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Andy Alderwick

alderwick@merveilles.town

<p>One of the Merveilles mods since August 12026 :flan_hurrah:</p>

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    A lot of #git commands are annoying on #OpenBSD because their output always fills the screen: e.g. “git branch” shows main my-other-branch ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ [and so on, filling the screen] To fix, run git config --global core.pager &#39;less -c&#39; but beware! Using this setting on Linux *causes* the same problem we saw on OpenBSD, since less interprets the “-c” flag the opposite way.

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    #SysadminLife meets #UnfortunateDvorakLayoutTypos ddrescue --farce

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    Got to love a good #Banksy https://www.celebitchy.com/975152/banksy_confirms_london_statue_of_a_man_being_blinded_by_a_flag_is_his_work/

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    Hey! It&amp;#39;s 30° outside. Some of you might think that is hot. Others may say that it&amp;#39;s cold. It&amp;#39;s neither, of course. It&amp;#39;s an angle. :judging:

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    TIL that in the UK you can order #oestrogen gel online, without needing a doctor&amp;#39;s note or anything like that, to help someone going through the menopause allieviate some of their symptoms. Like, you could order it on behalf of a menopausal person, and without invasive checks you can have oestrogen gel go to the people that really need it. Seems like a really handy thing for folk to know! :flan_thumbs:

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    Crims steal $35,000 by manipulating weather data on two separate occasions this month :flan_facepalm: “In both cases, it sounds like someone infiltrated the part of Paris’ Charles de Gaulle International Airport that housed the weather station of Météo France and then exposed the instrument collecting that data to a heat source, causing short term temperature spikes of [4–5℃]. These spikes lasted only a few minutes, but were enough to pay off longshot wagers made by two Polymarket users on the...

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    I learnt how to do raymarching to give a virtual heart to my wife for our anniversary :flan_heart: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/NcjSRw

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    @eli_oat&amp;#39;s kiki has been featured on Hackaday! https://hackaday.com/2026/04/11/kiki-is-the-unknown-array-language/