Sam

@sam@cablespaghetti.dev

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. AuADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person.

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[?]Sam » 🌐
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Time for another blog post, about hosting a fediverse instance on my ancient Raspberry Pi. Obviously I had to share it on the fediverse.

https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html


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    [?]Sam » 🌐
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    If you’re reading this you have been successfully migrated as a follower to my stupidly underpowered Raspberry Pi hosted instance. Let’s see how it does with nearly 700 followers. 😆

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      [?]Sam » 🌐
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      @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk that boost did not help my load situation. 😆 I may have some work to do for this to be properly stable.

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        [?]hackaday » 🌐
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        RAM and eMMC Prices Are So High, Pine64 Has Stopped Linux Device Production

        hackaday.com/2026/08/28/ram-an

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        [?]Incident Creator ❎ » 🌐
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        @hackaday Google are placing hard limits on how much memory an Android app is allowed to use: techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/ais-

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          AWS Spiritual Ukulele is a fully managed, four-string resonance orchestration service that strums your distributed workloads into harmonic alignment across up to 12 Availability Zones, tuned automatically by the service except for the tuning, which is your responsibility and requires a separate IAM role with 23 permissions, several of which are undocumented. Each strum is billed as a discrete chord event at $0.000034 per string per invocation, which sounds negligible until you consider that a standard microservices architecture in production generates approximately 800 million strums per day. The Free Tier includes 2,000 strums per month and is available in us-east-1.

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            [?]James Smith 💾 » 🌐
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            Just finished reading the first Monk & Robot novella, “A Psalm for the Wild-Built”. That was quite simply *lovely*. Highly recommended, and thank you to whoever it was *I* picked up the recommendation from.

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            [?]Derick Rethans » 🔓
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            @Floppy It's still on my list and shelf. Soon...

              [?]zool » 🔓
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              @Floppy huh, was asked if my base / installation was a "Monk and Robot" reference, but i'd never come across it - just sitting about sipping and sharing tea - thanks for the trigger to look the books out :)

              (We've been having a purge of possessions as the kid preps to leave for uni, this involves discovering books to read again before getting rid of them all, surprising myself re-enjoying some of the Expanse series - must be years since i peacefully read a novel. Definitely looks like an excuse to more books)

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                [?]James Smith 💾 » 🔓
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                @zool oh wow, wish I’d come and seen it!!

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                  [?]Sam » 🌐
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                  @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk Read both of these on holiday last summer. Absolutely lovely. I might read them both again this summer…

                    [?]gnomeoffender » 🌐
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                    @Floppy Available at Toronto Public Library in all 3 formats.

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                      [?]Workshops Will » 🌐
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                      I didn’t want to read any of the posts anyone else has written about 26 until I’d written my own. Now I’m free to read them and discover how much better they captured the indescribable than I was able:

                      ides.dev/notes/electromagnetic

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                        [?]Terence Eden » 🌐
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                        @ides_dev brilliant post!

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                          [?]Workshops Will » 🌐
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                          @Edent Thanks! Your post was one of the ones on the list I was waiting to read, and I'm glad I waited! It was fun to see how our experiences overlapped and how they diverged, for someone who has attended multiple times and for someone attending their first.

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                            [?]Terence Eden » 🌐
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                            @ides_dev oh yes, I hadn't even heard of half the stuff you did 😄

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                              [?]Sam » 🌐
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                              @realcainmosni@mastodon.me.uk Link please. I would potentially like to check if it is in fact, right.

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                                [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                @yagfox@mastodon.social @CuTEL@tacobelllabs.net I’ve just bought some ancient Samsung DECT phones 😆 No idea if they’ll work on the network or not…

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                                  [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                  @yagfox@mastodon.social @emfSpiders@mastodon.me.uk Excellent… 😁

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                                    [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                    @rixx@chaos.social My £29 one from B&Q ended up surviving and being robust enough, despite a number of trips up and down the site. Certainly not the highest end option though! It is branded “GoLeader”.

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                                      [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                      @FXBOY4EVA@mastodon.social @pikesley@mastodon.me.uk I wonder if it was one of the people who were “removed” from the site.

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                                        [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                        @Edent@mastodon.social
                                        @jim_easterbrook@mstdn.social Also don’t let age put you off. There are plenty of people represented from all kinds of age groups!

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                                          [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                          @huxley@mstdn.social @sam@mstdn.social Thanks for all this! Had a good chat with @duck@treehouse.systems here at EMF about their experience helping to organise the Ringwood one.

