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That PC whose fan dropped off the other week has been bodged into working. I used a couple of plastic strips and motherboard mounts to hold them to the board with screws in the right place for the heatsink; but I found it needed more pressure on the fan for it to make good contact with the CPU, especially at the top; so outcomes the wood. This is working reasonably well; although the wedge positioning is a bit touchy to get it right.

So apparently the Telstra outage was caused by their root NTP server going back in time 20 years, taking the rest of the network along with it. The key question is how did anyone notice the difference?
#telstra #snark

Telstra CEO ‘deeply sorry’ for outage and admits risk of time-keeping failure was known
Vicki Brady grilled at first public appearance since returning from overseas as SA police say call to triple zero failed before death

This whole thread is great, and makes me think of this “Schlock Mercenary” strip
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gyyq55ydkyp5aighjvp5vmjh/post/3mq6ppk6ro22t

Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 Ventures (Barratt Dewey/Tectonic Defense)
https://www.tectonicdefense.com/exclusive-a…

Exclusive: Arkenstone Emerges With $35M to Build Defense Tech’s Back Office
You know how we say we love the unsexy side of defense? Well, we’re back with some news from the unsexiest place we can imagine—the land of the nitty

Ok so bringing a headphone amp, all set up, when checking out new guitars is pretty genius tbh. @… https://mas.to/@baronvonj/117052433600456688

Reinhold Messner's moving message about the recent death of Nirmal Purja and ten others:
What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard.
I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away.
And yet l also know that, for some, …

Reinhold Messner on Instagram: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I also know that, for some, there is a quiet comfort in knowing they were in the place they loved most, doing what gave their life meaning. My thoughts are with all the families, friends, and everyone who loved them. Pls remember a human being is never an object. A life is measured by presence, not by tributes. #thinking #memories #"
97K likes, 854 comments - reinholdmessner_official on August 2, 2026: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I …

Citizenship shall apply automatically at birth
unless someone loud and male on any number of primetime cable news shows feels skin color makes them uncomfortable.
This is not hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy requires a fixed standard. Please keep up. We have moved beyond that.
This, too, is the genius of conservative legal reasoning:
It can stand athwart history yelling breathlessly about original meaning,
then sprint blindly toward the nearest convenient exception

The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning
“Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend ...

The Mission voted against giving the SFPD drones by 20 points.
Now SFPD is flying more drones here than any other neighborhood.
This is an occupation.
Sources: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/san-francisco-drones-22325281.php

Barrett Pall shows some problems we have with content theft and influence campaigns: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbmRIg2qknY/
Part of why non-centralized social media matter. Platforms owned by single-owners (like meta’s [facebook, instagram, threads, whatsapp, etc.], tiktok, twitter, etc.…

BARRETT PALL on Instagram: "It isn’t just #MEN that are stealing EVERYTHING from EVERYONE to sell you other peoples work, image, and reputation anymore. The goal is to get everyone doing this. We have to SLOW DOWN and rebuild our attention spans. Plz follow my 3 click rule. #women #womenempowerment #feminism #feminist"
112K likes, 1,976 comments - barrettpall on August 3, 2026: "It isn’t just #MEN that are stealing EVERYTHING from EVERYONE to sell you other peoples work, image, and reputation anymore. The goal is to get everyone doing this. We have to SLOW DOWN and rebuild our attention spans. Plz follow my 3 click rule. #women #womenempowerment #feminism #feminist".

AeS has better policy positions, HS has a solid legislative record. They BOTH have style issues. This is why I was for McMorrow (good policy & legislative chops) but that was not to be.
The fact that there’s such a breadth of Fash trying to stop AeS is telling. They don’t want him compared to Mike Rogers, the most boring establishment candidate alive.
HS’s style — careful, wooden, scripted, centrist — makes her a shit opponent for Rogers. @…

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
It is incredibly annoying to see so much obvious organized *international* tooting/skeeting in the Michigan Democratic Party primary for the US Senate. Especially since most of it seems to be aimed at making them both look bad. Like a German I saw on the Fediverse concern-trolling polls…