Too old to rock and roll, too young to die. Vegan and anarchism curious. Likes permaculture, infosec, Tranmere Rovers, and whatever my current enthusiasm is. Officially not right in the noggin #ʘ‿ʘ I'm now living on disability benefits so can no longer financially support causes I'd like to. #NoBot
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Last Notes npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Colin the crab lived a simple life. A happy life. He was engaged to Lily the lobster, and they were very much in love. However Luke, king of the lobsters, intervened. "I will not have my daughter marrying a creature that walks sideways." Luke said. "It would bring shame upon the whole lobster kingdom." Lily cried and begged her father to see reason, but to no avail. Distraught, Colin scuttled sideways into the murk of the sea, nowhere to be seen. Two weeks later, it was Lily's wedding day. She had been coerced into marrying a fellow lobster. Silent tears streamed down her face as the lobster vicar read them their vows. At once there was a mighty BANG, and the doors slammed wide open. The congregation turned, astonished, to see Colin the Crab standing there. Gasps arose as he fixed Luke, the lobster king, with a glare, and slowly put one leg in front him. He took a step. Forwards. Not one eye in the hall strayed from him as he walked, one leg in front of the other, up to where Lily and her finace stood. There was utter silence as he spoke. "Christ alive, I am so drunk." npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I'm reading a book about a zombie dog. It's unputdownable. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Last night I dreamt I was the author of The Hobbit I was Tolkien in my sleep. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: So I've just taken 60mg of L-dopa. Now to see if it alleviates depression and improves mood or turns me into a quivering wreck... https://supplewiki.com/l-dopa/ #imPossiblyAnIdiot #dontDoThisAtHomeKids npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Not AI generated. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/117/220/549/488/161/325/original/287300a3ff9a0eb1.jpg npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Just got some L-DOPA tablets to help with concentration. I'm not particularly happy about taking them, as it will increase dopamine in the peripheral nervous system as well as in the noggin. Anyone got feedback? My GP couldn't give me the antivirals to try to attenuate the Ménière's disease, but she gave me the details of the top experts in France. Either they give me the drugs or I get my shrink to do it, as it appears to be linked to stress. Why is it so hard to get drugs that could possibly attenuate the awful quality of life problems with this disease? They don't have serious side effects either. If I get blanked I'm going to have to go to the pharmacy and say I've had a flare up of genital herpes so I can try them... npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I think I'm going to take a break from here until my various travails are sorted out. I don't want to just spend my time whingeing about personal stuff. Hopefully à bientôt. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: My rural 4G LTE connection with the dual mahoosive external Yagi antennas is looking pretty decent nowadays. We're due 8Gb symmetric FTTH soon (unlike the rest of the village, Mwahahaha!) so this will probably be decommissioned and I could use the Yagi antennas for my daft long range drone experiments. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/117/176/422/422/481/752/original/1da460b846896a3f.png npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I went to see my shrink yesterday. After going through the ongoing break-up and the effing unemployment people deciding I'm not longer eligible for benefits, I got to the "give me drugs so I can actually do stuff" moment (I had previously stated I didn't ever want any such drugs). Weirdly, she's not keen to just give me the good stuff and we have to have further chats about it. She reckons I've got ADHD 🤔. Still, the next appointment is in less than three weeks and it'll be via Zoom because of my dizziness from Ménière's disease. Which was quite a lot in twenty minutes. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: “Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” “A caricature of a grammar pedant.” “A caricature of a grammar pedant whom?” “You bastard." npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Marcus Hutchins on AI bros wondering why everyone hates them. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AXfTu3izXrU npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Breaking news - a Newcastle man has reportedly been the victim of a brutal assault by a Cyclops. Apparently, he was outside Currys with a friend, discussing the televisions on display and said, "That's the one I'd get." npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Deleted scene from Alien: Ash: Ellen, I can’t find the milk. Ripley: In space, no-one can. Here – use cream. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I bought a dog from a blacksmith today. As soon as I brought him home, he made a bolt for the door. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…g4vn Not sure why my changes have been published on doublepulsar (I refreshed and it showed it again). https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/117/156/589/636/348/771/original/2dca4ea9eaa0f13a.png npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Hmm, a nearly 4am idea... What if we started a Polymarket bet about Trump lasting until the end of his presidency, and we all lumped on him making it through. It could be fertile ground for disgruntled MAGA types to take the other bet and possibly, you know, insider trading. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I was sitting on the bed, pulling off my boxers, when my wife said, "you spoil those dogs". npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Turns out it was a different logistics company, and it's open today. So, to avoid any risk of me deciding to keep the GPU because I'm an idiot, I just dropped it off. Phew. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…w2cy This sort of thing but without the live Linux USB? https://www.thelinuxvault.net/linux-backup-recovery/step-by-step-linux-data-recovery-tutorial/ npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: A sheepdog goes to his farmer and says -'I've brought home your 40 sheep'. The farmer says 'You can't have, I only have 37'. The sheep dog says 'Yeah, I know but I rounded them up'. