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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸)

@realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy
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Security MSc; PhD research student. Linux, networking, internet, offensive/defensive security, comedy, films, science, and space flight. And cynicism. Lots of […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.me.uk/@realcainmosni, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 5h
All this is true. It's just designed to give them the upper hand of control, waste time, and make it more of an effort for the customer to establish a controlled communication stream (and hopefully dissuade interaction).
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 8h
Hardly surprising, Go Outdoors, Blacks, and Millets have all been subsumed into the JD Sports conglomerate, and we all know how crap they are. If I had known that before ordering I wouldn't have bothered. @SonOfSunTzu
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 8h
Go Outdoors. What a bunch of wankers. They list an email address for "Enquiries" on their web site. I email it to chase an order I placed last week, and it auto responds (in essence) "use the contact form; no human will see your email". I don't WANT to use the contact form. I want a paper trail.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16h
@Edent If you already have WiFi you don't even need a separate device. Physical interfaces can carry more than one address, presenting as multiple virtual interfaces. (I have exactly that here. On its external interface the gateway machine has the DHCP assigned IP address coming from the ISP […]
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16h
@Edent It's all just a matter of routing. Give the wifi a fixed IP on your IoT segment. Any packets destined for the IoT LAN will be routed to it by implicit address. If you don't have IP forwarding on your machine then packets from the IoT devices cannot traverse your machine to the Internet […]
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 23h
I'm getting addicted to chilli tea.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
As predicted, the magic, invisible bus drove past without picking me up.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
Great. The fact the display is showing a time and not a wait probably means the damned thing is not coming. I really don't fancy the walk, today.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
​It got dark, and a lot cooler all of a sudden, so come hide in the pub with like-minded people with a common interest in Linux at the October Linux London Meetup. luma.com/02k7ie6b #LondonLinuxDrinks #LondonLinux
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London Linux Drinks: "Ghosts outta da machine" Edition · Luma
It got dark, and a lot cooler all of a sudden, so come hide in the pub with like-minded people with a common interest in Linux at the October Linux London…
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Patrick 🌎 @patrickworld.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
Two-panel meme: top, a woman grimaces tearfully beside the text Weird AI Music, rejecting it; below, the same woman, delighted, wears a curly wig, glasses and moustache while holding an accordion as parody musician Weird Al Yankovic, beside approving text.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
I really hope Surrey University reverts this awful branding change, soon. They only rebranded less than 10 years ago, and this latest change looks like an American football varsity from the mid 1960s. No subtlety or refinement to it.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
YouTube's got ridiculous. Less than 2 minutes between ad slots, and the same fucking ad time and time again despite rejecting it repeatedly. How can any advertiser think that sort of activity is good for their brand?
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
Eating a bowl of monkey nuts whilst fighting off a cold might not have been the smartest move...
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
By Evyrein in Padua, Italy 🇮🇹 streetartutopia.com/2025/02/10/stre… #StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural
Street art by Evyrein in Padua, Italy
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
For bods in or around London there's an unofficial #EMFcamp meetup on Sunday. moomin.moe/event
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https://moomin.moe/2026-10-25-chaos-london/
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
I foolishly switched the Z440 to secure boot, and now it goes to a black screen. I need a GOP capable video card, which is a pain in the back-side... So far I have been unable to establish what that would be in terms of the oldest second-hand card I can get.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
It seems Péter Magyar has had a quiet visit from the FSB... kyivindependent.com/hungary-blocks-…
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Hungary blocks next step in EU membership bids of Ukraine, Moldova, no explanation given
Colleagues asked their Hungarian counterparts to explain their position, but they did not, one diplomat said.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBXAPgcOqy0 In the general scheme of things, it's almost trivial, but losing Neil Peart is a shame. He made it all look so effortless...
