- Trans Rights
- Are Human Rights
- aphorism
- When Bhagavan was asked, "How should we treat others?", He responded, "There are no others."
- Poverty
- Is a disease of the rich
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Doctor day again. Getting stabbed, bled, and zapped in the pursuit of a variety of diagnoses, all downstream issues of a single #COVID bout in Jan 2022.
BTW you can avoid my 34 months of hell just by:
- masking up
- staying vaccinated
- washing your hands
- ventilate enclosed spaces regularly
- and reminding others to do this
Such a small price to pay
On that note #Aranet CO2 sensors are reduced for a further week https://aranet.com/en/home/products/aranet4-home/ I highly recommend them
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Some days you think I'll just fix a bug.
And then you're knee-deep in yaml-powered tool written in python, suddenly falling through a hidden trapdoor into a shell script that uses sed and grep to parse the yaml configs, and you land on a bed of ancient monkey skulls.
At least you hope they're monkey skulls, because the inference could be its other devs who never made it back, and this sed/grep monstrosity is looking for something that was assumed to be on a single line, but doesn't have to be, because ... yaml is not an ini file.
The monkey skulls suddenly collapse into dust, and while you sneeze, you disturb a previously hidden nest of snakes (the python, you remember), which rises up to bite you on the arse. At least, its pretty close to your arse.
The only thing you can think of is to run screaming down random corridors looking for an exit, only to find that the config files that should be in /usr/local/etc are in fact in /etc/ and they point you to an escape route, even if its poorly documented, but its across a shoddy rope bridge over /var/lib/ and there are raging crocodiles below you. Skimming these files that don't respect hier(7) at all, you realise there's no choice - it's the bridge, and the crocs, and you'll need to move, fast.
Grabbing a fraying cord on the rope bridge, you struggle across as fast as you can. Of course, it pulls loose, and you swing wildly down towards the crocodiles. There's no way out now, but suddenly you realise -- /run/ isn't safe, but there's /var/run/ where this stuff should be, and at the last second, you swing over the crocs, into a hidden cave of the ancients.
There is a scroll, and it tells you how to get out. There are only two words:
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I imagine a 20 tonne side loading coal wagon but filled with delicious gravy. And then I imagine 80 more of them. They come past my door where I have a wall of mashed potato and a giant crane with a gravy bucket on it to pour over my mashed spuds. I also have a ball pool but it’s full of peas instead and my entire front yard is laden with delicious slices of roast NZ lamb.
That’s my idea of a gravy train and nobody gonna stop me.
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Day 8: Hike to the Liverpool hut, Mt Aspiring (Tititea) National Park - Way up
#MountAspiring #Tititea #Otago #Aotearoa #NewZealand #NZ
#MountAspiring #Tititea #Otago #Aotearoa #NewZealand #NZ
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#Grafana chance to get #fedihired
If you feel as if working closely with me might be fun, take a look at https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5795323004
This role is gated to the Americas for timezone reasons, but we will open up two more related roles globally soon. And one #datascience later.
You will be working on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrchD9RXg8s -- teaching Grafana from within Grafana.
I've been working towards this for years and on this since last May. I will be working closely with all of these hires.
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The Open Source Lab is on the move!
Moving a data center is about more than just hauling servers—it’s an opportunity to modernize. We’re raising funds to cover the critical extra expenses incurred during this transition, including new high-speed networking equipment, remote management tools, and hardware upgrades.
Support our student-led team as they build a faster, more resilient network for the open source community.
https://osuosl.org/blog/data-center-migration-update-fundraising/
https://www.beavsgive.org/organizations/open-source-lab
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Believe in yourself, even when all available evidence strongly advises against it. Especially then. #gooderliving
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Quick search of the photo archive. Fall, 2024. Visited ancestors at a very old cemetery, and this robin was standing watch. :)
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British Colonists Arriving In New Zealand: Wow the Māori sure are a vital people, with longer life expectancy, healthier lifestyles, stronger relationships, and better family dynamics than we are bringing with us from Britain. Something must be done!
My time travelling consciousness self-insert to this dialog: You mean to improve the lifestyles and living standards of British colonists to be on a par?
BCAINZ: That isn't going to be the first thing we try, no.
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The only photo I took yesterday. I really do love these signs tho. So many layers of meaning into a simple roadside sign. 
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Red Mountain Morning (Sept 2025)
#Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Colorado #Fallorado #FallColors #Mountains #MountainMonday
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If you expect privacy or anonymity, Meshtastic is a danger to that, and you should not use it.
This is your regular reminder that Meshtastic is designed badly and is effectively a straight up non-anonymized wireless tracking beacon which can be intercepted and tracked by anyone with a smidgen of technical knowhow.
Resetting your devices identity or reloading the Meshtastic firmware does not help, because Meshtastic encodes the hardware MAC address of your device's radio unencrypted into every packet sent, including on-by-default telemetry packets which are sent regularly without any user interaction.
Many of these packets are intercepted and logged by a myriad of MQTT observers around the world that other Meshtasic users have set up to log mesh traffic to the internet.
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‼️🇺🇸 A U.S. military aerospace simulations and defense contractor is being sold for $400, with root RCE, shell access, and a hijacked admin panel session on a Linux firewall device.
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[30.07.2024] Day 9 of cycling from Prague to Istanbul
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Can a 2001 Sun SPARC server host a website in 2026?
Spoiler: Yes. Yes it can. 🔥
I got my Sun Netra X1 running OpenBSD + httpd serving actual web traffic.
Full writeup: https://rup12.net/posts/can-my-sparc-server-host-my-website/
#homelab #SPARC #retro #selfhosted #OpenBSD #Cloudflare #vintagecomputing #sysadmin #Sun
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"just use these 12 different services to create 85% overlap with what discord provides out of the box"
bro i can barely get out of bed you want me to do what now
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Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes. - Tamora Pierce
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116045913018556966
I understand where they are coming from but that is way too much of a technological framing. Even an encrypted open source Internet can be super unsafe to exist in.
Safety comes from social and political structures and decisions that technology can support.
So TIL that the default checksum algorithm is always fletcher4** and what’s done on startup is only working out which internal implementation of that checksum is the fastest - maybe we have on-CPU instructions, or maybe we only have a slower C implementation for example.
** unless you chose dedupe as an option
Given that most of my systems have enough free RAM and some CPU headroom I would not expect to notice in any of them any practical difference during normal operations.
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First published yesterday in Dutch newspaper Trouw, and today both on the front page of Le Monde and on the back page of Belgian newspaper De Morgen.
I think this is the first time one of my cartoons made it into three national newspapers 🤩
- Trans Rights
- Are Human Rights
- aphorism
- When Bhagavan was asked, "How should we treat others?", He responded, "There are no others."
- Poverty
- Is a disease of the rich
Warning: may occasionally contain content. Consume in moderation. Finest dumpster fire curation on the fedi.
Joined Jun 2018