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…zvpa Research in dolphins, elephants, parrots and primates suggests animals may call each other by name, *but scientists are divided on how to define the behavior*. We're not that special, numbnuts. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…6hzd Yeah, I was wondering about that. But I imagine creating enough accounts following accounts across the fediverse could help. Until people noticed some sort of bot trend, I assume. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…ppcl I just think the squad cares - it's great after the dross of the last five years. Whitaker possibly going may free up money for a player or two and, heaven forfend, a goalie... I'm a bit sad for LOC, I guess it's the curse of the utility defender. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…6hzd Couldn't they just create their own instance with a few users and query from there? Does disabling showing your follower count help? Is there any way an individual can mitigate this? npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…d0yj Oh God, yes. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: #Tranmere did not, in fact, ruin my weekend. What is this strange feeling of optimism? npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…zdqn The one I saw had the crappification bit as part of a change to the last syllables. It's bugging me now. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…zdqn I saw a French version on here the other day but can't for the life of me remember it. Grr. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…94p0 I really hope that happens. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Despite the judge being more or less part of the prosecution team he was unanimously acquitted. https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/08/22/greenstein-trial-verdict/ npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…27gt @nprofile…dcqh There was quite a lot I wasn't expecting! npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…0dsp I much prefer high internal thermal mass, external insulation, and a more ecological passive solar design than this sort of hermetic passivhaus approach. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: They're due to be sentenced next week. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…el3w My parents bought Encyclopaedia Britannica in '75 when I was nine. I always had about five volumes opened on the floor at once in a sort of hyperlink fashion. It was bloody great! npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Drizzle! Alleluia! npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…w945 Nearly lost it coming into the chicane on lap three. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…y4pq @nprofile…zvpa @nprofile…cmq0 😁 npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…cmq0 @nprofile…zvpa Yes, I'm definitely neurotypiical, and nobody can tell me otherwise! https://infosec.exchange/@davep/117124133964797711 npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…y4pq Yup! So, obviously I decided four was my lucky number. This meant I needed four lucky numbers in order to be consistent. So I chose four, 16, 256, and 65536. I also had a thing about words and vowel to consonant ratios as well as A=1 and Z=26. So (aged nine) I created a matrix in my head where I could take any word, and finish with a total of 256, with sixteen words each having an average of 16 (where a=1 and z=26) and one more vowel than consonants. I can still do it now. Given it's my rules, I allow English and French words. "Oiseau" and "aïeule" are the only words with four more vowels than consonants I know, by the way. It's of absolutely no use whatsoever. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…cmq0 @nprofile…zvpa https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/117/124/107/414/910/647/original/a4e296ef539d842c.gif npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…efqx You have to be so out of it to watch that film 😁 npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…qxfl Excellent! npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…y4pq That's cool. As a slight aside, I decided (aged eight) that four would be my lucky number because if you take any number (in English) and count the number of letters and keep doing this, it will always end up at four. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…qxfl You've got the home charger working? npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…efqx And *not* in BeerFest. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…k6zg I'm not a mod, and this sort of thing tends not to be done in plain view. I hope @nprofile…l9z3 and team are on it. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Oi! Infosec.exchange, up your alt text game! Thanks. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…6cvp The 1978 series was absolutely brilliant and I can't recommend it enough. Quickly followed by Smiley's People. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…y4pq Dare I ask what blackpilll is? npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: These people are actually insane. https://infosec.exchange/@davep/114503363797580411 https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/117/095/609/574/036/400/original/9ddd87db6e7d56b8.png npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I really hope today is the last >=35°C day of the year here at 700m altitude. If this is the template for the future and if it gets worse we're absolutely boned. Agriculture is totally fucked here. The Limagne plain is the most fertile in France (thanks to the volcanoes) and even there the crops are decimated. Between global heatwaves and fires, and supply chain disruption, there's only so much we can take. And it's not just going to cause a drop in GDP that will make rich people frown, we're at genuine risk of a collapse in global food supplies and mass starvation. Meanwhile, after hours of concerted debate, Burnham might ban portable barbecues, and here in France they're arguing over Canadair orders. It's almost as if neoliberal centrists can't actually address pressing human issues if it conflicts with the interests of the lobbies. 1 - roll out solar and intelligent battery storage both for houses and at grid scale - don't piss about waiting for a sovereign gigafactory that's not going to happen. Buying these off China will hugely offset fossil fuel costs anyway as well as, you know, not burn fossil fuels. 2 - remove the need for growth by changing from a debt-based broad money system to an equity-based model. It will give governments more power over banks too (but this is a bit too in depth for a quick rant toot). 