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• Post #4391587

  Made myself sad realising that the jumper I’m wearing today (air conditioned train/office) is covered in Tails fluff

• Post #4308148

  I can’t I’m stuck here forever #caturday #catsOfMastodon

• Post #4243361

  That’s cleared that up then.

• Post #4232532

  What is this?? Some water is falling from the sky

• Post #4045303

  Yesterday and today it was apparently my turn to have a widely distributed scraper network hammer my instance. Not really hard enough to cause performance issues but at a higher request rate than all my legit traffic, and it rubs me the wrong way to provide content for them, so some quick scripting later both nginx and CloudFront are (reactively) filtering 1000s of IPs.

• Post #4044589

  Yay :)

• Post #3985172

  Obsessively watching the numbers as the solar panels charge the car

• Post #3984431

  @chiffchaff@tech.lgbt not sure... on my host it was showing up as garbage TLS connections (or requests) in nginx logs, so I just matched lines for that and added them to a pf table which blocked everything, and killed state on them too. looked like random residential IPs. it's been affecting the whole provider since Sunday evening, they've been working on mitigating it with HE

• Post #3983483

  Bit of old-school DDoS-mitigation this morning (entire provider getting hit, but tinkered with some pf things on my host to reduce log noise etc)

• Post #3920380

  Let me just check if my car has the “steering wheel” equipped

• Post #3816036

  Introduced a German coworker to Crunchie, including that it was mandatory to make allusions to Friday

• Post #3766040

  Setting up a new dash cam and it seems with suitable connectivity they can (if configured) live update location and stream video to anyone with the app?! There’s quite a lot on the map, I wonder if all those users realised that’s what they were setting it to. I will not be enabling any of that.

• Post #3745585

  Had a hand warmer while I was computering today, which was a problem because it was 30° in my office #caturday #catsOfMastodon

• Post #3694877

  Something terrible networky has happened between me and California this morning, apparently

• Post #3630080

  RE: https://social.neonpaws.digital/@FoxesInLove/116873507965029508 Rubber duck debugging! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging)

• Post #3610655

  Watching Lego Masters and for costume reasons Brickman is barefoot, which seems like a very risky move in an environment with so many Lego bricks

• Post #3578672

  Updated my Mastodon updating Ansible playbook to do the asset build on another host and copy it over. It's here in case it's of any use/inspiration to anyone: https://paste.sr.ht/~jamesoff/abb33958845220a2668053cc00bda62a09f7e71e

• Post #3565975

  Something for #caturday eve - @mrs_seward@mastodon.jamesoff.net built Sonic a Dreamies puzzle which he got the hang of after a few attempts

• Post #3565404

  Amused to have paused a game so I could concentrate on the end of Lost season 5 finale with 23 seconds of the level left

• Post #3563144

  Why does installing Ruby require compiling Rust?

• Post #3533416

  Just ended a Slack message to my manager with "(2 minutes, 0 tokens)"

• Post #3425594

  42.4°Cat #caturday #catsOfMastodon

• Post #3389334

  not now, Tesco Bank

• Post #3389140

  # service sunshine forcestop

• Post #3388970

  A coworker made an AI-voiced demo video of a thing and halfway through explaining one of the slides it just goes "Andrew! (sigh)" and then carries straight on. It's not in the script.

• Post #3388616

  FreeBSD 15.1 successfully installed on the Ugreen NAS and zpool created using spare disks sitting around from upgrading those in the Synology. Disks and network card all seem to work but not tested performance yet. Will play properly later, as long as it and I are not overheating. Only obvious thing not working is the status/drive LEDs on the front panel, which I guess needs a driver to attach and control them - they keep doing the just-powered-up animation. #FreeBSD

• Post #3375102

  Ok I sorted out building (precompiling) the mastodon assets on a different (amd64) machine and copying them up to my actual host (since FreeBSD/arm64 does not seem easy to run the process on any more. I've set up a jail on a machine at home to do it in; in case it's of any use to anyone else, here's the notes I scribbled myself as I was doing it #FreeBSD #mastoadmin 1/2

• Post #3367250

  @KiwiEV@mastodon.nz <3

• Post #3361450

  Melty cat #caturday #cats #catsOfMastodon

• Post #3361190

  Anyone I know running #FreeBSD on a Ugreen NASync? Eyeing up the DXP4800 Plus since you can apparently install your own OS on it, and I have some spare disks I could zfs with it. Found the odd mention online of people having it work but maybe issues with the NIC?