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Hello and welcome to episode 265 of Late Night

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Linux, recorded on the 10th of January 2024. I'm

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Joe and with me are Fainan. Howdy. Graham.

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Good evening. And Will. Hello.

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Let's get straight on with our discoveries then. Will, update your pie

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hole lists. Yeah, so over

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the Christmas holidays, I was doing

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a bit of admin and I

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noticed that one of my pie

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hole ad block lists, specifically OISD,

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wasn't updating and it hadn't

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updated for a little while, a few days maybe.

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So I went digging into why

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and the reason is that OISD

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have changed the format of their

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block list to try and

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improve it and make it more generalizable.

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The good news is it's fully supported

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by pie hole and ad guard and

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ad block plus and you block origin

0:59

and next DNS and others. So

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it's an important fix that if you are

1:04

using this one and it is one of

1:06

the very significant, very major block lists, you

1:08

do need to take some action. So

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if you are sitting there with pie hole

1:13

running and not paying much attention to it,

1:16

then I think it's worth going and having a look.

1:18

I feel seen. In

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order to get the upgrades to work,

1:23

you probably have to upgrade pie hole

1:25

to the latest version if you haven't

1:27

upgraded for a few months and

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then it's a very straightforward change

1:31

to the URL of the OISD

1:34

list ad block list

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and you're ready to go. So yeah, go and

1:39

have a look if you haven't done recently. How

1:42

many lists you use on your pile? Oh,

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hold on. By the way, if I drop out,

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it's because of updating pile. I

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have got seven block lists. Oh,

1:53

fucking hell. Right. Okay.

1:56

Of those three are custom ones for me.

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One is a YouTube. blocker. One is a

2:01

Fortnite blocker and one is a TikTok blocker.

2:04

No fun to be had in that household.

2:06

It's my passive aggressive parenting. No, you can't

2:08

have a YouTube today. The rest of them

2:12

are the significant ones. So

2:15

yeah, check them out. There is also

2:17

one called the Fire TV

2:19

Adblock list, which could be interesting to

2:21

people in the next couple of weeks,

2:23

especially those who've got prime

2:26

video. Oh, go on.

2:28

I don't know if it'll work. I

2:30

don't know if it'll work, but it's

2:32

on firestick-loader on GitHub. Interesting. Maybe

2:34

you should put a link to that in the show notes so I

2:36

can post it forever on. Well, we should keep

2:38

it secret. Yeah. Keep it secret. Keep it safe. Yeah.

2:40

I'll just bleep it out when he said the URL.

2:44

Make sure people listen. They can get the

2:46

URL if they listen. All right. Yeah, good

2:48

thinking. If you take every third character from

2:50

every fifth word. Do

2:53

you do the Fortnite blocking and TikTok and

2:55

everything on a timer then? Yes

2:57

and no. The main

2:59

switch is in Node-RED, which I can

3:01

then expose into Alexa, and so I

3:03

can command it to switch on and

3:05

off. That was working flawlessly for a

3:07

couple of years, but then the kids

3:09

rumbled me, and so I had

3:12

to get rid of it. At the

3:14

moment, it's just a plain switch in

3:16

Pyehole, enabling and

3:18

disabling a block list, and I

3:21

will probably expose the switch into

3:23

Home Assistant and put it on a dashboard somewhere. You

3:25

need to make it into a hardware

3:27

button that you can just stamp your

3:29

fist on on the desk. Embargo on!

3:31

I do the same thing in Home

3:33

Assistant and disable all of my kids'

