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Mar 08, 2026
@JackTheCat@mastodon.scot I wonder what happened to the Northern Independence Party. They seem to have fizzled out a bit.
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Mar 08, 2026
@JackTheCat@mastodon.scot maybe after they've blown the yanks into little chunks.
Honestly, though, it would be fucking amazing if we could get some of that wind energy off the north sea. The problem is a lack of line trunking - there just isn't a means of getting energy across the nation at that scale. Be grand if we could have proper investment in better power delivery infra.
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Mar 07, 2026
@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social It's an accessibility thing. I read numerals like I read language. Given language is already a super switched-on process for me thanks to having a fair bit of the 'tism, you can imagine how much longer it takes for me to process numerals than it does to read a dial. It's not safe to be looking away from the road for that long.
In any case, screens in cars are fucking idiotic.
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Mar 07, 2026
Digital speedometers fucking suck. I can't process numerals as quickly. Give me a dial please for fuck's sake.
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Mar 07, 2026
I'd love to understand why Canonical is even considering this built in age bullshit. They're not even American, let alone Californian.
Fucking yanks coming up with yet another way to eliminate privacy.
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Mar 06, 2026
@Kierkegaanks@beige.party I'm so disappointed LMNC is acknowledging Eurovision. What a shame.
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Mar 04, 2026
Kemi Badenoch is a fucking ghoul. If she was that interested in war, we would (and should) have had boots on the ground in Ukraine in 2022.
#ukpol #sorry
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Mar 02, 2026
@th@social.v.st @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems argh I remember when these were super convenient. Now it's all "don't have a phone? Well GET FUCKED then" and it makes me sad that a device so incompatible with security has replaced a dedicated device that just needed some new innards
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Mar 02, 2026
Remember when I talked about "vibe-coding" an LLM killer that would sit and respond to LLM agents on multiple platforms with kill strings? Kinda did it. No idea if it works. I might stick it on node or smth
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Mar 02, 2026
@sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social you know what sorta bird this is by any chance? I get loads of them in my garden in the spring every year
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Feb 26, 2026
@Justice30@universeodon.com lol, what? Get rid of diesel first. That'll have a far greater impact. Impose a tax on vehicles any larger than a sedan bought for non-business use. Call it the 4x4 tax, if you must. Impose penalties on water agencies who allow effluent to flow into the environment, and penalties for passing on that cost to consumers. Impose greater taxes on air travel. Force commitments from utility orgs to invest in refreshing the national grid infrastructure to allow for the renewable energy produced off the Scottish coast to make it down south.
These are all things you can do that will have a vastly greater impact than punishing the what, five(?) percent of the population regularly using a wood stove.
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Feb 26, 2026
@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org welp. Looks like you're back to the sensible option of a card then :)
Really, though, I doubt this is malicious. It's probably more likely that x library is used to provide y features because z clause in the bank's indemnity/liability/bankruptcy insurance requires it. And that they require it because they have no idea how shit actually works, but $manager read a paper once on how terrible rooting is, so made it policy moving forward cause she doesn't know any better.
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Feb 26, 2026
@nic Probably because he's from the north. Up here we're used to doing the legwork and getting little in return.
Sounds like a political gripe, but its true. The attitude seeps intk almost every aspect of life. We seem to get on with shit, put the hours in, and just... Live with it. Plenty other parts of the world like that too. The businessy rich hotspots would be gone in a matter of weeks if we stopped.
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Feb 26, 2026
@lproven@social.vivaldi.net @noodlemaz@mstdn.games isn't Overstreet the guy who made Torvalds absolutely fucking lose it? Or am I misremembering another incident?
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My friend needs to re-home her cat sadly, a lovely black and white kitty, she's in Newcastle (England) if anyone in the north east here is looking for a sweet little cat?
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Feb 25, 2026
@sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social I want so much to say yes to this. I doubt Mog would take to other cats though.
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dear lazyweb, has anyone made a firefox extension yet that will just take a keepass .kdb file and put passwords into form fields without pinging some asshole's server about it like no network traffic
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@khm this is a substantial attack vector. Don't let browser extensions have access to your filesystem beyond their sandbox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keepasshelper/ hooks in to ke
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nobody said anything about giving it access to my filesystem. I do not want to "hook in" to anything. I want to upload a file to the extension and have the extension read it. if ubo can do it, it can
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@khm ubo gets one-time access to a specific file. What you're describing is persistent access to not only a file, but filesystem flags to monitor change, and access to that file without immediate oversight. That's filesystem access. You could, of course, drop a file into the extension's sandbox instead - but then you either need to make the extension your primary password manager (please don't do this), or point your primary password manager at the extensions sandbox. The former becomes as vulnerable as any other browser extension, the latter is the same but is also annoying and technically breaks sandboxing. And do you really want to trust a browser that is moving to vibe coding?
