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James O’Gorman

@jamesog.net

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General geek, gadgeteer, tea drinker, occasional photographer, wannabe musician, and liker of Oxford commas. Recovering sysadmin, pseudo-SRE. Lefty woke liberal. 🏳️‍🌈. Also to be found at @[email protected].

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 3h

I think this every day when I have to use GitHub and how much they fuckedup the frontend. Man, just go back to serving static HTML and render it with some janky Perl CGI

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 3h

There's a reason I added the :tailscale: reacji to our work Slack and keep trolling IT when it whenver they mention GP 😁

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 1d

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Bill Bailey - BBC News Theme (Live at Edinburgh Castle)

YouTube video by Tete

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 1d

A while ago I named a service "disco" and it's a joy to type 😃

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 2d

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 2d

It's a network issue

@ecmp.network 😁

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Neil Brand @neilkbrand.bsky.social · 2d

My new podcast, All About the Music, hits podcast platforms October 22nd. Wonderful guests, fabulous chat, a bit of piano analysis and relaxed music love for every genre and style. Please sign up to the mailing list, forward this all over and check out www.allaboutthemusicpod.com/about-the-show

About The Show — All About The Music Podcast

www.allaboutthemusicpod.com

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 2d

Instant subscribe 😃

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 2d

Yeah, that is a bit annoying. F5 repackage it as part of the paid Nginx Plus subscription but there’s no package elsewhere that I’m aware of 😕

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 2d

If you want to achieve even more bandwidth savings: github.com/google/ngx_b...

When we turned on brotli for our edge servers we saved about 2/3 of the bandwidth cost (or maybe it was 3/4, I can't remember, but it was a lot) for the same CPU usage

GitHub - google/ngx_brotli: NGINX module for Brotli compression

NGINX module for Brotli compression. Contribute to google/ngx_brotli development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 3d

Love the soundtrack too

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 3d

Mashup bands:
Arctic Pixies

Scott🔒 @fatguyonabike.org · 3d

Mashup bands:
They Might Be Garbage

rossholliday.bsky.social @rossholliday.bsky.social · 3d

Mashup Bands:

Oasis-ter Sledge

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 4d

Huh. Didn't realise Warwick made acoustics. *GAS intensifies*

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 5d

I still maintain Palm Pre was the best smartphone I had

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 5d

I can't even explain why I like @leaflet.pub so much but I really do, and now it's open source (on an open source open sourcing tool) and man that is cool

@leaflet.pub/leaflet

a tool for shared writing and social publishing

tangled.org

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 5d

I want to like helix, and there's quite a lot I like, but I've hit similar bumps to you (e.g. gq) and ~25 years of vim means I struggle to remember helix's inverted motions... and select by default keeps tripping me up - I end up needing to ; to deselect to not accidentally replace text

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 5d

“Sup?”

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 5d

*hugops*

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 6d

I... have never seen that anywhere else

James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 6d

Can we also get v4 and v6 on the same interface? 😄

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 6d

Oh, and re: IPv6 I needed:

networking.tempAddresses = "disabled";
networking.interfaces.ens5.tempAddress = "disabled";

on the v6 interface otherwise you get SLAAC addreses you can't use and outbound traffic gets blackholed 🤪 @upcloud.com would be good if you can fix that!

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 6d

I did briefly when I was testing some stuff. I don't recall having to do too much special stuff. nixos-generate-config sets up hardware-configuration.nix to use virtio and qemu-guest.

The only quirky/mildly annoying thing is IPv4/IPv6 addrs are on different interfaces.

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James O’Gorman @jamesog.net · 6d

Plus using Litestream to backup/replicate SQLite is a hell of a lot easier to get going than having to have a second Postgres/MySQL/whatever running somewhere else to be replaying WAL

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 7d

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 8d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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