shlee

shlee, 7 months ago to random

#Lazy I'm looking for a second mobile number on an esim. No data... for a "business contact"

Anybody know an esim provider with 365 day prepaid in Australia? Kogan seem to have a $120 for 120GB esim (but I really don't need the data).

shlee, 7 months ago to random

Got in a Canberra cab for $75 instead of the $29 Uber.

“Oooh I’ll support taxis instead” - absolute clown shoes

shlee, 10 months ago to Futurology

People talk hard about blocking Threads because of numerous privacy issues / surveillance capitalism reasons.

but, I'm likely blocking them for much more boring reasons.... They have hundreds of TBs of storage, unlimited bandwidth and a marketing budget (5 million people signed by in the first few hours).

#Meta has the ability to simple price administrators out of the market - using the classic method of just outspending your enemy with a dumptruck of money - Simply by existing in the same ecosystem as us, they can and will increase our server/storage costs until admins like myself drop out. (THANK YOU PATRONS/SUPPORTERS)

If I wanted to open communicate with #Threads -- I fear I simply won't be able to play the same game as them for very long.... and I foresee plenty of other admins dropping out for that reason

shlee, 2 months ago to random

JAVA APPLETS IN <year of our lord>!

shlee, 4 months ago to random

A.S sidekiq has processed 1.2 Billion actions since the last reboot.. buzzing along

shlee, 11 months ago to random

Reddit is experiencing the VC dilemma.... Your startup is allowed to have core features and limited growth, and the end user experience is generally better that way in the long term...

VCs require infinite growth and that's unsustainable, so once the users run out.. they look to find cash any way they can like the privatisation of the APIs.

Patreon had the same problem. It had one job, then it suddenly started posting about microloans.

VC money, not even once.

shlee, 18 days ago to random

NBN having 50mbit up max is killing home datacenters.

shlee, 11 months ago to random

Nice.

shlee, 7 months ago to random

Seems Uber isn’t paying enough.. the Melbourne Uber stand hasn’t had a car arrive in 5+ minutes….

shlee, 3 months ago to random

It's not a crime to post a stream of conscience rant on the fediverse...

but once you notice it was boosted 120+ times, it does hurt that I didn't spend 35 seconds to give it an little polishing...

I'll write a polished blog and needed to get it out of my head.

shlee, 3 months ago to random

I'm starting a single issue political party to promote MSG. It's been vilified for too long.

shlee, 11 months ago to random

‘I am 30 years old and I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge, just like everywhere else’

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-10-12/i-am-30-years-old-and-i-miss-the-old-internet-the-beautiful-people-are-in-charge-just-like-everywhere-else.html

shlee, 5 months ago to random

I'm going to write something longer as the admin regarding Threads.. but for now, I'm hoping to encourage the Mastodon developers to develop this place in a way that shifts a little of the authority from admins to users about what they can/cannot see, and how your toots & content is/isn't shared (similar to the opt-in for full text search).

Claire already has a plan in the works to allow people who want to see Threads to opt-in, and those who don't can tell Threads to get stuffed...

and as a whole, I'd feel better being in a situation where everybody here can "Choose their poison/risk" instead of me forcing your hand. We will see how the future holds.

(I'm never going to remove the restrictions on nazi instances, but in regards to Threads, I'm going to choose safety and my moderator team for now). Threads needs to earn my trust.

NO MASTERS. NO ADMINS.

Reference PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26904

shlee, 9 months ago to random

I've noticed more people using the word "Whelmed" because it makes people guess if it's over or under... as a word, I understand it to mean "7/10 review".

I assume it must have been used in some show.

shlee, 7 months ago to random

WHO COULD IT BE?!

shlee, 9 months ago to random

It's a depressing time in the fediverse when an administrator accidentally deletes their production database because of a bad YAML.... As such I'm starting a new rule for backups.

The 3-2-1-0 rule.

"3 backups, in 2 different locations, with 1 off site, 0 Kube"

shlee, 3 months ago to random

Adelaide to Melbourne Roadtrip to delivery Unit1 to equinix! I'll be in and around Melb til next monday!

shlee, 2 months ago to random

I love that Finder has articles on how to commit money laundering... I want to buy something from an Iranian, but it seems to be illegal to pay for anything including art.

https://www.finder.com.au/international-money-transfers/send-money-internationally/send-money-to-iran

https://www.finder.com.au/international-money-transfers/send-money-country-sanctions

shlee, 3 months ago to random

I'm unable to upload toots with images attached in Ivory on iOS.... Can somebody test?

shlee, 16 days ago to random

Missed it by that much. Get smart character holding his fingers almost together

shlee, 3 months ago to random

There is something sadistic about using server hardware…. The pre-boot memory initiation process takes 5-10 minutes

So you’re almost certain it’s fucked with a black screen the whole time when you reboot it or change anything

shlee, 27 days ago to random

As somebody who is on the board of multiple not for profits…. “Mastodon has known entity on board” is not the hot take you think it is.

It’s self evident people want this place to be better and it is… but building a better place requires developers putting food on the table.

At worst, it’s kind of a condemnation that the community as a whole failed at the financial support side of the project to back up our ideology… Better mutual aid for the developers might have driven a different path.

Complaining about the NFP having capitalists is not praxis… NFPs have rich well known people on them to give confidence to other rich people…… it’s not a conspiracy

The important element is influence. What influence do we have over the project? How can we capture more?

(This is not support of the board members)

shlee, 2 months ago to random

Is it on?

shlee, 3 months ago to random

A Tier Doner…. Thanks Kabeb on Bell.

shlee, 3 months ago to random

@jpm I'm going to be setting up that x3550 M4 tonight. Thanks again for helping me with my DR/safety/quorum server.