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

#snac #snac2 #alpinelinux #linux #raspberrypi

Thanks for the hookup GitHub!

https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/2025/08/29/github-oss-fund/

Good morning

(It is currently part of the morning routine for the little horse to wait for the goats in that one spot where it's easy for the goats to climb on him, then he happily accepts back massages)

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A small brown horse, with a small brown goat standing on his back, while gently head butting a small black goat who's standing on an old hay bale next to the horse. They're in a muddy farm yard surrounded by a tall wooden fence. The sky above is hazy.

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Several goats of various colours and one tall fuzzy brown llama standing in a very overgrown grassy area surrounded by scrubby trees, happily chowing down on all the plants they can reach. The sky above is hazy.

I feel like this needs a hashtag. There must be more crashed public computer enjoyers out there…

Watching the premier of the Python documentary ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0 ). Reminded how the Python 2 -> 3 transition has a lot of parallels to the IPv4 -> #IPv6 transition.

On the second, I’m currently in Italy and mozzarella is plentiful and cheap. I’m making a good go of finding out the answer and will let you know (or I suppose I won’t if the answer is yes).

I’ve had this book on my “To Read” list for about four years, since reading the Wayfarers series back to back.

I put it off because frankly £10 for an ebook copy of a 150 novella is expensive and I was hoping it would get cheaper at some point.

Anyway, I’m at a point in my life where I’ve got a high pressure job, two demanding boys, a wife to keep happy and bills to pay. Frankly it all gets a bit much at times and I do find myself questioning the purpose of it all.

Honestly maybe I need to find religion, but in the absence of that this book is pretty bloody relatable to me right now. I will definitely be recommending it to others as a thought provoking quick read.

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Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Hardcover, 2021, Tordotcom)

AWS Client VPN now supports connectivity to IPv6 resources
Posted on: Aug 26, 2025
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/08/aws-client-vpn-connectivity-ipv6-resources/

#aws #ipv6

I remember reading a comment 10-20 years ago that said something to the effect of, "The Star Trek holodeck would be humanity's last invention."

There's nothing more potently addictive than a room that can conjure up every conceivable place, person, thing, whim, or desire.

I think what we're seeing with "AI" is a kind of "dialectical holodeck," where people enter in, wrap themselves up in a fantasy world created by a twisted algorithm designed to satisfy the user's curiosity and cater to their every verbal whim, and think it's their greatest reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT_psychosis

Hello Kitty

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An elected official stands on a podium in front of a huge crowd and says we’ve done it we’ve achieved world peace. “And every single person on earth is happy. The crowd cheers then the announcer says one more thing “one other quick announcement the owner of the hello Kitty IP recently stated that hello Kitty is not actually a cat. She’s a human girl who simply looks like a cat“the crowd is silent for moment, then irrupt into a total bloodbath of cartage, screaming, fighting and mayhem.

🗣️ "I notice a lot of 5xx errors from the application during scale-in of the pods after a spike period."

I was asked this question last week and spent some time debugging the issue. In the process, I realized there is confusion about how Kubernetes does (not do) graceful shutdown.

So, I decided to rewrite our article on graceful shutdown and augment it with some knowledge I gained during the years!

You can find the full article here: https://learnk8s.io/graceful-shutdown

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

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Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.

https://e-mail.wtf

Bluefin LTS has hit RC!

https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/discussions/3012

CC: @gumnos@bsd.cafe

That said despite the IPv4 and v6 addresses showing up as NL in every database I've checked. I am STILL getting a 403 from lgbtqia.space. I give up. Oh well fun evening project.

My $12 VPS in London is paid up for the next 11 months though…I’ll have to think what to use it for.

I’ve sent the admin an email to see if they would consider unblocking just the apis needed for federation. I’m not holding out much hope though.

Cc @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

We’re trying to sell the place and I’m told piles of hoarded junk doesn’t help with that.

A lot of it is boxed up already but still feeling moderately stressed about it. Still need to shut down the lack rack…

Aurora August newsletter is now out

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/stargazers-2-aurora-august-update/10251/

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