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. Formerly known as @sam@running.cafe.

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[?]sam » 🌐
@sam@cablespaghetti.dev

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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        [?]sam » 🌐
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        Another day, another gaming YouTuber gets won over by the smooth experience of . Valve get some of the credit here for the mindshare but I don’t think we should underestimate the impact Bazzite has had in getting people to install Linux and not running away screaming in confusion.

        https://youtu.be/zg9YASpFD3g?si=NSbTMhXe-yJRLIhY


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          Blue95: Everything In Its Right Place. youtube.com/watch?v=xs-l2Owbm5k

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          A reminder that according to the Ministry of defence VPNs allow users to bypass state-imposed censorship.

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            @xyla@shitpost.trade Was past you playing with blue95 or is this legitimately some kind of Windows install?

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              @jonty@chaos.social
              @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io There’s the slightly slower Minibook N100 on the CeX website for £225 at the moment. Just got myself a guitar amp from them for £40. Love a bargain…

              https://uk.webuy.com/search?stext=Minibook+x&availability=In+Stock+Online

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                [?]Neil Craig » 🌐
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                Oh wow. The UK government has finally grown about 1/1000000000th of a pair.
                bbc.co.uk/news/live/cdrkj810pl

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                [?]sam » 🌐
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                @rl_dane@polymaths.social
                @N3VEM@mastodon.radio The Fedora Atomic variants are very vanilla experiences with just the different desktops.

                The idea of Bluefin and Aurora (and Bazzite, the gaming focused one) is that they take the atomic fedora base and make an opinionated “just works” out of the box experience on top of it. Obviously that kind of customisation is going to be quite different between the different desktops.

                Bluefin has received the most attention as it is the focus of the overall project, and Aurora is an offshoot with a smaller team. Both are really good though to be honest.

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                  [?]sam » 🌐
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                  @rl_dane@polymaths.social
                  @N3VEM@mastodon.radio I love Aurora. It’s a great set-and-forget experience. However Bluefin is potentially slightly more free of sharp edges (not that there are many…) due to being the flagship Universal Blue distro.

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                    @chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net @sam
                    @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk I’m not imagining this change for small operators am I? I’m falling to find a link.

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                      [?]sam » 🌐
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                      @whitingx@mastodon.cloud
                      @chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net There was an announcement that they’d changed the rules to exempt organisations under 10 million revenue or something. Damage has already been done of course but a lot of this no longer applies.

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                        [?]sam » 🌐
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                        Our local Asda has some great suggestions for end of term teacher gifts…

                        A display of engine oil on a shelf labelled “Thank you teacher”

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                        @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org Despite being everywhere in the UK, many manufacturers have discontinued their small hatchbacks in favour of crossovers. The Ford Fiesta is dead for example, which is an incredibly stupid move given how well they sold. 🤷

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                          @codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org @stephanie@fosstodon.org We still get the Jazz as it is called in the UK. It’s an overpriced hybrid now, so who knows if the longevity will be the same but it still exists at least! https://www.honda.co.uk/cars/new/jazz-hybrid/overview.html

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                            [?]sam » 🌐
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                            @arichtman@eigenmagic.net I haven’t watched the video in a couple of years but still randomly sing the song for no reason. This may be more an indication of my state of mind rather than the catchiness of the song through.

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                              Odin says good morning

                              Odin the Newfie conked out on his side with his tongue lolling out on the floor

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                                [?]sam » 🌐
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                                @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Odin has the right idea this morning…

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                                  [?]George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 » 🌐
                                  @georgetakei@universeodon.com

                                  Boldly growing where no spore has grown before.

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                                  [?]sam » 🌐
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                                  My youngest son (6) just pulled a “double your money” Facebook crypto scam on my eldest son (very nearly 8), except without the Facebook or the crypto.