3:35

devices as well on the network. Oh

3:37

my God. You're both monsters. It's

3:40

great. I mean, they've got accounts on Home Assistant, so they

3:42

can do things like turn their lights on,

3:44

turn their A-datas on if it's the right time. Oh no,

3:46

I wouldn't have that though. Well,

3:49

there's a limit to the temperature. Excellent. Okay,

3:51

that's fine. Failing

3:54

pioneer is this old 80s

3:56

stereo equipment. It is

3:58

not. It is essentially... Actually, Elise,

4:01

Frontier Elise, to make

4:03

it more accurate and

4:06

very cool, can't fly the

4:08

ship to save my fucking life because it

4:10

uses proper mechanics in

4:12

orbit. So, I mean,

4:15

great game, looks cool, I've flown about the

4:17

place but I generally take off heading the

4:19

direction and then I'm forever in that direction

4:21

until I crash into the sun or something

4:24

in 15 years time and my orbit

4:26

increases. Well, the Thargoids get you. Well,

4:28

yeah, it's an amazing piece of software

4:31

and it looks great. It's

4:33

the Elite that you saw from the box

4:35

picture, essentially. But it's cool. Yeah,

4:37

big album source projects, love it. Just

4:39

can't play it. How does this

4:41

relate to the Frontier development's

4:44

version then? I

4:47

have that, I've played it once, it was too

4:49

complicated, I gave up. Is this a

4:51

bit more straightforward? Is this a bit more like the

4:53

classic gameplay? No. It's exactly like

4:55

Frontier. It's the gameplay that you just

4:57

went, yeah, no, I can't play this.

5:01

It's like, I want my 8-bit computer to boot

5:03

again so I can play the real one. Yeah,

5:06

no, I don't know. It's

5:08

bizarre how they change the mechanics

5:10

like that. I don't know what they thought would

5:13

be sort of enjoyable about

5:15

trying to figure out gravity and flying in

5:17

orbits and stuff but, you know, you just

5:19

want to go and shoot and trade but

5:22

not in this one. Go to this one, get

5:25

some slaves. You

5:27

know, it's been 40 years since Elite was released.

5:30

No, it hasn't. That's a lie. At the end of 1984. You're

5:33

a giant liar, that's what you are. Liar

5:35

pants on fire. Alright,

5:38

what is picture or picture as

5:40

they say? P-I-K-C-H-R, come

5:42

on. This isn't like 2008.

5:45

I know, I'm sorry but it is

5:48

rather handy. It's a way

5:50

to generate graphics in

5:52

Markdown in a simple text block that

5:55

allows you to do nice sort of dot

5:58

notation files or whatever. was

6:00

looking for something like this for doing a

6:02

bit of network diagramming type things and it's

6:04

quite cool. And it's a very

6:06

simple, it's a single C file. If

6:08

you don't want the whole project there's a way to

6:10

actually get like the entire website. You

6:12

can even get a online sort of show

6:14

of how you can just drop the text

6:17

block in and see what it does. But

6:20

the CCO itself is just a very

6:22

quick, simple GCC command to compile it

6:24

all in one file, nice to get

6:26

easily done. And then you can

6:28

put in markdown, you can put in a

6:30

text block, you can put a graph of

6:33

nodes and stuff like that and get drawn

6:35

out. Flow charts is what I would call

6:37

that. Yeah, flow charts, a video,

6:39

something like that. Yeah, exactly.

6:42

I like this. This could be quite handy.

6:45

I doubt that it's possible to get

6:47

it enabled in GitHub though, is it?

6:49

And sadly, that's where I do the

6:51

most of my markdown, markdowning.

6:53

That is a good question. But I mean,

6:55

you could do the rendering yourself potentially, because

6:58

it is just markdown. So it's just

7:00

a text block. So you

7:02

can put it in there, maybe it wouldn't have the

7:04

actual rendering itself then, but then you can do it

7:06

afterwards. And it exports. Oh, I

7:08

was going to say it exports it as

7:10

a PNG or something does it. And then

7:13

I was able to select the text from

7:15

the picture. And now my mind is blown.

7:17

Yeah. And you can actually do SVG stuff

7:20

as well through. And yeah, it is

7:22

pretty cool. And they've got some nice

7:24

examples, stuff like they actually physically draw

7:26

like a cathode ray

7:28

tube. And I was thinking, is that

7:30

an object? Is it called cathode ray

7:32

tube? No, they actually physically drew it.

7:34

So yeah, I think a

7:37

lot of this might be copy and paste

7:39

for other people's examples of people who can

7:41

do geometry and stuff. But yeah, still quite

7:43

cool, I think. Wow, quick through to the

7:45

example. Some of them are really quite good

7:47

looking. Yeah, they really are. And it's all

7:50

text, as you say, just copy and paste

7:52

it. And you can put it into your own.

