We’re back to making our own cocktails after 2 weeks of holidays. The resort we stayed at had pink and white plumeria flowers all over the place, so I designed some new 3D printed cocktail toppers to remember our stay in Thailand. I used Blender for the design to print in Bambu Studio, so after a few weeks off, both needed updates, which I applied. Then I tried to print the design and was having weird issues, so I reinstalled the older versions. Odd. Same issue. Turns out, I just forgot some details about how to export from Blender to import into Bambu Studio while I was on holiday. #VacationBrain #pebkac

Had a rather annoying, yet upon reflection, hilarious #PEBKAC moment. I was trying to help my grandmother ensure her computer is in order, and decided to try Remote Incident Manager #RIM. Just my luck, I missed the free promo period. Got it working, then she called for dinner time, and I kept trying to invoke the RIM menu with the keyboard shortcut Windows+shift+backslash, rather than Windows+shift+backspace, so obviously the RIM menu would not invoke so I could end the session, I got frustrated, went for dinner, and came back to an expired demo period for the day. No one's fault but my own. LOL. Fortunately, my brother was there and was able to read the screen. Its a neat product, has its uses, demographic and target audience. I don't care for perpetual software subscriptions, so its not for me. but it does what it is designed to do, and it is easy to use, when the person using it knows what they're doing. Backslash does not eqal backspace. LOL. I may get her to spring for a Windows Pro license so I can Microsoft RDP to it via the VPN. If I could get used to NVDA object nav, I'd just do it with the remote addon. But it is so not like the JAWS cursor, I still can't wrap my head around it, and I've read the many tables of hundreds of NVDA keyboard shortcuts. I guess I'm just getting old.

Errare humanum est. But what about everything else?

For our #CyberSecMonth campaign, Simona Venuti @Simo_GARRCERT (GARR) describes how #AI systems are now being exploited to trick humans, while humans are also trying to trick machines, both using #SocialEngineering techniques: https://connect.geant.org/2024/10/04/errare-humanum-est-but-what-about-everything-else

#PEBKAC

Anyone come across a fake #CD or #DVD #rewriteable (#RW) media?

I have a couple of DVDs that someone burned, they are marked RW, but they will not erase.

Or am I doing something wrong in wiping these discs? #pebkac #ID10T errors perhaps? I tried #CLI and #GUI tools and they all failed - not able to wipe the #media.

Huh, looks like Google might've finally (at least temporarily), quite suddenly stymied ad-blockers looking at YouTube (even via Firefox). Suddenly, they're not playing at all. Ah well, it was usable, ad-free for years. Guess it's 100% Peertube now.

Update: Stand down - turns out it was #PEBKAC - my earbuds were inadvertently stopping all vids from playing (haven't seen that behaviour before?!). Took them out & half a dozen different vids started blaring through the speakers. Yow.

@screaminggoat "all versions of PHP on the Windows operating system" ...

Let Us Parse this:
* #PHP on #Windows.
* Windows hosting any web anything in production.
* Windows talking to The Net
* Windows.

Analysis: #PEBKAC ; Not Bug - Won't Fix.

If you wonder why your F*CKING EVENT LISTENER IN THIS UNHOLY LANGUAGE (javascript) DOESN’T WORK: Don’t listen on submit on a button, but the form…

@mjaschen Ist das denn Absicht, dass der #bikerouter mit dem Mausrad immer zwei Stufen den Zoom wechselt? Oder ist das #PEBKAC ?

Hmm. #11ty #RSS plugin does not seem to want to work properly for me. Lets see if we can figure out why.

edit: Doh, nevermind. #PEBKAC

> Non, mais on peut faire comme ça si vous ovulez.
>
> Cordialement,
> Fatuus.

Tu parles d'une typo

Sometimes you have the misfortune to meet an egotistical fool who's convinced they're the smartest person in the room. This article by @mmasnick leaves no doubt in my mind that wherever Elon Musk goes, not only is he not the smartest person in the room, it's likely he's the stupidest person in the room.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/12/the-batshit-crazy-story-of-the-day-elon-musk-decided-to-personally-rip-servers-out-of-a-sacramento-data-center/

Fest steht, wer die Excel-Tabelle für die Auszählung erstellt hat, hat nicht mit dem DAU gerechnet.

DAU=Dümmster anzunehmender User

Start the year as you mean to go on eh?

Things I started 2023 with:

- Making my wife breakfast
- Going for a walk with the dog and family
- Chilling and watching some TV
- Shouting at #Kubernetes and #NFS and then realising the problem was #PEBKAC and my #firewall (deny by default is good, honest!)

You win some, you lose some.

Truly the one thing really killing me over here is search.

The alleged bomb maker of the device that took down #PanAm103 is in US custody today.

I'd like to see what folks are saying about that, yet regardless of variation, #lockerbie & #PanAm103 produce zero results when searched.

I can maybe believe that no one on my instance is discussing this, but no one at all?

It *still* feels like a closed up chat room here with no room to explore or expand.

If this is a #pebkac - please help.

@zoltan #PEBKAC