MUGG! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70MkUuL83bE

One of our field #linux boxes had some time wonk and created a bunch of log files dated in 2119 and wow: This upsets logrotate very much.

RE: https://howse.social/@BOMGifBot/115853496100828722 Rain? What? We must be directly under one of the eight pixels on the radar.

Pakige status: Where pakige? I am waiting for a 2:1 USB-A switcher box so I can toggle between my speakers and headphones without having to un/replug the cable every time I want to switch. This will be going in series with a similar switcher I already have for switching between my work laptop […]

And another tipping point reached!Batteries are powering #australia all through the night. Not much, but it's a start. #auspol #rewiringaustralia

Has anyone migrated from Google photos to #immich? Any advice for someone contemplating the same? #selfhosting #foss #degoogle

Quick! I found a new feature of windows 11 to shout at! Right click on a window's task bar entry. The context menu doesn't pop up at your cursor. You know, where context menus normally pop up so you can select something from the menu with minimal cursor […] [Original post on howse.social]

Oooh! #golang byte buffers are getting a Peek method in 1.26! Very handy. https://antonz.org/go-1-26/#bytes-buffer-peek I think this might've been mentioned in an episode of @cupogo , but I musn't've absorbed it fully.

Nice. During a domain transition at work I lost access to our internal wiki halfway through publishing some release notes. An eagle-eyed colleague found an error of mine in the draft release notes on the wiki, but I can't fix it. Good and fun! Computers rule.

Thing #83 I appreciate after switching from windows to linux on my desktop: When I tell my computer to shut down, it shuts down. I don't get a warning prompt informing me I have a file explorer window open. I cannot imagine a rational justification for that feature.

Ran out of egg halfway through making panko-crusted chicken breast for dinner last night. Switched to hommus loosened with a bit of olive oil. Worked perfectly, tasted great. #cooking

Alright, I'll bite. Just ordered a pebble time 2. Let's see what all the fuss is about. In a few months.

Some good Australian sketch #comedy for your Saturday arvo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gnnjHWCiF0

Fighting the chest-constricting dread of holidays ending. I don't wanna go back to work :( At least I have something fun to work on when I get back. Unless our priorities have changed at random again.

I made a quick #video showing the new functionality of my wifi receipt printer. I can print little pictures now, straight from my clipboard. Very cool. The data is transmitted over MQTT, so no printer driver bullshit is involved. Plaintext works too, and I have […] [Original post on howse.social]

Working on getting my receipt printer and scripts set up to print images! Working pretty well. I copy something into my clipboard, then type ctrl+alt+r. Based on the type of data in the clipboard it either prints the text or resizes the image to 384x384 and […] [Original post on howse.social]

I just remembered we have a bag of cashew nuts in the pantry so now I'm eating some cashew nuts. I love cashew nuts. #cashewnuts

Holy shit youngest has just realised he doesn't need training wheels. He's tearing it up.

Someone invented a new type of Bob Dylan or Dave Van Ronk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4hlig78w #music #protest #jessewelles

Well I've finished editing down the footage. Kdenlive only crashed horribly twice. Sigh.

Ach fuck I just looked at my calendar by accident and put a concrete bounds on the end of my Christmas holidays. I was enjoying that slightly woozy timeless state where the end was vague. Sigh.

Alright, time to edit this 70GB of footage down to a youtube video about fixing our pool-cleaning robot. Plus recording narration. I recorded the whole thing on a gopro, rather than my phone. We'll see how that goes.

I have just cut over to a pre-built caddy docker image that includes the cloudflare plugin, so I don't have to build my own image. Seems to be working fine! Now my What's Up Docker container will be able to alert me when my caddy is out of date. #homelab #caddy #docker #cloudflare

I don't mean to brag, but I just filled up the olive oil bottle without overfilling it and pouring oil all over the bench. #winning

Today I'm making another batch of rocky road ice cream. This time with the gummy bears swapped for Turkish delight. My extensive testing revealed that Turkish delight is softer when frozen as compared to gummy bears. I'm also including dark chocolate, coconut […] [Original post on howse.social]

