sysadmin tuesday: upgraded yttrx's kernel and postgres packages. Everything still works. hooray

Disappointed that we couldn’t take photos at the Photo Booth, but happy to spot a Linux boot screen in the wild

Having a mystery double shot with a beer for breakfast at our favourite restaurant, life on Mars 🥃🍺

This movie unsettled me as a little kid in the mid 80s. Today I remembered it. Now I’m haunted by it once more 🥲 https://www.reddit.com/r/cinescenes/comments/1fwoh44/the_adventures_of_mark_twain_1985_the_mysterious/

Grabbing drinks at our favourite brunch location (“life on mars”) after visiting the “heart break hotel” event at kpop Nara; there was a florist selling arrangements!!

Ming and I were walking by back from the bar when we passed this building. I’m absolutely in love with it

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@apricote/116047904616471734 @mmeier you may be able to forward this to some of your German friends

Flying to Seattle for the long weekend. Leaving my work phone and laptop in California (feels so good) and just checked… I’m going oncall at 9am Tuesday. Glad that I checked ;)

Woops! Went looking at my database backups and they were all... very small. Double checked some things, and my ipv6 address had changed at some point and I hadn't updated postgresql to trust it, so the backups were failing. It's fixed! But still -- yikes.

Why do medical professionals always refer to body parts as food? The other day I was told that my veins were “juicy” 😶

At least once per month, I catch myself dreaming of purchasing an LTO jukebox on eBay. Yikes.

Finished #thewire and felt like I wanted to continue the ride. Decided to start watching homicide — I’m five episodes in and loving it. It’s very different yet very similar at the same time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street

Took a sick day today and decided to do a little home #sysadmin work. This time on my secondary archive NAS. Upgraded it from 25.04 -> 24.10 to see how it fares (it'll be fine) then I'll upgrade my primary NAS to match. Got around to re-enabling homeassistant cloud (when my wallet was stolen my […]

I used to love Reddit -- the homelab community, the cable community, a bunch of these were great. But then, at some point reddit started pushing recommendations that are just awful and stress-inducing. Just now, I went into the settings and found the option to turn off recommendations. WHY DID […]

Performance cycle is finalized at work, which means my rating is locked in. I can now have a conversation with my manager about getting my position moved to Seattle. Eek. I really hope it goes well

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/116037125553034300 Me. A Canadian. Living in the SFBA where the superb owl is playing today.

New blog post: Running your own Autonomous System on FreeBSD. Got an AS number and IPv6 /48 via RIPE, set up a FreeBSD BGP router with FRR, two upstreams, and built GRE/GIF tunnels ti bring my own globally routable addresses to servers at different providers. The interesting part: dual-FIB […]

I went from shaggy hair and a mustache to clean shaven and a haircut. A neighbor called my previous look “handsome cop” and someone just said my new look was “frat boy” There’s no winning.

Home sysadmin time. Just sipping coffee and upgrading yttrx to the latest stable release

RE: https://www.threads.com/@alvinfoo/post/DTIWs16CeKw I took a typing class in highschool on mechanical typewriters. It was a business credit and it taught you how to format different types of letters.

My main laptop I think pad T490 stopped powering and booting this week. I’m not worried about the data because bought pads backed up every day but man it’s so annoying. I’ve always just bought think pads on eBay and perhaps that choice is starting to come back at me.

new month, new certs. still haven't automated the renewal of the certs on yttrx, but with 3 month certs and a monthly calendar reminder... I have yet to let it lapse :P

Back on the factorio grind. The factory must grow.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115991705165860760 Also, it’s good to know how to quickly and temporarily disable biometrics. iOS for instance https://daringfireball.net/2022/06/require_a_passcode_to_unlock_your_iphone

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@homegrown/115989850422608226 Maybe it’s time to open yttrx back up to open registration. The headache of that is constantly browsing the instances home feed to ban hammer spammers. But worth it!

