Posts by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
(DIR) Post #9qOps8KQA3fS1LqigK by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2019-12-27T19:07:46.334162Z
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We did a lot of walking a lot with Daughter when she was really small. We are not car people. And walking with her was, quite literally, an investment.Almost immediately we started teaching her that she could roam relatively free, as long as she watched out for cars and took care to hold an adult's hand when crossing the street.She's really good about it! She's been good at it since she was only two.As a result, today we trust her. With trust comes privilege: our 4 year old runs free and jumps and explores and plays when we go for walks in the city, while many other kids her age are pretty much tethered to their parents (for good reason).It's a metaphor for life, I can only hope we manage other trust/safety issues as well in the future.(Note: I realize not all kids are the same. Our daughter has a cautious nature, which makes all this stuff easier. This is not me judging other parents whose kids are more exuberant! You play the cards you are dealt.)#dadtoot #bragging
(DIR) Post #9qPKXsvQoi8v2JzA6S by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2019-12-27T23:54:35.987657Z
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Earlier today I completed an `apt upgrade` on my laptop, rebooted.Now my #Mailpile can no longer validate TLS certificates. I can't even be bothered to try and figure out why.Who needs e-mail, anyway? 😞I love programming and creating new things. I enjoy troubleshooting and solving interesting problems.However, I really do not enjoy constantly spending time re-fixing things that used to work. I hardly make ANY progress on my projects these days because all my time is spent fixing stuff that shifting dependencies broke. It's really demoralizing.This is the shit that is going to make me throw in the towel and retire.
(DIR) Post #9qPgzIqyirW6GHNjA8 by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2019-12-27T23:20:15.633481Z
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I made a big pot of chili.Hell yeah.
(DIR) Post #9qvFc8yy2PVuOvXBqq by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-01-12T10:34:12.895742Z
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@clacke Confession: I do some of my best work barefoot.
(DIR) Post #9qvVQPM4wA2IyJlohM by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-01-12T10:32:33.160118Z
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@sean You are cute!Great pics. 😁
(DIR) Post #9r1Y3f2duklbm0Hf0a by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-01-15T11:27:37.439753Z
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PSA: it's OK to #fail sometimes.Today I am failing to: - Get daughter to school before 10am - Fix (or replace) a dishwasher - Fix (or sell) my car - Fold my clothes - Get paid for #PageKite - Retire an Ubuntu 10.04 server - Hell, retire a RedHat 7.2* server!!! - Port #Mailpile to #Python3 - Make any progress on #Mailpile at all - Invite old friends to dinner - Eat less meat - Fly less - Remember all my other failuresAnd yet, I'm still awesome.Failing is OK. You can only fail at things if you have taken responsibility and owned something. Which is quite a bit more awesome than the alternative.*) No, not RHEL. That damn box has been chugging away since 2001 or so. Once upon a time we were proud of uptime, proud things are stable just keep working - now we feel shame about not keeping up with the fucking upgrade treadmill. I am also failing to embrace this new reality.#burnout #sysadmin #failing
(DIR) Post #9r9rXVo4hIqgcKSgLY by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-01-19T11:27:34.900797Z
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All humans are tribal. Few humans are systems-thinkers.Considering cause, effect and how to tweak a system for better outcomes is a skill relatively few have.We're all naturals at us-vs-them though!I think this is the root cause reason why I find politics in general and activism in particular so frustrating. So much tribal polarisation drowning out intelligent thought.No matter what the system, there will be winners and losers. The winners will often protect the system they're benefiting from, so there are feedback loops - but simply replacing one group of winners with another, without changing the underlying dynamic, wouldn't actually change much.Eating the rich won't fix anything if we don't also change the system that perpetuated inequality in the first place. Filling all the board rooms with women won't fix anything if their job is still to maximize profits above all else. Etc.Assigning blame is easy, changing systems is hard.(Of course, I might also just be a fragile overpaid white middle aged cis man who is tired of getting blamed for everything. Feel free to put me in that box if it makes you feel better. It's not wrong.)
(DIR) Post #9rAyixoTntdFV61DXM by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-01-19T12:44:47.168107Z
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Being a Dad means taking part in matter-of-fact negotiations regarding whether pooping should take place before or after lunch.#dadtoot
(DIR) Post #9rVH1nZisUehaV0UUK by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-01-29T13:33:00.953232Z
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There's a group of young mothers meeting at my work café, with their little ones. Everyone is well behaved and happy.It's a sure sign of Dadness that I find myself sneaking more peeks at the cute little kids, than at the attractive young women... 😆 Toxic masculinity be damned, I just think little people are great.#dadtoot
(DIR) Post #9riufoQRKJl19fzOM4 by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-02-05T09:31:28.513302Z
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@Gina Any 3rd party content you embed on your site (like buttons, share buttons, advertising) will be used to track your users across the web.Advertisement networks have repeatedly been used to distribute malware in the past; both browser exploits and $cryptocurrency miners.For me, these downsides have felt too significant for me to try monetizing my content, so I've never done so and cannot comment on whether the pay-off would actually be "worth it."And of course it's all extra work...
(DIR) Post #9rlDZBJ09DxvXByuZs by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-02-05T10:28:30.481724Z
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Giving stuff away for free is always much less work than making money off of it.For hobbies, avoiding money means not distracting from the fun bits with boring things like taxes and accounting. You were planning to do things legally, right? 😜Some people enjoy the challenge of making money though. More power to them!OTOH, building a microbusiness and becoming more financially independent is a fantastic thing. I would just hesitate to call it a hobby.I've done both...