7:54

And that spider one is just... Oh,

7:57

Yeah, whatever. Fucking nuts. How

8:01

to do that? It's over in

8:03

know that may lines of code.

8:06

It's equally too many taxi read

8:08

but also not and of but

8:10

it's makes sense. it's witchcraft as

8:12

why his logo is what it

8:15

is ssssss are no business. For.

8:17

Some of them look like stuff I'm in

8:19

textbooks. just another day or really good. Summary

8:22

is nice of it's that beautiful thing of

8:24

his impact them of with the text as

8:26

a blocker. Tax authorities like that. Gray.

8:29

Me boys as a cheap

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chinese travel rotor says the

8:33

reason why I'm i'm hopefully

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back by now is the

8:37

airplane to hasn't flown out

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ssssss through certain Dr. Seuss.

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But the I've recently of as and

8:45

since recording I'm going on on a

8:47

business trip to Canada and I've run

8:49

out for Vpn on my phone and

8:51

I'll send both tessa other devices to.

8:53

but it's it's not very good way

8:55

of doing things and so I thought

8:57

I'd buy a portable. Wife my router

8:59

to put in my hotel room and commit

9:02

that it to my home network can connect

9:04

everything up to the I saw as have

9:06

to spend a bit of money on this.

9:08

The turns out that you can get something

9:10

like this for thirty four pounds is. The

9:13

other thing is that this office I'm

9:15

standing in now and my desktop pc

9:18

is connected via power line device to

9:20

as if router and is paralyzed sister

9:22

had it's day I think it's that

9:24

does you know like the city so

9:26

low devices it doesn't with I love

9:28

the speed that's the way too slow

9:30

and so why don't is a priest

9:32

my wife I can extend at home

9:35

using this route to him. Salsas in

9:37

the performance is amazing plus I've got

9:39

open word and between my machine the

9:41

machines in this of us in the.

9:43

Rest of the network and it was his

9:45

brain to books in Switzerland is a router

9:47

and of course with it being of my

9:50

base you can install plugin see the web

9:52

you are you to a Vpn you can

9:54

see why God on it all of us

9:56

built in and you can you not date

9:58

I've met as well as just very impressed.

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So be it with the low levels spying

10:02

somewhere that must be running on their him

10:05

society for grad yeah you would imagine the

10:07

some said okay about it though I saw

10:09

performance is great as well as itself Amazon

10:11

then or have some Ali Express I wasn't

10:13

going to say but a so famous in

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here. Are I? do you happen

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to know if is possible to link

10:20

the wife I have one of these

10:22

to the Why five other another candidates

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for his money from it connects and

10:26

I don't see why. sigh Yes and

10:29

that's exactly what I'm doing. Okay I

10:31

also it can be a Wife I

10:33

hotspot. They can be an extension of

10:35

the Weiss I network and it can

10:37

also just connect to the Why Fi

10:40

and then bridge that to the is

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what to eat in airports in a

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one port I asked us people storage.

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As well as you wanted you know

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of Ios be power. Ah,

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Yes, be sepa. That is the

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a list for overview which projects users

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and shamed is what they should be.

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I mean those better ways to do

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this as an even state themselves know

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run into it sucks summer Whatever. Make

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sure you have the right scripts signed

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by the people actually wrote up as

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are not just blindly. Put the

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into boss so. If you

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All and everything make sure. yeah but I

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think people should make your scripts that does

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the and then do that than most of

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your install. Fucking. Projects.sights and

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than how people download at Roma.

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Rather than just blindly sourcing

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a web page. I. Get

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that but is also really convenient.

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Says see how me we should

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just emailed he should are various random

13:21

scripts that we have found on the

13:24

web. Yeah you're right the still up

13:26

via download random executable on don't

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Get Me Sir Liam on as

13:30

Windows machine. Testing. So fail

13:32

and I'm like oh dear God was

13:35

he downloads was from where students was

13:37

like oh Jesus Christ is. A

13:40

Toshiba house at my mom up with

13:42

as a boon to laptop and now

13:44

have to their downloads and it was

13:46

old enough. What's this particular size of

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clever game as. A

14:03

week later I was still out on

14:05

that first as threats. Will.

