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@jerry@infosec.exchange avatar jerry , to random

I tried recording a photography video in my kids bedroom turned studio and the echo was so bad that the audio was unusable. So I am putting these felt panels on the walls (got most of the easy parts done) and they’ve already made a huge difference.

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@jerry @paul_ipv6 I’ve used a thin white plastic laksa container (geodesic half-dome shape) as a diffuser for fill lighting before, it worked very well duct-taped over an elevated regular desk lamp 💁‍♀️

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usernamefactory @StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website avatar StillPaisleyCat

“A T(er)rib(b)le Day at the Academy”… 💁‍♀️ 🖖

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@itgrrl@infosec.exchange avatar itgrrl , to random

today’s “tales from the ”… 😩

we’re at a rental property for our honeymoon! 🎉🎉🎉 👰‍♀️👰‍♀️🐶 🚣‍♀️🐶🚣‍♀️ (that’s not the part 🤪)

the house has a “smart” (🙄) TV – so far I’ve removed 3 previous still-logged-in Google account profiles, disabled analytics & “data sharing” in three different places, turned off all the Google / Alexa integration bullshit (especially the microphone wake word!), etc., etc. 😩

but at least one profile is still “remembered” somewhere in the settings, since if you open the “set up Google assistant” page (to make sure everything’s turned off), it “helpfully” pre-fills the account box with the email of one of the (obviously-not-really-)deleted accounts

(I’ll probably email that person & let them know that I’ve logged out of their account for them & suggest that maybe they should do that themselves next time they log in to their account on some rando’s TV… 🤪)

and of course, despite us def never logging in to any apps on some rando’s TV & only running stuff on our own laptops connected via HDMI, we still run the risk of the TV snitching on us via totally undisclosed & un-opt-outable () tech – this particular TV is a one, one of the brands named in a new in… ✷checks notes✷ … (😳 but also 🎉)

more of this pls! 🤜💥🤛‬

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pax­ton Sues Five Major TV Com­pa­nies, Includ­ing Some with Ties to the CCP, for Spy­ing on Texans

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-paxton-sues-five-major-tv-companies-including-some-ties-ccp-spying-texans

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/ping @ 👋

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Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

A Combine soldier threatening with a baton, in front of a door. Which one is a greater menace in gamedev?
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@itgrrl@infosec.exchange avatar itgrrl , to random

I discovered when I went to look up the definition of a word on my phone that the (tricksy, unwanted) update to had nerfed all my on-device dictionaries, so I had to download them all again. even the default “Apple dictionary” 🤦‍♀️

great work, ! just spectacular 👏👏👏

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@static except it didn’t do a lookup from an online dictionary, it just gave the usual “No Content Found: Search Web | Manage Dictionaries” error screen – and then I had to choose “Manage Dictionaries” realise that none were installed, & then download the ones I wanted (which are all then stored locally)

if there was some reason that the update actually required deleting the old dictionaries (incompatible data structures in dictionaries? ¯(ツ)/¯), then the update workflow should include noting the dictionaries currently installed locally & bundling them into the update package so the new versions are installed & ready to go when the update is done

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@itgrrl@infosec.exchange avatar itgrrl , to random

welp, is shutting down in with only 2 weeks’ notice – so if you have any vouchers or credits use ’em or lose ’em by Wednesday 26th November

there’s no prominent announcement about this on the Australian Menulog home page – or on their website at all – which you would think should be the bare minimum, hey? ¯(ツ)/¯

but if you go digging through their “Newsroom” section you eventually find an article on the US site of Just Eat Takeaway.com, which presumably owns Menulog:

Just Eat Takeaway.com ceases operations in Australia

https://newsroom.justeattakeaway.com/en-WW/257572-just-eat-takeaway-com-ceases-operations-in-australia/

and that article includes a link at the end asking you to “visit our Australian newsroom for more information” (as you’d imagine, there’s not actually much more information – and also, shouldn’t the “Newsroom” link on your Australian site link to the Australian version of your “Newsroom“ in the first place…? 🤪 🤡🤡🤡)

Just Eat Takeaway.com ceases operations in Australia

https://newsroom.justeattakeaway.com/en-AU/257574-just-eat-takeaway-com-ceases-operations-in-australia/

anyway, full text from the customer email sent out this morning is below:

Menulog to close in Australia

Dear XXXXX,

Unfortunately, today we announced Menulog will no longer operate in Australia, from midnight Wednesday 26 November 2025.

As the only Australian-born platform, Menulog has a proud history but ultimately, as a business we have been navigating challenging circumstances and the decision was made to close local operations.

