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@sam@cablespaghetti.dev
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@sam Amazing! FWIW, on an RPi4, I got to about 5,000 followers before it started to struggle. (And that was with Mastodon rather than snac.)
@sam MUST - RESIST - URGE - TO - BOOST. 😁
Also, very inspired domain name for a Homelab. 😂
@sam What was this in response to? The thread isn't working.
This happens so infrequently I'd like to print out the original and get it framed.
Points will be given for amusing my 6 and 7 year old children and immense gratitude will be given if it stops them waking me up at 5am when it’s light early in the summer.
"Butter me an otter, I'll be back for breakfast" is a thing I just said to Mrs Wife. #NoContext
@hedders
Did the otter eat the kippers?
@HighlandLawyer It smoked the kippers.
https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-static-site-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html
@sam I think there might be something wrong with it?
@sam No, it still looks the same for me:
@sam Yeah, see my other answer (possibly not fetched by our poor Pi yet? 😉 ), I only have the issue on Firefox, Chrome displays it just fine.
@sam Okay, just tried it in Google Chrome (previous screenshots were Firefox), and there it's looking fine.
There are some HTML validity issues I’m seeing if I put it through validator.w3.org that I will endevour to fix. Maybe it’ll help. 🤷
@sam Okay, in that case it really looks like the issue is on my end, when you're seeing it properly in Firefox.
At no point did I say this was an optimal configuration for a website and social media account!
@sam looking all good now. 👍 Definitely on my to-do list moving my blog over and running on a static site.
I like the look of https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog i saw @cartron mention.
@sam Nice article! I love how you managed squeeze out more by compressing the pages
A few tips and tricks:
- you dont need to type the ssh key from the installer. at the "enter ssh key" question you can write "al <user>", "gl <user>" or "gh <user>", which will download your gitlab.alpinelinux.org, gitlab.com or GitHub.com <user>s ssh keys. or you should enter an https URL to your keys.
- `echo rc_after=ntpd >> /etc/conf.d/lighttpd` to make it start after ntpd.
@sam you can set up a headless machine by adding a USB stick (or any partition) with vfat label "cidata". on this you add a file meta-data with:
local-hostname: myhostname
and a file named user-data with:
#alpine-config
ssh_authorized_keys:
- ssh-ed25519 ...
packages:
- lighttpd
- tmux
A subset of cloud-init's config is supported.
With this you don't even need a screen or keyboard.
Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#fuck*,shit*,damn*,idiot*,retard*,crap*
The Boston Athletic Association has introduced new qualifying course restrictions.
Any course with a net downhill of:
- 1,500 and 2,999 feet (457.2 and 914.1 meters) will incur a five-minute (+5:00) time adjustment to results.
- 3,000 and 5,999 feet (914.2 and 1,828.5 meters) will incur a ten-minute (+10:00) time adjustment to results.
- 6,000 feet (1,828.6 meters) or greater will not be allowed for Boston Marathon qualifying purposes.
https://www.baa.org/2026-and-2027-registration-updates-boston-marathon-presented-bank-america
What does this mean for popular #Utah marathons?
- Big Cottonwood: +10:00
- Deseret News: +10:00
- Huntsville: +10:00
- Ogden: N/A
- Salt Lake City: N/A
- St. George: +5:00
- Sun: +5:00
- Top of Utah: N/A
- Utah Valley: +5:00
@sam Yup! I bet REVEL is not happy with this news. Their marketing has been strong on their net downhill for Boston qualifying.
Now that Boston has leveled the playing field, there is little-to-no interest in spending money and traveling to run these courses, when you could stay home and run the local qualifying course instead.
I've met many out-of-state runners on some of these courses who were there to take advantage of the downhill. I bet the race directors see a drop in registrations now.
Changes to Kubernetes Slack - https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/06/16/changes-to-kubernetes-slack/ #Kubernetes
@sam Amazing! FWIW, on an RPi4, I got to about 5,000 followers before it started to struggle. (And that was with Mastodon rather than snac.)
@sam MUST - RESIST - URGE - TO - BOOST. 😁
Also, very inspired domain name for a Homelab. 😂
Here's a script to backup to Backblaze B2 with just Jq as an additional dependency (and the included curl, tar, openssl etc.). It works so far...
https://gist.github.com/cablespaghetti/01862b9d8252223719cbe2586145f686
I’ve got a very cheap heat pipe cooler on the way from AliExpress which I hope will improve things…my other son has one and it works well.
Vauxhall “Grandland”?
Did no one stop and say, “hang on lads, that sounds a bit like a posh Poundland”?
#😆
@WiteWulf No but the fact that there's a store actually named Poundland will never stop being funny to me in the same way that you lot think fanny pack is hilarious.
Oh I'm taking the missus down to Poundland this afternoon for some cheap fun. She is very excited, been asking for it for days. Said she wanted some sausage.
Happy Father’s Day to all the tired parents out there!
@sam mine woke me at an entirely reasonable 6.50. #sleepingIn #breakfastInBed #blessed
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