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
A training platform that fails if you block XSS. Well that's fucking useful.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
"Zero Tolerance to Hate"? Nope. I reserve, absolutely, the right to hate. I hate the oppressor. I hate the abuser. I hate the exploiter. No-one's taking that from me.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
I predict significant disruption on the Waterloo/Portsmouth mainline near Weybridge in the next two years. The concrete bank foundations north of the station are deeply fractured and clearly at risk of slipping. They will either have to partially close the line for refurbishment works, or there […]
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Welp, I just got an 18-core Z440. I guess it's time to learn Proxmox.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
When I was unemployed in the mid-2000s I was sent on mandatory "training" (over a period including the "7/7" attack) where I knew more than the instructors. One day the network suddenly collapsed in a heap. They didn't have a clue. In 30 minutes I tracked it down to some kindly but ignorant soul […]
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
The Sun: "Married at first sight couple announce pregnancy..." How the fuck, in the current world, does that merit reporting let alone headlining?
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
I just discovered - first hand - that Google will disable reviews for specific locations, or reject them when they are negative (presumably because the establishment has paid them to).
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Today I learned that CS "gas" takes its initials from the surnames of the chemists who (accidentally) produced 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile and other irritant compounds while studying a specific set of chemical reactions. Not the best way to be immortalised.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
18-core Z440 - that will do nicely. Some nice VM grunt for the home servers.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Farscape has some really stand-out episodes. Admittedly some of the deeply woo-woo ones piss me off, but the series as a whole is so good that I can tolerate them. I overlooked the series when it was first broadcast because of exactly that prejudice. only coming back to it some 10 years later […]
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@Edent Ta. I don't do insta, but I will see if I can see it.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@Edent I just listened to the stand-up piece. I want to see him live. Is he a regular performer or was this a one-off, do you know?
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
I can't just do a superficial overlay. I tried to do that to get rid of Firefox as a snap. And I need to ditch apparmor for something more sane. It needs to be a full clean install. Too many complications run the other way. No, as painful as it will be I need to completely jump ship, but I want […]
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
I really don't want to go through the pain of a complete ground-up installation and reconfigure, but I think I need to get my laptops off Ubuntu. Suggestions? (I use a minimal server base then only install the desktop elements I actually want: XFCE, tools from Trinity (KDE3 fork), browsers, ssh […]
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Tell me this article was not written by an LLM. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwvgdn3…
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@revk
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Woof! Green finger chillis are hot at the best of times, but by 'eck home-drying them doesn't half give them an extra kick.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Dear ${DEITY} they're doing pre-crime, now, to set up their straw man.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@thegaffer And it is becoming increasingly so. I hate it.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Big surprise...
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
I was wrong. Hot Millions (with Peter Ustinov) was filmed (or at the very least released) the year before. TBH I'm quite happy that Benny Hill doesn't carry the mantle.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
"Dickert", "Dickhead". It's a fine line.... @mary1kathy.bsky.social
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Public announcement: Will every dumbfuck on the internet stop falling for the same engagement grift every three months? No, Anonymous is not about to release the Epstein files. These fake videos, are produced in the Middle East, are designed to generate engagement and money.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
@jamesjefferies The character he portrayed as "Benny Hill" was ALWAYS suspect. Different standards for different times, but it doesn't reflect well.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
@piersb Wonderful. Where was that, may I ask?
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Ian Robinson @ianrobinson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
The tech billionaires expect people to lose the will to boycott their shit and just wait it out. The steady stream of people returning to X shows they are right. I won't join the stream.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
I could really do with an occasional crash-pad in (or very near to) Guildford. A room with a bed, with power, and ideally a desk and chair. That doesn't cost a small fortune. I have not the first idea how to go about finding such a thing.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
I want... displate.com/displate/3213987
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The Italian Job Poster - Movies for your Living Room | Displate
The Italian Job Poster by Makanaki - Movies wall art for your Living Room. Printed on metal, easy magnet mounting, ships worldwide.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
I set myself a watch alarm 10 minutes ago. Can I remember why? Can I balls.
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
A thought just occurred, so now you can suffer from it, too. The first computer hacker/cyber criminal depicted on film was probably Benny Hill (The Italian Job, 1969), unless anyone knows better. www.imdb.com/title/tt0064505
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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
A rocket engine is "basically just a bomb with well-designed holes." I wouldn't normally quote a YouTube streamer, but in this case it warrants it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsDpDB3neng
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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