fraggLe!

I play #videogames and sometimes leave the house.

For work, I do security things for a WordPress host, which means I'm always busy.

Talk to me about #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #arcade games, and recreational #sysadmin.

Location: Jardwadjali Country
Web: https://www.fwaggle.org

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2026-07-24 22:42:49 UTC

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What are you running? I think I've asked this before and the spare I have is equally unmodern.

2026-07-24 02:38:56 UTC

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I fucken hate sovcits both for making me want to barrack for the cops (gross) *and* for making it seem unreasonable when a person stopped by the cops asserts rights that they actually do have.
But also how many of them have fucked people up by asserting we have rights that we don't (particularly in Aus), which leads to folks getting themselves in trouble needlessly.

2026-07-14 00:57:57 UTC

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Fuck that

2026-07-10 22:11:03 UTC

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I heard Cicso hates Australia because our ethernet cables are twisted the other direction.

2026-07-07 21:46:13 UTC

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Also the assumption that (in ~2011 no less) your attacker is automated and not some dickhead with too much time on their hands who will see `supars33kritpassw0rd-forum.com` and wonder if `supars33kritpassw0rd-facebook.com` doesn't also work.

2026-07-07 21:26:23 UTC

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I once saw someone unironically boast about how their password for every site was a single "strong" password with the name of the site concatenated to the end of it, which meant that if the site was ever hacked their password would only be stolen for that one site, but they only had to remember one password for everything.
It will surprise exactly no one that this was pretty early on in the cryptocurrency days.

2026-06-29 22:52:31 UTC

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I have a distant relative who tried this - not for sovcit reasons, mind you. No, he lost his license and narrowly avoided jail time for hooning and naturally thought "fuck it I'll just drive a ride-on to work" followed shortly thereafter by "actually a motor scooter for old folks should be the go" which was very quickly coupled with "wonder if I can hot it up to get there faster".
Of course at least in the state of Victoria, the answer to all three is "no, take the fucking bus".

2026-06-18 02:35:08 UTC

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At the risk of joining what I imagine will be a chorus of the same answer, I'm pretty sure that's going to be battery damage. I don't have enough expertise to say what steps will be required to get it working, it looks pretty extensive?

2026-05-28 23:05:27 UTC

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KDE with powerdevil or whatever has a "battery charge limit" but when I tried it on my Asus thingo it didn't seem to work, which is very Linux of it :D
(I jest, interestingly enough I have a shiny new TB5 dock for work that won't drive a second monitor on my M4 Pro work Mac but *will* drive it happily on said Asus with Linux)

2026-05-28 22:59:07 UTC

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Modern Macs are actually pretty great at this, they figure out you never unplug the machine long enough to drain it and they stop keeping the battery at 100%. It's pretty neat really.

2026-05-15 04:12:15 UTC

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IDK I think it's safe to assume if a working public exploit exists in 11 hours then the bad folks probably had it by then too.
And if this wasn't dropped in your face like a pile of seagull shit on our windscreen would it have gotten the same attention? Or would it be just silently left on the main branch until $OSVENDOR decides to backport it to all the LTS versions? 🤔

2026-05-15 03:20:25 UTC

@npub1s6e…n008 happy friday everyone
https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/ssh-keysign-pwn

2026-05-13 00:38:54 UTC

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Mostly? I've had a couple things that didn't boot with it properly, but it mostly works as advertised.
IIRC some of it is not adequately open-source (UEFI blobs or something) and the dudes get really weird about it when it's brought up, but yeah it seems to mostly do the job.

2026-05-13 00:31:24 UTC

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That faint tune of "flight of the valkyries" you can hear is all the Ventoy fanboys launching as this post propagates.

2026-02-03 20:30:43 UTC

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We use Terraform a little bit at work, and for reasons that I can't explain in 500 characters we ended up reimplementing a lot of Terraform's base logic in our own project and... yeah... it seems completely sensible to just be like "no, fuck this".
My issues aren't so much with Terraform/Tofu itself, but that several of the most popular provider packages are just lousy with "WTF" moments.

2026-01-23 21:31:27 UTC

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This. I have never seen anyone using an LLM where the output and experience wasn't on the order of "this could have been a junior or an intern, and your objections and critique of their code could have been improving the next generation".
Instead you're arguing with a slop machine and tuning out the bugs which are easy to catch.

2026-01-18 19:37:30 UTC

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No, it's a bit of an embellishment, it's about as blockchain as git (that is to say kinda sorta, if you squint hard, there's cryptography and merkle trees involved).

2026-01-18 02:09:39 UTC

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I'm no expert on atproto, but I think like most other silly parts of it, the answer boils down to: due to when in computing history the protocol was designed, at every available opportunity a block chain was needlessly crammed in.