3 - move to a more plant-based diet, which requires 10 times less land than e.g. cattle per unit protein. This can both potentially allow more land for ecosystem resilience as well as increase yields. 4 - plant lots of trees in marginal uplands where e.g. sheep farming provides a ridiculously small amount of protein per hectare (about 0.4kg in the UK IIRC) and lives off subsidies. Add in maybe 5% edible perennials such as sweet chestnut and walnuts depending on your climate. 5 - lots of other stuff that I can't think of right now as my Ménière's disease is playing up. Feel free to add them below, or tell me I'm a bonehead etc etc. #globalWarming npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…xzx8 Ooh. Forgot about that. I'd heard that superglue was developed for the Vietnam War. Might give it a go later, as this thing is going to need stitches otherwise. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: NOT CRYING! https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/117/071/505/966/772/908/original/fd8cf55a31858088.jpg npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Was washing up a long thin glass earlier with a green sponge thingummy and it cracked as I was energetically giving it a scrub, leaving me with an inch-long flap of skin hanging off my middle finger. So, after initially wondering if this would kill me, I quickly doused it in antiseptic and dressed it, twice. And I didn't even cry! Lesson of the day: be less assiduous in housework. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…cnl5 @nprofile…e965 😁 npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…cnl5 @nprofile…e965 Go down a smidge and you'll see four downloadable archives. The main one is this https://share.mayfirst.org/s/i9FzmgKtgKHRPfa?opendetails= npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…80xj It's over 40 years old. I guess some precocious 4 year olds played it. I was putting the bar arbitrarily at 14 for no discernable reason... npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Are we all ancient on here? You'd have to be at least, ooh, 55 to get this and it keeps getting sporadic boost sprees. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…qxfl Normally you'd either have a TT setup with a local earth or TN where the grounding is done by the grid. We have TT and connect the neutral directly to earth, and it's fine for the Zoë. Normally, at least for older models, the main issue for single phase charging is Zoës insist on at least 10A. But apparently all electric cars get the hump if they don't detect a proper earth. It seems weird that you don't have one. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I just love how these two learn about the Beatles (after Led Zep, Pink Floyd etc - she's starting to love John's voice) https://youtu.be/tsI8vZrFvO8?t=295 npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: There's this couple on YouTube who are going through sixties/seventies/eighties stuff and it's generally great. But they're currently doing Steely Dan. When I was squatting, my flatmate was a middle class Irishman who played these all the time. Is it just me or are they way too "easy listening"? They make me want to punch kittens 🤬 npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I'm resting on a mallard that i got from an internet auction site. (SINGS)- "Sitting on the duck off ebay". npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Unprecedented wildfires across France. Governments need to prioritise the renewable transition over legacy lobbying right now. This is insane. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/974/806/375/641/054/original/b5bc7e00ebc6fb6b.jpg npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Just watched Project Hail Mary, only having a vague idea of the plot. The big reveal was great, fun and ultimately a bit cheesy, but I liked it. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…qxfl Congratulations/commiserations 🤣 npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…vmwx Yeah. I'll go and check in the attic now, I guess, in case there are some owlets. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Fuck. Just found a dead barn owl by the bottom of the transformer at the end of the hamlet one house down. I saw some shady guy getting into a car quickly and driving off as I came down with the dog, but I don't know if it's linked (possible electrocution?). My neighbour (whose house it's next to) has some beef with a couple of locals. He wasn't in. Hmm. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery. He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, My car broke down. Do you think I could stay the night? The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, and even fix his car. As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound; a sound like no other that he has ever heard. The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say, We can't tell you because you're not a monk. The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry way. Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same monastery. The monks again accept him, feed him, and even fix his car.. That night, he hears the same strange mesmerizing sound that he had heard years earlier. The next morning, he asks what the sound was, but the monks reply, We can't tell you because you're not a monk. The man says, all right, all right. I'm dying to know. If the only way I can find out what that sound was is to become a monk, how do I become a monk? The monks reply, you must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles. When you find these numbers, you will become a monk. The man sets about his task. Some forty-five years later, he returns and knocks on the door of the monastery. He says, I have travelled the earth and devoted my life to the task demanded and have found what you had asked for. There are 371,145,236,284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth. The monks reply, "Congratulations, you are correct, and you are now considered a monk. We shall now show you the way to the sound." The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, the sound is behind that door. The man reach for the knob, but the door is locked. He asks "May I have the key?" The monks give him the key, and he opens the door. Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone... The man requests the key to the stone door. The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. He demands another key from the monks, who provide it. Behind that door is another door, this one made of sapphire. And so it went on until the man had gone through doors of emerald,... ..silver, topaz, and amethyst. Finally, the monks say, This is the key to the last door. The man is relieved to be at the end. He unlocks the door, turns the knob, and behind that door he is astonished to find the source of that strange sound. It is truly an amazing and unbelievable sight .. But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I visited a neighbour earlier who's Windows laptop was just showing a black screen after logging on. After Ctrl+Alt+Del I got into task manager and saw it was downloading stuff under a service name I can't remember. Anyway, I saw Copilot was in the startup tab and disabled it, then restarted the laptop. It started fine. Does anyone have a link to an up-to-date Windows script that gets rid of all this Win11 cruft? npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Would you happen to know of anyone who might be amenable to donating me one if these @nprofile…02n5 @nprofile…79fx ? Lightningmaps seems to miss a load of local strikes, so I'm wondering if getting one would help. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Does anyone happen to have a spare Blitzortung PCB 22.2b + PCB 23.1 or other Blitzortung setup to donate for lightning detection? npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: My wife is humouring me after I took the world cup news badly last night 😁 https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/930/190/410/231/465/original/3f94ad9b885b9f6b.png npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Blimey. We're due five hours of (potential) hail and 100km/h winds later. I hope it's not a repeat of the 10cm hailstones that destroyed our roof in 22. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Nice rain, sweet, sweet, petrichor, and the distant rumble of thunder while walking the dog there. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I got knocked off my bike this morning by the council salt lorry. "You idiot" I yelled through gritted teeth. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I thought I had swifts nesting in the loft this spring, but recently I've heard what can only be described as heavy breathing coming from above the big beam in the bathroom. I initially told myself that swift chicks are noisy buggers, then started wondering if we had asthmatic rats up there. Anyway, just walking the dog with my powerful torch and heard the noise. I'd tried to spy something before to no avail, but I've finally discovered the culprits. It's a family of barn owls. Woot! Send toot! npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I don't have any thermometers upstairs so just queried a smart switch (pulling zero amps) and it's 45.6°C. Wondered why I was having a hard time in this heatwave... npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I first moved to France in '91 and they had never won a world cup. Then they won the handball world cup and all the media pretended everyone loved handball. It was excruciating. Then they won the real thing in '98. Suddenly no one talked about handball. And again in 2018. Their commentators have become unbearably smug. I just want to see England win it before I croak. I was only a few months old last time. Is that too much to ask? #worldCup npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: 30 more minutes of this #worldCup npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: A fortune teller told me I'd suffer devastating heartbreak in 15 years' time so I got a puppy to cheer myself up. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Today I learnt Albert Einstein was a real person. I'd always thought he was a theoretical physicist. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: You meet a man on Oregon Trail. He tells you his name is Terry. You laugh & say its a girls name. He shoots you. You have died of dissin Terry. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: A man takes his Rottweiller to the vet. 'My dog is cross-eyed, is there anything you can do for him?' 'Well,' says the vet, 'let's have a look at him.' and he picks up the dog and examines his eyes, then he checks his teeth. Finally, he says, 'I'm going to have to put him down.' 'What? --- because he's cross-eyed?' 'No, because he's really, really, heavy' npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…gu7x Also, they're releasing open models which will work with local AI. This will totally undercut the OpenAI/Anthropic model. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…5rsp Oh, bugger. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: Literally nobody was shocked apart from you, you deranged idiot. It's been known Iranian doctrine for absolutely ages. #Iran #Trump https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/296/105/340/112/635/original/a324a1e16686c0cc.png npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…ds0l All hail Odin! npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…2jkr You should add a little text bubble saying "Oh, bollocks". It's probably the last thing he thought. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…d0yj Playing the long game? Targeting follow-only posts? npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/187/706/860/818/928/original/755e9d26958bdcd9.jpg npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…gu7x @nprofile…l9z3 Krebson S Curity esq? npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…y4qv ouch npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…gu7x And what assurances do they have that Snowflake etc aren't keeping copies? You don't master a cloud supply chain. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: The signs were always there https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/104/396/671/100/837/original/135b343fe57cf627.png npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…gu7x I'm too lazy to browse from a PC most of the time, so tend to rely on: Browser: FF with ublock origin and privacy badger Apps: DDG App Tracking Protection Belt and Braces: Pi-Hole server. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…gu7x So glad I left that horrible platform a few months back. npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…gu7x You, Sir, are a man of excellent taste 👌 npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: @nprofile…prl4 Oh, yeah npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: "Took a picture of my wife standing in front of a horse and now she won’t talk to me. 😖" via Mike Bales https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/928/314/058/266/589/original/9bb51c1f97530f28.jpg npub1x07echeyw87hh4u546aeu8tjksage36n9dp2853d29h7w064v6dq652fj3 David Penfold :verified: I'm probably being dim, but what's the big deal about #theforkiverse ? Is it just another instance or is something else going on?