tenebrisnox

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If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 points 12 hours ago

I did make the jump... into unemployment. But still much happier. I love teaching and would join an authentic, child-centred school at the drop of a hat - but not willing to be complicit in the toxic horror show that's current UK education.

If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Former English teacher here. My self-hosting origin is that I had 20 years or so of teaching materials I'd collected in OneNote over that time and simply wanted to have offline copies so that I could feel that if ever something went wrong with Microsoft like getting permanently locked out of my account, then I had a means of restoring everything. Microsoft makes it practically impossible to export to a working backup.

After spending a LONG time trying everything to get back ownership of my materials, I understood the need to move my digital stuff away from big tech. I bought a Synology NAS, learned how to use Docker and then took more steps. About the same time I started using Fediverse apps and learned a great deal from the discussions and links there. My greatest "learn" has been keeping notes in plaintext files (and not getting seduced by nice shiny new apps that are actually horrors that want lure you into a future subscription).

Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 points 22 hours ago

Thank you. That was actually weirdly interesting in terms of the specificity (while also being quite broad). I can't imagine how many hours and meetings and people were involved in that.

Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 0 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Have the courts come to an actual definition of what (animal) milk actually is? Last I read, neither EU or UK could define it. Milk's content differs so much from brand to brand and there's no set standard. Presumably other than it comes from an animal of some kind.

The US is now funding the far-right in the UK in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Has no one noticed how many Americans have always worked around Westminster in the think-tanks, in the lobby groups and even in the civil service. Did anyone actually think that the UK government was actually running things?

Zai Bennett on the future of Doctor Who in c/doctorwho@lemmy.world
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Supposedly each episode of Disney's Doctor Who cost about £10 million!

The Green Party Is Great, But It’s Not Enough in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

We're a couple of years out but the Labour left, Your Party and the Greens need to establish some sort of electoral alliance to stand against what is an increasingly dangerous Right. Who am I kidding? Most of these parties exist to split the vote and let the Right maintain their rightful hegemony.

Steve Bannon tells his paedophile billionaire friend Epstein that he intends to install Boris next as British prime minister (2018) in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This sort of stuff - which indicates organised international political operations by the far-right - will get drowned out by the rabble-rousing "pedo" noise.

‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10 in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Benzion Freshwater.

Surely that's a made-up name? Do you have to have a name like that to be a billionaire?

Britain's Ministry of Defence agrees deal with Palantir in c/uk_politics@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago

Palantir is literally the Eye of Sauron watching. These ghouls aren't hiding what they're doing.

Starmer says he won't 'choose between' the US or China in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't blame him. Choice of one stable and expanding authoritarian regime and one unstable and expanding authoritarian regime. Do the Chinese police hold nurses down in the street and shoot them?

Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why aren't the vans parked in commercial car parks or premises? And why do their owners insist on parking them wherever they like (but not their own drives!) without any thought for pedestrians? At the same time, after about 7pm it becomes almost impossible to find a parking space largely because of the sheer number of vans. I'm not talking about the little white vans but the big ones. Commercial vans and pickups have no place being parked in residential streets. Or, charge them higher rates of parking permit fees for commercial vehicles. No one is driving a big van as their family vehicle - unless they're Steptoe & Son or Trotters Trading.

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Xiami Bootloader (feddit.uk)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by tenebrisnox@feddit.uk to c/android@lemmy.world
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I've spent a long time looking for info about trying to circumvent Xiaomi's locked bootloader on a Redmi tablet.

My son forgot his code and Family Link prevents the tablet from allowing the usual data wipe factory reset. I've tried to get support from Xiaomi but all they provide is generic unhelpful guides.

Has anyone found a tool that can override the locked bootloader just to factory wipe it? While it's not an expensive tablet (£90) it's fairly new so very annoying from a parent's point of view.

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Tasks and Calendar and CalDAV... why not? (feddit.uk)
 

Does anyone know why there's no desire to see a working standard (protocol) for calendar/tasks?

It's clear that CalDAV doesn't function consistently across devices (and does seem to be dying as a standard). If you work across different devices/OS it's virtually impossible to get things set up seamlessly. Companies and developers of task apps seem happy to create silos and not look at interoperability.

If you want to self-host, it's too hard to do this and you really are limited to a tiny number of options.

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Pinry - HELP! (feddit.uk)
 

Can anyone help me with Pinry?

I've run Pinry in a Docker container on a Synology NAS for a couple of years and it's always worked great with no problem... up until I upgrades DSM to 7.2.

Pinry still works fine if I upload saved images. If I try to use the Firefox extension or paste in the url it does nothing. It must be a permissions issue that changed when I upgraded the DSM. I've tinkered with all sorts of setting to no avail and the logs say nothing. I've done the obvious searches online to see if I can find a solution.

Does anyone who hosts Pinry know what the problem is? (It's bound to be REALLY obvious). Thanks in advance.

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Pinry - help! (feddit.uk)
 

Can anyone help me with Pinry?

I've run Pinry in a Docker container on a Synology NAS for a couple of years and it's always worked great with no problem... up until I upgrades DSM to 7.2.

Pinry still works fine if I upload saved images. If I try to use the Firefox extension or paste in the url it does nothing. It must be a permissions issue that changed when I upgraded the DSM. I've tinkered with all sorts of setting to no avail and the logs say nothing. I've done the obvious searches online to see if I can find a solution.

Does anyone who hosts Pinry know what the problem is? (It's bound to be REALLY obvious). Thanks in advance.

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SATs OFQUAL asks if marks are accurate (www.tes.com)
 

Doubt being thrown at the accuracy of the KS2 tests. Again. Bearing in mind that these tests cost somewhere in the region of £45-50 million a year to administer (plus the time, staffing and resources primary schools put in) surely there are better, cheaper ways of monitoring pupil progress? Secondary schools frequently ignore data coming from primary and SATs results only seem to have a use in the equally questionable activity of predicting GCSE outcomes.

As a parent of a Year 6 child, I’ve been horrified at the pressure put on children and then - once the SATs were over - hardly any teaching going on (my son barely had a maths lesson after the tests and his time at school filled with “fun” activities like watching movies). I’d prefer my son’s education to be focused on his learning, not some high-stakes test. And I’d like it to carry on to the point he left school.

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State of Big Finish (feddit.uk)
 

What is the state of current Big Finish Doctor Who?

I used to keep up with - and enjoy - the monthly ranges until they turned into the boxed sets which I was less engaged by. I recently tried Stranded and didn't like it at all.

I get the impression that BF is producing far too much material which isn't a good as it used to be. Is this the case?

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