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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 19h

The Rheostatics have new music out, and it's weird and wonderful:

Dave Bidini @davebidini.bsky.social · 20h

Here is a link to the beautiful first single from our new album, one of the two non instrumental pieces, written by Kevin Hearn. Record comes out Nov 21st! m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ0V...

Rheostatics - The Inland Sea

YouTube video by Rheostatics

m.youtube.com

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 4d

Hey, it's me!

BSides Toronto @www.bsidesto.ca · 4d

BSides Toronto is underway! Thanks to our sponsors that make this happen: tailscale, Repacket, CREST, Rapid7, Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst and revenni

Premier sponsor tailscale kicking off the conference

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 5d

In Toronto for BSides - come visit at the Tailscale booth tomorrow!

Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 14d

`stty sane` has been helpful for when I accidentally cat a binary file and it garbled my terminal.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 14d

I'll be talking Tailscale again today. We're doing a webinar where I'll be taking technical questions on YouTube and Zoom. You can register here if you're interested in watching or participating:

tailscale.com/events-webin...

Ask The Experts: Solutions Engineer Office Hours | Tailscale

Office hours dedicated to demos of new Tailscale features and answering common technical questions.

tailscale.com

Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 14d

I think my career in tech could have been predicted by the fact that I was the guy who brought a soldering iron to the lan parties.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 16d

Yes it is!

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 19d

🌑

possum on a power line in front of the moon captioned

babe come here you're missing the possum eclipse

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Tailscale @tailscale.com · 20d

Still managing EKS access with legacy VPNs + security groups?
There’s a better way.

Join us for a live webinar to see how the Tailscale Kubernetes Operator modernizes remote access to EKS:
🔗 tailscale.com/events-webin...

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Stephen @pinenoodle.bsky.social · 23d

“Evil men are ceded importance even after they die, when it no longer matters to them, and only affects us.”
― Malka Ann Older, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (though from context I don't know whether she originated this quote or if its from someone else)

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 26d

Just leaned back in a chair as a wasp was stinging me, causing it to get stuck in my back. If I lived alone, that would have been it, just living with a permanent wasp in my back.

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 29d

You checked the news: -10 HP

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · Sep 6

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

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qntm @qntm.org · Sep 7

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file

UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · Sep 2

Notes on getting Tailscale working for Kobo Sync:

- Mount the Kobo.
- Rename .kobo/ssh-disabled to .kobo/ssh-enabled.

Still working on the next steps.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Sep 2

Building out my pi-based retro gaming laptop, I wanted a better way to turn just the display off and on.

Eventually, I would like this to get called from a GPIO, maybe a hall-effect to see if the lid is closed.

jws.sh/piscreen.html

#!

jws.sh

Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 31

Inside the case of a dead Compaq 286

Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 31

It's the screen from a first generation iPad and a raspberry pi 5 with a nvme hat, hooked up to a UPS from an alarm system for power.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 31

Waiting on a few parts before its finalized, like a keyboard cable, but my retro gaming laptop project is functional.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 29

Better add "planning coups, hoarding textfiles" to your linkedin.

Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 28

Criminally underrated band!

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 28

A suspicion: if you click the ... Menu on the router node on the machines tab in the admin console, select routing. Is the subnet checked as approved?

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 27

tailscale.com/blog/hack-we...

Satellites, Linux trays, and laundry: Hack Week 2025 at Tailscale

A look at everything built during a hacking sprint at Tailscale, including some personal projects, an experimental Linux systray, and more.

tailscale.com

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · Aug 27

We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most.

Learn more:

‘The Toxic Avenger’ Partners With Undue Medical Debt to Erase at Least $5 Million in Medical Debt

It’s the final week of marketing and promotion for The Toxic Avenger, and the teams here at Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting have decided to do something a little different. Rather than spending the re...

bloody-disgusting.com

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · Aug 27

I have run into that myself a few times.

If you use a tagged auth key to authenticate the device, we turn off key expiry by default - since we assume if you're using a tagged auth key, it's not a machine that has a human at a keyboard, and that's probably what you want.

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