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ThisCJ

@ThisCJ@mastodon.nz

Recovering IT guy. Interested in technology and (human) development. Lives in Te Tau Ihu, Aotearoa but often found elsewhere.

Avatar is me wearing a mask and holding a book about WIndows 95. (Picture is present day).

Background pic is an astro shot of the Milky Way that I took in the Australian outback

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ThisCJ, to random
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Northern hemisphere right now, outer suburb of London

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Why I don’t use the Oxford Comma:

“Flutter apps can work on Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, and the Flutter UI and rendering engine, included with every app, translates everything to the OS layer.”

The Oxford comma before “and Mac OS” means that one can’t easily discern the end of the list. If, instead, it read “…Windows, Linux and Mac OS, and the Flutter UI and rendering engine,“ one would know that the Flutter UI and rendering engine were not part of the list but a separate clause.

iangriffin, to movies
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So. In a moment of complete madness, I have decided to take only some of my collection of analogue cameras to photograph the next aurora display over Hoopers Inlet. i'll take a Pentax ME Super, A Pentax 6x7, a Canon EOS 3 and also a Tomiyama 6x12. The 35mm will be shooting at ISO 400 and the 120 cameras will shoot Portia 800.

ThisCJ,
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@iangriffin I cut my photography teeth on a Pentax ME Super. I still shoot with a Pentax DSLR

iangriffin, to random
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3 years ago today I flew into an auroral storm in the southern auroral oval on board an Air Nz air liner. Here’s a timelapse taken from the flight deck

video/mp4

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@iangriffin was that with Captain Rodney Hall? My neighbour.

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I remember when Stuff (the NZ news site) used to serve content as HTML. Those were good days. Since Stuff's latest "upgrade" I haven't been able to load it on any of my devices.

No, I don't fancy turning off my security settings or ad-blockers. If the price of that is not reading Stuff any more, I'll pay that. I wonder how many others are in the same situation?

iangriffin, to random
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quite pleased with the new garden ornaments which reflect a key part of my cultural background…

ThisCJ,
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@iangriffin Wallace and Grommit!

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Just went back to the Stuff website after a few days of not using it. It really is a dog, isn't it? And that's unfair to dogs.

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Brisbane is the same size as Auckland. This is how you get to the airport in Brisbane. In NZ we can’t even get political consensus to build a few km of line from Manukau to AKL.

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Just had a clear view of two of Jupiter’s moon through the 12x36 binos. @iangriffin would probably know which ones they are

iangriffin, to random
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Xmas day question. What was the last movie that got best picture Oscar you have seen. Mine is Argo….:

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@iangriffin @BobLefridge Napoleon (prediction)

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@iangriffin @BobLefridge fair call. But N was a more well known historical figure

billbennett, to random
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I want a minimal network attached storage device, it doesn’t need any bays, a single disk would suffice, just an Ethernet port and software so I can plug it into the router. This used to be a trivial ask, but my 12 year old NAS died and there doesn’t seem to be a simple replacement.

Any ideas?

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@billbennett Raspberry Pi with a USB attached SSD?

ThisCJ,
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@billbennett What are you plugging the USB device into? One possibility is that it doesn't have the current available for an HDD or SSD. If you have a USB powered hub try interposing that @karora

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@billbennett @karora Bill, it may depend how the SSD is formatted. The router is probably expecting something boring like FAT32 or whatever modern Windows uses. If it's formatted for MacOS the router may not recognise it. You could verify that in the router docs and reformat using MacOD Disk Utility if necessary

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@billbennett @karora For what it's worth I have a media server in my travel kit composed of a RPi4 w/official power supply and a Samsung 1TB SSD plugged to a USB3 port. It works fine. I can see it as an SMB server on the network and load files on. Playback is by VLC on an AppleTV. It's not the fastest file server ever but it's enough to stream 4K video.

I've tried using an HDD instead of the SSD but the RPi doesn't have enough power to drive it.

mjg59, to random
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Pretty much exactly 19 years ago I got on a train to Oxford and made Mark Shuttleworth's laptop successfully suspend and resume using ACPI and that was the turning point in my entire career

ThisCJ,
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@mjg59 I went to Cape Town in 2003 and was given an Ubuntu CD. Installed it on my work laptop when I got back to NZ

ThisCJ,
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@mjg59 you’re right of course, I just checked my email archive and it was Dec 04. Calvin from the domain name registry gave it me

billbennett, to random
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Do I understand the big picture correctly?

… if SpaceX makes billions in profit (largely by selling Starlink subscriptions) Elon Musk will spend the money leading an elite cohort of right-wing nut jobs on what would almost certainly be a one way mission to Mars.

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@billbennett you had me at Musk and one way

pluralistic, to random
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My bank's site loads slowly, so I switch to other tabs in Firefox while it's loading; however, the site has some script to determine if its tab has focus, and it suspends loading if it's not the tab I'm looking at. How do I trick the website into thinking I'm looking at its tab?

ETA: Opening a new window doesn't work.

ThisCJ,
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@pluralistic fire your bank?

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It’s time @NewshubNZ fessed up to being Seymour’s comms team. The dude is never off their homepage

ThisCJ,
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@BobReynard This reflects the leader of the opposition being unable to do anything other criticise the government (“chaotic!”, “botched!”) without coming up with any intersting to say himself. What Luxon says is predictable and uninteresting. Seymour manages to take interesting positions and gets reported for it. (PS that doesn’t mean I agree with Seymour. Just explaining that he’s getting air time by beating National)

iangriffin, to random
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It's the time of night that, being alone atop a mountain inside a telescope dome waiting for the sky to clear I break out the emergency Dire Straits playlist. Bring on Romeo & Juliet.

ThisCJ,
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@iangriffin I used to have a scene with him

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