2025-12-13 20:38:19 UTC

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I just woke up but have you tested this? The pubkey for the host key will be in PEM format, not the `<type> <fingerprint>` format won't it? Does SSH accept that for an authorized keys file? (neat if so)
I think also that it will fall apart if the selected config file has a match block in it, as it'll only match whatever the match block is and not "any user" as advertised, but I don't think that can be helped.

2025-11-10 01:04:48 UTC

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Orientation of the regulators got checked I assume? :blobcatheart:

2025-07-30 00:49:29 UTC

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I was a bit of a pyro when I was a kid (largely unsupervised farm kid in a time when we'd just incinerate our garbage) so I feel like this is aimed very specifically at my demographic :ohno:

2025-07-18 01:50:29 UTC

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I still have my MSP430 evaluation kit thingo. A friend bought it for me, and I started building a trigger board for my paintball gun.
Every so often I try to think of there's anything useful to do with it, and come up with nothing

2025-07-14 02:33:57 UTC

Today's wildlife spot: what looks like a pair of Tawny Frogmouth chilling in a tree at the dog park.
#birds
https://moodoo.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/849/229/361/446/393/original/d72a96ee8c4d65a9.jpg

2025-07-04 22:06:59 UTC

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I'm not marginalized in any way that really matters, and it'd even help *me*. I'm forever self-censoring - I'll type out a reply, then think "ahh, this conversation doesn't really need my input" and delete it.
There's really two features that should be part of fedi (think you've asked for both before?): ability to limit replies (signal when a post is not starting a public conversation), and ability to disown replies as canonical.
Let others say what they want instead of trying to guess!

2025-06-10 02:40:35 UTC

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It's probably too late now, and I really hope I don't nerdsnipe you with this as you absolutely don't deserve it... but it strikes me that if the slot and everything were on the left side and ports on the right it would be closer to an ATX form factor for casing options? :blobcatfingerguns:

2025-06-04 23:38:03 UTC

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I was in a similar boat: 2x CD recorder that coastered a blank if the screen saver went off.
But for the PSX modchip stuff, by the time I realized it was a thing, I just happened to be friends with (via IRC) someone who got the .bin for one of the modchips, and had a whole tape of PICs he'd burned it to.
I think he charged me $10 for the modchip, he installed it, and even gave me the CD-R of "Sled Storm" (fuck yeah, Rob Zombie) he'd used to test it.

2025-04-09 03:21:25 UTC

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Tuya stuff in Australia means you're now dependent on AWS Europe, FYI. I guess the APAC zones were too steep?
Anyway if you install local-tuya or tuya-local (not a shitpost, there really are two competing projects) you too can enjoy the signing a declaration, joining github, and sacrificing a goat (dropped support for chicken sacrifice in 1.1), but at least you'll drop the dependency on AWS and the internet.

2025-03-25 00:56:57 UTC

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Oh yeah seagulls fucken suck, we had a lot of them when I lived on Phillip Island as a kid.
There's a few where we live, due to proximity to the river (and their name meaning nothing to them) but they're not in big enough numbers here to do any real mischief.
We have the occasional actual Bin Chicken here too (Ibis), but again not enough numbers to be a ruckus.
A flock of Cockies or Correllas though, that's an aural assault when they pass overhead, and they're *bastards* at times.

2025-03-25 00:50:36 UTC

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Become ungovernable, feed the cockatoo (do not feed the cockatoo).
https://moodoo.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/220/317/028/504/400/original/053587f20111df82.jpg

2025-03-25 00:48:17 UTC

Neglected to post yesterday, but we all played hooky and went to the zoo nearby at Hall's Gap. As is customary, we then hit up the local ice creamery for a mid-afternoon dessert. The local wildlife are *aggressive* in their attempts to steal your dessert.
https://moodoo.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/220/296/435/494/903/original/af0c9c37c747623c.jpg

2025-03-07 00:28:54 UTC

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How many square meters is your block, if you don't mind me asking?
The reason I ask is the median Australian homeowner's land size has gone down quite a bit in the last 30 years or so, lots of places (in suburbia no less!) being built on as little as 350sqm... which I'm suspecting is probably still huge compared to much of the world, but just looking to check my assumptions.

2025-02-13 01:48:34 UTC

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Oh yeah I don't mean to kink shame 😅

2025-02-13 01:37:37 UTC

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Ugh, I did Slackware from scratch like ten years ago (and a full LFS way earlier than that) and the lack of dependency resolution made me wanna give up computers forever.

2025-02-07 20:20:31 UTC

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Nah, that logic sucks, because if you follow that logic it doesn't have a bivalve creature living in a shell either, so it's not a scallop.
But also a scallop involving potatoes already exists, so it's overloading the term, ergo cake is less-bad (there are kids of cakes that don't involve icing). If you want to argue there's a better term, the South Aussies *technically* have a more sound claim.
TL;DR: VIC might be wrong, but NSW isn't right.