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dear lazyweb, has anyone made a firefox extension yet that will just take a keepass .kdb file and put passwords into form fields without pinging some asshole's server about it like no network traffic
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Feb 24, 2026
@khm this is a substantial attack vector. Don't let browser extensions have access to your filesystem beyond their sandbox.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keepasshelper/ hooks in to keepass/keepassxc. The former will require keepasshttp installed as well.
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Feb 24, 2026
@fluffgar@mastodon.scot Clerotri is a bit more reliable, but still something of a wip
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Feb 24, 2026
@davidgerard@circumstances.run man bcachefs actually had promise before covid. I'm so disappointed.
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Feb 23, 2026
starting to think violent insurrection against machine learning is the only possible approach to getting rid. People I'd normally expect to oppose it are crowing about it. Power to the people ig.
No, I'm not actually suggesting violence. I mean, I'm kinda supporting it, but I'm not suggesting it.
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Feb 21, 2026
@yngmar@social.tchncs.de range rovers have been shit since the 00's. They became a status symbol instead of an actual utility vehicle.
Safari-spec lwb series 3 or nothing.
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I have a python script running as a system service. When it crashes, as it sometimes does, it does not seem to restart. I have Restart=always and RestartSec=10 in the unit file. What else should I be
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Feb 21, 2026
Whats interesting is that systemctl status only ever shows the first exception in the sequence, so for all intents and purposes it *looks* like execution has stopped.
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Feb 21, 2026
@justine @RootMoose@mstdn.ca 64gb!?!?!? 1gb is plenty! In fact, I'm pretty sure I have that for 64gb ram.
X is a bit of a bear whrn it comes to sleep and newer notebooks. Sleep states radically changed and tpm started getting involved somewhere. I would check /etc/sysctl.conf if thats a thing on BSD, against /etc/examples/sysctl.conf.
I'd also check that nothing is blocking interrupts, or adding extra interrupts. I've seen noteboooks that do three interrupts rather than one on opening the lid, although I haven't a clue why.
Chances are, though, that it's just an x11 thing. Maybe someone hasn't quite written a driver correctly.
Oh, and whilst you're at it, run a memtest. Prolly not that, but fucky memory can waver if power delivery is gooby. Used to be a bother on an old Toshiba of mine, sleep would irrevocably fuck something. Usually dwm, back in my winders days.
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Feb 20, 2026
@tortuguita@sfba.social Of the script, or the unit file?
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I have a python script running as a system service. When it crashes, as it sometimes does, it does not seem to restart. I have Restart=always and RestartSec=10 in the unit file. What else should I be doing?
#python #systemd #linux
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Feb 19, 2026
@justine are you still running wayland? I had this bother with wayland on a couple different distros, and yet others were fine. I think it was the display session crashing, never really found out. I did get into another tty though and restarting everything graphical including DE worked
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Feb 18, 2026
Imagine what an absurd improvement it would make to society if we got rid of youtube monetisation
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@Troggie@beige.party It was a general estimate, so 850w might do the trick. The idea is that you ideally want plenty of headroom - not only do you not want to be running a psu at full tilt for any length of time, you also need to account for both the sudden draw on boot, and the difference between rails. That 700w figure might, for example, only apply to the 12v rail. That's why its a general rule of thumb to add 30 or 40% to your total PEAK wattage, and use rhat figure as your psu spec
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Feb 16, 2026
@Troggie@beige.party 750w is a bit low. I'd consider 900w at least. I'd also consider a cpu with more cores if possible, but stick with AMD.
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Feb 03, 2026
Noticed me sense of smell is kinda back. Aye thats grand, but it's fkin 4am. D'ya think I could sleep, brain? Please?
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Feb 01, 2026
@NearerAndFarther@techhub.social honestly I just use an older version of nova. I don't do anything important on my phone (and neither should you!), so I'm really not that fucked
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 31, 2026
@phoenix_r_d@mastodon.social @airmessenger@mastodon.social "post quantum secure" is a logical fallacy. Just state what cryptography standard you build against and be done with it, you don't need buzzword bullshit.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 30, 2026
Is there a decent foss linux based speech to text project anywhere? I've had a deeks on and off for the past few months and everything I find is all online service based. I'd rather self host it tbh
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 30, 2026
@gunchleoc@mastodon.scot That looks decent, I'll give it a read. Ta!
