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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

OK, that's novel: My Fuji camera won't charge on the dedicated Samsung charger I keep on my desk but will charge on a crappy USB 2.0 port on a micropc. Odd.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I think Melbourne just had an earth tremor.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Why in the hell am I expected to install an app to view a delivery attempt photo from Auspost? I'm already logged in with a real browser session.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

@coreysnipes The battle is beginning to feel unwinnable. I've taken quite a few public facing sites down this year because the scraper war is just too hard and I don't have the resources to keep up. Being DDoS'd by Meta really wasn't in my 2026 predictions!

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I gather everyone else is getting a shitload of crappy AI bot signups with a description of "Automated protocol deliverability probe". Yeah, manual approvals here but I'm sick of all the bounce messages from fake email addresses and having to clear out hundreds of accounts from the admin […]

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Fuck am I getting sick of seeing a captcha or equivalent on every single fucking web page these days. Perhaps the solution is unauthorised scraping creates a debt repaid in teeth?

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

First they derecruited the junior engineers, but i did not protest as i was a senior engineer, my LLM handles all the grunt coding now. Then they derecruited the QA team but I did not protest as AI can review and test my code much faster. When they derecruited the artists I cheered as clearly […]

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Is texlive no longer providing install coverage for Solaris/illumos? #solaris

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Righteo, mead on to heat, aaah, Friday.

erlenmeyer containing mead on a hotplate

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

It really is impressive that this Pope has managed to get atheists, agnostics, Protestants and people of all faiths to eagerly read an encyclical.

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everton137 @everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

Interesting post by the author of @allaboutberlin on how AI is killing his awesome website. #AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin

AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work.

This has a devastating impact on traffic. It's hard to fund my work with 70% fewer visitors. In another year, it will be impossible. Instead of writing new guides, I spend my days preparing for that future.

Yesterday, Google announced two things: AI-generated answers will completely replace search results, and AI-generated answers will soon contain ads.

This is the future of the web. I don't know where All About Berlin fits in that future.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

Today's joy: I had a small host handling some minor tasks. Storage was a mirror pair of WD Blue SA510 SATA SSDs, which seemed like a fine choice at the time before there wasn't much I/O and this was sitting in a small form factor Fujitsu. Both disks went to the shit at the same time. It is […]

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

@quoll We all need a good set of personal conspiracy theories to keep us warm at night. They're like a good pet peeve that you feed and care for until it grows into a mighty strong peeve.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

@quoll I presume this is based on the strong theological concerns around re-baptism?

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

Dear Plumbers who drop marketing magnets in my mailbox nearly every day: Firstly, don't put them in envelopes. That means I have to separate the plastic magnets from the paper envelope to put everything in the correct bin. Secondly, understand your industry has gone so hog-wild on magnet […]

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

Interesting pseudo denial of service from Meta hitting the Mastodon /auth/sign_up Hundreds of connections from 57.141.2.0/24 with user-agent ""meta-externalagent/1.1"

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DarkRat @darkrat.chaosfurs.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

Holy. Fucking. Fuckballs. This exploit is... insane. > An unprivileged local user can write 4 controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root copy.fail #copyfail #linux

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Copy Fail — 732 Bytes to Root

CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

@phocks Cheers, I've heard of them before, I might give them a go.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

I have a couple of .net domains that are up for renewal and I've got enough time to move to a new registrar rather than eating Gandi's hefty renewal costs. Would anyone care to recommend an alternative registrar?

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

With these messages being distributed through US military, I think it is time for the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Patriarchs of the Orthodox Church to make a clear statement against this clearly heretical position […]

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

Footage from January and February 2026 captures Israeli aircraft spraying herbicides over agricultural land in southern Syria. The FRANCE 24 Observers team spoke to a farmer who described the significant losses resulting from these spraying operations […]

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

Y'know, I think I might just put this laptop outside while I think of the next step ... SPICY!

a laptop suffering spicy pillow syndrome.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

TAFE is apparently keeping it so "REAL" that one wears arc welding PPE while using an oxy torch.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Interesting security situation: A user is performing a quick VPN access test and drops their association with the enterprise wifi to connect to their phone in access point mode. The phone is also normally connected to the same wifi and the user did not disable wifi connectivity before enabling […]

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

LinkedIn would like me to follow "Bill Gates - Co-chair at Gates Foundation". No, I do not think I will. It did leave me considering the nature of social media "followers" and the fact that does sound a little cult-like. "39,929,084 followers". Ick.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

Aah, Facebook. Logged in to look at marketplace, couldn't resist posting a comment suggesting world war 3 to protect a paedophile cabal was a bad idea and down comes the banhammer.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

Quick check before dumping in ewaste: I have a 49" Sony Bravia 4K TV with a faulted backlight. The backlight has been replaced before and it looks like the aliexpress special did four years of good service for $20 but those days are over. I'm declaring the age of the TV + getting the backlight […]

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

@zog I've run into this at least three times now. Sure, they're not the fanciest of webshites but they're not an afternoon special either. Oh well. When it becomes easier to close the tab than finish the transaction ...

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

Could somebody with experience in small business ecommerce explain to me why so many small businesses are locking 2-3 captchas into their checkout cycle? I just came <this close> to walking away from an order because I got belted with multiple captchas each with 6 iterations. Who exactly are […]

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

Oh, look, an entirely new highly annoying captcha bullshit thing.

a screen snip of 'hcaptcha' in action. If you need alt-text, this will probably be an icon of annoyance to you.

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Purple :verified: @purple.woof.tech · 08/01/2026

Is anyone else experience this thing where your fellow senior engineers seem to be lobotomised by AI? I've had 4 different senior engineers in the last week come up with absolutely insane changes or code, that they were instructed to do by AI. Things that if you used your brain for a few […]

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

Well, things got warmer slightly earlier than expected.

graph showing temperatures rising sharply starting at about 3:30.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

@zog Cheers! Sounds about right. I tried the video but the AI narration just did my head in. "Are-knots Tim-----T'am" Still, the only chocolate I actually eat is the occasional kit kat and I already knew it was rubbish.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

@zog C'mon man, don't push the clickbait, list the brands!

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

@PeteLittle Tromsø is a great place. You're going to have a great time. Pop into "Bastard Bar" for a drink! Now ... since you have spare batteries, just keep them warm. Inside pockets, etc. A photographer that shot a lot in Denali told me he'd heat his camera batteries by sticking them in his […]

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

@hannah I guess we are. I'm pretty sure the original Spaceball ended up with 3dconnexion and thus the Spacemouse.

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Zelda @zelda.zone · 28/02/2025

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

This thermograph tells us nothing but I think it looks nice.

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

How is it that the major provider of air navigation isn't called "Jeppesen Airplane"?

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

Gotta love Halloween drinks -- the cobwebs in the bar aren't something that needs cleaning; they're decorations!

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Andre @pcowandre.jauntygoat.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

More and more lately I've noticed some wikipedia pages using some fairly dense language. For example: Approximately a day before oviposition, oyster shell consumption ceases and the female exhibits inappetence, which keepers refer to as 'off peanut'. The maleo's fondness for peanuts is such […]

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