@mcc is it a disk image or is it a CDRom image?

What flavor QEMU are you using? Proxmox? Or build-it-yourself?

What qemu wants is a qcow2 format... that's the qemu equivalent of a VMDK.

@Jason844 thanks Jason! I hope I do too, I wanted to visit with family this weekend but don't want to get everyone sick

@Eetschrijver thank you! I'm trying 🤒

@Nickiquote my favourite barnacle fact is the genus Sacculina is parasitic on crabs. So the way it works is the barnacles latch on to a male crab and eat his testicles. Then another male crab goes "Phwoar, look at the lack of testicles on that obviously female crab!", horny crabs apparently not being very discerning in their choice of mate, tries to shag him, picks up some barnacles himself and has his own testicles eaten, rinse and repeat

@RolloTreadway thank you! My wife and I had a nice dinner and cocktails at home tonight and watched some of the news recaps, which definitely was low key but nice

OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs (OpenAI)

https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root
http://www.techmeme.com/261104/p62#a261104p62

@lightweight @RachelThornSub
It is worse than that. If your neighbour's cat comes into your back yard and your dog injures it, you have to compensate the cat owner (news item recently, $1000s).
So, better for the cat to 'disappear'.

@evan haha thanks! They’re fun to take. I call them “obligatory” because I WILL stop for them every single time. It’s just what I do now 🤣

@AnarchoNinaWrites my mini-rant about this, fwiw.

@mcc I feel your pain. Have yet to get Alpine to install and update and run with Virt. Figuring why major headache, will try again eventually. But don't understand why Alipine is difficult vs MX, thought Alpine was made for that 🤷‍♂️

😯

#USPol

Trump considers Ron DeSantis to replace Pete Hegseth at Pentagon, CBS News source says
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/florida/2026/11/04/trump-considers-ron-desantis-to-replace-pete-hegseth-at-pentagon-cbs-news-source-says/

@ben @ProPublica That's interesting. Won't help me though - I get four or five reader comments a year. ;)

Lovely day out earlier on one of my favorite suburban bike trails south of #Portland #Oregon (the Trolly Trail)

@saarmuller thank you ❤️

I grew green cotton. It’s a variety called Davis Green that is a cross between a wild #Louisiana green cotton and Pima cotton. The color is subtle now but will deepen once it’s spun and again once I give it a soak with a little bit of detergent. I don’t have a lot of it yet—I planted them late in the season so the plants are small. The fibers are a bit longer and noticeably silkier than my #Florida native cotton, I assume due to the Pima genes. #Fibers #FiberArts #spinning

@steinarb thank you! I've been a bit of a mess today but sooner or later my immune system will start doing its thing, I hope

@futurebird

stay tuned for a new #haiQu

(my dad was in the navy, and i'm into tattoos, so this expression has always been dear to me)

@jaystephens @ncoca I was thinking more about how Global South is under more threats under increased global fascism.

Shout out to our Ukrainian allies who took out Russian propaganda data centers right before the US election.

Let’s make this a habit.