jamesoff

Edent, 3 months ago to fediverse

In theory you should be able to follow this test user:

@你好

But I can't find any Fediverse software which actually supports non-ASCII usernames.

If you are able to see the user, its description, and its avatar - please send me a screenshot 🙂

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Unicode

jamesoff, 3 months ago to random

<news> the Icon of the Seas is longer than three football pitches
<me> you know what else is longer than three football pitches
<@jamesoff> four football pitches
<me> exactly

danieldurrans, 4 months ago to random

“Please chat with us through our app!"

Do I have to? I can type so much faster on a physical keyboard.

jamesoff, 4 months ago to random

Blood donation cancelled due to technical issues (needle/vein interaction), but was far enough through the steps that I can’t retry until after standard three month timeout :/

jamesoff, 4 months ago to FreeBSD

Not sure who set up this swap partition — I mean, I’m the admin of this instance but it was originally launched from a provided template, I think — but I don’t think I’ll bother using it.

#FreeBSD

jamesoff, 4 months ago to random

@MonaApp any idea why Mona can’t sign in to snac? After going through the oauth form it GETs /api/v1/accounts/verify_credentials a bunch of times (looks successful in my logs) before the app says “The data couldn’t be read because it is missing”. Is it looking for something snac doesn’t include in the response? The response code is here if it helps: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/src/branch/master/mastoapi.c#L1112 Thanks!

jamesoff, 4 months ago to random

Today in “how hard could this be”

jamesoff, 5 months ago to random

Brother has arrived for Christmas so time for a new (to me) beer of his.

A beer (can) from Cloak + Dagger, called Holy Calamity. Session Pale, 4%, citrus pale.

jamesoff, 5 months ago to random

Knocked up a quick guide to our shower controls for visitors

jamesoff, 5 months ago to FreeBSD

Upgraded my mastodon server to #FreeBSD 14. Fairly straightforward but ended up updating Ruby to 3.2.2 to fix a build error.

Added notes to my post at https://jamesoff.net/2022/12/05/mastodon-on-freebsd.html

danieldurrans, 5 months ago to random

Looking at swapping out pihole/Unbound for something else.

I am going to break something in a horrible way aren't I.

jamesoff, 5 months ago to random

Types of conference workshop attendees:

• Turns up with no device at all but expects to be able to do workshop somehow
• Company laptop needs a mandatory restart for updates. Spends the whole session moving the always-on-top message out of the way
• “Time to catch up on Slack”
• Already used all these services at a 400 level, just wants to ask difficult questions
• Brought own mechanical keyboard
• Impervious to instructions; chooses own adventure (gets stuck)
• WORLD’S LARGEST LAPTOP

jamesoff, 5 months ago to random

If AWS launch a custom processor for Amazon Bedrock, we should call it Titan IC

jamesoff, 5 months ago to random

are:Invent keynote announcement: ElastiCache Serverless — wonder how cost-effective this is for Mastodon servers, particularly very small ones like mine :)

danieldurrans, 6 months ago to random

London here I come!

Cameras are charged… let’s see what I can find.

Also looking forward to some tacos from Seven Dials Market.

jamesoff, 6 months ago to random

wiki: the source of truth anyone can edit

jamesoff, 6 months ago to random

My new-to-me NUCs arrived today; two seem ok but one seems unhappy about POSTing and blinks its power led three times in a loop before bringing up a message about failing to POST. The Visual BIOS works ok once you get in to it - except the SSD is missing in the device list, and if I convince it to boot from my USB stick it can launch the FreeBSD installer ok. Flashing the BIOS seems to succeed but doesn’t help and none of the assorted reset options have helped.

jamesoff, 6 months ago to random

What do the four lights on a contactless card reader mean? They seem to be standard including virtual ones shown on on "all-screen" payment terminals. I assume they're indicating the stages of energising (for cards) and communicating with the chip.