Please be advised that our website and app will remain operational until 23:59 AEDT Wednesday 26 November, but will not be accepting orders after this date.

Unused vouchers and credits

Menulog will honour any unused account credits or vouchers over the next two weeks. If you have any questions about using your voucher or account credit, our team is here to help - just reach out to us anytime.

Finally, we would like to sincerely thank you for your support over almost 20 years.

Kind regards,
Menulog Team

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , to random

Nintendo Gamma Boy.

A picture of a Nintendo Gamma Boy. It's kind of a geiger counter but looks just like a nintendo Game Boy. It has a Select, Start, and a knob to select options, and a Beta and Alpha button in that reddish pink. On screen is a little needle showing up to about 3.6 roentgen. to the left of the screen is a Battery and a Drop & Run indicator.
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@NanoRaptor

Nintendo High-Gamma Boy 💁‍♀️

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@Shadow@lemmy.ca avatar Shadow @USSBurritoTruck@startrek.website avatar USSBurritoTruck it’s assigned its own set number (40768) so perhaps it will be available for purchase after the initial promotion of the Enterprise D set?

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krooklochurm milkisklim this says nothing about blocking people who think differently, just blocking people who are perpetually unhappy & spread that unhappiness everywhere…

but more generally, people are absolutely entitled to drop their opinions and hot takes on social media – but they’re not entitled to demand or expect anyone’s ongoing attention if what they drop isn’t of interest (or is antithetical to their world-view) 💁‍♀️

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

The term "personal firewall" might for some conjure quaint memories of using stuff like Zone Alarm. But I suspect this term will be resurrected in the not-too-distant future to describe pricey wearable technology designed to project a stealth mode that can confuse ubiquitous AI-based security and surveillance systems.

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@briankrebs like many such things, that sort of tech will be made illegal (for citizens to use) & its use will be considered grounds for LE attention. you can’t tech your way out of structural oppression 💁‍♀️

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Watching TRON legacy. It’s a 2 hour DAFT PUNK music video ☺️☺️☺️

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@SeaFury if you don’t already have the : Legacy (complete edition) soundtrack, I can highly recommend it – it’s high up on my focus playlist 🎧🎶🔈🔉🔊 👩‍💻👩‍💻👩‍💻

the R3C0NF1GUR3D album is pretty great too 🤘

…and you might also enjoy the TRON Tribute EP by 8 Bit Weapon 🎶👾🎶👾🎶👾🎶👾 🎶

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@SeaFury @static following on from this, I went to see tonight – thoroughly enjoyable & so.many. easter eggs for fans of both (1982) & 👀👂

I went in cold & I think that’s probably the best way to do it. I’ll go back again in a week or so for are-watch to catch some more “homage” that I’m sure I missed 🙃

I didn’t love the soundtrack nearly as much as Legacy (or the original, for that matter), but it was OK

I really like Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross’ soundtrack for The Social Nerwork but this one was more NIN-ish (I think? 🤔) & I’ve never really explored their stuff that much so maybe that’s why it didn’t grab me ¯(ツ)/¯

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@static @SeaFury oh the cinema was almost empty 🙃

we treated ourselves to “IMAX VIP” – we were the only ones in the VIP section & there were only maybe 10 ppl in the cinema all together (this was a session @ 18:30 though so ¯(ツ)/¯)

I’m not plugged into celebrity things, what’s the reason for “JL = poor box office”? 🤔

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@static @SeaFury oh, nvm, I did a search – ick 🤮

@itgrrl@infosec.exchange avatar itgrrl , to random

Wes Smith ❤️‍🩹

my 90 year-old dad died last night after a very long life, a long decline, multiple hospitalisations, and the last couple of months spent in hospital & a repat facility

lots of complex feelings for me, but I’m glad he no longer needs to struggle in difficult circumstances (largely of his own creation, but still ❤️‍🩹)

when he was young, he travelled the world in the Merchant Navy in the loud, hot bellies of large cargo ships amongst the enormous engines with pistons several times taller than himself. he only spent a short time in each port – a tasting menu, you might say – but he felt that he had seen the entire world by the time he got married

he worked many jobs in his long career, most of them spent bending metal to his will, often shaping machines into new forms to perform tasks for which they were never originally designed. he worked long hours to provide financially for his family – which he saw as his main duty in life – but also because he loved working with machines & solving engineering problems born of metal. grease. electricity.

