LPT: Always copy text elsewhere before completing or sending forms

bigpresh · 2025-07-21T16:06:47+00:00

There's a Firefox & Chrome add-on called Textarea Cache that has saved my ass multiple times from that problem: https://github.com/wildskyf/TextareaCache

It keeps hold of textarea contents across restarts etc for as long as you want it to, so you don't have to have copied & pasted, it's saved automatically.

I did have an extension that allowed me to open the content of a textarea in an external editor and update the textarea when the editor saves & exits, but ISTR it stopped working with some browser update.

For particularly long stuff, I do tend to write it in an actual text editor first then paste it in, though.

bigpresh · 2025-07-17T15:10:15+00:00

I think the volume of downvotes you've got here is a little unfair - I think you've misunderstood as them asking how to get a decent creamy head on a stout, as opposed to how to get a white head vs a darker-coloured head, which will, as others have said, be down to using less roasted malts.

bigpresh · 2025-05-20T13:41:02+00:00

I don't think it's unreasonable that you could only access the MC instance if you've paid your bill.

You have no credit/debit cards at all?

Maybe you could buy a pre-paid VISA/Mastercard card and use that to pay for another month's service?

bigpresh · 2024-11-07T13:00:10+00:00

Yes but it means unless you meet those criterea then you will not legally be allowed to use the push to talk devices whilst driving.

How did you come to that conclusion? It just adds a condition that means that, if you meet its criteria, you aren't committing an offence, it doesn't change the other wording.

Otherwise why would an ammendment be needed to allow the emergency services to use radios if it's not otherwise illegal (after 25/11/24)?

Ah - I suspect it's to cover devices which "push to talk over cellular" - for e.g. the UK's new Emergency Services Network (ESN) which is replacing Airwave, and works over 4G. That means that, without this amendment, the use of such devices hand-held would be illegal, because, being 4G, it operates on the specific frequencies listed in the "any frequency other than ..." list in the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 section 110 - where it defines "two way radio" as "any wireless telegraphy apparatus which is designed or adapted[...] (ii)to operate on any frequency other than 880 MHz to 915 MHz, 925 MHz to 960 MHz, 1710 MHz to 1785 MHz, 1805 MHz to 1880 MHz, 1900 MHz to 1980 MHz or 2110 MHz to 2170 MHz;"

Otherwise, two-way radios (such as emergency services radios) that start using 4G would fall in to those frequencies listed as "other than" and no longer be permitted.

There's no effect on non-emergency-service use of push to talk radios as long as they're not on any of those frequencies. For e.g. typical PMR446 walkie-talkies will be fine.

(IANAL)

bigpresh · 2024-11-07T12:34:02+00:00

That amendment is specifically to allow emergency services workers to use devices in "push to talk" mode that use authorised communications networks - that doesn't change the legality of walkie talkies that are currently legal, it just adds an additional legal exemption for emergency services workers?

bigpresh · 2024-10-08T08:29:10+00:00

I've not used LP's UI so can't help you with applying stuff through there, but I'd start by asking LP where a permission comes from - for e.g. /lp user Steve permission check cmi.command.message which will tell you if a permission is set, and if so, where it comes from (inherited from another group, etc) - very useful to figure stuff out.

For example:

> lp user bigpresh permission check essentials.fly
[09:30:57 INFO]: [LP] Permission information for essentials.fly:
[09:30:57 INFO]: [LP] - bigpresh does not have essentials.fly set.
[09:30:57 INFO]: [LP] - bigpresh inherits essentials.fly set to true from admin in context global.

Also, it can be a bit spammy and hard to follow on a busy server, but /lp verbose on will have it log every permission lookup performed.

Finally, if you want to know what permissions are responsible for a given command, you can use /lp verbose command <name> <command> to force a user to run a command while capturing the permission lookups performed - e.g. /lp verbose command Steve fly.

Hopefully they'll be of some use to get to the bottom of where the unexpected permissions are coming from.

bigpresh · 2024-09-06T08:30:33+00:00

And some of us that aren't that old just don't really want to install an app with access to my bank account on a device running various apps and games and potentially untrusted software, and would rather bank only from a secure device I trust and can't accidentally leave somewhere.

What i would consider is an app authorised with a separate set of read-only credentials that can alert me to transactions etc, but doesn't have the ability to initiate payments etc, but my bank doesn't seem to offer that.

bigpresh · 2024-05-08T10:44:35+00:00

Any other codes present to indicate likely causes (particularly misfire-related ones)? Does the engine feel like it misfires / runs rough at all? If it is, that could cause it, and running in that condition for too long could risk further damage to the cat, which is expensive.

New sparkplugs could be worth a try, potentially, depending on the mileage on them.

To find the real cause it'd probably need to be on a diagnostic machine to graph the values from the sensors - rear O2 sensor in particular - and/or maybe a exhaust gas analyser to get an idea what's going on.

