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The true 'there I fixed it' part was having to sharpie back the stripes on one of the gears driving the take-up spools after drowning them in isopropyl alcohol to get the sludgy remnants of the belt that drove the tape counter.

This was used by an optical reader to drive the auto-stop.

https://i.imgur.com/8tN98mZ.jpg

Thanks! I'll look into ksm.

ZFS won't be an issue, as I have the host/guests on an SSD and a single 8tb store for the nfs, I opted for ext4 with luks, I've passed the 8tb drive through to the nfs mainly to make it the custodian of it (and the keyfiles to unlock it).

The tenement I moved into had a busted lift for about 2 years and when they finally fixed it the display seemed to read an extra floor compared to the numbering of the buttons after basement/ground, I'm on the top floor so the first time I rode it I thought it was about to try and send me out the roof.

What you're looking for is an "internet-connected pir sensor".

These things do exist (and are also pretty common for hobbyists to build with arduino/esp8266 computing boards) although they're often sold as part of larger home-automation integrations e.g. nest/phillips hue, where they can be used for security but also for triggering various conditions in the home (e.g. turning on lights, heating etc).

This looks like a standalone smart-home sensor that can do exactly what you want:
https://www.heyimhome.co.uk/motion-sensor-support

(I haven't investigated if they're good from a security aspect etc)

DIY Example:

https://www.hackster.io/najad/iot-motion-sensor-esp-01-pir-26a1fb

It's good but it can't hold a candle to the hovercraft in Rumble in the Bronx.

In the UK it's another name for snakebite (half cider half lager) and blackcurrant.

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Ahh the days of waking up after a night in the student union to find red blobs all over my trainers.

It's been offshoring it for years. Look at how often they use parts of the UK (especially Scottish areas with lots of tenement housing) to location-double parts of the US.

The sad part about the uk ones at least, is that while the buildings might be depressing, there's now relics from the original plan... 'scheme pubs' and shops etc, where city corporations stopped and asked themselves "what do our residents need?"... it's a shame that civil mindset as gone as leaving things up to market forces hasn't really panned out.

I think we are past the worst now, because plans/regulation were enforced, but in middle-class commuter estates it wasn't unusual for there to not even be a basic corner shop within 10-15 minutes walking distance, which is mad when you consider inner-city areas with older tenements where you can't throw a rock without hitting one.

Same on standard Opera... I have two machines with it installed running Debian, they both pulled new versions of Opera in and now neither Bitwarden or uBlock show up in the sidebar.

Disabling and re-enabling the extensions gets them to appear momentarily.

A ratchet strap could be used to lower it fully then you could pump it to raise the window/adjust.

I never noticed how much the boy looks like Bart.

Out of curiosity, is it possible to expose the nginx reverse proxy via a 2nd network interface on a macvlan network so it's accessible via the lan rather than through the host machine the containers live on?

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I've tried googling for this but have had limited luck, I'm probably not including the correct keywords.

Whilst I kind-of knew the US didn't provide free eye-care what really surprised me was that that it's not even provided to school kids by the sounds of it. And there are stories of teachers buying kids glasses or even schemes for people to donate old (ugh) glasses so poor kids can use them.

It's so obvious how being too poor to see the board or books at school age can pretty much irreparably set back someone's development. It kind of pokes a hole in any illusions about things being a meritocracy.

> Its defunding has been planned ever since they decided to bring BBC3 back.

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It only survived being axed due to a backlash. Although I'm surprised they haven't changed their mind since Sky Arts has done really well since going free-to-air, especially with lockdown.

Interesting, cheers for the reply.

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I've just spotted this, favicons could be used as yet another means to track people and there's no real consent mechanism.

https://twitter.com/lukOlejnik/status/1349727517771403264

I always wonder if, if you're using adblockers and things like privacybadger that reject the cookies anyway, if there's any functional difference between accepting and rejecting.

Hi guys, hot enough for ya?

In the UK they come under firearm legislation; a guy I knew got a 2 year suspended sentence when the police found one in his car during a routine search. His brother was stationed in Germany and had bought it back as a gift.

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That was just a pronged stun-gun rather than one that fires hooks like the police use.

Yeah - the first reset hung and I pulled the power, it booted up but must've left it in a half-wiped state as it remembered my wifi and stuff but asked me to re-pair with my Amazon account. I factory reset again and it went through some extra steps like optimising storage, updates etc, then it made me do a more involved sign-up and wifi setup etc.

Bit the bullet and it booted up fresh. Must've just failed to restart itself. Cheers!

Edit: ran the reset again after logging back in and it restarted automatically and is now "optimising storage and applications" which it didn't do last time.

There was a good counter to it on Novara last night as well. He pointed out that after World War 2 our debt was incredibly high, but we didn't prioritise reducing the deficit, we accepted it would be something we'd take time paying off gradually rather than making things immediately worse, in fact we borrowed more to rebuild the country, give people homes and set up the NHS, because taking time to pay off debt doesn't matter all that much.

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Of course I suppose having a lot of people who'd done well enough in combat to survive it and probably riddled with anger and PTSD made that decision for the powers that be a little easier.