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jamesoff

@jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net

I write a bunch of code (mainly Python), have cats, tinker with and detail cars, and fiddle with FreeBSD. I like taking (making?) photos. Playing with Internet stuff since '96. Interested in kernels, protocols, and inner workings in general. Intermittent cyclist. Cloudy Amazonian, and they tell me my opinions are my own.

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revk, to random
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No no no!
I dislike GS-1 for all sorts of reasons, and they even have the odd typo in their standards, but they do at least have standards.
It is no surprise they could not scan this at my wine dealer.
#barcode

jamesoff,
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@Edent @revk or https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode_Battler

jamesoff, to random
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Result :) best car in show, “looked like it just came out of the factory.” I’ll take that.

neil, to random

Good morning! The wind here has died down, and it is quiet outside.

What are your plans for the day?

jamesoff,
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@neil brought a car I spent most of yesterday detailing to a show-and-shine competition. Also the cafe at the venue does excellent cooked breakfasts :)

Edent, to wordpress
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Hmmmm... Something in my install has added a "Newsletter" <th> on my posts page.
Pretty sure it wasn't there yesterday.
Rogue plugin or something official?

jamesoff,
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@Edent excellent "Steps to reproduce” :)

neil, (edited ) to random

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    jamesoff,
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    @neil Apple Mail, Outlook and GMail (my usual clients) make top-posting the easiest, and like you say most people expect it, so I usually end up doing it.

    My current campaign at work is to get people to trim the quoted block below their content a bit. I just select from the start of the signature of the mail I’m replying to the end and replace with “[snip]”, unless there’s useful context in there for just-added recipients.

    Just doing my bit for sustainability 🤏

    jamesoff, to random
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    Another day, another Toot composed then cancelled using @ivory share sheet because there’s no way to add alt text to the image from there

    jamesoff, to random
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    Made a quick Toggle Tailscale shortcut for iOS so I can do it right from my Home Screen. Wasn’t immediately obvious how to interrogate the connection status but it turned out to be straightforward enough

    jamesoff,
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    @danieldurrans Tailscale is only (available as) a service, although there's a third-party implementation of the control plane you can self-host. It's Wireguard underneath. It's pretty much a single click to set up and Just Works :)

    jamesoff,
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    @danieldurrans yeah it handles STUN and what have you automatically, and the MagicDNS stuff is great. I have my home dns setup (my own ad filtering) handling a view so Tailscale clients get Tailscale IPs in responses for my stuff at home, which makes it work when I’m on another network using the same range as home (which means the routing stuff can’t work)

    jamesoff,
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    @danieldurrans basically on everything - I do also have subnet routing/exit node enabled on a host (my Synology I think) just in case, but the DNS thing works for everything I need now. I did consider renumbering but couldn’t face it :)

    jamesoff,
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    @danieldurrans cool, apart from the connection reliability. I’ve not encountered that, is there a set of conditions which drive it?

    jamesoff,
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    @danieldurrans ah interesting, I tend to enable it on-demand(ish) when I go out (I have an iOS Automation which does it, although because Apple it can only prompt me to connect not actually do it). Definitely works for me with CarPlay though, I'm playing music from Plex at home with PlexAmp in the car. I've had it occasionally disconnect but never enough to dig in to or spot a pattern.

    Edent, to linux
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    I'm sure I remember a clock app for which was deliberately vague.

    It would declare the time as "Nearly tea-time" or "A little after elevenses" or "Quite late" or "Gosh, that's early".

    I can find no evidence that it existed and am beginning to wonder if I dreamt it.

    Anyone know what I'm wibbling about?

    jamesoff,
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    @Edent KDE could do it in the taskbar IIRC

    Edent, to random
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    That naughty fellow @revk is such an influencer!

    jamesoff,
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    @Edent @ben

    TIME “23:18”

    Right time to flash my watch again

    ben, to random
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    Fun fact: if you fuck up the only entry in .ssh/config you get some very confusing behaviour

    $ cat .ssh/config
    Hostname gitlabssh.home
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gitlab.key

    What would you expect this to do?

    ssh myserver.example.com

    It'll open a SSH session to gitlabssh.home.

    That first line should be

    Host gitlabssh.home

    The directive HostName is valid, but overrides the destination connection name. With no "Host" before it, it applies globally.

    That was mildly confusing few minutes.

    jamesoff,
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    @ben @neil I did this on the command line once: “hostname something.blah” instead of “host”

    On our border mail gateway.

    That very much confused deliveries.

    jamesoff, to random
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    Just joked about using a <blink> tag in something and one of our younger team members thought it was something I'd made up

    jamesoff, to random
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    PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Cloud

    jamesoff, to random
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    Me: I’ll cache everything aggressively in memory

    Python: [allocates itself 45GiB and gets killed by the OS]

    Me: maybe a bit less aggressive than that then

    jamesoff, to random
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    Hello, Lisbon! You’re quite warm.

    danieldurrans, to random
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    One of the neighbours has been playing extremely loud music in their back garden all afternoon.

    Now the other neighbours are ganging up and having a shouting match with the noisy one.

    I am going to put some popcorn on.

    jamesoff,
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    @danieldurrans make sure it’s loud popcorn

    jamesoff, to random
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    On an internal presentation:

    <moderator> Thank you for that, we have some time for questions if anyone has any
    <presenter> oh no

    danieldurrans, to random
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    I just had to ask a builder to move his truck out of my parking space.

    Except my voice decided to go funny and what came out was a nervous sounding childish squeak.

    jamesoff,
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    @danieldurrans reload from quicksave, try again

    jamesoff, to random
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    Tweaked my adblock lists a bit after finding this useful site for testing them.

    https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html

    danieldurrans, to random
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    Plasters 🩹

    Never enough of the size you need, always too many of the size you don’t.

    jamesoff,
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    @danieldurrans you’re hurting yourself wrong

    jamesoff,
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    @danieldurrans cuts of the size you have plasters anyway

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