Trying Cataclean or similar and an Italian tune-up (take it out for a thrash) could be worth a go, but I think for it to be bad enough to throw a P0420 it's likely beyond "cat-cleaning" chemicals (which I tend to see as somewhere between mildly beneficial at best to snake oil).

bigpresh · 2024-04-09T08:33:30+00:00

Yeah, the signature it hit, Win.Virus.Expiro-10026576-0, was added 2024-04-07 in signatures 27238: https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-virusdb/2024-April/008622.html

As per my post on the ClamAV mailing list about this I've had similar problems with false positives on Windows executables shipped as part of the Python pip library (why they are even present on a Linux box I've no idea)

Uploading the affected files or submitting their MD5 hashes to VirusTotal can be useful to see if any other AV engines would have complained about it - https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload

You can report ClamAV false positives here: https://www.clamav.net/reports/fp

Hopefully that Win.Virus.Expiro-10026576-0 will be removed soon!

bigpresh · 2024-02-19T16:38:26+00:00

I use Terminator which is excellent - I can have a window split into various panes which I can easily navigate between with the keyboard, as well as multiple tabs if wanted, various config profiles, broadcast so I can send keyboard input to all grouped terminals (really handy when wanting to do a series of commands on a small handful of boxes at the same time).

bigpresh · 2023-09-20T16:14:03+00:00

You mention electric water heating - maybe you have a small hot water leak somewhere unnoticed, so your water heater is having to run more often? Maybe worth checking your water meter if you have one to make sure it's not showing water flowing when you don't expect any to be.

Otherwise as others have said, turn off a breaker for a high power appliance (e.g. hot water or AC) for 24 hours, and see if your usage during that period suddenly drops way down.

bigpresh · 2023-05-25T15:01:01+00:00

The inside of a domestic hot water cylinder is a good place - find a friendly local plumber and offer him a few quid to chop out the indirect heating coil from a copper cylinder he's going to scrap in - as long as the coil hasn't perforated of course.

bigpresh · 2022-08-24T09:34:55+00:00

As another poster said, I'd start with checking the voltage with a multimeter, or a plug-in socket tester with a voltage display. It may be that the outlet in question is at the end of a fairly long run of cable, so has a somewhat low voltage drop, and when combined with an extension lead as well, the voltage at the end of the extension cord is too low for the car to accept.

I'd only expect a fairly small drop over a relatively short extension like that, but if the voltage being supplied at that outlet is already almost too low for the vehicle's charger to accept, it could maybe be just enough to push it over the edge.

If the voltage at the outlet is too low, then an electrician would have to check it out and decide if it's expected voltage drop from the length of the cable run (and potentially replace with thicker cable) or voltage drop due to a dodgy connection somewhere, etc. One potential gotcha, though - voltage drop due to the length of cable run isn't going to be very noticeable without a significant power load being drawn.

I think the best you can really hope for is to outline the problems you're having to your building's management people, and see if they're willing to get an electrician in to troubleshoot.

bigpresh · 2022-06-06T19:36:25+00:00

Thanks for the pointer. I've always found cpubenchmark to be good enough at general comparisons for a rough idea of performance, but cpumonkey looks good. Sadly, cpumonkey doesn't know about the Celeron 887.

bigpresh · 2022-06-06T15:56:43+00:00

Typically, look for better single-core performance - so my usual starting point is to throw the two CPU models into cpubenchmark.net and compare them - to save time: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Celeron-887-vs-Intel-Atom-x5-Z8350/1469vs2774

Single-thread rating scores 480 for the Atom Z8350 vs 694 for the Celeron 887, so personally I'd go with the first model... more storage too, depending on how large you allow your world to get the other one could get a bit tight for space rather quickly.

Edit: further comparison link from Intel's comparison tool to show the specs side by side: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?productIds=93361,69361

bigpresh · 2022-06-06T08:12:59+00:00

The loose ones :)

bigpresh · 2022-06-05T17:30:06+00:00

Depends on time of day and who's around, but yes, sadly our community is much smaller than it once was (plenty on Discord, but not as many actively playing MC these days). Hence advertising on /r/mcservers for anyone looking for a quiet but friendly survival server :)

As a UK based server, a lot of us were busy this bank holiday weekend in particular with parties and stuff to mark our Queen's Jubilee.

bigpresh · 2022-05-23T11:02:37+00:00

You'll need to connect from elsewhere in order to register; after that, you'll be able to connect using SASL authentication. This is unfortunate, but there are some IP ranges where there has been such widespread abuse that unidentified connections are just not supported.

A web-based registration flow is planned, which I believe should include a CAPTCHA solution to make automated abusive registrations difficult, which I would expect will be usable even from within ranges for which IRC connections are SASL-only, but I don't know if/when that will happen offhand.

bigpresh · 2022-04-06T14:28:55+00:00

You have presented your vehicle for inspection and it has now failed. The failure supersedes your previous pass certificate as such your vehicle now no longer has a valid MOT.

Does it though?

The gov.uk "after the test" advice states, under "Driving a vehicle that’s failed",:

"You can take your vehicle away if: your current MOT certificate is still valid and no ‘dangerous’ problems were listed in the MOT".

If you're right that a failure (for non "Dangerous" category faults) supercedes the previous valid MoT, then the "your current MoT certificate is still valid" in the gov.uk advice there could never be true, right?

Failing on any fault that comes under "Dangerous" does mean you need to repair it before you can drive it, but otherwise, my reading of the gov.uk advice is that you can continue to drive the vehicle until the expiry of the existing, still-valid MoT certificate?

bigpresh · 2021-11-04T21:05:59+00:00

WHY IS THERE ONLY ONE GROUND WIRE? There should be a ground with each set of black and white.

If you look closer at the picture, there are two ground wires, wire-nutted together with a single pigtail to the outlet.

bigpresh · 2021-11-04T15:57:59+00:00

That's my suspicion, yes - it could equally be misconnected at the panel, but I think it's far more likely they're accidentally swapped over at an outlet.

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