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dmakovec

@dmakovec@theblower.au

Jack of all trades IT related. Emphasis on cloud, cyber and AWS in particular (although I dabble out of professional necessity in the other two main cloudy flavours).

Started off my computing journey programming the TI 99/4A (we weren't rich enough yet to afford a C64) from magazines. Amiga lover till the very end.

Melbourne-based

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geerlingguy, to homeassistant
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I'm testing an Everything Presence Lite, and it rocks—from setup to tweaking zones, it's almost magic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCwMNSeLRcw

dmakovec,
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@geerlingguy 8 hours later.. 😢

davep, to random

What do you call a bad Spanish ventriloquist? Señor Lipsmove.

dmakovec,
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@davep "Parachuting for Dummies" by Willy Makeit

molly0xfff, to random
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If you want all the gory details on how I migrated my Citation Needed newsletter from to self-hosted here they are:
https://citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/

Happy to try to help anyone else making this move!

dmakovec,
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@molly0xfff it looks like you might need an addendum! Site down?

dmakovec,
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@molly0xfff I'm seeing it on desktop Vivaldi and Curl too. Maybe something below will help?

❯ dig citationneeded.news  
...  
citationneeded.news. 40 IN A 172.67.155.170  
citationneeded.news. 40 IN A 104.21.72.231

❯ curl -v <https://citationneeded.news>  
* Trying 172.67.155.170:443...  
* Connected to citationneeded.news (172.67.155.170) port 443 (#0)  
* ALPN: offers h2  
* ALPN: offers http/1.1  
* CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem  
* CApath: none  
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):  
* error:1404B42E:SSL routines:ST_CONNECT:tlsv1 alert protocol version  
* Closing connection 0  
curl: (35) error:1404B42E:SSL routines:ST_CONNECT:tlsv1 alert protocol version
dmakovec,
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@molly0xfff Found this post discussing similar problems with a Cloudflare-fronted site: https://codefetti.com/how-to-fix-tlsv1-alert-protocol-version/ - maybe a TLS 1.3 min version issue?

dmakovec,
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@molly0xfff Ooo it suddenly worked on my browser, but not curl. Diff seems to be the browser is now hitting 104.21.72.231 (works) whereas Curl is still hitting 172.67.155.170 (doesn't)

dmakovec,
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@sfrazer434 @molly0xfff whatever problem it was appears to be server-side and intermittent as it started working again on all clients (mobile and desktop) a couple hours ago) 🤷🏼‍♂️

Unixbigot, to random
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“Your plane had two extra emergency exits but you had them plugged up to save money” sounds like a class action waiting to happen.

dmakovec,
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@kmccoy @Unixbigot exit row seats have more leg room to allow for.. exiting.

Remove a couple of exits, squish the seats closer together, fit another row at the back = 6 more seats, let's say at $200 per seat per flight gives an extra $1200 per flight. If it's doing long haul flights only with an estimated lifespan of about 40,000 cycles or flights, that's a $48 million saving (actually more since who does long haul for $200?).

If it's doing short haul, about 100k cycles is more expected, in which case you're saving $120m-ish, per jet, by plugging your holes, as it were.

Now, what's a class action worth?

dmakovec, to random
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@Vivaldi currently has a weird Android bug where, if your address bar is at the bottom and you tap on it to edit the URL, your search history pushes the menu route with the share/copy/edit buttons off the bottom of the screen and there's no way to scroll down to them.

Remove a few search history icons and the row eventually comes back into view

jpm, (edited ) to rust
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Hey makers, hackers, and electronics folks of the fediverse, what’s your go-to small cheap dev board that ISN’T an ATmega (too small) or ESP32 (too cursed)? I’m asking because I’m writing a gadget-device framework in Rust, and would like to port it to the most popular dev boards.

dmakovec,
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@jpm I am curious as to the nature of this ESP32 curse of which you speak? <eyes a couple of M5 Atoms still in their packaging, begging to be hooked up>

JulianOliver, to random
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Dr Bill Hare, the climate scientist and chief executive of Climate Analytics, who has been to 27 Cops in person, says of the draft text at COP28:

"Iwould say it’s giving every fossil fuel exporter on the planet everything they need to expand fossil fuel production. They might not say it, they might have crocodile tears, but I think any country involved in exporting coal, oil or gas would be privately very happy.”