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 30, 2026
It bothers me that this labour has demonstrated authoritarianism in spades, and now Starmer is cosying up to Xi Pooh. Shouldn't we be focusing on restoring our domestic manufacturing sector and taxing the shit out of imports that compete with domestic production? Getting even closer economically with China is massively detrimental to security, to economic stability, to our climate and pollution goals, etc. Starmer needs a good fucking slap.
#ukpol
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 29, 2026
I feel like I'm missing loads from that list. Although a substabtial proportion would be Pournelle and Niven, whoI'm convknced never stopped writing except to eat
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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@dandrumheller@mstdn.social @daniel_bohrer@chaos.social @darkling@mstdn.social @yngmar@social.tchncs.de @narthur@hachyderm.io @evert@indieweb.social @pseudonym@mastodon.online
Saturn's Legacy - Joshua James
Starfire series - Weber, White, Meier, Gannon et al
Blacksword Regiment - J L Doty
The Last Hunter - J N Chaney
The Pike Chronicles - G P Hudson
Vatta's War/Vatta's Peace series - Elizabeth Moon
Ark Royal series - Christopher Nuttall
Serrano Legacy - Elizabeth Moon
Out of the Dark - Weber
Ascent to Empire - Weber/Fox
Empire of Bones series -Terry Mixon
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Northern Scrub
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Northern Scrub
@northernscrub@m.dollha.us
Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 29, 2026
@dandrumheller@mstdn.social @daniel_bohrer@chaos.social @darkling@mstdn.social @yngmar@social.tchncs.de @dandrumheller@mstdn.social @narthur@hachyderm.io @evert@indieweb.social @pseudonym@mastodon.online Big series dump incoming:
Alexis Carew series - J A Sutherland
Alex Benedict series - Jack McDevitt
Blood kn the Stars series - Jay Allan
Spjnward Fringe/Chaos Core series - Randolph Lalonde
Dread Empire's Fall series - Walter Jon Williams
Frontlines series - Marko Kloos
House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds
Omega Force/ Terran Scout Fleet series- Joshua Dalzelle
Planetsider series - G J Ogden
P2 below
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Northern Scrub
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Northern Scrub
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 29, 2026
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party WHY'D YOU LEAVE THE KEYS UPON THE TABLE? ✨ At Holiday Inn, rest assured knowing our ✨24/7✨ concierge service can always let you in✨
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Northern Scrub
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 29, 2026
Insurance in this country is a fucking joke. I need a cheap shitbox cause taxis are getting expensive and buses are not a good idea when double the journey length means I might just shit my pants. Got offered a passable i20 for £450. Great! Except insurance is fucking three times the cost of the car. Guess I'll just never get better then and spend the rest of my life in pain. Aight cushty.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Northern Scrub
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 28, 2026
@pseudonym@mastodon.online @evert@indieweb.social
Huh, Hodder. Ok, probably worth a look into, thanks!
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Northern Scrub
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 28, 2026
@darkling@mstdn.social @yngmar@social.tchncs.de
Honestly, I kinda enjoyed Night's Dawn. Not a load of realism there, and not an *easy* read, but iunno. Kinda liked it.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 28, 2026
@yngmar@social.tchncs.de @darkling@mstdn.social
FFS I need to up my char limit.
I kinda like the idea of Foundation, tbh. I might read that soon.
But years? You underestimate me! I've just read the entirety of Dalzelle's Black Fleet saga in... something like five days.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 28, 2026
@yngmar@social.tchncs.de @darkling@mstdn.social
I've read the Commonwealth books - Enzyme Bonded Concrete, anyone? They were great, actually. And the other series, the one with the giant seed colonies. Is that Night's Dawn?
I enjoyed Bobiverse, although I started watching the TV adaptation of Murderbot and... no. Just no. I might come back and read the book at some point but I have no appetite for at at the moment.
I'm planning on reading Foundation, but only once the series is done - the deviations will frustrate me.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Northern Scrub
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 28, 2026
@evert@indieweb.social Bit far fetched for my tastes, I think. The idea of some mythical creature granting wishes feels more fantasy than sf, and that's not my cuppa.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Northern Scrub
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 28, 2026
So here's something interesting: Apparently, if your instance kinda knows about another instance, but doesn't know about all of its members, you can import a following list containing those members and ghost follow them.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Northern Scrub
@northernscrub@m.dollha.us
Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 28, 2026
Apparently I tried to import a following list before my instance knew of enough other instances to make that shit work. Now I have to go through every single one and cancel all the pending requests.
If you see multiple requests from me, that's probably why.
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Northern Scrub
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Geordie programmer. Aspiring world dominator. Internet spaceship pilot. Always Northumbrian. Never British.
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Jan 28, 2026
hurray, rando 500gb drive works! Now my instance won't collapse after like, seven days
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