he was a fitter & turner, a boiler-maker, a repairer & maintainer, a “keeper-runnerer”, a tinkerer. he used tools to design & make other tools to make machines. I’m sure that some of my own interests & skills were influenced by growing up watching him execute his craft, hearing him talk about his work, & being dragged along to yet another industrial robot exhibition 😩😜

he was a life-long learner, and my own love of 🤔 – or at least facility with – computers & electronics & code (oh my!) were things he saw (and understood) and supported. in the late 1970s or very early 1980s he took a programming course (which was the spelling at the time 😜) at the local TAFE, and he took me along – a rare opportunity in that era. my first hands-on experience with code at 11 or 12 years old was in the form of mapping out & writing programmes down by hand on graph paper & then encoding them on a stack of mark sense cards with a B2 pencil to be fed into a card reader (and drawing that all-important diagonal line down the side of the stack with said pencil – 😆)

it wasn’t long until I had begged sufficiently & got my very first computer (that we absolutely couldn’t really afford), a – the original model in “battleship grey” with 16K RAM 😲, later upgraded to a whopping 64K 🤯 🤯

I still have that computer over 40 years later 😊

after he retired, he always had several ambitious plans on the boil (less charitable folks might call them “hare-brained schemes” 🙃), including a petrol-powered all-terrain tracked wheelchair for a friend who wanted to be able to travel off the beaten path under his own (metaphorical) steam. it would have ended up weighing about a tonne & absolutely would never have worked (safely), but he was determined to “help” a friend & excited to work on solving an interesting engineering challenge, once again bending metal and machinery to his purpose du jour

he was happiest noodling in his workshop, oil- & grease-stained hands deep inside a machine, wielding – or welding – a new tool of his own design. I always associated the smell of machines and ozone with his presence. until after he retired I never saw his hands unstained by years of ingrained, immovable grease

in his later years he discovered and became a journeyman of sorts. he was exceptionally proud (and a bit obnoxious) when he was able to “teach the professionals at a thing or two” about his new hobby. his idea of a conversation had always been (impatiently) waiting for you to take a breath so he could tell you the next thing he was interested in – usually unconnected to whatever you’d shared 💁‍♀️

he used a succession of smallish 3D printers to make many, many Japanese-inspired lanterns (into which he stuffed various strings of coloured flashing lights) and Chinese-inspired dragons, amazed & delighted that additive manufacturing was able to create interlocking objects right off the print bed – after having spent a lifetime creating sometimes-intricate interlocking components using tried-and-true subtractive manufacturing processes. he gave most of these prints away to others – whether they wanted them or not 😆

he was a fitter & turner, a boiler-maker, a repairer & maintainer, a “keeper-runnerer”, a tinkerer

and he was my father

Wes Smith ❤️‍🩹
1935-2025


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@bittner thank you, David 💕

my dad also became a boiler-maker & machinist over the years, accreting skills as he went – as is the Way of our people 🙃

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@georgetakei great news! 💕✨

and it has 🌈 rainbows✨ and 📚 education✨ and 👨🏽‍🦱👩🏾‍🦱👩🏼‍🦳🧑🏽‍🦱👩🏻 diversity✨ (oh my) – I hope all the racists and “anti-woke” (🙄) crowd are choking on their rage 🌈🌈🌈

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    @NanoRaptor hmm, I always assumed that the space jockey ships from the Aliens universe travelled with the prongs of the horseshoe forward… 🤔

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    @NanoRaptor @nygl tbh that sounds like you’ve done entirely too many things since your last shower… 😜

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    @NanoRaptor gratz! 🎉

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    Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits 1:21 PM · Sep 3, 2025 · 42.4K Views
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    @Fledglingnerd @pluralistic I made this slide in my talk at Everything Open in January mostly ‘coz it amused me but also ‘coz we sometimes have young folk in the audience… 💁‍♀️

    (yes, I read it out as “en-poop-ocene”, “en-poop-ening”, etc. 🙃)

    a slide from my talk at Everything Open 2025 with a quote from Cory Doctorow where I’ve replaced the word “shit” with the poop emoji. the text is superimposed on a still from the movie Everything, Everywhere, All At Once the quote reads: “We're all living through the en💩ocene, a great en💩ening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of 💩.” citation at lower right of slide: Cory Doctorow, "How monopoly en💩ified Amazon" (2022)
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    @vkc 🧸

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    @NanoRaptor I don’t think I’ve ever seen too many fingers on one of your works of art… 💁‍♀️

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    @NanoRaptor add it to the bad soldering iron stock images 💁‍♀️

    https://www.boredpanda.com/soldering-iron-stock-image-fails/

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    “Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!”
    ― Mehmet Murat ildan

    JD Vance’s team had the army corps of engineers take the unusual step of changing the outflow of a lake in Ohio to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday, the Guardian has learned.

