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psfshr

@psfshr@mastodon.me.uk

Husband. Dad. IT Infrastructure Architect. Owner of gadgets. Drinker of coffee. Do-er of stuff. He/Him.

Views are my own and not that of my employer or anyone else, etc, etc.

Day Job : #ITInfrastructure / #ITArchitecture
Dabble : #HomeAutomation / #HomeTech
Fun: #Family / #Gaming / #XBox

#ProEU #EUFamily #AntiBrexit 🇪🇺

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psfshr, to random
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Is DuckDuckGo having issues? Not returning results on multiple devices here

psfshr,
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@Floppy No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the American White? Beautiful plumage!

Floppy, to selfhosted
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Looking for #SelfHosted advice: Thinking of binning my home-made Ansible setup of various docker containers in favour of something more off the shelf.

Any recommendations for user-friendly orchestration systems that work well across multiple nodes so that I can cluster my various raspberries pi?

I think Portainer can do it, are there others?

psfshr,
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@Floppy Think it depends on what you mean by ‘orchestrate’ and ‘cluster’.
If you mean another way to manage a bunch of docker hosts, then Portainer does give you a better UI, though I think it’s still largely compose based.
If you want proper clustering with all that jazz, then I suspect it’s something like Kubernetes with something like Ansible or Terraform on top to ‘orchestrate’.
Depends on what you’re trying to achieve 🤷🏻‍♂️

ben, to random
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started offering in my area.

It sounded quite tempting until I looked closer at their terms.

Residential packages:

  • 24 month contract
  • price goes up a tenner a month if you roll off the end
  • Use of their router reqd

If you want a static IP, or to put the router in bridging mode, you need a business pkg, which are all symmetric, so cost a good chunk more.

I'd be paying more for less.

I think I'll stick with @aaisp and wait for Openreach to get FTTP rolled out round here.

psfshr, (edited )
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@danieldurrans @ben
Last new build we had was the same, alternative local loop provider who had deals with 2 or 3 no-name ISPs plus themselves.
New build we’re in now is all BT OR FTTP, but it still took us 3-4 years to be able to get any other serious ISP than BT Retail.

danieldurrans, to random
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What domain registrar is the "go to" these days?

People who run their own registrar need not answer this question ;)

psfshr,
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@danieldurrans For me @beasts

Floppy, (edited ) to random
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It’s May 4th! What shall I get the kids to watch tonight?

psfshr,
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@Floppy Phineas & Ferb : Star Wars

ianbetteridge, to random
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Same thing happened to me, although the reset@was much smoother and it took about 5 minutes. https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/04/26/janky-apple-id-security/

psfshr,
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@danieldurrans @ianbetteridge Our shared iCloud account prompted a reset and lockout this morning as well. My main account hasn’t done it (so far).

psfshr,
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@danieldurrans @ianbetteridge

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/27/apple-id-accounts-logging-out-users/

CatherineFlick, to random
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Can anyone explain to me how these people sleep at night? I just don’t understand how a company that feeds kids can see a profit rise of 30% as anything other than a damning indictment of the quality of their food and treatment of their workers.

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@Floppy @CatherineFlick I think many forget that any company which isn’t explicitly set up as a not-for-profit, charity, etc., generally is there to make money, it just depends how much and what they sacrifice to do it 🤷🏻‍♂️

(e.g. the assumption that newspapers are there to report news, rather than being there to make money - so do they then print news because it’s newsworthy, or because it’ll help make more money?)

Floppy, to random
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I am so intensely sick of people sending out forms in docx and other crappy formats that can't reliably opened without getting screwed up. God forbid someone actually learn to use a fucking webform. Surely we should have moved beyond this by now.

psfshr,
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@Floppy Probably the same people who when asked to send an photo embed it into Word as a BMP and then send the document 🤦🏻

danieldurrans, to bristol
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Queueing for a free burger at Oowee in . Not sure what Emma is going to do for dinner this evening as I forgot to defrost the pie.

psfshr,
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@danieldurrans Pielolly?