                                  In some ways I am impressed. On the other hand I wish it didn’t take so long for him to admit it and give the money back…

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                                  [?]nixCraft 🐧 » 🌐
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                                  🤣 senior devs or sysadmins on the weekend be like …

                                  A "DO NOT DISTURB WE ARE DISTURBED ENOUGH ALREADY" sign in front of three cats peeking over it.

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                                  [?]Hedders » 🌐
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                                  Would it be very childish of me to find this incredibly, incredibly funny?

                                  theregister.com/2025/06/25/hom

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                                  [?]sam » 🌐
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                                  @hedders@mas.to Maybe I am childish too…

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                                    [?]sam » 🌐
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                                    On the downside I am very warm, tired and my work day has been pretty hectic. On the upside I have just treated myself to a new keyboard.

                                    Mechboards.co.uk are having a Dutch auction for all the random stuff they need to get rid of. I scored a Keychron V6 Max for £80 which I’m pretty happy with!

                                    Here’s the link if you want to do some shopping yourself: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1ufXOf61idIShPMEnA9FUXJj0m7J4pmNiFCszuZkWLRE


                                    A full size keyboard with uk layout and mostly blue keys and a red escape key

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                                      [?]sam » 🌐
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                                      @Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party I’m slightly worried this will cause a wave of fake reports against perfectly legitimate channels but I’ll be interested to watch it unfold.

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                                        [?]sam » 🌐
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                                        @ariadne@treehouse.systems I heard about this on the grapevine and am now reading your blog post. Thanks for the great work! I love the tone of the part about the X11 fork…what a bunch of clowns…

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                                          [?]sam » 🌐
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                                          They gave me a new address allocation. It didn't help. Then I noticed in an outbound traceroute that traffic was going via a random IP...it turns out another customer in the same subnet was sending out IPv6 Router Advertisements! I have now changed my default gateway configuration to ::1 from :: and things seem fixed. I hope the host goes after the offending customer and asks for them to quit it but I suspect not.

                                          CC: @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social

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                                            I'm on a small provider on an instance I got very cheap. Honestly it's otherwise very fast and IPv4 is reliable. Support are at least being responsive so maybe they'll be able to figure it out. Since my last reply the 45 minute long stretch of it working has ended and we're back to broken now.

                                            CC: @greem@cyberplace.social

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                                              [?]sam » 🌐
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                                              I have set a static address yes, but I was provided a /64 by the VPS provider for the node. Very interestingly since my last reply to the support request it has been perfect...I wonder if they accidentally gave the same prefix to two customers...

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                                                This VPS issue has me very confused. Can any experts help me help out their support here? Intermittently I'm getting connection resets for all inbound TCP traffic but only for IPv6. It breaks HTTPS and SSH traffic, and seemingly comes and goes by itself. Outbound traffic and IPv4 seem unaffected. Does this sound like a routing issue on the provider end or something I've somehow screwed up in the OS?

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                                                  [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                  @ashkan@twitter.social No this is just the snac instance I set up as a bit of an experiment. I knew it was going to be a challenge. 😆

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                                                    What a weekend! We’re getting some decorating done this week in the hope we can put the house on the market some time this month.

                                                    In preparation we’ve been doing a lot of cleaning and purging of junk. The number of bags of stuff that has come out of this house is truly spectacular! I wish I could say we’re finished but the work will continue next week.

                                                    I really need to start selling some computer stuff as well. If anyone in the UK happens to be after a AMD Ryzen 3900XT based workstation/gaming PC let me know…

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                                                    [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                    Alright I've got myself a 1GB RAM VPS for $12 for the year (a 4x increase over the Pi 😆). It's in London and everything for super low latency! I managed to get installed through some hackery and migrate my blog and instance to it.

                                                    One slightly weird thing I had is that inbound traffic on both SSH and HTTPS was returning a "connection reset by peer" for a while. It seems to be working now, but if some IPv6 folks can check https://cablespaghetti.dev loads properly over v6 for them now, it would put my mind at rest.

