We're hiring an SRE into our team in Adelaide, South Australia. If you're a Linux person with good k8s infra skills and you want a job that lets you work on global-scale products, check it out: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal/jobs/5624470004 Boosts for […]

Yet another pointless #macos26 change: when you adjust brightness of the built-in screen, it used to display a brightness meter on that built-in screen that was changing. Now, it displays as a small notification on the (primary) external monitor - but the external monitor isn't the screen that's […]

The beta pronunciation poll has 975 responses! Wonder if it'll get to 1,000 before it closes in a day and a half? https://aus.social/@fortescue/115499323907468860

Latest job application we've had lists interests as (among others) "Accordion performance, Film & Theatre". Immediate hire.

Sunday morning plan: figure out what’s blocking network traffic to my raspberry pi (god I hate home sysadminning with the fire of a thousand suns); get the butter chicken on to marinate so I can cook it for dinner tonight.

Turns out asking people how they pronounce a word is my most popular ever content on the Fediverse. Probably says something about the kind of people I follow (and who follow me).

I gotta be honest, if your application cover letter looks like this, I'm probably not going to read it all. Brevity is a virtue.

It's International Smug Self-Hosters Day! Best wishes to all who celebrate.

I’m old enough to remember when the Internet was decentralised

Pouring one out for all my SRE brethren at AWS and elsewhere

Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security. https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

I may have a new favourite malapropism: > Please understand if I am not responsive in a timely manor today. Thanks. Brings to mind visuals of old English stately homes. "Welcome...to Timely Manor."

Currently loving Ripe - Play The Game. Super fun alt-pop. https://album.link/s/3ECPWZeonsdTEKUvXwjbYm

Just enabled Lossless in #spotify (yeah, I know). I am absolutely fooling myself that I can hear the difference via my little Edifier M60s, but I'm enjoying it nevertheless :crabRave:

I must not get sucked in by the pretty components in the boardgame kickstarter. Boardgame kickstarters are the bank account killers. Boardgame kickstarters are the little purchases that bring total balance reduction. I will face the real metal coins and magnetic latching box and deluxe player […]