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  Hey friends, back in the day, Nagios was the go-to for server/network monitoring. What's the go-to these days? Preferably with ntfy.sh support. Thanks! #sysadmin

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  Happy doing-your-taxes-at-the-last-minute day/weekend for all Australians who celebrate! #taxtober

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  I have an absolute boatload to do and deadlines with fines and penalties if I don't get it done, but I've also got a cat cuddling me and she's *so happy*, so I guess I'm paying fines.

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  Normally I'm against the government being all up in my shit, but somehow I'm okay with this. #shitposting

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  David West, just casually demonstrating a solar ignition fire using a friggin' *discarded piece of cling-wrap* and some water. No cuts. No edits. No hype. Just one man who is very devoted to his special interest and is bloody good at it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuQQeXzdMk #bushcraft #camping #fire

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  Hello #immich #homelab friends. Looks like a recent update to the onnx runtime adds telemetry back to Microsoft. Because *of course* we cannot have nice things. As far as I can tell, none of this has to do with Immich per se, it's a change to an upstream runtime. To the best of my knowledge, none of the telemetry goes to immich. You can stop the telemetry with: - Adding `ORT_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1` to your `.env` file, and/or - Using pi-hole or another ad-blocking DNS server to intercept and...

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  Just filed a bug report that #Valheim doesn't consistently support unicode futhark, because I am a gigantic nerd.

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  Just texted this to my real estate agent who asked me to give them a call next week but didn't say why. Src: https://www.reddit.com/r/adhdmeme/comments/18ucet4/we_need_to_talk/

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  Back from survival training in the woods with @DevRhiana@ruby.social. We can now set up emergency shelters from a poncho, get an accurate bearing of true north, and boil a litre of water in under 20 minutes combined¹. Can absolutely recommend the Bushcraft Survival Australia courses². They're legit, and they will *push* you³. For emergency survival in particular you can expect to do things while tired, in the dark, and under time pressure, because real emergencies care not for your comfort...

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  Today I have gratitude that pine resin can be microwaved.

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  All my recovered lithium cells are balanced, and they seem to accept the power bank housing I've placed them into. Next step will be to see if they charge, which I do very gently with recovered cells. #reuserepair #18650cell #solarpunk

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  It's so weird having a dysfunctional brain reward circuit. I guess that's an AuDHD thing? In any case, I've achieved all the goals I set for today, and the result is that I feel no sense of achievement, only tired and icky because all the goals were state bureaucracy related rather than anything I attach personal value to. Or maybe nobody feels good achieving goals they don't personally believe in. Idk.

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  Omg, my favourite bird now has a portrait!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖 https://socialbc.ca/@artbysarahsammis/117441413458779473

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  Hey friends, If you have tech skills—and many of you do—look for ways to reach out to your communities and help them de-enshittify their lives, even if it's just a little. Help them install uBlock Origin. Introduce them to F-Droid. Consider setting up NextCloud or Immich for your family or neighbours. Show them alternatives like DuckDuckGo or Fastmail. If they're on Windows then help move them to Mint¹ or run Win11Debloat². Help them join Mastodon. Talk to your local library or comm...

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  Woo! New #Immich release with upgraded face-recognition sharing getting very good reviews and feedback. If you've been looking to get your photos off "the cloud" and onto a private, open source service that you host yourself, then now is a really good time. Face sharing has been a bit of a roadblock for a lot of people (especially families), but not any more! https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v3.3.0 #SelfHosted #Homelab #photography #DataSovereignty

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  I don't even know the date of the upcoming Victorian state election and I'm already exhausted by it. #vixpol #auspol

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  Look, I get it, LLMs can't replace *your* expertise, but as a white middle-aged man in tech who is often confidently wrong and taken seriously anyway, they've already mastered the only thing I've ever been good at.

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  I'm now running navidrome¹ to stream my music collection and it's pretty great. I'm also very grateful that Picard² exists to fill in the metadata on CDs I ripped 20+ years ago. No gratitude to all the AI bots scraping musicbrainz/listenbrainz constantly and ruining things, especially when they could just bulk-download the data legitimately³. — ¹ https://navidrome.org/ ² https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ ³ https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/08/19/growing-pains-an-update-on-the-listen...

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  I don't think @jonny@neuromatch.social convincing a flagship LLM to leak its own code, torrent files, and mine cryptocurrency will ever get old. https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117324790823856750

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  OMG!!! NEW CAT JUST DROPPED¹!!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilcayo — ¹ Was formally described by international zoologists. Local communities had known about the cat for ages.

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  I know I'm very late to the party, but Rosehaven¹ is very good and wholesome² and beautifully Australian. It doesn't seem to be on iView any more, but if you can find it then it's some of the best Australian comedy out there, and a balm for the soul.❤️ — ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosehaven ² Wholesome by Australian comedy standards.

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  Happy birthday, Glen Eira #RepairCafe!

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  Lol, I love #immich's "on this day" feature, it really shows off what I use my phone for. #catsOfMastodon

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  I have absolutely no idea how any country with below-replacement birthrates and an ageing population can argue against immigration, yet still expect the benefits that labour provides, like food availability, trades, and medical care. If we were using a system that prioritised essential jobs over pandering to the rich, then maybe, but instead we have capitalism. (And I know, I know... blaming the immigrants is a way to mislead people so they don't blame the ultra-wealthy, but still...)

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  I want to like the new release of #Jellyfin, which was thoroughly tested and is better than the old version in every way, EXCEPT it changed the position of one button that I always use and maybe now I need to give up on computers entirely.

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  Hey friends, I'm behind the times. Bandcamp used to be the ethical place to buy DRM-free music you can put on your own device, but I don't want to assume that's still the case. Where's the go-to place now?

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  Apologies to everyone for being behind on personal correspondence, I have been overrun with tasks and am desperate for sleep. I love you all. ❤️

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  I wasn't planning on cleaning my Model M keyboard today, but an accident with an almost full cup of coffee necessitates otherwise.

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  Hey #homelab friends, I've been thinking about what would happen if the kids desktops had a hardware failure, and how we might best do backups. Said backups need to happen automatically, need to survive being interrupted, and require no input from the user. I'm considering just putting their entire home directories into a syncthing share with rolling versioning, mirroring to the enterprise storage Linux server we've got in the garage. That should be enough to handle both hardwar...

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  I love reading stories of nerds doing years of film restoration out of spite. Here's a story of that happening with the original Star Wars: https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/