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ROTFLMAO 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗠𝗣 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/porn-mp-neil-parish-may-have-been-looking-for-a-claas-dominator-tractor-allies-suggest-1605703

Just like I was looking for crossheads when I typed in "Easy Screw" in Google search.🤣
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ghostdancer
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Maybe He was looking for a pro tractor.
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FediTips
FediTips • mastodon (AP)
Hey Mastodon server administrators!

A lot of new users are wanting to use the "what's happening" feature to see what kind of public posts are made on your server. You might want to switch it on?

You can switch it on by going to Preferences > Administration > Site Settings, and tick the box marked "Allow unauthenticated access to public timeline", then click "Save changes".

Also, I would strongly advise you to NOT tick the box marked "Include federated content on unauthenticated public timeline page". All this second box does is fill your "what's happening" page with posts from other people's servers, and it doesn't really help people know what your server is like.

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Reuben Thomas
Reuben Thomas • mastodon (AP)
Thanks again! I'm sorry, I think I replied hastily to a message which you then updated with a fuller explanation.
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FediTips
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No worries, hope I helped!
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Sredni Vashtar
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Kin El! My Brave Browser has diarrhoea this morning, it's spewing out ads left, right and centre.
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Apparently, we are sending 8000 troops on a friendship and security mission to Europe? That's a lot of friendship.
https://inews.co.uk/news/britain-send-troops-eastern-europe-russian-aggression-1602127
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𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
Just because it's Friday doesn't mean you should ease off. Use today to lay the groundwork for next week's successes.
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#fediverse #tzag #beexcellenttoeachother #GoodMorning #Hive
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𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗼𝗱𝘀!
The guy upstairs is almost continually coughing his guts out and the guy in the workshop is coughing his guts out! Are these swine trying to make us ill?

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Thomas
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Freeeeeeedom
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Sredni Vashtar
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I see lots of new users asking about or for features on, for example, Mastodon. I would like to see the Bio when I hover over community profiles in # #. At the moment, all that displays is the username which isn't much use if I don't know the person.
#friendica #developers
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𝗔𝗺 𝗜 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲?
There are people on Twitter bitching about Elon Musk buying the platform and then sending him tweets basically baiting him. Is that so they can come to the Fediverse and cry "See He banned me!"? I don't get it? Poke a dog with a stick and it'll bite you. 🤦‍♂️
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ghostdancer
ghostdancer • mastodon (AP)
Also some(most) people don't know how the internet works , its magic. I've seen it with my bosses, telling them something could and was going to happen, them ' no it can't' and then happening. Obviously they were right and something strange happened , twice , thrice and then we changed as I said and stopped happening. Internet like god works in mysterious ways.
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You know, I literally kinda said that a couple of hours ago. I gave someone a URL to copy-n-paste and send to someone else, and they responded with, "I dunno how to do that?" I was like, "So you're on the web every day posting pictures and crap, and yet you don't know how to copy and paste a URL? Are you winding me up?"
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𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
If someone says: "Pull your socks up." you can guarantee there's always one that pops up and says: "I don't wear socks." be that 'one' be your own person.
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How we doing today? Is it nice and sunny over there? Cold here. :-(
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ghostdancer
ghostdancer • mastodon (AP)
Gray and rainy , not cold though.
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𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
Instead of worrying about things that don't directly affect you, focus on things that benefit you and your loved ones. There's plenty out there willing to gripe on your behalf.
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Sredni Vashtar
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How are we doing? Left Twitter yet? 🤦‍♂️
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ghostdancer
ghostdancer • mastodon (AP)
I still have my account, just login once or twice a day as always to read what I want.
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Sredni Vashtar
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@Ryan Ridenour Gotcha!
@Ryan Ridenour
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Sredni Vashtar
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I do have another account @dick_turpin. I'm a bit tamer on Mastodon. This account spews out to Twitter and allows me to be a bit more, umm? Naughty? I own this instance, so the only one that can shut me up is me on here. :-D
@dick_turpin
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Nice! I'll follow the other one too.
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Sredni Vashtar
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Good idea. You might also want to follow @Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN) poke him with a stick although he will try to beg you for content for HPR Hacker Public Radio. Ken's a great guy, I've met him a fair few times.
@Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN)
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Loving all the people doing introduction posts on Mastodon (Fediverse) reminds me of the intro posts on #
https://ecency.com/signup?referral=dickturpin
#Hive
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Sredni Vashtar
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I don't think I'll make any more purchases via Klarna sick to death of the emails and text messages warning me that ÂŁ15.00 is coming out of my account.
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Sredni Vashtar
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So while I agree it's good to see all these Twitter users coming over to Mastodon and the Fediverse, I am slightly saddened that they are doing it because they feel they have no choice rather than making a conscious decision to embrace freedom. Still "Every cloud...." and all that. #