14:11

Just sickle. Editing this well,

14:13

kind of over Christmas you may

14:15

have seen the i Broke My

14:18

Christmas lights and then I ordered

14:20

some more from Ali Express them.

14:22

while I was there I found

14:24

this really cool thirty two by

14:26

thirty two pixels display for lights

14:28

sixteen or seventeen? Quit. It's a

14:31

bluetooth low energy device. It's got

14:33

whatever is why was that? It

14:35

is on say two pixels last

14:37

Rgb pixels and it comes with

14:39

a lap and it lets you

14:41

control various affects. You can draw on

14:43

the screen from within the app and you can

14:45

upload gifts to it. Especially animated gifts

14:48

and it will play the animated gif

14:50

on this thirty two by says Two

14:52

Pixels device which is about i don't

14:55

I sustained twenty centimeters square. it's a

14:57

nice not device is rarely tapes and

14:59

is is quite a nice little fun

15:02

toy for for somebody to play with.

15:04

So I went looking for some gifts

15:06

on the internet and I found a

15:09

whole bunch of like pixel art style

15:11

gifts by needed to resign similar to

15:13

be thirty two by Thirty Two Pixels

15:16

and doing that in. Game old right?

15:18

A postscript to do it was proving

15:20

to be a bit too much effort

15:22

so I went looking for a toll.

15:24

The I could run on a directory

15:26

of Guess files which would allow me

15:29

to re size them to the specific

15:31

size I wanted and would not require

15:33

me to sit there and dry this

15:35

thing I could talk about script it.

15:37

on also it had to be easily

15:40

install both on my been to desktop

15:42

a didn't want to don't compile anything

15:44

let us and so i came across

15:47

guess sickle which is exactly what i

15:49

wanted is very simple it doesn't do

15:51

very special high quality reese skating but

15:53

it does do it in a batch

15:56

formats you can have it replace the

15:58

images that it is resign You

16:00

could feed it a directory and it will

16:02

just go through them in milliseconds Resize

16:05

them and overwrite them and they're ready to

16:07

go So yeah, if you need

16:09

to resize a whole bunch of gif files,

16:11

which I appreciate is not really a common

16:13

ask But if you do need to do

16:15

that, I would recommend gifsicle. 32 by

16:17

32 is 1024. So that is pretty low resolution Yeah,

16:22

yeah, it is low res. You have to

16:24

stand probably about half a mile away from

16:27

it to look quite right I

16:29

take it you did do Rick Astley as

16:31

one of them. I did not but now

16:33

I need to You

16:35

definitely need to giving it the

16:37

shoulders Will scraping

16:40

Gmail messages. So

16:42

yet another crazy project that I've managed

16:44

to put on myself I'm

16:46

with octopus energy and because of where I

16:48

live in the UK I

16:51

occasionally get free electricity for a couple

16:53

of hours for a given day They

16:56

call it power-ups. The idea behind it

16:58

is that there are quite a lot

17:00

of offshore wind turbines around the coast

17:02

near where I live And

17:05

if it's a particularly windy day Then

17:07

they generate a lot of electricity and if

17:10

they generate too much electricity The

17:12

grid gets all out of whack and they

17:14

want you to use more electricity And the

17:16

way that they do this is by making

17:18

it free or even by paying you to

17:21

use electricity And so

17:23

this is kind of what they call hyper

17:25

local but it covers most of the east

17:27

of England and occasionally About

17:29

six o'clock in the evening I'll get an

17:31

email and it will say tomorrow between midday

17:33

and 2 p.m Your electricity

17:35

is free and then you have to go and

17:38

click on a link which takes you to a

17:40

type form You have to say yes I

17:42

want free electricity you submit the form

17:44

and then I go off and program

17:46

my various automation systems to Go into

17:49

free electricity mode and use as much

17:51

as they can at this

17:53

particular time Now this is

17:55

proving to be quite good and you know,

17:57

I can run the dishwasher for nothing can

18:00

turn on a whole bunch of electric heaters for nothing.

