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I run bitfolk.com and do dog sitting (dogsitter.services), so you should expect too many photos and videos of greyhounds with a bit of tedious […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.bitfolk.com/@grifferz, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 10h

[Spoilers for Silo season 3] Silo was going so well but has let itself down a bit for me by suggesting that Iran was able to develop clouds of nanotech capable of intercepting and taking control of fighter jets. The basic idea strains credulity but they could have picked so many other enemies […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Happy Chairs Without a Throw Are Too Slippery day for all who celebrate www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnYD0eXkRUI #Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 22h

I reached the end of my "topical" podcast queue and actually started on the backlog, so this one of Adam Buxton interviewing Eric Idle from a year ago came up. I think any fan of Monty Python would enjoy this one, it's really good, lots of gossip, lot of stuff about George Harrison, a bit of […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Just listening to a podcast about the war of 1812. Apparently the American president of the time entered into a bun ch of disastrous trade embargoes that crippled the economy, and was quite keen on annexing Canada, saying it would be as easy as a short march. Crazy times.

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

There was me, thinking I better put that footnote to head off a tedious display of pearl clutching. But oh no, Bret had other ideas, and also provided a fascinating insight into their views on what they fear men might do in sheds. We aren't here to judge, Bret […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Things younger than sharks (450 million years): Grass (30 million years) Kids today, touching grass. We had to wait 420 million years for grass to be invented

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Did not know that Meta pervert glasses have been banned in Texas and Illinois for longer than Meta pervert glasses have existed (because those states ban gathering of biometric without consent).

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

It's Violet's 14th birthday today! Really good going for a greyhound. We didn't see her today but her humans sent some photos. Last photo is one of mine from her 13th birthday last year. #Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

[ukpol] These billionaires that have or have threatened to leave UK because they're scared Labour will raise taxes on them. 1. Good riddance. 2. If they ever want back in, I hope the entry fee is all the tax they didn't pay while they were gone 3. Strip of honours (e.g. CBE), lifetime […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

TIL there is a councillor in Namibia called Adolf Hitler Uunona who won election in 2004. In 2025 he changed his name to just "Adolf Uunona" and won re-election. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ompundja_Cons…

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Text message from my GP: "Dear Patient Please complete the consent and questionnaire for your seasonal flu vaccination before booking appointment. This is" (entire message, no link to anything provided)

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Blech, Firefox has updated from 156.0.1 to 157.0 and with it comes this Nova redesign thing which seems to move the container tab colour from the right side of the tab to a thin line on top. Which looks bloody awful when you use vertical tabs, as I do. So much for "vertical tabs are now a first […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

It's okay folks, no one at any of our banks knows what the hell is going on either. We're all just board pieces in Rommel McDonald's game. Martin Lewis: What's the confidence level that interest rates will be up by over 0.5% by the middle of next year? Jack Meaning, Chief UK Economist, Barclays […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

The current CEO of Identity Digital (_formerly Donuts Inc_) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet. Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

WOW! Just £1 a can. Why not have two!? This vending machine is Here To Help. Ealing Hospital

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

rustlang goes to so much trouble to enforce code style and then lets people use the phrase "blazing fast" in so many descriptions. Also the emoji 🚀 needs banning.

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

On the left is my father-in-law in 1973 in front of his beloved red 1970 Ford Escort. Shortly after this photo was taken it was stolen by joyriders and left wrecked. It was deemed uneconomical to repair and the insurance wrote it off and paid out. It was […] [Original post on social.bitfolk.com]

An old photo of a man in his mid 20s wearing jeans and a flannel shirt leaning against the right (driver's) side bonnet of a red Ford Escort

An up to date photo of a man in his 70s wearing dark jeans and a grey shirt leaning against the right (driver's) side bonnet of a red Ford Escort. It is the same person and vehicle from the first photo.

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

sshd-session[1854871]: Failed password for invalid user <html style="height from 43.156.91.175 port 59952 ssh2

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Eye injections this morning. The nurse was very good and made it as easy as being stabbed in the eyes ever can be I think. An air bubble has been left in my left eye though. This manifests as a perfectly black sphere like some portal to another dimension, that tends to live at the bottom of my […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Spam email from "Barrister Christ". I really miss that web site that drew cartoons of what the artist imagined spam looked like. I'm picturing one of those Japanese RPG courtroom things. Barrister Christ: Your honour, I object!