After retiring my old desktop into a home server role, migrating everything off my old server to the new server, and adding one extra CCTV camera, the house night-time idle power usage went from 220W to 240W. Not as bad as I'd feared, considering the new home server has an RTX2080 in it for […]

Remember that 32GB of DDR5 RAM I bought for my new computer a month ago? Remember how it went up AUD$130 during the week between when I ordered it and when the retailer cancelled my order and tried to charge me for the new price? It's now increased ANOTHER AUD$130. Insane. 55% price increase in […]

The look of wonder on a child's face when I adjust a game's graphical settings on their aging laptop to make it run at a playable framerate. In that brief moment I AM a computer wizard.

Huzzah! It has finally started to rain in #carina. Phew.

I switched our energy retailer from Amber Electric to Localvolts, and I've started to play with their pricing API. Fun stuff! I recorded a quick video showing some interesting subtleties in how pricing is different between the AEMO wholesale price, amber and localvolts. Let me know if you have […]

Time for some last-minute #pottery firing. Gotta get a christmas present ready for grandma.

Man no wonder #protobuf is not more popular. This is a pain in the butt. I thought the developer experience might've improved in the five years since I had to use them. Nope, you're still downloading zip files from github repos and extracting them into your path, then installing separate […]

I just relocated my home server to the undercroft with all my networking gear. Shortly afterwards I get several healthchecks.io warnings. All my watchdogs failed to fire. After some investigation I found my IPv6 outbound had stopped working. Huh? I didn't touch any networking gear? Maybe I had […]

[Alcohol] I didn't drink alcohol until my late 20s, so I am deliberately exploring different spirits and cocktails to see what I missed out on. I asked for recommendations on rum and someone suggested Diplomático Reserva. It is delicious! On ice, with ginger beer and lime, or coke. Great stuff […]

Phew. It's real hot up there, but the cable is run. Gotta go terminate it to the patch panel now. I wanted to get it further into the corner, but there was an uncooperative ceiling joist.

I gotta go up into the ceiling space to run cables. It's 38°C up there and rising. Pray for mojo.

Right. Finally installed that tube motor into the dining room blinds. It now closes automatically at 3 hours to sundown, to block direct light onto my boys' computer screens. It opens at sunrise. There's also a button on the wall for manual control. Boring home automation is best home […]

My local machine has an ipv6 address, my router's LAN and WAN interfaces have ipv6 addresses, my firewall settings are set to route between LAN and WAN6. Hmm.

Hm, tiny little insects in my dry oats. How long have I been eating insect-enriched breakfast? Who knows! Fun and good.

And here's the ice cream cooking sous vide.

Today's fun project: Print the contents of my clipboard on a receipt printer when I type ctrl+alt+r This will be incredibly useful.

I wonder if I can delay buying a car long enough to entirely skip over the touchscreen era. My current car is all knobs and buttons, and I dearly hope my next one will be too.

On the exact opposite end of the spectrum is #influxdb , whose v2 to v3 migration process is "Export all your data to plaintext and import it into the new DB". No in-place migration is available. What? Seriously? 22GB of timeseries data is going to take a while to round-trip via plaintext.

Wow. I just upgraded from v0.22.8 of @nodered all the way to v4.1.2, a jump through four major versions over six years, and almost everything worked perfectly. That is some laudable dedication to backwards-compatibility. Great job! #nodered #homeautomation

Happy Birthday to our 2014 Toyota Corolla. 100Mm down, many more to go.

That panic when your random shuffle throws up the track before Champagne Supernova and you have to find the window in time to make a smooth transition. This song evokes memory of Pokémon Red. I never owned a gameboy, so I had to play it emulated. #oasis #music

Please look at this ridiculous #mango. Too big to be real.

Absolutely stellar. https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/finalists/2025_finalists.php Credit to Warren Price-Headlock /Comedy Wildlife

Ordered pizza for dinner from a new place with a weird website. I get to the end of the order process, after having added my credit card to my account, and the only payment option is "Cash". I think "Surely that's just a display bug. When I click 'Pay' I'm going to get a prompt to select or […]