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@OpenBSDAms/115991001164079765 TIL about OpenBSD Amsterdam. I quickly browsed their homepage and they seem like an absolutely amazing org for OpenBSD users. I love seeing these types of groups operating ❤️

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@BoxyBSD/115985558227138879 Oh nice! It’s good to see some BSD specific VPS options.

I hope avi wins his leadership bid for the ndp. My daughter recently became a member so she could vote in the leadership elections for that party; it’s great seeing her being so involved https://youtu.be/KfNEsh9Hx6s?si=59IYkHqZXGxIR89X

Trying to watch demon slayer but missing big chunks because I'm also noodling on my laptop and uh, I don't understand Japanese. I keep having to rewind. But loving it! https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G8DHV7809/demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-infinity-castle

Well it’s been six years that Ming and I have been dating 🥰 We met on tinder, had a date that lasted three nights and there’s been no looking back. The attached photo was taken while we were heading out to work and school after 24 hours of knowing eachother […] [Original post on masto.yttrx.com]

Just ordered a pikvm to attach to my consumer grade home server. It’ll be nice having remote hands on it for when I’m in Seattle 😊

RE: https://corteximplant.com/@blackhand/115976660751745282 It’s currently a fantastic game and idk how many people were burned on it and never came back, but I think that the clown show that was v1 didn’t stop people who really wanted to play it from giving it a second chance.

It's really interesting hearing @waffles talk about the weird early days of the internet. Like, people scrounging computers, fumbling their way online, figuring out how to eke out network bandwidth in some sketchy co-lo. None of this was done for some big profit, it was just fun becaues the […]

Does anyone have any #rust specific online courses / coding challenges? I’ve been meaning to pickup rust for some time (I’m a c++ programmer at work) and I’ve been kinda lazy about it.

Had a great time drinking and catching up with @tommertron and @davis but it’s time to start getting ready to head back to California.

I really really hope they don’t close early. I’m really looking forward to vegan nachos and a pitcher of beer later tonight at sneaky Dee’s #toronto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneaky_Dee%27s

[Pictures of a man and pictures of the snow] Cosplaying as a Canadian. Just went out to clear the snow in front of the house. I fully expect it to be completely recovered in snow within half an hour, but ppl are out walking (five passed me in the ten minutes […] [Original post on masto.yttrx.com]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FuturamaGifs/115951259773433291 Current mood

I know I’m going to be annoying for a bit, but holy heck it feels good to be back in Toronto

[Stolen gay valour] Funny story. I’m legally married to a man, and have been for decades. My ex and I split over a decade ago but we remained legally married so that they could stay on my health insurance during their f2m transition. I refer to them simply as “my ex” but a friend at work always […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@jschauma/115950539156012485 Oh neat! It’s been a few years since I’ve been paid to do any sysadmin work but I think I’ll definitely be following along 🤓

Wow. America take notice. I woke up this morning and got a notification on my phone that presto was available so I quickly added a couple of bucks to it. I can not tap onto all transit easily. I’ve never encountered a smoother transit onboarding ever before

It’s good being back. Staying in a hostel on Augusta in Kensington market

[Defederation] Yttrx the instance I help to run used to be an open server. I initially setup yttrx to help bear the weight of new users when many other instances were having a tough time technically keeping up with the influx. This meant that some bad apples would get in, spam, get reported […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wearenew_public/115939725318168691 I feel really privileged in regards to my nerdiness that if push came to shove, I could 100% self host everything I use. The biggest blocker would be convincing my friends to switch away from iMessage to something like matrix, but […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/115945034167304815 I’m flying to Toronto today and the temp will be -21C (with wind chill) and I’m like “nope nope nope. I’m just a soft boy from California”. -34 is just not compatible with human life 🥲

Just powered up my T480 after 7 months; oof, that pacman update was rough

RE: https://masto.yttrx.com/@waffles/115911885375933141 Once I’m fully moved out of California the 12 month timer starts before I can apply to sponsor Ming for immigration to Canada! 🇨🇦🥳

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tiffanycli/115934474230800183 This made me cackle 😆