Well that was an easy festive family tech support ticket:

Problem: USB flash drive was not working.

Diagnosis: that's not a USB flash drive. That is the dongle for your mouse.

Solution: here's a USB flash drive.

An exciting evening ahead of us: We are performing maintenance on our #Ceph storage system and will distribute data across the machines for the first time.

We expect no or little interruption of our services, but performance might degrade while the new nodes are backfilling.

Ok taking design recs for the easiest way to open and close a Tupperware container on a timer. I have a basic set of motors and microcontrollers and can duct tape stuff to other stuff, but can't machine or 3d print anything

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i need to stop typing. i can't type anytthing with0ut fucking it all uo.

@malwarejake I think it needs more context. If it’s just generating a random string without any other info, then I don’t see the problem. Of course, if the site knows who not user is, or the user has to provide other info that could be used as a log in somewhere, that’s a different story.

Would you upload your biometric data to a central database to save border agents time during travel security checks?

The European Commission is asking for feedback on a proposal to digitalise passports - but we raise several big concerns.

edri.org/our-work/pre-travel-c

#EUTravelApp

Bonus #XrayMyAdvent item - I found the full CT scan of the Brussel sprout that someone asked about.

It dehydrated a bit in the scanner, causing some movement artefacts, so it's not the sharpest reconstruction.

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