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david

@david@theblower.au

IT geek of many trades, hobby Blacksmith, cook and photographer hailing from the southern end of Queensland (Australia)
Beware, I am a fully qualified Dad Joke practitioner.

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I don't want to try the pizza: I want to read the source code ๐Ÿ˜„

cc @valhalla @trevorflowers @attoparsec @david

https://invidious.0011.lt/watch?v=fNpBDwYLi-Q&listen=false

david,
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @valhalla @trevorflowers @attoparsec Interesting.
I wonder how often it breaks down. Every robot I've had to support needed human attention of some kind every couple of days.

david, to random
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Randomly throwing ingredients together like a madman.

Here's hoping the result is tasty.

david,
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And what did we end up with?

Little coconut meringues.

jpmens, to random
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    david,
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    @jpmens canโ€™t guarantee it, since Iโ€™ve not used that app, but to my knowledge, provided the backup has a password set (and was therefore encrypted) it /should/ contain all the app data.

    david,
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    @jpmens Yep. The whole Keychain is only backed up if the backup is Encrypted. Of course, if she has an iCloud backup, she might be in luck.

    david,
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    @jpmens gah!

    david, to random
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    Soo far this morning Iโ€™ve:

    • installed a new tank inlet filter with mesh sides on the tank that regularly overflows the previous filter
    • sanded all the handles off Mumโ€™s knives ready for restoration
    • applied a coat of red oil to one knife and a coat of tung oil to another
    • cut down a metal panel to form a shelf for a trolley
    • cut my finger filling the rough edge of fair shelf
    • attached the shelf to the trolley with hinges

    To Do:

    • folding legs for the shelf
    • lunch
    david,
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    Folding tray is done, and holds weight.

    I also rigged up a jig to hold the rest of the knife set and this red oil them all at once.

    Tray folded up. It will hold a laptop and small label printer
    Weight test of the tray by using a piece of railway track
    Knife handles all coated in red oil, blades sandwiched between two pieces of pine

    david, to random
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    What I didn't need this morning before leaving home to drive 3.5hrs north, was my OpenDirectory server seems to have died overnight.

    (why yes, I do have centralised accounts in an OpenDirectory server for my home network, doesn't everyone?)

    The downside of this, is I can't fetch my mail at the moment as the mail server users are all authenticated via ldap/opendirectory.

    I presume the power supply on the server has died, I have a spare, but didn't have time to deal with that this morning.

    So, unlikely as it is that anyone here is going to email me this weekend, rest assured, I won't see it if you do. ;-)

    david,
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    After completely disassembling the Mac mini and replacing the power supply with the spare unit I had, it turns out, that no, it's not the PSU. The system is still very dead.
    I can't complain too much, it was a 2011 model, so I got 12 years out of it. BUT, no I need to work out how I implemented the LDAP account lookup on OpenBSD, and revert that to local accounts. Something I set up quite a while ago, and unfortunately, past me didn't document it.

    david,
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    Turns out it wasn't too hard to disable ypbind/ypldap and the ldap module from saslauthd, and then create local accounts on the mail server, pointing to the existing home dir's for the previously ldap users, carefully matching the UIDs and GIDs from the ldap server.

    We have working IMAP again! (and more importantly the server shouldn't hang if it reboots - a side-effect of using ypbind when the ldap server is unavailable).

    david,
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    The old adage - "It's always DNS" strikes again.

    Mail client issues at my parents ended up being a combination of aggressive DNS caching at their ISP, and my round-robin DNS entry for my mail server.

    I can't do much about the caching, but have rejigged my mail server DNS entries such that round-robin isn't needed anymore and I'm running a proper split-dns setup now to deal with mobile clients.

    Phew!

    david, to random
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    The problem with using three screens (laptop and two external displays), the constant "Where is my mouse?" dance.

    In theory, shaking the mouse makes the cursor get bigger, in practice, spread over a 2k, 4k and laptop screen, that helps far less than you'd think.

    david, to animals
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    Itโ€™s an hour until dinner time, but the hope is high.

    david, to random
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    Sometimes the YouTube algorithm throws up something odd, surprising and yet also good.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEl5Gi9l528

    david, to random
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    English, why are you so stupid?!

    Bimonthly definition in the Oxford dictionary:

    Occurs twice a month OR every two months.

    How is that remotely useful as a measure of time?

    david, to random
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    Apparently birds have evolved the ability to fly without wings now.

    david, to random
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    You infrequent reminder that if you can glue googly eyes to your rubber ducks you should glue googly eyes to your rubber ducks.

    Sheril, to australia
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    I took this photo last year at Curtain Fig National Park in .

    This spectacular strangler fig is nearly 165 ft (50m) tall, with a trunk circumference of 128ft (39m) & estimated to be >500 years old!

    david,
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    @Sheril It's pretty amazing eh? So is the other large fig down the road, The Cathedral Fig.

    Massive fig tree with a wooden raised boardwalk next to it. Some people walk along the board walk and read the sign nearby, completely dwarfed by the tree.

    david, to random
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    I also made shortbread.

    frogglin, to random
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    Back from the shops, my father is inspecting my shopping and mumbling about it. You don't have to eat it, dad.

    david,
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    @Quokka @frogglin @LifeTimeCooking that sounds like something made up by people who canโ€™t taste coriander for what it is (delicious).

    nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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    At what age did you start writing code as a programmer or software developer?

    david,
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    @nixCraft My first paid coding job on an actual real system was at about 17 years old. (Porting some routines from a Vax to Oracle on Xenix).

    david, to animals
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    Pepsรฌ has come to stay for 2 weeks this time. Here he is occupying my lap and preventing me from playing computer games.

    david, to food
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    Dinner tonight will be Walnut Gnocchi with mushrooms and broccolini in a butter sauce.

    A tray of slightly pink walnut gnocchi ready for boiling

    david,
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    Back in April, I made Walnut

    We didn't eat all of it at the time, so I froze the leftover. I remembered at the time that it was quite soft if boiled, so tonight, I put a good deal of butter in a baking tray, and baked the gnocchi in butter, then added a liberal amount of grated parmigiana regiano on top and we had it as an entrรฉe.
    It was delicious, and worked so much better than boiling this particular style of gnocchi.

    david,
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    @jpmens I find potato gnocchi works well boiled. (also nice finished by frying on one side only too)

    Ricotta gnocchi is excellent fried in sage butter in a skillet.

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