(DIR) Post #9ro0BUINB06NYBwGxM by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-01-28T00:49:25.047003Z
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I bought my current #laptop cheap, a refurbished Hewlett Packard Pavilion x360 off ebay in March 2016.It cost under 300 pounds (I lived in the UK at the time), but I spent another 75 bumping the RAM from to 16G a few months later. So call it 350 pounds. Cheap!Am I allowed to want a new one yet?Sadly, the answer appears to be no: it still works. The case is a bit warped (plastic), but it mostly just chugs along doing what I ask of it. 😔 It will be hard to beat the ROI on this thing, that's for sure.(Also, it was very blatantly product placed in a Kiesza music video. Any time I get laptop envy I can take comfort in that fact...)
(DIR) Post #9ro0BVAFwfCgFJ9Iwa by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-02-04T23:34:14.619897Z
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... on the other hand, the warping of my laptop's case is now bad enough that the weight of my hand resting on it causes random keypresses.Which. Is. Driving. Me. Nuts.I just realized that unconciously trying to hold my hand up, to avoid these random keypresses, may be why I'm suddenly getting muscle tension bad enough that I've got slight pain shooting down my arm...When you spend as much time typing as I do, these little things really matter.Maybe I'm allowed to want a new laptop after all.
(DIR) Post #9ro0BVyavVTAlQhVPE by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-02-07T13:24:53.607129Z
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Turns out the warping of my laptop case was caused by the battery getting all puffy... 🔥So now I have a new laptop - I can't wait for a replacement battery and I'm traveling next week.So I am now the proud owner of a very fancy pink Acer Swift 3, with a 10th gen i5, 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD. Pink!It's much lighter than the old one, and a little smaller. 1.2kg. And it's pink!Very fancy.A pink laptop copying files fro…
(DIR) Post #9sAqLbNQJe1AdF98bY by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-02-18T16:35:33.016142Z
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Rando in e-mail: Please give me detailed answers to this list of questions about your Open Source project! It's much quicker this way than figuring it out myself.Me, out loud: Not if I don't reply, it isn't.*archived*
(DIR) Post #9sBBQe5dknYnX34h8q by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-02-18T22:52:26.604548Z
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Holy heck, the #PageKite Android app still installs and runs and appears to work. It's 7 years old.That's kinda impressive, Android!Backwards compatibility is cool.The app really should get an update though, my current recommendation is people avoid it and use Termux instead.But it's a nice little app! So I've just updated the PageKite wiki to mention that I'd be willing to pay a fair price for someone to bring it into modernity: https://pagekite.net/wiki/Howto/GNULinux/AndroidPageKite/Figured it wouldn't hurt to say so here, too.
(DIR) Post #9sD17FjZTRyjGXmnUe by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-02-19T21:55:26.605850Z
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I did a bit of Android development, ages ago. One of the things that stuck with me, was the way apps could submit a request to be woken up at "opportune times", to do background processing.This allowed the operating system to cluster background jobs together, and otherwise keep the phone in a low power state for as long as possible.This seems like a very sensible way to do things, but I don't know of any way to achieve the same thing on "desktop" Linux. I've tried to Google it, but largely failed.Anyone out there got any tips?
(DIR) Post #9sPaJLm0fqnvlQwwtM by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-02-25T22:50:15.829605Z
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Two small cars pull up and haphazardly park in our driveway.Eight big men climb out. Hoodies, baseball caps. They look foreign.How did they even fit in those tiny cars?Together, they cross the street and disappear around the corner. The hazard lights on one of the cars blink, blink, blink.After what seems like an eternity, low lights come on in the abandoned ground-floor apartment across the road. Silhouettes are projected onto the windows.Blink, blink, blink.The shadows disappear. Soon, all 8 men come back around the corner and enter the abandoned apartment through the front door. One stays behind, smoking. Watching. A guard?More shadows. The hazard lights keep lighting up the street with their infernal yellow blinking. Eventually the men emerge empty handed.After a drawn out discussion, they cross the road and somehow squeeze themselves back into the tiny cars.One light is left on inside.The men are gone.
(DIR) Post #9sPaJMATCuN0zIOU1A by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-02-25T23:08:25.878559Z
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The police show up a few minutes later. A big van and a smaller car.I go out and tell them what I saw.They take notes. One of the cops writes down the license plate numbers, but swaps an I for a Y.Once the cops are gone, I take a stroll around the house the men had been exploring.The fresh snow behind the building is undisturbed. They didn't break in.They had keys. 🙀...I fully expect them to show up again soon, to commence renovations.🚗 👷 👷 👷 👷 👷 👷 👷 👷 🚗Hopefully their parking skills will have improved in the meantime...
(DIR) Post #9sTM5GUfC7giZVXAsy by bjarni@bre.klaki.net
2020-02-27T17:22:45.141860Z
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I had my other upper wisdom tooth removed today.Relatively speaking, the hit to my wisdom was more significant this time, a full 33%.In the process, apparently an opening was created between my mouth and my nasal cavity and so I'm on antibiotics with instructions to avoid blowing my nose and to try not to suck.Gee thanks, dentist! Degrade my source of wisdom and then admonish me not to suck. 👍