I find open office plans to be bad by every metric. I'd even guess that depending on the size of the office, it's not even better in terms of area per employee. In our new office there's a huge amount of space dedicated to meeting rooms and mute booths. Mute booths are for people to take […]

Oh no, if OldVerison goes away, it’d be a sad, sad loss for retro PC enthusiasts. And this is another reason monopolies are bad.

Checking to see if I'm getting what I pay for and yes, I am indeed and then some. I like the bonus 1 Gb downstream. I wonder where/how they're doing rate limiting since the media converter itself is 10 Gbit.

I was surprised to hear clabretro’s end of year goal is 75k subscribers. I assumed he had way more than that. He’s easily top 5 retro tech YouTubers for me up there with Serial Port and Cathode Ray Dude. If you’re not already subscribed and you love Cisco, PoE, Sun, telephony, and anyone with a […]

Sometimes I don’t feel my age and other times I’m eating dinner at 17:30 watching JAG and NCIS and feel 100% my age.

@mroach Ironically CloudFlare DNS refuses to forward subnet information (“for privacy reasons”), but that means that OTHERS can’t do IP-based reputation blocking. That’s why archive.is blocked 1.1.1.1 DNS users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

I was having a look at what good European DNS services exist aside from Quad9 and Mullvad and I came across DNS4EU. It's funded, but not controlled, by the EU to support a solid European alternative to the American companies dominating the space. Competition in the space is good […]

If I’m ever feeling like really spoiling myself with an indulgence, I’d get a Fluke cable tester. Those things are just so damn cool. I used to use one at my old old job and it was so handy.

Cloudflare did some cool and interesting work to identify traffic from public IPs that may be CGNAT. That's important to keep IP-based reputation fair for the end users. It also underscores one of the problems with continuing to use IPv4 […]

I came home after work today and was surprised to find my balcony Christmas lights weren’t on. In Home Assistant I have an automation to turn them on at sunset. I checked the history and they did turn on at sunset but off again when I “left home” a bit later. What? But then I realised: I rode […]

I just submitted my first bug report to the git mailing list on kernel.org. Fingers crossed I don't get crucified.

I was browsing for some dual 2.5 GbE PCI-E cards for my server and came across something I'd never seen before: a PCI-E NIC with the ability to provide PoE. This would be a neat option if you're building your own router and want to power an access point directly from […] [Original post on mas.to]

Bring back BeOS style iconography

I met a nice Shetland pony named Sally

I forgot sites like Quora and Pinterest even still exist thanks to this feature from Kagi removing the internet detritus from my results. https://mastodon.social/@kagihq/115461459070363693

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I'm writing internal documentation about how basic HTTP app deployment works on Google Cloud and what needs to be provisioned/configured: * Public IP address * Managed SSL certificate * DNS * Gateway * HTTPRoute(s) * SSL policy * Gateway Policy (to bind the SSL policy) * Service * Health Check […]

Some albums are simply perfect with no skips. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac is one of them. Boston's eponymous album Boston is another.

My gym asked for a reason for cancellation and I just wanted to write "enshittification". They closed the location next to my flat, then the one next to my office, and then raised the price. lmao bye

Ages ago when I was shopping for a TV, the store had brochures for the TVs that when unfolded, were the exact size of the TV and one side was a picture of the TV. So you could take that home, tape it on the wall, get a feel for the size in your living space. That made so much sense. I need that […]

As an Immich user I’m so pleased to see background photo backup being solved. I’ll actually upgrade to iOS 26 for this. https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/115431799224014324

Deploying a "hello world" web app to Google Cloud these days requires layers of complexity and configuration reminiscent one of my favourite satirical projects: FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

Hosting web applications in the cloud feels like being trolled. I have spent over a day getting something setup and kinda working that would have taken me probably 10 minutes with Caddy or nginx. Google Cloud has you deploy separate objects for: gateway, gateway security policies, HTTP routes […]

Self-service parcel lockers are all well and good until you go to pickup a package and the machine is broken and there are no humans around to take any responsibility and fix it or manually get packages out.

The PlayStation startup sound on a Roland D50. Love it. https://youtu.be/skakV9X0bPk?t=184

Apple needs to automatically disable noise cancellation on AirPods when someone's on a phone call since people seem unaware that they talk at unreasonably loud volumes when ANC is on. Or, they should loop the microphone audio back as a monitor so people are aware that they can in fact be heard.

