Notices by Khurram Wadee ✅ (mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk)

#TheArgyleSweater by #ScottHilburn on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2025/05/09

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#CalvinAndHobbes by #BillWatterson on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2025/04/28

#Humour #Cartoon

#xkcd: #TennisBalls

https://xkcd.com/3080/

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The return leg of the #hike from #DulvertonToTarrSteps was significantly longer in terms of distance as it followed a meandering river on its way to #Dulverton. Here are some interesting and noteworthy features of the journey.

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#PublicFootpaths often go through #farmland but also sometimes through #farmyards. Walking through one of the latter, we spotted these #chickens. The #hens started to retreat to their #barn as they spotted us approaching while the #cock remained outside just to make sure we weren’t going to try anything.

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Some #paths are little more than #mudtracks and as it had rained heavily on the previous day, #puddles remained and the ground was quite muddy… Part of the fun of #hiking, I find, is getting a bit dirty in the process.

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By the side, there were #stumps of several felled #trees which had been left to #rot and #decay. They make a #habitat for #ferns, #lichens and #fungi.

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Some barely living trees had become very oddly shaped in their later years.

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These #PineTrees are grown for #softwood #timber. They have been planted in a regular array, producing an interesting geometrical effect. They’re about 25-30 m tall.

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Here I am standing in this group of #trees.

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#CalvinAndHobbes by #BillWatterson on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2025/04/03

#Humour #Cartoon

#BloomCounty by #BerkeleyBreathed on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2025/04/03

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#Moon #Pi and #MountainShadow
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250314.html

#APOD

#CalvinAndHobbes by #BillWatterson for March 08, 2025 - GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2025/03/08

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#TheArgyleSweater by #ScottHilburn for March 08, 2025 - GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2025/03/08

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So today I tired #mkfs.btrfs and this works. I was using #gparted, which can’t create #encrypted file systems and so I created a blank (cleared) one, used #cryptsetup to create the #encryption on the device, and then created the brtrfs file system.

#GNU #FreeSoftware

Anyway, I was having big issues with trying to create an #EXT4 file system and the same problem was occurring on multiple devices, indicating that it wasn’t the device that was at fault and I concluded that it must be something to do with #mkfs.ext4.

I managed to create an #encrypted #Linux #Filesystem on a #USBStick. The reason I wanted this is that I want to back up some directories, which contain secure information and also #NTFS, the one that comes on most drives, doesn’t know how to handle #SymbolicLinks properly. I don’t need or want to share the stick with any non-Linux machines.

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#BloomCounty by #BerkeleyBreathed for March 01, 2025 - GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2025/03/01

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#TheArgyleSweater by #ScottHilburn for March 02, 2025 - GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2025/03/02

#Humour #Cartoon