFM today :halfy_wink:

[ai] I avoided talking about AI on my blog through the whole lifetime of it's existence, but I got so wound up by it today that a blog post is coming. You've done it, you've pulled the tail now.

right right vent time https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clym5jvgdepo sick of the implication that new drivers are somehow more reckless. The UK system incentivizes instructors to keep you on lessons (anywhere from 30-60 quid a pop) and even then, only to pass your test. The test is 30 […]

Piano practice has changed state from neglected to active 🎉

Booked in for a Triathlon later this year what have I done

yeeeeah, it might be time to to stop using GitHub for my projects. I know I said it last year but holy hell 🇺🇸 is not a safe place to be putting any of your data..

hey wonderful people and critters on this website made a wee blog post about stuff I got up to in 25. Wasn't really a theme just nice pictures n stuff https://half-shot.uk/blog/2025-roundup/

[minor metroid prime 4 spoilers] I want to love Metroid Prime 4, I really do. But I just yelled shut up at my TV as the game does a whole cutscene explaining all applications of an ability I just unlocked. I don't know if it's because I'm nearly 30 but I get so damn frustrated when games don't […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ufZU1pgs8 absolutely love this man. Absolutely a believer we should be going after gambling app bans.

Morning gamers, For anyone else trying to close out their 2025 on a clean slate, may I present https://github.com/Half-Shot/outstanding/ Basically a slightly opinionated tool that shows you a full list of your PRs that are still open, so you can curate it down to the ones you are likely to get […]

Morning gamers, For anyone else trying to close out their 2025 on a clean slate, may I present https://github.com/Half-Shot/outstanding/ Basically a slightly opinionated tool that shows you a full list of your PRs that are still open, so you can curate it down to the ones you are likely to get […]

[food, meat] to offset the last post, I bring you Nice Food. Stewed up some beef and bacon stew for 3 hours with some delicious red wine. Then made some absolutely beautiful roast potatoes (soaked to remove all the starch, parboiled and then crisped […] [Original post on mastodon.half-shot.uk]

[grumpy, health] if I am permitted one moan this month, migraines. I started with a head cold when back from holidays, and now we are on day 3 of migraine town. Do not love the latest update at all, looking for a rollback solution.

[metroid prime 4 spoiler] If you 100% the game, Samus Aran takes off her armor...BUT NO, WHO IS THAT? Former President JOE BIDEN faces the camera and smiles "not so sleepy now, am i"

Ran into a problem in prod? Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix. #foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

How many loops of "RyanAir background music #1" I will hear today

Honestly putting a sign like that up is just tempting fate.

[mini-rant] by far the worst "wrapped-like" i've seen today is Discord. I don't _want_ to see what is presumably a summary of what I've said this year??

[mh, ~] It's barely December and I'm overwhelmed to f**k already, so much to get done. 😔

Made a wee little coaster today via @rlab.org.uk

London Furs today :3