#hugs
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Waiting to see how long it takes for mastodon.social to fall over with all this sudden influx. If only Ex-Twitter folk knew how Federation worked? If you're in the UK join mastodon.org.uk you can still Federate to .social users and it would ease their load.
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I'm not bothered coz I have my own # instance. If you're leaving Twitter follow me on my increasingly default account of: https://castlecannon.house/profile/srednivashtar or https://mastodon.org.uk/@dick_turpin
#friendica
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𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝗱

This morning while walking Charlie, a small van pulled onto the entrance and sat there on the other side of the busy Ind Est road that we needed to cross; "You watch, the minute we start crossing Charlie that arsehole is going to reverse." three feet from the rear of his vehicle, on came the reversing lights.

Further down the road is a unit with a large car park round the back with a large empty area in front of the building but hey, where did twat # want to drive his car? Yep. Right where Charlie and I were!
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𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝗯𝘂𝘆𝘀 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 - 𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗞! 𝗥𝗨𝗡 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬!
Seeing LOTS of people reactivate their Fediverse (Mastodon, Frendica, PLeroma) accounts last night and this morning, maybe even one or two will migrate to #? Not sure why everyone is jumping ship. TBH, Twitter already has your personal profile and preferences, and so what if he invites Trump et al. back? There are already more dangerous freaks on Twitter anyway!
https://ecency.com/signup?referral=dickturpin

#Hive
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𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
Sometimes, other people's idea of completion or arrival times are not in sync with your own. Never compromise on one of your key assets. Punctuality!
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𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁: "There are some right smells going on in this office today."

𝘘𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨.

𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁: "Food smells! There are some lovely food smells."

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#DodgeTheBullet
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Ha!

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Great! I place my order with @argon_forty for their EON NAS Drive enclosure and then two days later PiHut lists it. # #
Still, I think there's only a three or four quid difference.
https://thepihut.com/products/argon-eon-nas-enclosure-for-raspberry-pi-4

#LeSigh
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𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
Letting go of the past is often hard for some people. Many will say, "It's what you make of the future that counts." I say it's what you make of today that's important.
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Thomas
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I say both, as today you pave the way for tomorrow. 😃 Hello my friend!
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Sredni Vashtar
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Tomorrow is not gauranteed.
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It's so difficult to make positive posts when I'm surrounded by people who by their behaviour and attitude just make me want to scream out with negative responses. :devillish
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Sredni Vashtar
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You are one of the select few who is "A nice guy." don't let others infect you with their arrogance and ignorance.
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Thomas
Thomas • mastodon (AP)
Thank you! Your opinion means a lot to me. And of course you mean a lot to me.
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Sredni Vashtar
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Things I hate. Number 3768841
"I need this urgently!"
Four hours later, I'm still waiting for a response.
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If anyone with a spare few quid out there wants to buy me this?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1904705391/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
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I dreamt last night that I was living in Berlin, but it was a mishmash of modern-day and 1920s Berlin? That's not the weird part. I was speaking fluent French, and so were all the Berliners. O_o
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𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
Keep it fresh but more importantly, keep it real.
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𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
Age is just a number; it's how we behave and interact with each other that's important.
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Yep. It's incredible the rubbish the different midwives have told her. They came to our house Sunday, and I put Ethan almost at the top of the Moses basket. Monique went mad. "Don't do that! He has to go at the bottom, or there's a risk of cot death!" WTF? What a load of old rubbish, I said. Is he at risk if he lies in the middle too? Jeeze, they tell new mums some twaddle.
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ghostdancer
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🤣 🤣 🤣
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Oh, God. Boris needs my help again!

