Why is it so many small businesses now restrict their entire web presence to a GOogle Maps listing and Instagram? The latter especially since it requires a damn login to see anything!

A hearty “told you so” to everyone who can’t unlock their front door due to the AWS outage #awsoutage

Funny thing is, I use almost no services with an AWS depchain. I wouldn't have noticed the outage if it wasn't for people complaining about it.

I've been seeing a lot of bad traffic from 179.49.184.0/22 -- anyone else?

street art getting more three dimensional

PSA reminder for Australians: Now might be a good time to review your superannuation holdings and consider your exposure to the AI bubble, in particular the "Fragile Five" -- Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Tesla. This isn't financial advice. This is just a suggestion that it never hurts to […]

running docker on a raspberry pi

@zog Did you end up getting your meshtastic experiment up?

Seeing the scratches on the latest negatives back from the lab makes me think more and more of just clearing all my film kit and going straight digital.

moody clouds out tonight

Hmm, steam train whistle in the background. Something interesting on the Mernda line?

Not sure I want to remove the picture and see what eldritch planty horrors are hiding behind.

There should be some sort of hell for those who think the best way to provide remote shell access to linux hosts is via a Windows jumphost in a web remote desktop session. A special hell to be unlocked upon finding ^W kills the tab and requires a full relogin.

Bit breezy.

Would anyone in Australia care to endorse or disendorse a photobook printing service?

THE HEAD. The origin of the head is unknown. It exhibits local translocational tendencies; typically being found in an adjacent room. Attempts to dispose of the head have been unsuccessful. Conventional landfill disposal, incineration and solvent methods […] [Original post on jauntygoat.net]

THE HEAD. The origin of the head is unknown. It exhibits local translocational tendencies; typically being found in an adjacent room. Attempts to dispose of the head have been unsuccessful. Conventional landfill disposal, incineration and solvent methods […] [Original post on jauntygoat.net]

A bug.

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

Elsewhere, someone said: "you can't make a glass of water look interesting."

While the combination of the tiny EOS M-series and the full size glass looks a little silly at first, the hand-hold experience is actually quite pleasant and I'm looking forward to taking this combo out for a jaunt. Composing for a good fisheye shot is […] [Original post on jauntygoat.net]

Before I look at the usual sales options, is anyone here (in Australia) interested in a Rolleiflex SL-2000F? Incl 50mm f/1.8 and 28mm f/2.8 primes; Rollei auto flash. Selling as I ultimately have .. enough .. 35mm SLRs.

Since I've dug my film scanner out and it still works (yay), I figured I'd take a look at the box of old family photos I brought home when I cleared my father's estate. Wow. Unsleeved negatives .. in paper packets that have been moved and reboxed and moved again. Not sure there's actually much […]

Another week, another couple of bank fraud/scam stories in the meedja. For about 80% of the reported scams and fraud jobs, it seems like banks could close this off by making certain banking features opt-in. That's it. Case 1: Senior Citizen is defrauded by scammers who manage to get his card […]

As a browser user, I really want random "what's new" tabs to open with every update.

Section of agave flower in neighbour's garden. Pentax Q10, Minolta 200mm f/4 MC Tele-Rokkor. Crop factor gives ~1000mm focal length equiv. Not exactly easy to handhold and focus on a dark overcast day!

PROPOSAL: Every device that contains a digital camera, sufficient processing power and suitable UI/UX features shall implement a mechanism by which time and date can be set by photographing a QR code. The QR code will contain the current time in UTC plus […] [Original post on jauntygoat.net]

Seeking suggestions! I feel like this must have been solved before by someone. I have a collection of random files in (non-AWS) S3 storage. I would like to deploy a reverse proxy equivalent that makes these files easily accessible in a desktop browser, including generating index files for […]

I scanned a handful of old commercial UNIX newsletters from 1983: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1su6vVa5vXe5FpI-4WB5AQyex_jS_t2XI?usp=sharing "commUNIXations" Number 12 is particularly interesting - an issue dedicated to the commercial databases available on UNIX at the time.

I think the designers of the OEL install GUI need to spend some time in a locked room with a11y experts and blind people. Angry a11y experts and angrier blind people.

Why yes, this is a helpful graph.

As a returning customer, I'd like my product view obscured by a modal dialogue that invites me to submit my email address for a discount that is only applicable to new customers.

Some odd routing out of TPG's network today; some odd packet black holes.

As a customer who purchased a clearly one-off item with a minimum expected service life of ten years, I'd like to receive emails suggesting I buy the same product weekly.

As a user, I'd like to see the synopsis for a film I haven't seen replaced with a modal dialogue box prompting me to rate the film.

As a user, I'd like to avoid the checkout process in order to view your carefully crafted modal popup chastising me for allowing my cursor to leave the window.

As a user, I'd like the website to hide the product I'm looking at so I can focus on the primary business at hand, signing up to mailing lists.

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Chickens must want some new shallow depth of field portraits .. bok bok bok bokeh! bok bok bok bokeh!

What sort of pigs-anus-for-a-brain comes up with putting TTL serial on a micro-USB connector *AND* using D+ and the ID pin? The ID pin that no cable breaks out? FFS.

Well, that's the very last 2TB Seagate Barracuda to fault out from my backup server, making a total of about eight of that model drive to fail on me. That series really was a reputation-killer for Seagate.

more crucially important musicological research being conducted in hazardous conditions. #vinyl #cheese #80s #eighties

Scott Bessent walks into a café. "We need to reform your business model", says Scott. "But my financials are great and my customers are happy!", replies the café owner. "Your business is just unsustainable. You need to sell less coffee and buy more furniture."

@mherbert What has three letters and still appears in my Zabbix?

Why does it look a lot like the Australian Government is eschewing a trade alliance with China + South Korea + Japan in favour of waggling their arse at Trump?

Thanks to the fine work of @decryption I can apply an appropriate caution to the 3D printer. #3dprinting

More spam from Canonical. Call me old-fashioned, but it still bugs me to see a Linux company sending UCE to my personal email address. Between their oddball hiring process that seems to screw reasonable people and their spam engine, I'm not sure I'd have much desire to do business with […]

String of failed prints, all the usual "wash the print plate" routine until I remembered that this was the old HT plate that was crapped out and I have another HT plate. Which immediately prints perfectly. gah.

Conquering the remote control automations for the lounge room.

C'mon, get your chicken addiction on: https://368chickens.com/