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

The infuriating methods of BBC Sounds. First off, for some shows they make them exclusive to the (awful) BBC Sounds app for up to 4 weeks. OK, be like that then. My podcast backlog is currently at 22 days of constant audio so all that means is I'll never use you for current affairs and anything […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Mike Mills's backing vocals on Find the River. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGgUaOkRSpE

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Remembering George "Gilti Sam" on what would have been his 9th birthday. He passed away not long after his 8th birthday last year. Born this day 2017 in Ireland, along with 2 brothers and 6 sisters. Raced Wimbledon UK, started his pet life in Walton, UK […] [Original post on social.bitfolk.com]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I'm back home now after 16 days looking after Spot and Dolly. Love those hounds, two of my absolute faves, no trouble at all. Their humans very happy to know they are cared for and have asked me to do it again in 2027. ❤️

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Convicted money launderer Ben Delop on his record donations to Reform: "Restricting my donations would be literally as undemocratic as you could get" US Dept of Justice on Ben Delo: "Delo deliberately falsified the origin of transactions from sanctioned countries through his cryptocurrency […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

"10 years of Ceph at Walmart" www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CEGRv2xQAk

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

It's £94 to go by train from London Paddington to Totnes. It's £85 to go from Feltham to Reading to Totnes. The latter route is the same train between Reading and Totnes as the first one. To go from Feltham to Reading without carrying on to Totnes would be £17.70. The wacky world of UK train […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

"Playlunch cover The Weather Girls’ ‘It's Raining Men’ for Like A Version" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKaxKpdJF4

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Spot was attacked by an off-lead yellow labrador on our walk this morning. Fortunately the owner managed to grab the dog before it was able to break skin, though I'm told it's the same dog that a few weeks ago did attack him and draw blood. Spot's humans are going to report the guy to the dog […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Donalt Trump, "the only orange man in favour of Irish reunification" - caller in to Nick Abbot on LBC.

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

One of the most continually useful things I ever made is github.com/grifferz/ptrcheck-rs Run from a daily cron job, it emails me within 1 day if I ever add any host to any of my DNS domains that doesn't have a reverse DNS entry. Which I do from time to time.

GitHub - grifferz/ptrcheck-rs: Check that all address records in a DNS zone have valid and acceptable PTR records associated

Check that all address records in a DNS zone have valid and acceptable PTR records associated - grifferz/ptrcheck-rs

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

The Channel 4 Dispatches Tommy Robinson documentary was quite shocking even going in knowing I knew about the level of his fraud. Us small business owners worry so much about getting our records to Companies House and HMRC on time every year, meanwhile Yaxley-Lennon si funnelling millions […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

SSEN called me to ask if I was satisfied with how their 6 hour scheduled power outage on 1 September went. I mean, aside from talking about adequate notice (yes) and sticking to schedule (yes), given all I can tell is "power went off. power came back" I'm not sure what use my input is. Maybe […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Automattic's board finally deciding that Mullenweg is off the rails? www.404media.co/wordpress-automatti…

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'

Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Tell me you';re a North American Cities: Skylines player without saying you're North American… "I feel like the rails should be in the oldest parts of the city because nobody builds railroads any more."

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Tesla seem to be conducting a web services penetration test against pool-ntp.tesla.com… which isn't actually their own infrastructure but a CNAME to the worldwide volunteers of the public NTP pool […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

If a Debian bug report is closed and archived (because thought solved many years ago), should I report it again as a new bug or is there a way to unarchive the original bug? You can't add correspondence to an archived bug.

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

sshd-session[1968733]: Failed password for invalid user Can't open usa from 186.47.21.59 port 33704 ssh2

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Periodic reminder that while it is the norm on Debian and Ubuntu to install with a locked root user and do everything with sudo, this can leave you unstuck when you really need root and sudo's not available. Such as (but not limited to): - If you break sudo - If it boots into emergency mode and […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Asked for a quote for certified DDR5 ECC RAM. £1,605+VAT per 32G.

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Happy 80th birthday Farrokh Bulsara (Freddie Mercury). "Queen - Radio Ga Ga (Live Aid 1985)" www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0ygW-B_gI

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Britain's burgeoning and excellent space programme, which we abandoned (incl. bonus genocide) "Blue Streak: When the UK Built a Really Good Rocket. And Then Abandoned It. Again."--. Alexander the ok www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAH4tIDfIbM

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

lol Cogent charging for link net IPs on BGP connections. (should be doing it over IPv6 though, but it's obviously a money grab) lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog…

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NANOG - lists.nanog.org

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Spot closing out the day much ss he started it. #Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Sigh at longtime members of debian-user who are seemingly unable to spot the most obvious, basic trolling and get triggered into responding. The poster isn't even subscribed to the mailing list so never even saw the replies. (Yes I have already visited the parent post in the list archive and […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

In other news, apparently this: Aug 29 18:08:13 strangebrew fwupdmgr[381078]: Updating lvfs Aug 29 18:08:13 strangebrew fwupdmgr[381078]: Successfully downloaded new metadata: Aug 29 18:08:13 strangebrew fwupdmgr[381078]: • 11 devices are updatable Aug 29 18:08:13 strangebrew fwupdmgr[381078] […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Tested a full power off of the home office ahead of an upcoming 6 hour scheduled power outage where I'll be away from home. UPS died immediately and wouldn't turn back on. 😡 Well, I'm glad I tested it.

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

The last two VPS orders have cited an LLM as the thing that directed them to us.

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