(Source: The Guardian)

dmakovec,
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@JulianOliver clearly he's been at the conference and decided that global leadership is too fucking weak to move away from fossil fuels, so he might as well make some money off of their weakness, or somebody else will.

Expecting fossil fuel producers to stop producing fossil fuels is like expecting a coke dealer to stop dealing.

JoeCotellese, to homeassistant

Anyone else give their lights people names in ? It’s so amusing me to say ok google turn off Gladys.

@homeassistant

dmakovec,
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@JoeCotellese @homeassistant I have a lamp like one of these - https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ff/49/52/ff4952fee3567ac9eebaf2f9c1ab18d4--art-deco-lamps-vintage-art.jpg

We say "turn on tits"

dmakovec, to random
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During a few minutes down time, I fed a few of @davep 's posts into Bing Chat. It's more like talking to Isaac from than Data from

davep, to random

Has anyone ever actually bricked a computer by not wearing one of those antistatic wristband thingies?

dmakovec,
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@davep we used to love rebooting our Apple ]['s at school by rubbing our feet on the carpet and touching them with our locker keys. Those things took a licking and kept on ticking!

dmakovec, to random
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Western Melbournites, take my advice. For your sanity, avoid Bunnings Altona for the next few weeks while they're rearranging things. Everything's moved, the signage that does exist is currently wrong, the staff don't know where anything is, and the usually excellent app sends you to the wrong isle 80% of the time

dmakovec, to random
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Pretty impressed with PetCircle. Ordered some dog food yesterday at lunch time, the box arrived at 6.50am today. Clearly they've sorted out their logistics issues from a couple years ago. I suspect one of the fixes was not using AusPost 🤔

dmakovec, to random
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Just putting the feelers out there as I'm considering a change of direction in the new year and haven't been on the hunt for some time.

As a infra specialist with a couple of decades of experience across a range of fields from software engineering to security architecture, where is a good place to look for contract work these days?

dmakovec, to random
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No surprises tonight.

While I did , and my electorate and neighbouring ones did (there's obviously a reasons we moved to inner-suburban Melbourne), it was pretty obvious how the country as a whole would go.

The deficiencies of the Yes campaign were obvious from the start. Calling it the "Voice" was too abstract, lefty and wanky for the average Australian to get behind. If they'd just named it simply as a "Committee for Indigenous affairs" it would have had a better chance. Calling people racist if they didn't get it was just stupid. Telling people to "Google it" was obviously insulting. The whole thing was a free kick to the Duttons and Hansons of Australia.

Albanese and his buddies should realise that they didn't win the election because they were any good at campaigning - they won it because an empty chair could have stood against Morrison and won. Too often, Labor get lucky after we get sick of the Libs and think they're God's gift. Tonight should set them straight.

jpm, to random
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Okay, that’s a decent temperature range today: currently 4°C, forecast max to 27°C

dmakovec,
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@jpm * Melbourne definition of "decent"

jpm, to random
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PSA: you probably don’t need to buy a RasPi 5. Just buy an ex-corporate SFF or USFF PC for the same money and get twice as much RAM and a heap of internal storage that’s way bigger, way faster, and way more reliable than cheap microSD cards

dmakovec,
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@backupbear @jpm any recommendations for brands or models to look out for?

homeassistant, to homeassistant
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For over a decade Philips Hue offered lights that work without sharing your data to the cloud. This is changing soon and we need your help to make some noise to convince them to revert this decision.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

dmakovec,
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@homeassistant it's unfortunate, and seems completely unnecessary. They've also been gradually pairing back functionality on their local API too.

Private
dmakovec,
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@Valon_Blue @homeassistant @homeassistant the Hues are doing the job for me as routers

dmakovec, to random
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Considering getting a stick vacuum. Can anybody explain to me the difference between a $300 unit and a fkn $1500 one? Apart from the fricken "lasers" they have on the latter to make it look cool

dmakovec,
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@jpm yeah those HEPA filters do get a bit clogged quickly. I've got one on my ($300) bagless Electrolux and have a couple of spares. It's a great unit but it's a more traditional style. I wouldn't be considering a stick at all, but I'm adulting now and just got a 2 storey place, so lugging it up and down stairs is less attractive

dmakovec,
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@jpm but what cleans the staaairs?

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