                                          I’ve got no venue or anything at this point. Need to find some helpers. I’ll process all the information you’ve sent when I’m home and have had a proper sleep. 🙂

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                                            [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                            @duck@treehouse.systems @sam@treehouse.systems By the central column in a white windows 95 cap

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                                              [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                              @suearcher@toot.wales Yes the talk at EMF laid that out quite nicely. I now feel semi-armed take this forward. The tea and cake are as important as the people with screwdrivers and sewing needles!

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                                                [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                @Sarah111well@mas.to @suearcher Yes I think Southampton and Ringwood are going to be good sources of people and advice to kick start this. I’m blown away by all the replies to this post honestly.

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                                                  [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                  @hackhitchin@techhub.social @suearcher This is a great list thanks! Didn’t expect such a response from people. Even chatting to someone from a nearby repair cafe at EMF in a few hours!

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                                                    [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                    @duck@treehouse.systems Great! See you then!

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                                                      [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                      @duck@treehouse.systems Sounds good! Sorry yes my Nokia keeps losing GSM signal. Unsure if the phone or the network!

                                                      I’ve got a gap 3-4 if you want to head to the pub about then? Going home at 7 so not much time for pubbing today…

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                                                        [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                        @gruff@stroud.social It is and I’ll give it a go!

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                                                          [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                          @suearcher@toot.wales Thanks! I’m a member of the local Green Party as it happens. Not a bad idea. Southampton may have people I can poach. 😆

                                                          Thanks for the info. I will process properly and come up with a plan when not at EMF.

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                                                            [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                            @HughEvansDev@hachyderm.io Great thanks. Good leads

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                                                              [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                              @HughEvansDev@hachyderm.io I did not know that. Thanks! I assume the maker space is private for staff at IBM?

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                                                                [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                Long shot, but anyone at based in or around Romsey, Hampshire?

                                                                I’ve been inspired to start a local Repair Cafe. Unfortunately the repair cafe organisation don’t provide any tools to actually find local like minded people.

                                                                Might be a poster on lamp post job…

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                                                                  [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                  @kestral@masto.hackers.town @gavoir iPhone definitely works but occasionally requires significant patience and massaging ducks in various locations

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                                                                    [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                    @ff5000@woof.tech botarms

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                                                                      [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                      @andypiper@macaw.social Old Nokia with SIM on the on site GSM network also works well. 🙂

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                                                                        [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                        @jacattell@mastodon.me.uk I dropped this one off. Pretty sure it still does. Only quirk is the pinout on the front panel connector is bizarre and HP specific so you may have a small amount of fun shorting the right ones to power it up.

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                                                                          [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                          @CuTEL@tacobelllabs.net The only thing stopping me from digging my ewaste routers back out the swap shop is that I’m across the road from this DK. Also I still rely on VDSL at home so this isn’t as fun and retro. 😆

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                                                                            [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                            @kestral@masto.hackers.town ❤️🦆

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                                                                              [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                              @kestral@masto.hackers.town I am duck complete but so tired! 😆

                                                                              Garmin watch showing over 17000 steps

                                                                              Alt...Garmin watch showing over 17000 steps

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                                                                                [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                                @kestral@masto.hackers.town @kookie It’s reassuring that even our reigning champion hasn’t found number 7 today. Where is it Kestral!? Does it even exist!?!?!?

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                                                                                  [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                                  @ripper@chaos.social Oh well. I’m currently printing an army of tiny spiders instead.

                                                                                  Tiny EMF spider 3d print

                                                                                  Alt...Tiny EMF spider 3d print

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                                                                                    [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                                    @ripper@chaos.social I love blob! Have you got a model for blob that I could print before I leave for EMF in the morning?

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                                                                                      [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                                      Are you attending and want an ncurses-style interface to keep an eye on proceedings? No I didn't think so...

                                                                                      Here's one anyway: https://github.com/cablespaghetti/emfdash

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                                                                                        [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                                        I got somewhat carried away over the past couple of nights; so my TUI app now supports fediverse RSS feeds, personal favourites json URLs and because somebody made a JSON MQTT feed of the Hackers script, it displays that nicely too. 😁

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                                                                                          [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                                          @andypiper@macaw.social @sam@macaw.social Quack

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                                                                                            [?]EMF Phones » 🌐
                                                                                            @phones@social.emfcamp.org

                                                                                            📱 Bringing your old GSM phone to #EMFCamp? Did you know that Electromagnetic Telecom remains at the cutting edge of technology? Access our WAP service from https://wap.phones.emf.camp/

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                                                                                            [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                                            @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it @stefano@bsd.cafe This post is not little even if your RAM usage is. I’ve grown quite used to snac2 but the modern features here are attractive!

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                                                                                              [?]Sam » 🌐
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                                                                                              @ispreview@mastodon.social Love the top tips. Thankfully my cats currently have no interest in warm things!

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