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steve

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steve, to homeassistant
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Well this is going well... has not renewed its own LetsEncrypt certificate, so I can't access the web interface. I can find no instructions telling me how the hell to renew it manually from the commandline, and no logs telling me WTF it hasn't renewed...

steve, to diy
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I wonder if B&Q ever considered how much their website harms their brick & mortar stores. I used to check the B&Q website before going to the store to see if they had what I want in stock, but now the website is a "market place", which means 95% of the stuff on there is never available in store - its mostly sold online and shipped by third parties. There's no way to filter out this crap, so now I can't check if I'll have a wasted journey, so I go to their competitors' stores instead.

steve, to privacy
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Spent some time in court today arguing that the is wrong... and the judge agreed!

Although it wasn't a complete success, it wasn't an unmitigated disaster and I'm actually quite pleased that a court agreed that the ICO's interpretation of the UK is bonkers.

https://blog.nexusuk.org/2024/03/another-day-in-court-arguing-against-ico.html

steve, to privacy
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Another day, another email from the to tell me that they have closed my complaint about an organisation not responding to my Subject Access Request because they too couldn't contact anyone there... I mean, what's the point of the ICO?

steve, to homeassistant
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Pleased with the way the Versatile Thermostat integration in is working to control the heating in my office. Just waiting for a more appropriate temperature sensor to be delivered next week.

steve, to random
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@aaisp @aastatus There seems to be an IPv6 routing problem going on...

Traceroute to 2a01:4f8:10b:3d07::8 doesn't get very far from here:

Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev

  1. 2001:8b0:b031:8::1 1.0% 719 0.6 1.6 0.4 174.1 8.7
  2. 2001:8b0:0:53::129 1.0% 719 13.5 14.5 11.4 194.0 13.0
  3. 2001:8b0:0:53::105 1.0% 719 12.7 14.6 11.8 167.1 11.0
  4. (waiting for reply)

Any ideas?

Thanks.

steve, to random
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FFS... My antenna was dangling between the data cabinet and some racking (i.e. around loads of metal). So I "tidied" it into the loft space above the data cabinet... ...and the link quality has gone down.

(But it seems to be working... Not sure how to interpret LQI - it was 66, now 53 and some Googling suggests anything under 100 is shit. The device and coordinator aren't far apart so no particular reason to think that it should be shit)

steve, to random
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Not had the usual 1st of the month direct debit notification from @aaisp today. Not a big deal, just thought I'd give the heads up in case there's a problem!

steve, to random
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Anyone got any experience with ? Is there anything I should know when deciding between and ? Are they both fine, or are there compatibility concerns, etc?

steve, to homeassistant
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Setting up to fiddle with. First impressions - very bad. Booted up the HAOS image, it immediately autoupdated with an update that included a breaking change. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-400-bad-request-docker-proxy-solution/322163/23 describes the fix, but requires knowledge I don't have:

"Edit the config file" - doesn't say where the config file is.

"Check the log" - doesn't say where the log is.

"Find the IP address with "docker network inspect"" - there are lots of IP addresses, which do I need?

Argh!

steve, to random
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""Boris Johnson "wanted to be injected with Covid-19 on television""

Why did this not happen?!?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67347456

steve, to Facebook
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So I got an email from telling me that they are now using "consent" as their basis for processing data for , and that the only way to withdraw my consent is by paying them a subscription. Article 4(11) says that consent must be "freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous", so I don't understand how "you must consent or pay us money" can be considered to be "freely given"?!

steve, to random
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What is it with the UK Passport Office's "recognised professions" list? What is it about a chiropodist, for example, that makes them a reliable countersignatory, but a shop assistant, for example, is not?

https://www.gov.uk/countersigning-passport-applications/accepted-occupations-for-countersignatories

steve, to random
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Ok, I don't understand lifting and shifting your entire server infrastructure into the .

Today's example: customer is moving all of their servers into a remote datacentre. As far as I understand, this means that they won't be responsible for maintaining the hardware, but they are still responsible for administering the VMs. Datacentre is connected to the customer via an IPSec tunnel.

Had a meeting with customer + cloud provider to discuss the details.

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steve, to privacy
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"Under the plans, which have been discussed with regulators in Brussels and Ireland, Meta would offer an ad-free version of Instagram and Facebook for those willing to pay, or a free version for those who consent to be targeted by ads based on their personal information"

This does not appear to meet the definition of ...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/ad-free-facebook-instagram-access-planned-for-14-per-month-in-europe/

steve, to privacy
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I would recommend my new USB-C power supply, except that they appear to be misusing my personal data. So If you're going to get any of their products, avoid buying through their own website. :(

steve, to Facebook
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have rejected my objection to their use of my personal data to train generative AI because I have not provided them with screenshots proving that they have already used my data for this purpose... Which seems to miss the point rather a lot!

steve, to random
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@aaisp Is there any way to get statistics (uptime, etc.) from the BT ONT? Mine keeps losing the LAN link, but I'm not sure if it is actually rebooting or if its having a barny with the switch (LAN light on the ONT and the link light on the switch both go out). Thanks.

steve, to Facebook
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How annoying, are refusing to answer my questions.

steve, to linux
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doing my head in. How the hell do I convince it that routes received over iBGP should not override directly connected networks / static routes that are already in the FIB?

(I'm aware that I could add a bunch of filters for individual prefixes, but there's surely a "local stuff takes priority" option somewhere?!)

steve, to privacy
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Received a "data processing notice" from a company I've never heard of telling me that they have acquired my personal data and will sell it off willy-nilly unless I jump through their "deletion request" process. So I try to do that, and it doesn't work. So I contact their support, who tell me to email privacy@... So I do that and just get an automated response telling me to use the form that I already told them didn't work.

steve, to ipv6
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How's today going?

Customer who's been told how to fix things properly several times: "I've found a solution! I've configured all my WiFi APs to block all traffic." Just no...

And another customer's network: "I can't figure out how this works" -> "oh... ICMP redirects... because why wouldn't this all be configured in the worst possible way?" <curls up and cries>

steve, to random
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So ignored PECR Reg. 22, and GDPR Art. 14 & 15, and lost a claim WRT the breaches.

They are now asking me what other email addresses I use so that they can exclude them from their spam list... I have declined to provide them on account of the fact that I don't trust their data protection practices, and that they don't need me to provide any personal information in order to take their legal obligations seriously.

Is that a reasonable position for me to take?

steve, to random
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Grrr, the Android app has suddenly sucked up 1.6gb of mobile data despite being set to only use wifi... :(

steve, to mastodon
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I have never got 's media_proxy to work, so videos don't play. I had assumed that it was a problem with my Apache config... So I've just set up a new instance using Nginx instead, so I can use all the stock config files. And media_proxy doesn't work there either. !

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