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  coupla months ago my mowing bloke's hideous gmail business account stopped receiving any emails from my disroot addy, after being fine for very many years initially i assumed it was my disroot account at fault, not least but not only coz of their current ongoing server disaster https://state.disroot.org/status/disroot-state ... even though his gmail account stopped receiving my emails some time before disroot fell over however extensive testing i did failed to find any problem, as i can co...

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  hi @dansup@mastodon.social hope you're doing fine i might have found a minor bug relating to #markdown formatting for headings font, when created in the composer with the # insert text here for H1 heading method that should have produced enlarged H1 font in the post, & when viewed in Masto, Phanpy, Statuzer, it is. however in #Columnly itself, though the post-preview seems ok [albeit still a bit small], once actually posted Columnly ignores that formatting altogether afaict. to see w...

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  stuff it gonna drink coffee all day had me two realies, so the rest will be falsies

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  a watched washing-machine never boils 🫩 well thank bloody goodness for that! 😱

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  i have not yet read any "popular" tech journo mention any actual or potential root security vulnerability associated with networking [or anything else], like i've read in fedi, wrt #GhostBSD . i've also not read, other than fedi, that 👻 is vibe-coded [which if true would certainly kill it for me]. https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/11/03/ghostbsd-262-takes-the-fright-out-of-freebsd-with-a-friendlier-installer/5307228 for a complete numpty like me, it's just...

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  still contemplating changing my email vendor one candidate... What is two factor authentication? When logging in with two factor authentication enabled, one must provide not only the username and password, but also a one-time password (because it changes automatically over time). Think about online banking systems. This constantly changing password is generated by an app that you install on your smartphone or tablet. The technical term is Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP). Activation Th...

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  @dansup@mastodon.social omz you are kidding me -- you CAN do it, & you HAVE done it 😲 this is spectacularly wonderful 🤩 i am so glad i discovered your project 🎉 🥳 👯‍♀️ thank you so much! #columnly

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  hi @dansup@mastodon.social if you look at the pic below, taken as i was drafting a reply to an unrelated post, we can see that although #columnly tells me to whom i'm replying, it does not show me their actual post. masto, phanpy, statuzer otoh do show it, which is most helpful if i need to be reminded of various parts of it for composing my reply. would it be possible pls to also provide such feature in Columnly? 🤷‍♀️

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  Hi @dansup@mastodon.social in my last post earlier today i said i hoped not to need to bother you again for a while, but alas another thing has come up. in Masto, Phanpy, & Statuzer, it is easy to add a new Follow to a list, from a menu option when looking at their profile. yesterday i Followed you, & today remembered i wanted to add you into my Tech list... but i can't see any way to do it in #Columnly. Pls can you tell me how to do it? This time anyway, i'll just briefly launc...

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  @dansup@mastodon.social hello again, sorry to bug you once more. another two issues i have found, fyi: at least some, maybe many, posts with embedded web links, do not fetch the preview thumbnail like does happen in Masto, Phanpy, & Statuzer. is that your design intention, or is it otherwise possible to have posts auto-fetch the previews pls? in Masto & Statuzer, as well as inserting emojis via the formal emoji-picker tool, it is easy to begin typing the beginning of a known emoji &...

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  hello @dansup@mastodon.social thank you for your #Columnly project; i only chanced upon it today but already think it is simply fantastic! 🥳. could you pls help me understand a few things with it? i read in https://columnly.social/ that one option is "Live, without the jumps; New posts stream in and wait behind a "Show new posts" bar until you want them, so what you're reading never moves" but so far i can't seem to make it work that way. regardless of me enabli...

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  yeah too right, innit! i mean, only one-legged gay left-handed trans tree-huggers care about wuss crap like climate n environment anyway, Shirley! https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/nsw-government-backflips-on-brand-new-coffee-cup-law-20261028-p6191r.html?ref=rss #nswpol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #ClimateCrisis #biodiversitycrisis

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  two interesting geeky things https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them https://royfish.dev/fingerprints-are-the-new-cookies #OnlineSecurity #OnlinePrivacy #passwords #TOTP #2FA #passkeys #fingerprinting

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  a shock! 😲 🤯 https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/11/antarctic-penguins-emit-up-to-7-million-tonnes-of-methane-a-year-study-finds am now wondering if it'd help if they changed to BSD... 💜🐧 🙄🤦‍♀️

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  luckily, i'd not packed away da uggies n trackydaks someone should blow up weather!

