Three examples of scams in Life:

- The price of Printer Ink
- 'Subscription' Software
- IDF's claims of 'just warning shots'

Toot.Wales has been upgraded to the latest version of Mastodon.

This includes adding support for changing the base Docker registry with the BASE_REGISTRY ARG

#TheMoreYouKnow

This version brings many improvements, see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4.4/ for help with new and changed features.

Full changelog here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.0

The in-progress first draft of my contribution to the Cabin in the Woods subgenre now stands at 16K words. #themoreyouknow #authorthreads

Because of my participation in #Postcrossing I learned today that the Celts were all over Europe, and not just the British Isles.

Alexandra, from Germany, sent me a postcard from a hometown museum that has Celtic relics. They were pushed westward by the Romans.

you know what’s important when you’re making microwave rice? that’s right it’s tearing an opening in the top to let the steam come out of the bag #themoreyouknow #cooking #stupidity #combobreaker #fuck

Y2K PANIC RELOADED! This 'Turn your computer off!' tee is $16—for millennials who prepped for doomsday (and lived to meme it).

Relive the chaos #Y2KBug #90sNostalgia #TechFail #TheMoreYouKnow
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The truth is that the entire internet infrastructure is held together by 15 lines of code running in a basement on an Amiga 500.

My nipples are sharp like cobra fangs. I rub rats on them to allow them to feed. #themoreyouknow #Bigfoot

Apparently saying ubiquitous encryption, cert pinning, and modern OS and apps makes MITM in random public WiFi hotspots practically impossible is controversial. #TheMoreYouKnow

https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes/114842879908830455

We could be teaching people to build threat profiles but let's keep spreading FUD and scaring everyone who barely understand computers instead, that's a great strategy.

As we in the UK face down a potential long summer of hosepipe bans and drought, if you want to do your part to help reduce energy and water usage of datacentres then - better than the Environment Agency's suggestion to delete unneeded emails (yes, really) - it's going to do *FAR* more if you turn off all the AI features in any apps, services or systems to reduce the colossal demand of all these hallucinations you're (typically inadvertently) asking for. #TheMoreYouKnow #environment

Wombats poop square poop something I learned today
#TheMoreYouKnow

Toot.Wales has been upgraded to the latest version of Mastodon.

This includes fixing the NoMethodError in edge case emoji cache handling.

#TheMoreYouKnow

Full changelog here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.9

Y2K PTSD ALERT! This ‘Turn your PC off!’ tee is $16—for millennials who prepped for an apocalypse that never came.

Panic again #Y2KBug #90sNostalgia #TechFail #TheMoreYouKnow #stickers #tshirts

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