CatherineFlick, to random
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No it didn’t! https://mastodon.me.uk/@pauljrobinson/112105501778147826

psfshr,
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@CatherineFlick @pauljrobinson I think it’s just dropping in a link and then intelligently displaying a post when it sees the same. Don’t think the server is aware of what’s going on to send the notify 🤷🏻‍♂️

Still think a quote should also be a reply, so the person being quoted is aware, but 🤷🏻‍♂️

danieldurrans, to random
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I think I had a faster internet connection when I was on dialup than when staying in this hotel.

It's mind boggling that a hotel (generally business travellers) has awful internet in this day and age. I'm not even in the middle of nowhere.

psfshr,
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@danieldurrans Did they happen to also have a “premium” plan for the Internet by any chance?

18+ Floppy, to random
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You may have seen the news about the dissolution of the Open Collective Foundation. While this is really sad and will impact a lot of people, OCF is not @opencollective itself, but a fiscal host for US charities.

The platform we use to raise funds is NOT affected, and nor is our UK-based fiscal host, The Social Change Nest. We’re all good 😊

More info: https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-official-statement-ocf-dissolution/

psfshr,
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@Floppy Is this where someone adds the note that most Mastodon servers are privately run by individuals, and not corporations with deep pockets?
Individuals who have mortgages and who need to put food on the table like the rest of us 🙂
So if people haven't already considered donating to their local instance, maybe now is the time?

psfshr,
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@Floppy I admit, it would be rather crass to suggest that a couple of $, €, or £ a month could make all the difference to keeping an instance going, so I shall not say any more 😁

Floppy, to random
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Transferring this domain across to @beasts... always a bit nerve racking; hopefully nothing will explode in the process.

psfshr,
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@Floppy

GIF from the film Ghostbusters with Peter saying “See you on the other side Ray” to Ray

psfshr,
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@Floppy Still showing Cloudflare as the NS records for mastodon.me.uk for me

psfshr,
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@Floppy Nominet is showing as Beasts, so it's probably just a case of waiting out propagation

psfshr,
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@Floppy It's now showing as Beasts via both Google and Cloudflare resolvers, so that's a good chunk of the Internet done 🙂

psfshr, to random
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Is there a word for when you’re using a swipe keyboard, and despite knowing what word you’re typing your thumb traces out a completely different word?

Floppy, to random
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I do wish HMRC’s reminders bore some relation to what I’ve actually done. It’s rather annoying getting a slew of submission and payment reminders when I did all that last April.

psfshr,
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@Floppy I haven’t needed to do a tax return in about 5 years, but every year since they insist on sending me the “DON’T FORGET YOUR TAX RETURN!!!!” emails over and over…

Floppy, to random
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Just realised I got nerd-sniped by my daughter, asking what black holes are when she should have been going to bed.

psfshr,
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@Floppy Get the same with my son. Putting him to bed when he’ll ask about <science subject>. I’m usually about 20min in before I realise, or my better half shouts that he’s supposed to be going to bed 🤦🏻

danieldurrans, to random
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I ordered something from Amazon EU earlier in the week. It was last tracked in Marseille, France, on Wednesday evening.

I am genuinely curious as to where it is... is it on the back of a lorry slowly making its way up through France?

Normally I expect a daily, at worst, tracking update from Amazon for stuff in the UK but as soon as something is non-UK it all gets a bit mysterious.

Is the UK just really good at tracking parcels?

psfshr,
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@danieldurrans Having shipped stuff to and from Portugal, yes 👍

Generally get a lot more detail within the UK, whereas PT generally just lists a single entry 🤷🏻‍♂️

danieldurrans, to random
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I can't say I am keen on shops going paperless for receipts.

When buying online I accept the fact I have to give them personal details.

When buying in person I don't really want to be giving my email address out in the middle of a shop.

psfshr,
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@danieldurrans I’m surprised the card/phone companies aren’t all over this. It would be relatively easy to do something linked to the card number to automatically generate and store a receipt online 🤷🏻‍♂️

danieldurrans, to random
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As the binfluencer of the street, I am feeling really on edge today. Friday is normally bin or recycling day, but this week that isn't the case.

psfshr,
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@danieldurrans So does Swindon to be fair, and I did add all the dates to the calendar, but it’s still triggers a brain fart each week (we went from everything fortnightly, to part collections every week).

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