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  Well today's #xkcd certainly maxes out the legacy-geek-o-meter https://xkcd.com/3277/

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  Today's bugbear(s): Specifications which define a thing which can have more than one value but don't define how the ordering of that value should be interpretedSoftware that doesn't understand "short form" IPv4 CIDR addresses (eg. 172.16/12)

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  @LevelUp@corteximplant.com I always have a small puzzle within reach for this, such as https://hanayama-toys.com/product/cast-news/ which I've still not managed to get into…

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  @byterazor@geraffel.social I've not seen any work in that space at all - are you aware of any?

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  RE: https://en.osm.town/@thibaultmol/116799005791501048 There's something awfully pleasing about this "remix" of the #BBCnews countdown with #trains

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  In one of the #TNC26 talks (part of the Rebooting the Old Reliables session) one of the speakers mentioned an article about "Rewilding the internet". It's been around for a few years but is a fascinating and inspiring read… https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/ #rewilding #internetdiversity #digitalsovereignty #digitaldiversitity

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  Just when I have time to start messing with the home network (to get a new router commissioned), the children come home and demand a stable internet connection.

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  The Cuillin from Elgol, Isle of Skye, Scotland Taken: May 2025 Location: 57.147985, -6.108425 looking North-North-East #scotland #highlands #skye #elgol #cuillin #blackandwhite #photography #waves #mountains #sea

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  Q: When is a link not a link? A: When it's actually a button masquerading as a link. Would someone be able to tell me why #Swale District Council decided to eschew the humble <a> tag and use <button> instead? The upshot, if you middle-click on a thing (to open it in a new tab), nothing happens 😡 #web #webdev #kent #faversham

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  https://copy.fail/ Local Privilege Escalation in every Linux kernel since 2017 Hopefully no one is sitting on a low-privilege RCE... #linux #security #rce #lpe #cve #CVE202631431

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  Latest #firefox #ESR (v149.0) appears to have stopped reporting the HTTP error code when something goes wrong… in this case for a 403. It used to include the HTTP code and some useful words. In this error, it looks like the connection just didn't work rather than we got an error from the server. Is there a way to turn this back on?

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  My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … I am looking for a self-hostable web based application to be an inventory of the (real, rather than e-) #books in the house. It should be able to accept a list of #ISBNs as input for importing items and look them up (with covers) to ingest their metadata. It doesn't need #library style circulation (I don't want to run a library so don't want #Koha or equivalent) I've been using #HomeBox whic...

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  This deserves a slow-clap for Apple… An update to macOS 26.3 is overdue. You can install it now or it will be installed automatically Yesterday, 20:06 #fail #macos #apple #slowclap