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duncan_bayne

@duncan_bayne@emacs.ch

I'm a Melbourne-based husband, father of three, and principal engineer / engineering director. I live amongst the trees out in Belgrave; you can find me online at:

🚀 Gemini: gemini://duncan.bayne.id.au/
🦣 Mastodon: https://emacs.ch/
🌐 Web: https://duncan.bayne.id.au/
◯ sourcehut: https://git.sr.ht/~duncan-bayne/
🤢 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-bayne/

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janl, to random
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Well, officially in the market for a Slack replacement now. Hit me. What are you personally happy with in a small business setting, strong macOS/iOS support, user friendly, including nontechnical folks?

duncan_bayne,
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@janl I use Mattermost; I self-host for personal use, and we also have a Mattermost server at $DAY_JOB for staff, editors, and contributors. Works very well.

duncan_bayne,
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@janl Negligible, especially when done well :) The work server is nicely managed through CloudFormation; my personal one is just docker images on an EC2 image that I manually upgrade.

Main things were:

(a) configuring it to store files in an S3 bucket that can be backed up, and

(b) running a cron job to take daily backups of the database

duncan_bayne,
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@janl Ooh, speaking of which, this might be a good starting point:

https://github.com/DanielHeath/mattermost-aws

duncan_bayne, to random
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Sorry kids, no eggs for breakfast tomorrow unless she moves first.

duncan_bayne,
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@louis Yep and not even a particularly large example. Welcome to Australia 😅

decryption, to random
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blog post where I compare a bunch of cameras under $1000 to find the best one for someone looking to get back into the hobby

https://blog.decryption.net.au/t/cameras-under-a-1000-with-amazing-dynamic-range/156

duncan_bayne,
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@georgeharito @decryption Good enough that I could carry a modern point-and-shoot as an alternative to a smartphone camera?

The main thing that's holding me back from switching to a Linux phone is the parlous state of their cameras and associated software. I want to be able to snap mementos of my children, and e.g. the PinePhone didn't deal at all well with low light or movement.

I tried an older Canon SX610HS but that really didn't cut the mustard.

decryption, to random
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lets say i wanted to use something that isn't a smartphone for TOTP purposes - what's out there? something stand alone, probably not internet connected or reliant on a business providing updates to keep it working, and that I can have multiple copies of

duncan_bayne,
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@decryption What sort of form-factor, and how much faff / DIY are you willing to entertain?

I ran Numberstation on my PinePhone for a while, and that was just fine.

You could run Numberstation or even totp-cli on almost any single-board computer ... maybe pair a Pi Zero with something like this:

https://www.amazon.com.au/2-13inch-Display-Raspberry-250x122-Paper-Like/dp/B09Q3P89JF

Pair it with something like this for control:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/512

duncan_bayne,
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@decryption Yubikey then?

duncan_bayne, to random
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TIL that there's a cafe nearby called JavaScript Cafe 🤣

decryption, to random
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think im done here, can finally print em out

duncan_bayne,
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@decryption Ooh how about this one

duncan_bayne,
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@decryption Or this one - old now but Apple brought back DRM with Apple Music so still relevant

duncan_bayne,
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@decryption I just don't get the love so many geeks have for Apple. Jobs was a genius in many ways but his contempt for customers was notable even in the 80s.

https://www.folklore.org/Diagnostic_Port.html

"But once again, Steve Jobs objected, because he didn't like the idea of customers mucking with the innards of their computer. He would also rather have them buy a new 512K Mac instead of them buying more RAM from a third-party."

Quinnypig, to random
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Either Google Cloud has done something next-level horrifying, or this superannuation company is being highly misleading about their own mistake.

Bets?

https://www.unisuper.com.au/contact-us/outage-update

duncan_bayne,
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@Quinnypig The local rumour mill has it that they nuked all their GCP resources with Terraform. My bet is that if true they next try to blame the tooling.

