I don't think I ever did a proper #introductions. I'm a 34yo British bloke, married to a wonderful woman and we have a 14 day old baby boy, a 9yo pupper and a 5yo cat. I'm a Network engineer scratching my way further into network security. I've been been on the Fediverse since identi.ca ran on Laconica (a long time ago). I'm a licenced #hamradio op and I dabble in hobby electronics and photography. I am also slowly learning German and getting into gardening to keep these bones moving.
If you use Gmail, know that "human third parties" are reading your email https://boingboing.net/2018/07/03/if-you-use-gmail-know-that.html #termsofservice #Post
#lazyweb #selfhosted I need an app I can privately share URLs and comment on the each URL target, I need it to show a link preview too. Like a micro-sized private sub-reddit I guess
Apparently #Facebook freezes people's accounts for posting unseemly content to completely closed groups.
Two different women I know personally had this happen to them recently, for posting content nobody in the groups would have had any problems with.
This isn't a surprise to us geeks, but it really makes it obvious to the normies that their private groups aren't private after all. 🤔
The speed of the blocks and the false positives described imply morality robocops 🤖 are at work.
To add insult to injury, I received a fair few well meaning "enjoy your holiday"'s from various airport staff. Twist the knife why don't you!
Got given a USB stick from the vendor running this #infosec conference. I'm sure there's really important stuff on there but I'm equally sure it might be a trap.
Got to admit, using mobile data in Europe without paying a fortune for it is pretty damn sweet. Shame we'll likely lose this EU benefit soon but at least I got to try it out first :-(
Sat in the airport going away on business, surrounded by hoards of people going off on their jollies. Reminds me I need a break soon
This Moto X's non-replacable battery has been a bit broken since a minute after it went out of warranty. That was two years ago but I've seen nothing compelling enough to upgrade it since. All I want is stock #android, a replaceable battery and a headphone socket but clearly I'm the only one. I feel the dream is getting further away as time goes on.
is it just me or did #GDPR make cookie notices even more obnoxious? It's hard to tell because I've trained myself not to see them but that are starting to creep back into view when they take up half the bloody screen!
New shed arrives today! This is far more exciting than it should be.
I find every time I set up a Raspberry Pi, I get a bit over excited and start piling stuff onto it until it pops
Pretty impressed how easy Zerotier make setting up VPN. Unusually I started reading the manual, not because I needed to, but because I wanted to know what was going on.
Hello #amateurradio community! We are an amateur radio club from Germany. Our clubstation is DK0YA. Toots will be mostly in German.
Please boost, so that we can connect to other amateurs!
Narrowly dodged giving M$ money when attemping to by a #xbox gift card for my brother abroad.
Turns out you have to buy the card in the redeemer's local currency, weird but OK. Oh but you can only buy a card in the currency of your own payment card!
Steam OTOH, you buy wallet funds in your own currency and when it is redeemed the currency is automatically converted using the exchange rate of the day.
If anyone with half a brain would design the process like that.
It took far too long to work out what #allaboard meant #eurovision
🇬🇧 I'm still searching for radio amateurs on mastodon, by the way.
🇩🇪 Ich suche übrigens noch nach Funkamateuren auf mastodon.
🇸🇪 Jag letar fortfarande efter radio amatörer på mastodon, för övrigt.
🇱🇺 Ik zoek overigens nog naar zendamateurs op mastodon.
Please retoot!
After trying to explain the benefits of SDN and the scaling problems of IPSec to my non-techie brother, I realise I probably know a lot more about this kind of thing and everything else it touches than the average person. Most of the time I just kind of assume everyone knows what I know. This is probably holding me back.
