Notices by Fitheach (fitheach@mstdn.io), page 21

@tsturm
"Red sky at night,
shepherds delight.

Red sky in the morning,
shepherds warning."

@tho
Heavens! Have I given away a secret? 😉

Ach, Mastodon has abbreviated the URL in the youtube-dl command, but I'm sure you get the idea. 😃

If you don't want to listen via the Soundcloud website, youtube-dl is your friend.

To download an MP3 for your device:

youtube-dl -f http_mp3_128_url https://soundcloud.com/craig-murray/murder-in-samarkand

Radio play:
Murder in Samarkand

Starring David Tennant.

Play by David Hare, from the book by Craig Murray (former British ambassador to Uzbekistan).

Tells Murray's real life tale of the Karimov administration's suppression of human rights and British double-standards over torture in Iraq.

Superb, about 60 minutes listening.

https://soundcloud.com/craig-murray/murder-in-samarkand

#Uzbekistan #Iraq #HumanRights #torture

@gemlog
This was a new server, which was being hammered by bots trying random names with the mailserver. I am trying fail2ban again. However, the bots were getting past my old fail2ban configs. I was watching the log in real-time while roasting this week's coffee.

@gemlog
Really?
Surely not named after Churchill's Black & Tans.

@zladuric
Loch of the Lowes is really nice. Only about 25km from Blairgowrie.

https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/reserve/loch-of-the-lowes/

@wim_v12e

@gemlog
I was describing what does happen, as opposed to what the ideal would be. The highest requirement would be for structural use. As the first report states most sitka spruce in the UK meets C16 strength. For this purpose growing for longer would be better, as the second report concludes. However, money talks.

@wim_v12e

@zladuric
Just coincidence. I was searching for "black and tans" and the puppies were described as "black and tan puppies".

I often find my Internet searches going wrong 😃

https://fitheach.co.uk/life/an-innocent-abroad/

@gemlog
Well, it might be different depending on the objective. As this paper makes clear typical rotation lengths in the UK is 40-50 years (sorry PDF, see section 2.2.3):
https://www.napier.ac.uk/~/media/worktribe/output-229781/paper089pdf.pdf
Recent market prices have pushed the rotation length closer to 40

However, this paper recommends longer periods for considerations other than just RoI (another PDF):
https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/documents/813/FCRP028.pdf

@wim_v12e

@alysonsee
Ta-da!

@gromit
I'm not a Soundcloud user. I had a scout about and I see suggestions that Soundcloud natively use Opus. Might be worth trying uploading in that format. Any other format might get transcoded, therefore losing some quality.

Earlier today I was searching for images of the "Black & Tans", a militarised addition to the police force in Ireland, during the early 1920s. They brutally suppressed the Irish population in an attempt to prevent Irish independence.

A serious subject.

However, I have to admit I burst out laughing when one of the images returned was this one of cute puppies. Well, they are black and tan. 😃

#Ireland #puppies #dogs #DogsOfTheFediverse

@Pervertor
That's my reason for watching the ouput of the mailserver log.

@Pervertor
I'd quite like to roast the bot operators as well. I'll just have to be content with blocking them.

Currently I'm

roasting coffee,

while watching the output of:

tail -f /var/log/exim4/mainlog

It really doesn't get any better than this.

#Exim #bots #coffee

@crossgolf_rebel
Yes, I agree (mostly).
Are those people stupid? In a sense, perhaps. They are almost certainly supporting something which will be detrimental to their best interests. There are very few people for whom a no-deal Brexit will be advantageous.