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  https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/29/cartoons-cathy-wilcox-fiona-katauskas-ann-telnaes-kevin-kal-kallaugher-jason-chatfield/ " I was recently thumbing through the latest edition of Inkspot, the club magazine of the Australian Cartoonists’ Association, when I felt a low hum of anxiety. This is the oldest cartooning organisation in the world. I edited Inkspot myself in the early 2000s, back when the scariest thing in its pages was the treasurer’s report. By the back cover, I was needing a m...

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  Former ABC presenter Margaret Throsby injured after being hit by e-bike https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-29/margaret-throsby-injured-hit-by-e-bike/107204210

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  https://cleantechnica.com/2026/09/28/the-human-cost-of-data-center-pollution/ Fuck Generative AI, coz: largest theft of private IP in human historymassive water + energy demands as climate crisis intensifies authoritative bullshit generation via unsolvable hallucinationswhole-internet continuous DDoS attacks by web-scraping AI-feeding bots #AI #LLMs #FuckGenerativeAI #FuckTechBros #CredulousFools #IPTheft #AntiAI #NoAI #Hallucinations #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #SocialDestruction #FuckC...

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  early this morn, 0300 - 0315, i did my bit https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/28/thrilled-huge-swarms-of-bogong-moths-surprise-nsw-residents-and-may-point-to-species-recovery https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/after-a-catastrophic-decline-bogong-moths-are-back-and-naturalists-are-celebrating-20260928-p610z7.html?ref=rss https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/bogong-moth-migration-australia-2026/p6jdonqa6 woke at three for a wee, when in the ensuite i was startled by a whirr...

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  i always find this topic interesting to read about, but it strongly pulls me in opposite directions when we have liebs, labs, nuts, phonkers, all being dreadful & doing the wrong things, the dream of d/d seems enticing as a correctiveotoh, when i see a disturbing rise in strayans openly wanting to blow everything up & reward The Worst Creatures, who would do terrible things to minorities & Gaia, the nightmare of d/d seems utter anathema https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/...

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  omz omz omz https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/70-up i assumed i'd need to "go" to pommyland, ahem, for this, but sbs will have it here in a fortnight! #70up #SBSOnDemand

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  https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/28/andy-burnham-anthony-albanese-zohran-mamdani-uk-politics/ " Anthony Albanese and Andy Burnham met in person for the first time last week, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. The key topic of discussion, according to the Australian media? Rugby league. Burnham, who happens to be the former president of the league’s UK governing body, was apparently recruited to support the PM’s Rabbitohs. It was the second time th...

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  Hot on the heels of the recent 100% failures to install #Haiku in either QEMU VM or lappy SSD [https://infosec.space/@MsDropbear42/117335082820301999, https://infosec.space/@MsDropbear42/117333664504154227], today i am simply "delighted" to report a new round of 100% failures... this time with #GhostBSD. After hours of research last night, including watching a few extremely positive videos of the installation & desktop usage UX, i enthusiastically looked forward keenly to trying...

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  @sisterratched@social.vivaldi.net no wukkas... but just terrible, innit! wotta bastard.

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  https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/foreign-relations/2026/09/26/tuvalu-criticises-its-good-neighbour " With just days to go before the climate talks that Australia is co-hosting with Pacific Island nations, only a handful of leaders from outside the region have committed to attend. They are mostly from other small islands highly vulnerable to rising sea levels. Tuvalu’s climate and environment minister, Dr Maina Talia, doesn’t mince words in describing his disappointment. “It’s immo...

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  https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2026/09/26/inside-albaneses-factional-dominance-theyve-all-been-executed-except-one " When Anthony Albanese lost his first run for the Labor leadership in 2013, he blamed nine defectors from his own Left faction who had voted for the Right’s candidate, Bill Shorten. “They’ve all been executed, except one,” a Labor source close to Albanese tells The Saturday Paper, referring to Lisa Chesters, who holds the regional Victorian seat of Bendigo...

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  it disturbs me that peeps talk about their pastimes, but rarely mention their futuretimes what are they hiding? 🤨

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  not a d0g peep, not a kat peep, but awareness of a certain pets trope might have just revolutionised my remaining mornings since, basically, forever, i've been a gold medallist at crapness in pills-swallowing really really hopeless embarrassingly bad yesterday, in a flash of 💡️i thought of the alleged d0g-worming trope of hiding their pill/s in their tucker-bowl so i tried it yesterday morn & it worked tried again this morning & it also worked dare i hope i've finally solve...

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/news-a3lhl24rz/-/a-esp4GcrQQ0-2xv3VPaRKMw%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0 ...the third one burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp...

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  https://aeon.co/videos/before-the-hindenburg-there-was-r101-britains-ill-fated-airship