Kels_316, to random
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the workshop across from my old one, which is a mirror image, has just hit marketplace at $200 less per month than I was paying a year ago, and I was paying $400 a month less than they advertised it for 3yrs ago. Commercial property is a massive scam.

duncan_bayne,
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@neoluddite @decryption @Kels_316 Yeah can't have the proles choosing for themselves 😜

duncan_bayne,
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@Kels_316 @neoluddite @decryption Compulsory super, sure. Which is what bothers me about it - it's infantilising people. "You don't know how to manage your wealth, leave it to the grown-ups".

duncan_bayne, to random
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"There are plenty of Jewish Zionists, myself included, who support Palestinian liberation and a safe and secure two-state solution for both people. The sad reality is that many of those Jews were murdered on October 7 by Hamas terrorists."

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/article-799080

duncan_bayne, to melbourne
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Oh no! Sichuan House in Melbourne (Victoria) has closed down. There was no announcement but first they closed for renovations, never re-opened, and their phone is disconnected).

Does anyone have any recommendations for good, authentic, Sichuan food in or around Melbourne now? 🙏

(Should add: I'm a snob, and cook my own Sichuan food at home, gong bao ji ding and ma po tofu, because there's nothing authentic near me.)

#melbourne #sichuan #restaurants

decryption, to random
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Issue 2077 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

  • US-based PsiQuantum gets $1b from AU govt to build "world's first fault-tolerant error-corrected corrected quantum computer" in Australia

  • Review of Optus 000 failure complete, government to make a few changes

  • EU determines iPad OS is also a "digital gatekeeper"

  • Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Intel N100 benchmarks & specs comparison

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duncan_bayne,
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@decryption Re. $1bn, I really wish Governments would stop trying to "pick winners" with our money.

duncan_bayne, to random
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Vizio: "We never stop questioning what's possible".

Also Vizio: "Maybe it's possible to violate the GPL and get away with it, even after getting the FSF involved."

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-to-be-deposed-in-sfc-v-vizio-updates-relevant-faq-entry

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Listen it's very simple. The president can't be prosecuted for any official act.

Some worry warts keep asking "well what if the president tells the military to stage a coup?" Always with the "what about a coup?" questions! Listen, Cassandra, we have a safe guard: if something so bad (and unlikely pfft) as a coup happened the congress would obviously impeach the president. Happy? No?

We don't need a judicial check AND a legislative one too. That's too much! The president must be free!

duncan_bayne,
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@futurebird "stage a coupe"

jwz, to random
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The Millennial CAPTCHA.

This is really well done:
https://jwz.org/b/ykPi

duncan_bayne,
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@jwz Our kids can do the first two; haven't tried them on barbed wire yet.

duncan_bayne,
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@jwz It's crazy though. First time our eldest caught a train on his home he had several people alarmedly checking on him to make sure he was okay.

duncan_bayne, to random
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Over the weekend, I installed a local LLM to play around with Emacs integration and suchlike. (Related: if you haven't tried Emacs in a decade or two I can wholeheartedly recommend it. Ligatures, LSP integration, LLM integration, ...)

Anyways right off the bat the LLM hallucinated what is now my favourite non-existent HTTP response:

400 KO

🤣

tuxdevices, (edited ) to apple German
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I just received my new work laptop ( Pro M3, ~€2000) just to discover that it does not support dual-monitor output despite having multiple video ports.

For a feature that even the cheapest laptops (and older MacBooks) have had for years, Apple now asks you to buy the MacBook Pro M3 Pro (€2500) or M3 Max (€4000).

This is essentially €2000 . Not so "pro" after all.

duncan_bayne,
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@tuxdevices Remember this has been in Apple's DNA since the first time Jobs took over.

https://www.folklore.org/Diagnostic_Port.html

"But once again, Steve Jobs objected, because he didn't like the idea of customers mucking with the innards of their computer. He would also rather have them buy a new 512K Mac instead of them buying more RAM from a third-party."

Why hackers buy Apple kit (since the Apple II) I do not understand.

futurebird, to random
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Joke justices on a joke court.

duncan_bayne,
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@futurebird So ... this is the exact argument, in reverse, that I've been having with people about entities like the Federal Labour Board, FCC, FDA, etc.

Starting with the labour board they were jammed through as "technically legal" after FDR personally pressured the supreme court to accept the commerce code excuse.

From the perspective of a non-American it looks like this is just how it goes. One "side" bends the rules egregiously, while complaining about the other "side" doing it. Rinse and repeat.

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