@lucas@fitt.au
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lucas

@lucas@fitt.au

Just a bloke.
Here for the memes and the generalised nerdiness.
And Fractals.

Oh, and let's not forget the decentralisation of social media. I'm fully on board with that!

#Debian user, small-time #SysAdmin, #HomeLab warrior, terrible #Programmer, #HomeAutomation tragic, from #Australia and #MostlyHarmless

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lucas,
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@Fubarberry @Buffalox "Smarter Every Day" on Youtube did a talk pointing out the issues with artemis, to a room full of stakeholders.

it was glorious.

lucas,
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@USSEthernet @Murdoc why we used to ask them if one was blinking fast or slow, it made them actually look at the modem

lucas,
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@puppy @Wanderer Greed?

lucas,
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@warm @Dragxito they saw the race to the bottom was on, and decided they didn't want to go out like that

lucas,
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@realitista @andrew_bidlaw they're really not good in loud places like a plane (for you) in my experience the person you're on a call with will hear you just fine, but being open-ear designs they just can't compete with jets.

They are very good for having background music going in offices and such - you can hear it, but you can have conversations over it without any trouble

lucas,
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@wjrii @JohnnyCanuck Way Back When(TM) I worked at a telco, we had a customer go over seas on a sales trip, used his phone like normal, and then came home to a phone bill up around $35k.

I don't know how much he made while overseas, but he wasn't that upset about the phone bill, outside of him kicking himself for forgetting to get a data pack.

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Tack “&udm=14” on to the end of a normal search, and you’ll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

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@Thekingoflorda @gedaliyah seems to be, yeah

lucas,
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@twei @Boozilla You're in luck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM

lucas,
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@tigerjerusalem @boem the same level of integration they're showing off on youtube can be achieved with off-the-shelf eye trackers, soo.... maybe not?

sysop408, (edited ) to random
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Every now and then, I like to hand off my camera to someone who looks like they could handle a full sized camera with a large lens and a speedlight.

Usually the results aren't very good, but I picked the right person the other day for this assisted self portrait.

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@sysop408 I made the mistake of remapping my focus button to a random one that's near my thumb.

I don't think I've had a stranger successfully take a photo of me with my camera yet.

lucas, to debian
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Either has forgotten how to write a boot record, or is eating them.

Either way, this machine was installed from a minimal .iso, booted from disk1, logged into, software installed (vim, curl), and on reboot apparently now has no boot records on any of it's disks.

I umm..

I Don't Know.

Maybe it's not Ghosts.

lucas,
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@tripplehelix It's a tickbvox at VM creation, I'm not changing it on the fly at all. And now that I've gone and taken a screenshot, I see that I can't change it.

So far I've installed (and lost the ability to boot) three VMs as UEFI un nutanix, and one as BIOS that's not affected.

and it's only on power-off, not on reboot. the first time I found this, it was VM that had been up for 2 months, i turned it off to noodle with the NICs and (this)

lucas,
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@tripplehelix I've actually manged to chain together a reliable series of events that cause it, and it's unfortunately "software bug", and not "ghosts"

Hypervisor: Nutanix/AHV
Guest: Debian 12.5 netinst

If I install uefi/secure boot in Nutanix, and shut down the the machine, the boot records disappear. you can install a fresh system and reboot many times without being affected. as soon as you shut down though, poof gone.

If I used bios/legacy mode, the boot loader persists, as you'd expect

lucas, to stargate
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Watching through SG-1 for the first time in my life, and I must say, holy shit it's good.

The "science" is great. The characters are great. The late 90's technology is great. The CRTs everywhere, also great.

lucas, to random
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For the people that don't live in UTC - the 4.1.3 update has gone live, and it builds and installs and I'm posting from it right now, and nothing has exploded.

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Now that my class is wrapping up, time to try out some Seagate MACH.2 (read: dual actuator!) HDDs. The performance from these has been crazy - over 500 MB/s sustained sequential reads per drive. Comes with more power consumption, heat, and I assume failure rate... But looking forward to seeing how these perform in the real world.

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@tweedge finally, someone's having a real swing at HDD speeds! I'd be interested the see if random I/O has improved.

lucas, to random
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What's going on with ?

I like the whole "A for " thing, but apparently it was working in a broken way, which is about to be fixed.

The solution is "join more relays" but in my experience that's just "see more cruft" - I don't want to be connected to a firehose of posts (many of which are in languages I can't read) I want to be connected to my interests, and for me FediBuzz was a great solution to that problem.

Is there a solution in the works?

lucas, to PostgreSQL
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with streaming replication to a pair of synchronous NFS shares that are backed by spinning rust arrays is a fairly large performance downgrade from a singe instance running on gen4 NVMEs, with all the dials flipped from "safety" to "yee-haw!"

Tune in for next week's episode of - Fire: Is it really hot?

lucas, to sysadmin
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Hello and people.

Have any of you heard of / used / know anything about ?

The business manager has arranged a demo unit to show up, and step one of installation is "send all of your traffic to some black box appliance on the network" and then "AI Will keep you safe"

Literally, that's all I've been told. "Give us your network traffic, AI will keep you safe"

Obviously, I'm building up some anxiety about this. Nobody has even given us a price yet(!)

lucas, to random
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The excitement about in videos by @BrodieOnLinux are almost enough to get me to try it out properly.

lucas, to mastodon
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savvy peeps: is it possible to block DMs from an account you're not following?

I feel like this one change is going to reduce the spam a whole lot (for mysel, at least)

lucas, to random
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Advertisements are basically Dick Pics from Corporations.

lucas, to random
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In important reminder to myself on the front of the work machine.

lucas, to TeslaMotors
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Hello drivers in

There is a petition to make Electric chargers accept "normal" payments (just credit card) instead of requiring an app.

It seems like a great idea, if you think so too, you should sign it.

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6056

lucas, to random
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/privacy-and-protections

You have to pay microsoft to make CoPilot forget your query history.

I have opinions, they're mostly swear words and [autistic screeching]

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