2025-01-26 22:45:00 UTC

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4k or 1080p stream? I think a 1060 should be good enough to remind + stream at 1080p... at least OBS on Windows works fine AFAIK.

2025-01-26 22:42:01 UTC

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What GPU are you doing it on?

2025-01-16 02:54:19 UTC

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I just looked, this one is a bit newer - Windows Vista-era with a Core Duo CPU apparently...

2025-01-16 02:50:29 UTC

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What's the model of ThinkPad? I have one sitting here of some vintage I need to look at.

2024-12-01 20:32:14 UTC

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Yeah, I bought one of those in ~2003 and it was used then, and they still make them fairly similar now (the orange VFDs are now color and probably LED matrices).

2024-11-29 00:38:06 UTC

My brain interpreted the word "scholar" as Sean Connery saying "solar" and it's ruined my day.

2024-10-20 22:52:18 UTC

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How much is "so damn much"? Last I checked the Corsair CX m series were serviceable quality and a 450W one is like $70AUD, which is about the lowest I'd go considering it's the single most important part of your computer in terms of longevity and reliability.

2024-10-07 20:59:52 UTC

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Nah, I'll know, you'll know, that's good enough. ❤️

2024-10-07 20:34:59 UTC

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Mine's pretty banged up, but if a mobile phone photo isn't good enough I have a real camera somewhere if no one has a cleaner example?
https://moodoo.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/268/037/626/766/678/original/bf809455cfe0153d.jpg
https://moodoo.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/268/039/313/800/789/original/aefbc01bc44a182b.jpg

2024-10-02 02:16:41 UTC

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My hot take is that XML was unfairly maligned and I would take XML config files over YAML, JSON, or .ini.

2024-09-17 00:56:41 UTC

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Like, all those treatises people write on maintaining a community, abot how you're defined by the assholes you tolerate? Wikipedia is literally the textbook example.
From the editors up to the admins, it's assholes who run the show - or at least appear to, but for a new editor's experience there's functionally no difference.
Sorry for the rant. :blobcattableflip:

2024-09-17 00:54:49 UTC

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Wikipedia has always been a really valuable resource run by a group of people measured by the absolute worst of their number.
I know a non-trivial number of folks who would have been regular contributors to it, but their first edit got turned over for absolutely dogshit reasons and they never went back.
Even my history is limited to version bumps of software, as I didn't want to deal with people who think pedantry is something to aspire to.
They have the gall to ask for money too.

2024-08-30 00:35:19 UTC

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"We care about the mental well-being of the poor folks who will eventually put your password and information into a CSV file."

2024-08-29 00:49:18 UTC

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I used to feel that way, but then I figured I've only got so much energy to be angry at things, might as well spend it wisely.
My experience is probably more an indictment on Windows, but I don't think KDE makes me any more angry than it used to, and it sure as shit don't make me as angry as using Windows or even a Mac does.
I keep meaning to try getting Mate working as that's the UI I liked best but I've landed on KDE twice now. 🤷‍♀️

2024-08-29 00:43:36 UTC

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I disagree so hard, I run KDE and Wayland (and I'm not the world's biggest fan of either) and for the most part it's easy to forget I'm not running Windows a lot of the time. I would not go back to 2007 for all the marbles.
I guess it boils down to luck and how much "ordinary" stuff you're doing versus unordinary stuff.

2024-08-25 01:24:16 UTC

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Save at least one of the PATA drives for if you feel like modding an Xbox that has a dead DVD?

2024-08-09 21:10:36 UTC

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TBH, I thought that's what was going to happen. I thought the dems were too racist to get behind a black woman, and I thought there'd be vicious bickering that'd result in so much butthurt that 90% of people just stayed home on election day.
Because if there's something the Dems are good at it's snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and if there's something the "left" in the USA loves it's making perfect the enemy of good.
It's great to be wrong.

2024-08-08 00:15:34 UTC

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"Must be" is pretty load bearing here, there's no shortage of people doing their own stuff with parts bought from HammerBarn.
They're not supposed to, and I sure don't (despite having done everything up to and including the meter base and mains drop in the USA), but it definitely still happens.
What's really going to fuck with you is this includes Ethernet and POTS too!

2024-08-06 00:58:14 UTC

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I think the quality looks great, only thing I can suggest, not really knowing what I'm talking about is maybe you can add more fill lights to cut down on some of the shadows?
But even without that, I can see what's going on.

2024-08-05 00:41:55 UTC

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If you need more: I couldn't get memtest86 to boot from Ventoy either on an MSI Skylake workstation board.
Ironically booting the "I use Arch, BTW" ISO via Ventoy and then running the one they bundle, it booted fine.
Ventoy is fantastic when it works, I strongly advocated for it in the past. After seeing some of these YT comments I'll be less inclined to do so now.