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🏳️‍⚧️ random photography and weird tech projects

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kev, to random
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Whenever I, or someone else, posts a link to this blog on Mastodon, it DDoS's me and brings the site down for a couple minutes.

https://kevquirk.com/mastodon-is-ddosing-me

alyx,
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@kev is this a dynamically generated blog page from Ghost or WordPress or something? Dynamic generation may cause a performance hit if you're using that. My site serves completely static pages from nginx and uses a similarly specced VM and can (and has) taken the full hit of frontpaging HN without CDN caching enabled without skipping a beat.

alyx,
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@kev one of the most impactful things you can do is lowering the bar for what the server has to do to serve a page, ideally the most it should have to do is read from disk or a memory cache and serve it. Talking to a database and having to generate HTML on the fly for every request is going to nuke your performance pretty hard, and unfortunately that's how a lot of blog software rolls. Hugo and Jekyll are my preferred blog generators right now because your run it once and it spits out HTML files

alyx, to random
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i should have a cake shop make a replica of the hurricane + cogent cake from NANOG 47

alyx, to random
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i should name a 3 node hypervisor cluster after the magi in evangelion

alyx, to random
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A bit late with this but last week I travelled with @erin and @ashley to Amherst, Ohio to try to shoot the Solar Eclipse! The entire endeavor was pretty poorly planned, but I think we got some pretty great shots out of it.

A photo of totality of the solar eclipse. There are prominences in red at the 11-oclock, 7-o-clock and 1-o-clock positions.
A photo where just a tiny sliver of the sun at the top left is visible.

alyx,
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The original plan was to be in Niagara falls, but on the morning of the eclipse the cloud cover wasn't looking promising, so we made a last minute call to head for Ohio (at 6 in the morning!).

alyx,
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If you're interested in gear, I made a post a few days ago, here:
https://frogs.lgbt/@alyx/112239737402882008

alyx,
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I'm glad we went with "random place in Ohio", because wow we lucked out.

The other alternate was Burlington, VT which also ended up being not-so-great.

alyx,
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I'll post film photos when they come in from the lab and I get them scanned in, but for now here's some other photos from the trip:

A photo of a bird sitting on a concrete ledge, looking into the light source on the right.
A photo taken from the seat of a Delta airliner. On the left side of the frame, there's the plane's wing with the winglet ending near the top left corner of the image, and in the background there's a bunch of very fluffy blue-grey clouds just before sunrise. The sky in the background is orange.
A photo of one of the Maid of the Mist tour boats. It's in the distance on a diagonal angle. There's numerous people wearing red life jackets, and there's a lot of mist from the waterfall in the foreground.

alyx,
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On the first of our trip, we met up and had a great time playing board games with @kitten and @alicja while we waited for our hotel check-in time

alyx,
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Who knew that you could still find Bell Canada pay phones!

alyx,
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@erin on one of the passenger conveyor belt things in DTW

alyx,
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@erin again, this time in the light tunnel in DTW

alyx, to random
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saw some network switches the other week that use HDMI as a stacking interface

i hate it so, so much

alyx, to random
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anycats (anycast cats)

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check out this useful little box https://www.crowdsupply.com/techxartisan/openterface-mini-kvm

alyx,
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@jacqueline oh that's cute

alyx,
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@jacqueline it looks like basically those Blackbox and Startech ones but probably better?

because those blackbox and startech ones kinda suck and also cost like $600

alyx, to random
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if you have IPv6 and want to post on my silly IPv6-only novelty instance, feel free to register and I'll approve accounts as I have the opportunity to

https://ipv6.camp

alyx, to random
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one thing that really irks me about Mac OS is that "Natural Scrolling" is bound together for both the mouse and touch pad

becuase, at least for me, my preferred and instinctual scroll direction is different for the scroll wheel than it is with the touchpad

alyx,
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any time I have a mouse plugged in I have to tick "natural scrolling" back off and ugh

alyx, to random
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know the difference:

anamorphic lens (it horizontally compresses the image)

animorphic lens (it shines a blue light on you and you gain the power to shapeshift)

alyx, to random
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i left my computer unlocked :3

alyx, to random
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i finished editing the pilk cheese video, now i need to bother to render it

alyx, to random
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- Do you like to meow?

meow assembly here https://37c3.c3nav.de/l/c:3:164.46:146.51/
day 4 - 14:00

(come meow with us)

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