18:02

And it's been great, but it's been a bit of

18:05

a bind having to click on a

18:07

link and fill out a form and then go and

18:09

program things. So what I thought I would do is

18:12

try and script this problem away. And

18:14

so this very long and rambling story

18:16

comes down to needing to programmatically

18:19

go through my Gmail messages,

18:21

find a specific subject, open

18:24

that email, get the body in plain

18:26

text, write a regular expression to search

18:28

for the strings that I'm looking for,

18:30

extract the relevant pieces that I need,

18:32

and then stick them in the JSON

18:34

file, upload it to the web. And

18:36

then I've got a JSON object, which has got

18:38

a start time and a stop time. And

18:41

I thought, this sounds doable. I wonder how

18:43

you do it. And I searched on Google, and this is

18:45

the page that I found a link

18:47

in the show notes. And it's exactly

18:49

what I needed to do. With Google

18:51

Apps Script, you can use their Gmail

18:53

API to search, as

18:56

you would in a normal Gmail window,

18:58

search for your emails, extract the body

19:00

text of that, not the HTML, just

19:02

the plain body into a string, and

19:04

then you can do whatever you want

19:06

to do with it. And it's

19:08

worked brilliantly. So this is what I've been working on

19:10

for the last few days, early days yet,

19:12

but it looks like it's going to work. And

19:14

without this webpage, it would have taken me a

19:16

long time to work out how to do it.

19:19

I think really, this is quite a useful

19:22

feature of Gmail, that the fact that

19:24

this API exists, and you can do

19:26

this quite low level, well,

19:28

I mean, it's JavaScript really, like

19:30

programming to get in there, get access to

19:32

your emails, and mess around with them in

19:34

the way that you want. It's quite a

19:36

nice feature. I don't know of any male

19:38

clients that offer similar things, but then I

19:40

haven't really looked. Is this the same language

19:43

that you used for the Telegram bot, for

19:45

the news links that we have in our

19:47

little Telegram group? Yes, exactly the same one.

19:49

And the reason that I used it then,

19:52

was because I didn't want to have

19:54

to host a script somewhere running, and

19:57

this Google Apps Script would take care

19:59

of it. like they would host it for me, I

20:01

didn't have to pay for it, and it

20:03

can output its results to a Google

20:05

Doc, which is what we use anyway.

20:08

So it's convenient and free. So what

20:10

email address do I need to pretend

20:12

I am? So I can now cost

20:15

you several kilowatts of electricity tomorrow? Well,

20:17

you can't because I'm the only one

20:19

that can run this. What

20:21

I might do is expose the results

20:23

to the internet so that if anybody

20:25

wants to download a JSON object, which

20:27

may or may not contain the start

20:30

and end times of a free electricity period,

20:32

then I'll make that available. But

20:34

yeah, you won't be able to trigger any

20:36

of my stuff. I'm not that stupid. Damn

20:38

it. Damn. I don't

20:41

know. Maybe if we spoof the emails into

20:43

you. Yes.

20:46

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20:50

know. No, it won't work. I

20:53

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22:24

I've discovered 1D Pac-Man. This seems

22:26

to be doing the rounds on various

22:28

social media and I think it even made

22:30

it to Hacking News or something or slash

22:32

start. Anyway, it's

22:34

just a one-line Pac-Man. So

22:36

you can only go left

22:39

and right. And it

22:41

is very addictive for about five minutes

22:43

and then you get bored or at least

22:45

I did. And yeah, there's really

22:47

not much to it apart from that I'm afraid.

22:50

Although this exposed an

22:52

issue because Will you tried to play this

22:54

and it didn't work very well for you

22:56

in Firefox? Yeah, well, so

22:58

I've got Firefox locked

23:01

down quite significantly on privacy settings.

