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General Discussion / Re: Docker Update Checker
« Last post by diddly on November 13, 2025, 01:57:09 PM »
Much better Docker update checker here: dockcheck]=https://github.com/mag37/dockcheck]dockcheck  Runs exclusively on the command line and faster than downloading every new image and comparing.
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General Discussion / Dell U4919DW KVM Switching
« Last post by diddly on October 29, 2025, 10:52:22 AM »
For my own reference, and anyone else trying to accomplish this: The Dell U4919DW monitor has built-in KVM switching.  Meaning, you can hook up one keyboard and mouse to the monitor and control multiple computers.

Where this becomes interesting is in Picture-by-Picture mode (PBP).  You can have to computers displaying on the same monitor simultaneously.  However, you can only control one at a time using the attached keyboard and mouse.  So how do you easily switch between them?

Until now I had been using the on-screen display (OSD) using buttons on the monitor.  This is fine when really only using one computer at a time, but for rapid / frequent shifting it becomes tedious.  Instead I needed a way to do this from the keyboard.

On a windows machine, you can install Dell Display Manager (or Dell Display and Peripherals Manager) and program hotkeys to switch KVM inputs.

But my non-work computer is linux.  For that you need to install ddcutil ("sudo apt install ddcutil" on ubuntu) and execute: ddcutil setvcp E7 0xFF00

You can alias that command, throw it in a script, or set some hotkey / hot corner operation to facilitate that.

Now I can flip between computers, having both displayed simultaneously, without having to navigate through the clunky OSD

Source: https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/linux-general/dell-display-manager-keyboard-shortcuts-for-kvm-switch-on-linux-ubuntu-for-u3821dw-monitor/6698ead384a7860c8e48bca0

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News / Re: Update your WinRAR
« Last post by diddly on August 12, 2025, 09:45:42 AM »
WinRAR has another 0-day exploit.  Why aren't you using 7-zip?

Source
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General Discussion / Re: AI Generated Music
« Last post by diddly on July 17, 2025, 07:50:26 AM »
Rick Beato recently made a youtube video on how easy it was to make AI slop music. His arguments were sound, but in the video you can see him vibing to the songs.  I saw Suno had updated their algorithm so wanted to generate some stuff of my own.  You can hear any of my shared songs on my profile page
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News / Someone is always listening...
« Last post by diddly on March 17, 2025, 09:10:36 AM »
Did you opt out of Alexa sending your every word back to Amazon?  Better bin those devices, because Amazon is ditching the option (assuming they ever really honoured it).
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News / Re: Toots
« Last post by diddly on December 01, 2024, 08:13:29 PM »
While it has been fun running a Mastodon-like server, I've decided to take darkshade.social down.  I tried moving the instance to another machine, but I'm stuck running Pleroma, and that's a convoluted mess to migrate.  It was really only used by me anyway.  If you're looking for me now, I've moved to diddly@sunny.garden

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Diddlycraft Discussion / Re: Halloween in Diddlycraft
« Last post by diddly on October 24, 2024, 08:07:17 PM »
Halloween is the perfect time for a Death Knight in Diddlycraft.

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News / 600 Million Passwords
« Last post by diddly on September 27, 2024, 02:25:42 PM »
Facebook and Instagram stored your passwords in plain text, and now they’ve been leaked. Always use a password vault and different passwords for every service.
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Reviews / Re: Single Sentence Reviews
« Last post by diddly on May 06, 2024, 02:11:51 PM »
TV Series post!
Halo - Season One: John "Master Chief" struggles with Microsoft Cortana spying on him, meanwhile a prophesied young girl defends a planet.  :)
          Season Two: undoes all that in the first ten minutes and refuses to explain why dead people aren't dead  >:(
Elsebeth - A side character from Good Wife/Good Fight immediately solves a murder the audience witnesses then spends the rest of the episode trying to prove it to boneheaded police  ???
Tracker - Smallville's Green Arrow finds missing people for a price.  :)
Krapopolis - Tyrannus is a self-declared king of early civilization, with supernatural parents and siblings, and ungrateful citizens.  No description does this show justice.  8)
Welcome to Wrexham - Touching, humourous, and exciting documentary about Deadpool and some other guy buying a football team in Wales.  :)
Clarkson's Farm - An idiot known for loving cars becomes an idiot who loves farming  8)
Taskmaster - Do you like laughing?  Watch this show  8)
Ghosts (UK) - A young couple inherits a manor that they turn into a B&B, she has an accident and can now interact with ridiculous ghosts that died on the premises.  :)
Ghosts (US) - A young couple inherits a manor that they turn into a B&B, she has an accident and can now interact with ridiculous ghosts that died on the premises.  Now in American accents!  :)
Roadside Rescue - A guy fixes delapotated vehicles enough to get them running again.  A TV version of Vicegrip Garage from youtube.  :)
Shogun - Masterfully done retelling of the James Clavell book.  Lord Toranaga attempts to keep the peace in feudal Japan, and some Anjin makes for a useful distraction  8)
Physical 100 - Korean tournament of beefy men and women undergoing gruelling physical challenges.  Second season as good as the first  :)

 
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General Discussion / Re: AI Generated Music
« Last post by diddly on April 11, 2024, 01:09:16 AM »
Not mine, but precious.


Dune - The Broadway Musical
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