Monday morning reminder to myself to setup proper dependency caching for our build process: the Docker library is down so we can't pull any images. docker pull ruby:3.4-slim Error response from daemon: Head "https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/library/ruby/manifests/3.4-slim": received unexpected […]

The fiber network here is run by an infrastructure company and not an ISP, so the ONT has a nice message “scan and pick the provider that suits you”. And the reason for 4 RJ45 ports on an ONT? You can have up to 4 separate internet connections using one box! Two are […] [Original post on mas.to]

Map Men is the only YouTube channel where you don’t skip the ad reads. They’re always different and entertaining. https://youtu.be/eq-kgUpd-5E

I've been thinking about getting a printer+scanner combo for home. I love Louis Rossmann's Consumer Rights wiki to get a TL;DR on which companies are scumbags e.g. scanner won't work when ink is gone and DRM on supplies. https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Canon (I'm only interested in laser […]

I wanted to setup UniFi Talk but got stopped because I don't have any UniFi Talk hardware. I thought it was a joke, but no, if you click on the "Setup Devices" heading in the message 10x, it'll let you setup UniFi Talk anyway. I love a good escape hatch […]

As a resident of Denmark I can confirm MitID is well-liked and not controversial. It makes all kinds of interactions so easy and secure and has good privacy control as well. There’s really nothing to complain about. It’s essentially the government as an OAuth provider with scopes to limit data […]

I love running a Plex server and helping friends and family cancel their enshittified streaming services. My price guarantee is that I’m never charging anyone. The only thing I almost sorta considered charging for is one colleague that requests so much content via Overseer that I don’t want in […]

I was wondering how they filmed old Star Trek episodes with CRTs as video displays on set without having any flicker or rolling at all. They always look perfect. Genlock! There was a master sync generator connected to the cameras and video players (Betacam, Macs, LaserDisc) to keep them all […]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a great show for napping. I’ve got a cold and have spent the day on the sofa napping to the show. It’s so quiet and slow going and easy to drift off to sleep. Some episodes have absolutely nothing going on either, like the episode that’s a baseball game. J

My new apartment was built in 2022, so they only wired it for Ethernet which is great. There’s a tech closet where fiber comes in and there are RJ45 jacks to connect to outlets in the flat. But there were only 2 of them. One room had no jack and one didn’t have one on […] [Original post on mas.to]

Today I encountered unexpected software behaviour from something I haven’t thought about in ages: that macOS uses decomposed normal form for Unicode in filenames. When macOS users upload a file with say “café” in the name, the string is considered 5 chars long since its c a f e ‘ This messed up […]

I just got my new ONT installed for fiber and the technician said this is only his second 10 gigabit install and showed me on his status page how it's up and running at 10 Gbit! I'm looking forward to my ISP updating their offerings to support that! :D

During the move this power splitter was left in a drawer and somehow found its way into the worst possible spot and now I can’t open the drawer. The universe is dumb.

Today is moving day! I’m getting my Sun Ultra 24 nice and cosy in a suitcase and ready for the move. I’m carrying this by hand on the train to Copenhagen. No chance this goes in the moving truck.

I’m headed to Copenhagen this morning to get the keys to my new flat. Yay! But then I get a call from the landlord that we may have trouble getting there because…the EU summit is happening directly next door and security is intense. Very rude of the EU not to ask me before inviting all EU heads […]

Today is the day I get happy birthday spam from companies that required me to enter a birthday to create an account. The month is right, the day is not. Easy for me to remember if it's ever part of some "lol security" password recovery or identity "verification", but always wrong data for them.

I was reading about AV1 encoding and a bit about the Alliance for Open Media that's behind it and was a bit surprised to see they're headquartered in Wakefield, MA, a town I worked in for 8 years in my first real tech job. Their office is in the next building. Small world. Although tech […]

There are a lot of great flags in the world but the flag of British Tanganyika was truly exquisite.

A great chat with one of the developers of OpenZFS about the evolution of ZFS with the hardware. https://youtu.be/BjOkWTeZJDk

There was cake!

I’ve had a real itch to buy an answering machine. One of those proper old school ones with separate cassette tapes for the outgoing and incoming messages. I could hook it up to an ATA connected to a VoIP service and…well, receive messages!

Wow—a treatment for Huntington's: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro

I've been working on getting Fielstation42, a cable TV simulator, up and running with some channels and content I'd like to have. available on my CRT 24/7. So far so good! I found a site that archived cable TV channel plans from the 90s which is great. It's a real […] [Original post on mas.to]