23:03

And when I tried to play it, it looked,

23:05

as you said, Joe, like my graphics card was

23:07

broken. I got a load of massive

23:10

colored pixels. And no,

23:12

no, it wasn't playable. You could see that something

23:14

was moving around on the screen, but you couldn't

23:16

see what it was. And

23:18

I started digging into this and all of you guys said,

23:20

no, it's working fine. There's nothing wrong with it. And

23:23

in the end, I had to enable

23:25

the ability for that website to access

23:27

the canvas, which doesn't surprise me, given

23:29

that it's a game and then

23:31

it worked properly. So yeah, if you are

23:34

trying this and it doesn't work, then that's

23:36

probably the fix. I can't believe that

23:38

Fadim called it. Yeah,

23:40

well, I only use Firefox and I

23:43

followed his sort of

23:45

anti-East German Stasi fucking rules that

23:47

he tried out and they were

23:49

quite good, but then somewhat stuff

23:51

broke. God, it was unreal. And

23:54

for me, it was the fingerprint and stuff that

23:56

really sort of kicked it off. It's

23:58

weird what breaks like really weird. So

24:01

what when you made it so that websites

24:04

couldn't fingerprint your browser, that's what broke them?

24:06

Oh, loads of stuff. Like it was unreal.

24:08

The amount of websites had totally crapped out.

24:11

Even things where I have an account, like

24:13

say YouTube logged in, I

24:16

have dark team enabled by default because of

24:18

my account. It wouldn't let that happen because

24:20

even though I was logged in as me,

24:22

it still put the wrong theme on. It

24:24

was so weird. Let's

24:27

do some feedback then. Anup says, you recently

24:29

said you didn't know of any Android builds

24:31

for the Raspberry Pi. ConstKang is

24:33

available even for the Pi 5. There

24:36

is an Android TV build as well. Check it out.

24:39

And I did check it out as in

24:41

the website and I almost downloaded it but

24:44

it was like Android file host and

24:46

hosted on Google Drive and it just

24:48

seemed a little bit... I'm

24:51

not saying untrustworthy. I'm sure it's fine but

24:53

I'm not fucking connecting that to my network.

24:55

So I suppose I don't trust it. It's

24:57

the bottom line. Yes, same. As soon as

24:59

I went to that website, I'd noped out

25:01

of it. So I haven't given it a

25:03

test run and nor will I. Which

25:06

tells me something. I'm not

25:08

sure what but the website looked bad.

25:10

It must be bad. It's kind of

25:12

basic but it's probably trustworthy. I'm not

25:14

going to try it. Yes. Well,

25:17

Anup also says, I have a Dell 8-inch

25:19

tablet. I believe it's a 32-bit Atom

25:22

processor. I can't figure out how to

25:24

put it to use. I'd like

25:26

to use it as a dashboard monitoring

25:28

services on my network. Pi hole, print

25:30

hub as examples. What would be the

25:32

best way to do it? Any suggestions

25:34

on OS applications etc. would be appreciated.

25:37

Now, first of all, there is a

25:40

reasonable chance that it is a 64-bit

25:42

Atom processor with a 32-bit

25:44

EFI. Because I've got an

25:46

8-inch. It's a Lynx 7 or

25:49

Lynx 8, something like that. I think it's a 7-inch tablet

25:51

which is exactly that. It's only 2 gigs of RAM. And

25:54

there is a way to patch

25:56

Ubuntu and derivatives to have a

25:58

32-bit EFI. Or you can just

26:01

boot Fedora on it, no problem. So I would say

26:03

give Fedora a go on it and you might find

26:05

that it's 64-bit. But if it's

26:07

not and it is 32-bit, then

26:09

you're going to struggle, I think. You

26:11

can get Debian running on it, for example,

26:13

but applications, there's not a lot of 32-bit

26:15

applications anymore. I think the

26:18

best use for it is as a doorstop,

26:20

because despite the fact that you can run

26:22

an operating system on there, and

26:24

at a push you could get

26:26

a browser running, I doubt very much

26:29

that anything like Grafana, for example, would

26:31

run on a machine that slow. It's

26:34

just old and things aren't expecting to run

26:36

on that sort of thing. If you are

26:38

willing to put effort into writing your own

26:40

graphing libraries, or find some old ones that

26:42

would do it for you, maybe... Oh

26:45

gosh, Phalim, you'll know. What's that old...

