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vwbusguy

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Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?

Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22

Hoosier currently living in California.

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vwbusguy, to tmbg
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My mood this morning:

https://youtu.be/geTSBFb_GR4

#Monday #TMBG #music

vwbusguy, to classicrock
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If you're a fan or a fan in general, the new single Lead Heavy by is also worth a listen.

https://open.spotify.com/track/281VoYTCdmzKZHvj6W5oJt

vwbusguy,
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@mdione Here you go

https://youtu.be/GJdEqE_v2EY

vwbusguy, to music
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I'm digging this #ChickCorea and #BelaFleck collab!

https://open.spotify.com/track/58EpbedY26g7KtHrA9krbe

#music #jazz #banjo #piano

vwbusguy, to music
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This new song is 🔥

https://open.spotify.com/track/46ZBM9R4bs8utYpAnEBoeI

vwbusguy,
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The track is some Lo-Fi + Earth, Wind, and Fire meets Gospel mash-up and I'm here for it.

vwbusguy, to random
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This is an absolutely wild story.

Feds charge #eBay over employees who sent live spiders and cockroaches to couple; company to pay $3M
https://apnews.com/article/ebay-spiders-cockroaches-steiner-newsletter-9ac2c35bcd4c87af181382c71d992343

vwbusguy, to random
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Spent some time chiming, chugging, and squealing on the Les Paul this afternoon. There's just no substitute when you're in the Les Paul kind of mood.

vwbusguy,
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My Les Paul is my second guitar and the first one I saved up for and bought with my own money back in 1999. I saw it in a guitar shop and immediately knew I had to have it. I had an after school/weekend job at Subway and whenever I got a check, I'd take it to the guitar shop, where it was in lay-away. It took me several months and my mom surprised me to make the final payment for me.

It's a Korean-made 1998 Epiphone Black Beauty. Three humbuckers, a Bigsby, and it's an absolute monster.

vwbusguy,
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For the first 14 years of my guitar playing, my Pro Tone Strat and my Les Paul were the only electrics I really owned and played, taking turns over which was my "main" at any given time, until December 2012 when my wife surprised me with my Ibanez. Currently, my Ibanez and PRS share "main", but there's always itches you just can't scratch without a Strat or Les Paul.

vwbusguy, to guitar
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This is my general recommendation for the best acoustic for the price. They play and feel like an $800 guitar. The tone, neck, and overall quality is phenomenal. You can occasionally find deals on these around $300. The "folk" version is incredibly versatile, so it is worthy for unplugged campfires as well as playing live. It's a solid workhorse that won't have a problem keeping up with a Martin or Taylor and won't give you "glass mandolin syndrome".

https://alvarezguitars.com/guitar/af30ce/

vwbusguy, to random
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It was great to see the next generation of women and men getting ordained today at our annual conference!

vwbusguy, to firefox
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Life Goals:

user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/mozilla-firefox/firefox-user-loses-7470-opened-tabs-saved-over-two-years-after-they-cant-restore-browsing-session

vwbusguy, to ai
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For anyone at that's interested in for any reason, there's a symposium happening next week you might be interested in engaging in.

https://otl.ucsb.edu/ai-cop-spring-symposium-2024

vwbusguy,
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On Wednesday afternoon, there is a discussion around ethics and academic integrity that may be particularly interesting.

vwbusguy, to Kubernetes
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is generally my default goto for image bases when I'm writing stuff from scratch. I love how lightweight and simple it is, so I'll often start there until I can prove that I need something more complex.

vwbusguy,
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On that note - need to move some data to S3? Here's an image I pushed today that includes and zip and gets built/tested/pushed weekly by our Jenkins farm at my $DAYJOB. Perfect for a sidecar container or CronJob backup, etc. Enjoy! (And if this is useful to you, thank the Alpine and s3cmd folks, because they by far did most of the work.)

https://hub.docker.com/r/ucsb/s3cmd

vwbusguy, to random
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Tech bros might think I'm using AI today to solve modern, complex problems.

What I'm actually using it for is a lorem ipsum to generate garbage filler for stuff like arbitrary test files.

vwbusguy, to Kubernetes
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I'm beyond annoyed that there's still no volume definitions for with run or create job.

vwbusguy, to infosec
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This bobcat is peak blue team.

https://youtube.com/shorts/__r8KiAHleI

vwbusguy, to random
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I had a dream last night that beagles became the world's top domesticated animal, surpassing chickens.

vwbusguy,
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@mattdm Maybe the beagles ate all the chickens?

vwbusguy,
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@mattdm In seriousness, beagles are often mass bred for research purposes, especially in China and the US, and treated absolutely horribly. It's because the breed isn't prone to health issues and are docile. The same features that make them a great family pet are why they get mass abused.

https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/08/12/used-reused-euthanized-dogs-life-animal-research

vwbusguy,
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@mattdm It unfortunately was brought up by anti-vaxxers during COVID to discredit Fauci, but despite the distraction attempt, it is a real issue.

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/11/answering-questions-about-beaglegate/

volkswagenchick, to random
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Everyone talking about personal growth and what they did this past year to better themselves during these weird times.

I rediscovered how much I love shrimp tacos.

vwbusguy,
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@volkswagenchick Ceviche or a different recipe?

vwbusguy,
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@volkswagenchick Heck yes!

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