    The request from the US Secret Service was made to “support safe navigation” of the US vice-president’s security detail for an August outing on the Little Miami River, according to a statement by the US army corps of engineers (USACE).

    Vance was spotted in the south-western Ohio area on 2 August, his 41st birthday, according to social media posts that noted he was seen canoeing on the river, a tributary that Caesar Creek Lake feeds into.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/jd-vance-ohio-lake-water-levels

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    @briankrebs sure, abuse of power is SOP for these chucklefucks – but look how small-minded & petty their grift can be…

    …and imagine working to become a secret service agent on presidential or vice-presidential detail & then you end up being obligated to take a bullet for these chuds 🤪

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    @NanoRaptor

    “technology is made of people” 💁‍♀️

    ^ not in the Soylent Green way 🤪

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    @NanoRaptor 🙅‍♀️

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    @NanoRaptor also 🙅‍♀️

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    @georgetakei I’m sure she just mis-spoke and really meant to say that he came up with the motto “WAR IS PEACE”… 🫠

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    @NanoRaptor well now I know why I’ve always looked up to you… 😜

    @itgrrl@infosec.exchange avatar itgrrl , to random

    OK fans, I was gifted an 2600+ & have finally gotten around to unboxing & connecting…

    Pros:

    • looks cool
    • … 🤔

    Cons:

    • only includes 1 joystick 🤪
    • 1.5m joystick cable means sitting close to the big-arse TV with old knees & crook’d neck
    • crappy selection of games in included cartridge (IMO)
    • cartridge label faces away from you (WTF? is this how the original cartridges were designed? it’s been so long I forget…)
    • additional cartridges are bananapants expensive & they don’t seem to do many multi-game cartridges? way to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory, Atari! 🤦‍♀️

    so… I’m looking for for not-ridiculously-expensive options for

    1. adding a second joystickadding 1-2 wireless joysticks
    2. connecting 1-2 modern controller(s) either wired or wirelessly (powered DB9 - USB adapter? 🤔)
    3. sourcing 2 x 3m+ DB9 extension leads
    4. best additional games to get?

    I’m sure I could figure out how to get hold of a cartridge with 3,275 games on it were I so inclined (I’m not, Your Honour) so no need for recs in that area, thx 🙃

    pls 🙏

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    @static I made my own joysticks for my Tandy Color Computer waaay back in the 80s ‘coz I had no $$ for the real ones (thanks, Jaycar!), but I’d rather exchange money for goods and/or services in this instance 🙃

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    A photo looking up through a chainlink fence at poles and transmission equipment in an electrical substation. There is a sign on the fence stating DANGER LIVE LAUGH LOVE
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    @NanoRaptor now do The Secret 🤪

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    does anyone that I’m connected to old TRS-80 Color Computers (or is connected to anyone who does) & is based even vaguely anywhere near ? (or within plausible shipping distance)

    I need to exchange $$ for goods & services to put the back into my beloved old … 😢

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    There's this "Open Psychometrics "which fictional character are you" test going around on Bluesky. I do not like having my data harvested, so when I took it I answered 0% on every question (slider bar all the way to the left). This caused it to match me with "Jon Snow" from Game of Thrones, with a match of "Nan%"

    I then tried again, instead answering always 100%; this again got me Jon Snow, "Nan%" match.

    From this I conclude my personality type is "QA tester".

    Same but the blue dots for "Your traits versus their traits are graphed below (click on points for labels)" dots are now all on the right.

    Same but the blue dots for "Your traits versus their traits are graphed below (click on points for labels)" dots are now all on the right.
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    I rather like the new VMWare logo

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    @jerry that’s more in Palantir’s wheelhouse, isn’t it?

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    I have been informed that the guy who insisted I was part of a cabal of lesbian witches trying to destroy his marriage has lost his license to practice law because he committed fraud, and I'm just going to enjoy that for a minute.

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    @evacide I’m disappointed to learn that you’re not part of a cabal of lesbian witches, tbh

    (although technically I guess you still could be, just not one trying to destroy his marriage… 🤔🤔🤔)

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    You are here.

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    @georgetakei sadly, if things continue to go the way that The Heritage Foundation | Project 2025 | MAGA folks want them to, kids in what remains of the US either won’t get to go to school at all or will be schooled primarily in DoubleThink so that they will simply believe that current (and future) events were all DoublePlusGood 😕

    (I’d say “you can’t make this 💩 up” but, well…)

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    “Task Manager (Not Responding)”

    🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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    @static this was post-Windows update (by a wide margin) so… unlikely but not impossible ¯(ツ)/¯