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                                                      [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                      It is SO NICE having a responsive fedi server again that isn't constantly running out of resources. I learned a lot from getting the Pi to (mostly) work though and now 1GB of RAM feels like a huge luxury. I suppose I'll have to write a blog post on migrating to a VPS now...

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                                                        [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                        Crap, I’m getting resets on inbound (but not outbound) IPv6 traffic again. Something is very much not right with this box. I suppose I’m opening a support ticket…

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                                                          [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                          @goetz@ipv6.social @sam Great. Glad to be accessible to people to want to try and live that pure IPv6 life 😁

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                                                            [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                            @grunfink@comam.es Thanks. I’ll just avoid touching it and maybe it’ll keep working. 😆 I think it’s something with routing on the VPS host side.

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                                                              If you’re a UK resident and/or a UK citizen, please make sure you sign this petition. It’s at almost 80k signatures and it’s got 3 weeks left to get to 100k.

                                                              ‘Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services’

                                                              petition.parliament.uk/petitio

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                                                                [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                                @nicd@masto.ahlcode.fi The whole thing is just slow and unstable to be honest. The Alpine openrc init system doesn’t automatically restart it, I could rig up something but I’m just going to move it to something with a tiny bit more performance.

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                                                                  [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                                  In unsurprising on a news. I am increasingly fed up of having to restart it when it crashes due to running out of memory. It happens quite often when I post and sometimes when I don’t. I think this is due to having more content on disk than when I first set it up.

                                                                  I may have to move it to slightly more powerful hardware for my own sanity…

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                                                                    My youngest son (6) came with me to volunteer at this morning. I was a bit apprehensive as he doesn’t have the longest attention span. However he quite happily cheered on and high fived runners for about an hour with no complaints. He then went off and ran round the field with a lady he felt needed help. I’m a very proud dad. 😁

                                                                    Small blonde boy running round a football field holding a lady’s hand

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                                                                      [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                                      My youngest son (6) came with me to volunteer at this morning. I was a bit apprehensive as he doesn’t have the longest attention span. However he quite happily cheered on and high fived runners for about an hour with no complaints. I’m a very proud dad. 😁

                                                                      Alt...Young boy in a hoody ringing and bell and high fiving runners on a football field

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                                                                        [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                                        @sil@mastodon.social @sophie@social.lol I remember using Frontpage, Dreamweaver and at some point when I was becoming more 1337 but not enough to be on Linux yet Notepad. However now you’ve got me on a nostalgia trip and I’m trying to see if my BT Internet web space got archived…

                                                                        https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-btinternet?sort=-date

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                                                                          [?]🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) » 🌐
                                                                          @alice@lgbtqia.space

                                                                          Good morning Fedi!!

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                                                                          [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                                          @tig@mastodon.org.uk Big box, normal CD. That would be very retro. I remember my first MP3 player came with one of those. It was about 128MB (the MP3 player not the CD).

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                                                                            [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                                            I bought a printer for my wife, for her birthday. She’s into baking and there’s a company who makes edible ink for these cheap Pixma printers.

                                                                            It came with a driver CD-ROM! How retro is that! I have some old machines with optical drives, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the norm in 2025…

                                                                            A Canon Pixma printer box with a black cd-rom on top

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                                                                            [?]Mans R » 🔓
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                                                                            @sam Can the cartridges be loaded with marmalade, or would that make it jam?

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                                                                              [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                                              @mansr@society.oftrolls.com Fine! You get a boost for that one. 🤣

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                                                                                [?]sam » 🌐
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                                                                                @nuintari@bsd.cafe I follow a few European train people. For a short and wonderful moment I read this as Trump investing a huge amount of money in Inter City Express trains. The reality is so much more terrible. 😢

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                                                                                  SpaceX Burnt Up 472 Starlink Broadband Satellites in Last 6 Months ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025

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