One of the Merveilles mods since August 12026 :flan_hurrah:
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Last Notes npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick So not five years then :flan_disappointed: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Surely not that long ago!! 😅 npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Perfectly cromulent semi-SI units. Decifeet, centifeet, kilofeet :flan_thumbs: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick It's always been like that! One aspect of privateness is that internet randomers can't create issues or pull requests since they cannot log in, but they are free to browse if the repos are public. Perhaps that was where the confusion crept in. npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Do you mean that some particular repos aren't published as public? I can browse a whole bunch of your repos without logging in npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Happy Birthday! :flan_hurrah: 🎂 :flan_cheer: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick I'm on stable and vimb didn't crash for me :flan_thumbs: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick yay, ableism :flan_angry: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick I was cycling back from Cambridge in the dark and in the middle of a cycle path was a Android phone. Locked behind a PIN, no details on it, so thought I'd take it home and keep it charged up. npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick You should come over to OpenBSD, we have 143 in OpenBSD 7.7! Ditch those seldom-updated operating systems such as *checks notes* Arch… npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick No, I'm on Firefox on macOS too, the latest version that's supported is 115 ESR :flan_blush: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Today's reason is entirely practical: I'm involved in my design work and a website I rely on has stopped working on my macOS. I'm able to use a newer Firefox on OpenBSD and the website continues to work there :flan_thumbs: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick “Life will be so much easier once I can ditch macOS and just run OpenBSD” npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick To be fair, Past Veronica knows what she's talking about :flan_shrug: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Thinking of https://merveilles.town/@aartaka/115703810327257466 and wondering how decent font sizes should be specified in web pages. npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick All style icons copy each other :flan_XD: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick I'm so glad that after the Bell Riots, wealth inequality was solved and scarcity for all people on Earth was consigned to the dustbin of the past. ✨ npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick C'est la mode à l'université!! npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick So does this mean you were wearing hot pink trousers, which became black in infrared?? npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick ⚠️ Important merveilles.town instance news! ⚠️ npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Hi @npub1fh7…ee83, do you share your configs or infrastructure notes about your anti-bot defences? npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick The door opens, the sunlight and dust stinging your eyes. Andy lurches through, one heavy step at a time. He closes the door with a grunt, leaning his back against it to catch his breath. npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick I have decided to be npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Woah, what a view! :moomin_sparkles: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Is that all that's left of Pino? :flan_confused: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick My research on the only case I know (Discworld's Granny Weatherwax insisting on being called “Mistress Weatherwax” by those she didn't like) has led me to this esteemed organ: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick I know! You spotted that I didn't include that example :flan_wink: I thought the long form was “missus” but of course that has no “r” :flan_think: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick TIL why (in British English) we don't use a dot after the “St” short form of “Street”. npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Today I visited Cambridge and cosplayed as a indifferent consumer! I had a blast. npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Copy of https://hachyderm.io/@patrizia/114398714464484381 with CW added: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Locksmith obvs because all the bobby pins are useful to control my hair :flan_headbang: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Yep, this is the serious, genuine fear that a lot of small, independent web services have. The billionaire techbros are going to be fine, they already have the resources to deal with countries' laws. It's almost as if this law is written for them. npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick The UK's ISPs do not do the blocking! That's only for truly dangerous sites like ThePyriteBay. npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Oh no… npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick I made a (very minor) contribution to this one, but got put off using it for real by the policy of avoiding moderation tools: so no blocking, no defederation. npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Yep, we got taken down by an instance of Scrapy (https://scrapy.org). It was asking for complex pages, 100 times a second, from patterns that were disallowed by robots.txt :flan_angry: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Thanks for pinging me! No, there's no email sending or receiving function in our Git Forge, so the email address field is nearly useless. npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Well, me too, but both Westcountry and Norfolk would be dialects that have been relatively untouched by fads from the last few centuries. npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Um yes! Um… I think I have a too complicated relationship with English to be able to join in with this :flan_pats: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick “Anglish” meaning getting rid of the Greek, Latin and French¹ loanwords in English? npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick thank you :tealheart: It's more like the whole respiratory system from the throat downwards, I cough a lot (from a throat tickle) too. npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Turns out this time of year is ideal to go on antibiotics that say that I need to avoid strong sunlight (because it sensitises the skin). npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick An “instant pot” is a pressure cooker, isn't it? If so, it's awesome for pulses :flan_thumbs: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick I love how you freely block arseholes on sight, but I thought that the whole AUTHORIZED_FETCH config setting was to prevent servers you've blocked from ever seeing your posts, whether directly or indirectly? That's a real bummer if it doesn't work that way (but I'm making the assumption that you've turned it on). npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Does visiting the linuxmom.net URL for any of your toots show all the replies? npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Re: important instance news about Orangetober: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Hopefully that will appease [@flame](https://merveilles.town/@flame ), who originated this lovely custom :flan_cheer: npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick I'm as surprised as you are! I mused idly about avatars this morning and then thought “hang on, is October quite soon now?” Turns out it is! npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick ⚠️ A reminder of the merveilles.town instance rules ⚠️ npub13e0usndpuak5pmua6ys7j6k47l3armmsrsjsnfm8dh6natynftkq48qty3 Andy Alderwick Yep, the webserver is showing the updated cert now :flan_thumbs: Thank you for fixing it!