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That moment a CC: email drops in your inbox part of which says "Peter Cannon will quote you the two laser cutting machine PC's...;" literally just as you hit Send with the quote. 🏁 🏆
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If only I had a podcast?
This is an interesting story https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/20/valuelicensing_microsoft_court/
I'm sure something is missing from this report though? While ValueLicensing is missing out on potentially buying old licences to resell, I would have thought it was more beneficial for customers to surrender those licenses in return for a discount on M365? Indeed, eventually, ValueLicensing will run out of licenses to sell anyway? Maybe that's why they're suing?

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If only Mandrake Linux could be resurrected. Personally, I think they lost their way when it morphed into Mandriva.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandriva_Linux

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𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
Make the most of today; tomorrow, it could be raining.
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madcap
madcap • mastodon (AP)
Just found out that it's really easy to send text messages to a pager using a simple #. It works and it's really easy.

Software used: https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx

Tutorial: https://debugger.medium.com/howto-using-a-pager-in-the-21st-century-6a57454ecde8

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You Can Still Use a Pager in 2022 - Debugger

Pagers were popular many years ago, and some people may still have one at home. Is it possible to test the pager now? Absolutely, and I will show you how to do it.
Dmitrii Eliuseev (Debugger)
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Tayo 🇺🇦
Tayo 🇺🇦 • mastodon (AP)
Are they using 2way pagers or still running old POCSAG?
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK • mastodon (AP)
LFB are still using Motorola FLEX for callout but Airwave (an encrypted TETRA scheme) for messaging back to Brigade control. Some other Brigades use POCSAG, but they generally now all now use Airwave for anything transmitted back from appliances.

There is less need for secrecy for the Fire Brigade as isn't exactly a secret when something is clearly on fire..

A wider problem for blue light services here being that the Airwave infrastructure is nearing EOL..

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Tayo 🇺🇦
Tayo 🇺🇦 • mastodon (AP)
I worked at the bat wings when FLEX was developed. It allows for 2way with reFLEX but can be used as broadcast only. I was never a fan of FLEX but reFLEX caused the cellular providers to see that there was money to be made selling data instead of just voice minutes. It was good for that reason.
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK • mastodon (AP)
in UK Motorola Solutions run Airwave *and* are the only main provider for the planned LTE-based Emergency Services Network (no other tech company in the entire country really wanted the business, nor has the expertise to deploy such a system, other then British Telecom who are providing the LTE infrastructure via EE (it is shared with the civilian network but with higher priority)

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madcap
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well, security isn't only about privacy or secrecy. The fact that you can easily spoof messages is a big problem in many scenarios.
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK • mastodon (AP)
the UK services only give away "one piece of the jigsaw" on their remaining pager messages so it would be very difficult to create false calls that way as there are other authentication methods - its far easier for malicious folk to just make a hoax 999 call (or even just start a real fire)
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I have eaten four, yes 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥 Eccles cakes! That should translate into three stone by tomorrow. :-O

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I started watching: Anatomy of a Scandal on Netflix. The moment I saw the cliche scene of The Libertines, I let out a sigh. "I just know how this is going to end."

https://youtu.be/M1UGGZnHyf8
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So my QNAP TS-251B is fixed. Not quite sure how tbh. I read a write-up that walked you through a reset but advised that it would wipe the drives. Luckily, I could still access the NAS from the cloud so downloaded all the important stuff. anyway, I bit the bullet and pressed reset and the voice said "Advanced Reset started" after a reboot, the NAS was back and so was my content \o/
Had to re-implement my personal configuration such as fixed IP etc but well chuffed it didn't wipe the drives.

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Thomas
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Good news! That's a great example why I have at least 2 backups.
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Sredni Vashtar
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Yeah, I'm thinking of getting another NAS to backup the TS-251B. I'd like the TS-364, but that's a bit overkill for home usage.
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𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
Don't make essential calls on mobile devices. 2022, you can still hear people saying: "You're breaking up; I can't hear you."
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Guess whose grandson has come to visit #

#castlecannon
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Thomas
Thomas • mastodon (AP)
Those were the times, when it smelled like milk. Good old days
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Sredni Vashtar
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Yeah, didn't bother me.
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