26:49

is it R.D. client or something? That

26:51

old monitoring thing. Oh, R.D. tool. Yeah,

26:54

that... Why did you think I would

26:56

know the out-of-date, non-usable anywhere? Oh, fuck

26:58

you. That's like your hobby, man. That

27:02

would probably work on it just fine, but

27:04

I doubt anything modern that needs a

27:06

web browser would be usable. That's just

27:08

my hunch. Centos 6, maybe, Graf? But

27:12

it could, perhaps, run a web browser and

27:14

through that, I don't know,

27:16

like the Home Assistant dashboard or something,

27:18

or Pihold dashboard, don't you think? No,

27:21

I don't think it will work. I struggle to

27:23

run a very

27:26

simple Home Assistant dashboard

27:28

on an Android device, which has

27:30

got 128 meg of RAM

27:32

on a, whatever it is, a 2 gigahertz

27:35

processor, something like that. I

27:38

just don't think it will work. So,

27:40

maybe best case scenario is some

27:42

sort of server, like a Pihold

27:45

thing. Maybe. But

27:48

I think 32-bit is just obsolete

27:51

at this point, 32-bit x86 at

27:53

least. And it's sad, but

27:56

that's where we are. Yinz wrote to

27:58

us regarding Linux market share. So

28:01

Pornhub yearly data drop is on us all. Happy

28:03

New Year. And I would

28:05

suggest looking into that as well or rather than

28:07

Steam data. Steam data is corrupted

28:09

by self-reporting and by what people

28:11

use for gaming. Pornhub data on

28:14

the other hand provides exact data.

28:16

And according to that data, Linux

28:18

usage exploded with a comparative growth

28:20

of 31%

28:22

and the market share for

28:24

desktops is now 3.6%. Oh,

28:26

honestly, I didn't say exploded

28:28

like that for anyway good.

28:30

And Jens also says, I

28:32

only go to Pornhub for the

28:34

sociological day. And

28:38

I believe it was the very

28:40

first episode of the show. It

28:42

was, you're right actually. Where we

28:44

talked about this. And I think it

28:46

is a reasonable-ish way

28:48

to judge market share. I

28:51

think it's a great way to judge market share.

28:53

I think this is really like

28:55

scraping away any veneer of decency

28:58

and just getting right down to

29:00

the raw data. It's really

29:02

exciting information. I

29:08

think it's pretty good. I think it's an interesting

29:10

set of data that probably is better than Steam.

29:13

It also suggests that 27% of Linux

29:15

users have a foot fetish. Oh,

29:19

Jesus Christ. You

29:21

really went trolling the data. Jesus. This

29:23

is the stuff I'm here for. But

29:26

3.6% there standing

29:28

proud. It's better than the 1% that it

29:30

was for however many years. The

29:37

fetishism or the other Linux usage.

29:40

The Linux usage. And it's actually higher

29:43

than Chrome OS, which is 2.9%. And

29:47

even if this is a trust issue, like

29:49

Will was saying last episode, that's something

29:51

that we've got that we can capitalize

29:53

on. Sorry,

29:55

I didn't realize there was so much data

29:57

in this. It just goes on and on.

30:00

What are we doing? Power Rangers? What

30:02

the fuck? Oh, don't

30:05

pretend like you don't know. John

30:07

Wick? What? I

30:10

mean, that's pretty okay. Fair enough.

30:12

Yeah, there's a lot of data

30:14

here. The Americans browse 33% less

30:17

porn on Thanksgiving's day. Yeah,

30:21

for some reason Good Friday was the day they

30:23

picked for us to show the statistic of that

30:25

way it dropped off. Sometimes people are feeling guilty

30:27

then or something. Or maybe they're just not

30:29

working or something, not scything off. Well

30:32

either way, I think that it is

30:35

a reasonable way to judge market share

30:37

and excellent news for Linux. And

30:39

also, I've just noticed that Firefox holding

30:42

4.8% of the market. Snatching

30:47

victory from the jaws of the thief.

30:49

Oh my God, Opera has got 6.2.

30:52

How is this possible? I'd

30:54

strongly suspect it's people using a

30:57

separate browser. Oh dear God,

30:59

coronation insights? What? Ugh,

31:01

ugh, ugh, I'm just sick of my mouth.

31:05

Right, well we better get out of here then. We'll be

31:07

back next week and it'll probably be news and stuff but

31:09

we'll see. Until then, I've

31:12

been John. I've been Faelem. I've been Graham.

31:14

And I've been Will. See you later. Bye.