Dan (Dogsbody) Benton
danbenton@mastodon.social
<p>Founder and Director of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dogsbodytech" class="u-url mention">@<span>dogsbodytech</span></a></span><br />Making a living out of taking things apart and putting them back together again.</p>
Posts
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Post #4138765
Things I missed at #EMFCamp an "Otter Plotter Bot, recording where he's been on an Etch-a-Sketch"! From https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/07/electromagnetic-field-2026.html by @Laura@social.coop
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Post #2571903
Who DRM&#39;s an Invoice!? @VodafoneUK apparently! 🤣 This is the PDF VAT invoice that I just got from Vodafone... No Vodafone... bad Vodafone! 🤪
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Post #2571900
You may have seen the announcement about AWS&#39;s &quot;S3 Files&quot; service allowing you to &quot;mount&quot; An S3 bucket on a filesystem. I&#39;ve been struggling to find some good data on how it actually compares to something like `s3fs-fuse` or `mountpoint-s3`. The short answer is that the difference is HUGE (and can be expensive). the best write up I&#39;ve found is https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-is-not-a-filesystem-but-now-theres-one-in-front-of-it/...
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Post #2571899
Discourse realised that they had one site that had used a GIF of Rachel from Friends doing a happy dance 246,173 times which made their backups 432 GB instead of 26 GB. They fixed it with hard links only to break hardlinks as ext4 has a limit of roughly 65,000 hardlinks per inode. https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/how-jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cost-us-377gb-and-broke-ext4-hardlinks/