#Marlborough’s Whites Bay (📷1) is named for a black whaler, Black Jack White, who arrived in 1826 to live with Māori. In 1886 the first telegraph cable linked South Island here to North Island’s #Wellington; the cable station was restored in 1977 (📷3). Black Jack Track is a 4km loop that begins climbing from the E end of the bay (📷3); it has views into Port Underwood (📷4).
Uplifting of Ward Beach during the 2016 Kaikōura quake changed the course of the Flaxbourne River (📷1), exposing bedrock. Crossed it & walked 4km south to Needles Point (📷2), which features limestone pillars (~1.5h walk thru loose gravel). Banded dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus) owned the beach (📷3), swallow (Hirundo neoxena) the sky & seals were threading the needles (📷4).
Finally played with #Hashicorp#Nomad this evening. It's an interesting alternative to the slobbering behemoth that is #kubernetes
I do like the way they've broke things up into arbitrary jobs that you can use various services to deploy (e.g. cloud, local container, etc.) but I don't love the DSL (HCL in this case) you write to describe said jobs.
Definitely a super interesting tool that merits more investigation IMO. We've just been watching people footgunning themselves with Kubernetes at scale and wondering "Gee let's explore the alternatives".
(2/2) The 2km/ 40min walk from Waikari to the rock art in Weka Pass Historic Reserve is a little steep & muddy in winter; being enveloped by low cloud (📷1) merely added drama to an already dramatic limestone landscape (📷2). By the time we reached the rock art shelter (📷3) it had brightened up, so the Southern Alps we’d not seen at all on the hill ascent were revealed (📷4).
Idea: An app that uses your device location to update your current city on a public webpage with a map and an Activity Pub feed. Completely hands off way to keep friends and family update on your current travels, with the potential to grow into a federated network of nomads.
Would you want something like this? #digitalnomad#nomad#opensource#activitypub#socialnetwork#travel
#Christchurch Transitional Cathedral is an interim place of worship while work to reinstate the Cathedral in the Square is underway (damaged during 2011 quakes). Also known as the Cardboard Cathedral for it’s construction using locally-made cardboard tubes (with pine beam reinforcement inside). Features shipping container alcoves & polycarbonate cladding to keep water out!
I took a dive into #Vitess today, the "secret sauce" from YouTube (and Planetscale) for crazy database scaling.
Honestly it does look really good, nicer than Galera, but they really need better documentation and examples for everyone that doesn't use Kubernetes. 😡
So for now I don't think I'm going to use it. That said, I think I will switch to Percona from MariaDB, to save myself the migration pain later.
I spent a bit more time playing with and pondering if it was worth using #HashiCorp#Nomad at this time, but I'm not entirely sure it helps me...yet?
Hashicorp #Consul would be useful. No longer having to manage IP addresses, and automating firewalls would be so nice. The way it ties into #Envoy for zero-trust networking is classy. That said I feel there's still some ambiguity to the docs that make tying this all together less obvious than it should be.
Pokłosie weekendu: samochody na miejscówce. Było ich sporo. Zamierzam do piątku przenieść się w bardziej odludne miejsce. Auta, imprezy, głośna muzyka, nawet fajerwerki … nie tego teraz potrzebuję :)
Even on a chilly winter day Le Bons Bay on Banks Peninsula gave off good vibes, offering a nice beach, sandy creek & pine forest walk (📷1). Okains Bay is not dissimilar, with a cave near the beach & mussel-encrusted remains of a jetty (📷2). On the southern side, a view to Akaroa Harbour entrance from Wainui Main Rd (📷3) & view across the harbour to Akaroa from Wainui (📷4).
Attended the 2023 Let’s Go #Queensland Caravan & Camping Supershow at #Brisbane Showgrounds; the largest caravanning event in the state. Something for everyone from expedition vehicles (📷1), hybrid trailers that transform into larger accommodations (📷2), compact 2-person 4WD motorhomes (📷3), to retro-style caravans (📷4). Quite different from European shows: here the off-road capable caravans dominate—the terrain is much tougher.
Lyttelton “hoons” (typically young male drivers) did wheelies in car park nr. freedom camping spot in the wee hours. Shopkeeper told us it’s a frequent problem, as is car theft. Still, some heritage architecture (📷1–3) to admire. Pie lovers will appreciate Hope River Pies (📷4); the hallmark of a good pie isn’t just the filling; it must use a different base & top pastry! 🥧
#ActivityPub#spam seems to be spreading nowadays. It isn't new, I moved away from my previous instance because it didn't have active mod volunteers.
#Snikket's idea of invites (#XMPP, not AP) seems like a good way to both control spam and onboard users. Mods can rate-limit account creation by judiciously creating invites. Users can generate 1 invite each, but can expect to also get banned if their invitee is a spammer. User-invited users would have a real account to bootstrap their connections.
@olives I have not seen too many approaches being available. There is open-house #ActivityPub, clique-y #Zot / #Nomad or this invite system which seems to be in between.
Scale isn't something a federated system should care about. That and vulnerable groups are a non-tech problem, they are not nails for the tech hammer.
It is fine for somebody giving out an invite to be liable in that sense, it will make sure invites are used judiciously.
@volkris interesting view. Web of trust-ness seems to be there in #SecureScuttlebutt (it "gossips" content from friends and friend-of-friend, friends are cryptographically verified by design).
Per your view, #Zot / #Nomad would work well on the user-in-control front (although whether their #Hubzilla / #Streams UX implementations work for users is questionable).
I envision actors having public keys as their IDs, possibly with some system for updates/revocations. When actor references are passed, they're sent together with the current (or last known) network location of the actor. Each server keeps a directory mapping IDs to locations. Actors can transparently move between instances, by sending a Move notification about their new location. Anyone who misses the notification can query friends/others who did get it.
@pere
> public keys as ID's
> directory mapping ID's to current location
#Hubzilla does this in its #Nomad protocol. In its #Streams incarnation, it seems to present #ActivityPub posts as a public stream and native Nomad posts as a fine-grain-permissioned stream.
Lake Wakatipu from Bennetts Bluff (📷1&2) & Twelve Mile Delta Campsite (📷3&4). At 80km NZs longest lake. At 291 sq km NZs 3rd largest. At 380m NZs 3rd deepest (surface at 310m elevation, so goes below sea level). 5 rivers in, 1 out. Level oscillates (a seiche or standing wave) due to unique shape & differential effects of wind/ atmosphere on “restrained” parts. #Queenstown
Kawarau Suspension Bridge (📷1) was completed in 1880. The current bridge, built in the 60s (📷2), saw it retire after 82 yrs of service (now part of #Queenstown Trail). Since 1988 AJ Hackett Bungy have encouraged thrill-seekers to plunge towards waters in the Kawarau Gorge (📷3) below it, tied—hopefully well—to an elastic cord (📷4). There’s also now a flying fox option (📷2).
The life of a nomad painter (youtube.com)
A story of my journey as a painter in a nomadic lifestyle.