Just an Aussie tech guy - home automation, ESP gadgets, networking. Also love my camping and 4WDing.
Be a good motherfucker. Peace.
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Just an Aussie tech guy - home automation, ESP gadgets, networking. Also love my camping and 4WDing.
Be a good motherfucker. Peace.
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
If you're seeing this, I'm in jail. (www.youtube.com)
(Not me) Official video from David McBride’s Official Youtube channel. If you don’t know who he is - I don’t blame you, with how little coverage this story has gotten
Muting system sounds at night time
I’ve just switched back to an iPhone after 10 years on Android, so forgive me if this is an obvious question....
(RANT) Container deposit scheme: an absolute joke! (reddrefuge.com)
IMO, this is yet another government initiative that’s turning out to be an absolute joke....
So glad I'm ditching these fucking idiots (reddrefuge.com)
Can’t even take a short break from 3D designing stuff. Glad I’m switching over to FreeCAD. All I wanted was to grab some dimensions from an old model.
Fossify Music Player 1.0.0 released (github.com)
cross-posted from: reddrefuge.com/post/189022...
Haier, the air conditioner maker, takes down open source third-party Home Assistant integration (lemmy.world)
Thankfully I don’t use any of their products, but this really pisses me off. They claim that this open source project “causes significant economic harm to their company”...
Tips for a new Ender owner?
So, after nearly 10 years of faithful service, my shitty ol’ Wanhao i3 Plus is finally ready for retirement. Steppers are buzzing, occasional collisions with the bed, and the heat block just doesn’t… heat as quickly as it used to....
What are your homelab stats?
I just spent a good chunk of today migrating some services onto new docker containers in Proxmox LXCs....
I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help: (lemmy.world)
I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.
Jimmy Barnes to undergo open heart surgery after bacterial infection spreads (www.abc.net.au)
We have tickets for a festival he’s headlining next month. I’m sure the promoters will line up someone else who’ll put on a good show but, having seen Jimmy at this festival before, I know he’ll be missed....
Australia developing 'top secret' intelligence cloud computing system (www.abc.net.au)
I assume this is the genesis of a Five Eyes cloud platform....
Catholic Education Tasmania head takes issue with mandatory consent education (www.abc.net.au)
“In Catholic morality, consent is necessary, but not sufficient, to make the sexual act right or wrong. It is the long-held teaching of Christ that sexual activity is only legitimately expressed within the loving relationship between husband and wife.”...
Nearly three weeks, and our lizard is still reclusive and hissing - normal?
So, a couple of weeks ago, I wrote to this community, asking for some advice about our new blue tongue’s eating. And the advice I got really helped us start to understand the lizard brain a little better....
Question from a first-time lizard owner
We got our daughter (9yo) a blue tongue lizard for her birthday this week. We picked it up on Tuesday afternoon (it’s now Saturday morning, here in Australia). The store says it’s about 6 months old....
Bluff Track, Alpine National Park, Victoria (reddrefuge.com)
Took this coming down the mountain from Lovick’s Hut, roughly halfway to Bluff Hut, looking west....
Looking for/to create a sectional garage door position sensor
Hi all - I have a sectional garage door, that I’m currently automating with a relay to trigger button press on the garage door motor, and a simple reed switch for open/closed state, using esphome on a Wemos D1 mini....
‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones (www.wsj.com)
(unpaywalled version on archive.today: archive.ph/03cwZ)...
How are you keeping on top of fleet updates?
Just wondering what tools and techniques people are using to keep on top of updates, particularly security-related updates, for their self-hosting fleet....
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
A New Zealand supermarket experimenting with using AI to generate meal plans has seen its app produce some unusual dishes – recommending customers recipes for deadly chlorine gas, “poison bread sandwiches” and mosquito-repellent roast potatoes....
[advice sought] NAS for Proxmox HA
So I recently (a couple months ago) moved my fragmented docker-on-raspberry-pi architecture over to a Proxmox cluster. I’m running it on a pair of HP DL360 G6s, and I couldn’t be happier....
Oh, wow - I found you again!
After seemingly endless days sulking around the Fediverse, looking for something interesting, I thought I’d check sub.rehab to see if Daddit had made the shift, and you/they/we have!...
OPNsense on Proxmox WAN speeds
This weekend, I cutover my home network to OPNsense on Proxmox....
Aside from blocking instances, what other controls do admins have to keep unwanted content off their instances?
I've fired up my own Lemmy instance, but am keeping it closed right now. It's mainly so I don't contribute to the user load on the more popular instances, but I may open it up to a circle of friends and family at some point in the future....