Living in Auckland, New Zealand. I write about IT, Public Transport, Auckland, Food, Trailers, Audiobooks & Geeky stuff Work with Cloud Infrastructure. Kubernetes, AWS, Linux, Monitoring, etc. Blog: https://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/https://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3ml353m4pkk2cOrdered a new phone 2 weeks ago and still not arrived Meanwhile battery on old phone is very swollen and it turns off when battery is at about 25% Hoping my new one arrives before the old one dies and also hope the old ones doesn't burst into flames in my pocket05 May 2026 02:25 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml353m4pkk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3ml2yeqzu422cI like that the "Electricity Authority general manager of networks and systems change" is called Tim Sparks ⚡ #norminativedeterminism https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/594242/new-zealand-passes-solar-tipping-point05 May 2026 01:01 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2yeqzu422chttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mkx2usp2622xReview: The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich 3/5 The story of John C. Houbolt, a NASA engineer who pushed for Lunar Orbit Rendezvous for the Apollo program. Just 3 hours long but Interesting03 May 2026 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkx2usp2622xhttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mkx2usp2622xReview: The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich 3/5 The story of John C. Houbolt, a NASA engineer who pushed for Lunar Orbit Rendezvous for the Apollo program. Just 3 hours long but Interesting03 May 2026 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkx2usp2622xhttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mkw7gstizs2uAsked about getting a SodaStream since the savings seemed minimal over buying cola on special Seems generally to be true that savings aren't huge even if you save with 3rd party CO2 And diet flavours are limited and not great (especially Pepsi Max) Oh and 70% of the replies were about politics🙄03 May 2026 03:24 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkw7gstizs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mkriqknfgs24Been a little slack about rebooting my server. Thought I better upgrade and reboot for the Copy Fail exploit. # uptime 06:21:38 up 1069 days, 20:53, 2 users, load average: 0.73, 1.12, 0.60 Thats about 4 weeks short of 3 years 😊 Now that Ubuntu 26.04 is out I should replace it01 May 2026 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkriqknfgs24https://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mklravi5tc26I'm in this photo and I don't like it28 Apr 2026 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklravi5tc26https://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mklpybedks2lBig bumblebee in my house. Unfortunately it is hanging around a non-opening window I'm hiding out in the kitchen while my partner pulls the curtains to let it into room and then escape28 Apr 2026 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklpybedks2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mklntu7i5s2lMy guess is $10-20/month to answer questions and help write code is probably close to profitable now (or will be in a couple of years) But running a dozen agents continuously is going to cost $thousands per month not $hundreds [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 22:42 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklntu7i5s2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mklkyjdcuc26Current earworrms Moonlight Shadow by Mike Oldfield ft. Maggie Reilly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e80qhyovOnA Telephone - by Lady GaGa Feat Beyoncé https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hsUXhlNbMs Wanna feel old? The Lady Gaga song came out 16 years ago28 Apr 2026 21:51 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklkyjdcuc26https://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mkj63f4ngs2dSneezed into my mask and now the smell is not good 😷27 Apr 2026 22:55 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkj63f4ngs2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mkhquqdqqs26Occurs to me that the main places I see GCP being used are those where an ex-google employee got in early and made the decission So it follows that the best way for google to spread GCP would be to fire lots of technical staff27 Apr 2026 09:26 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhquqdqqs26https://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mkehtfhxsc26Somebody edited the wikipedia page for my old school to remove the name of a controversial ex-pupil They did it using the account with the same name as a staff member of the school. So either she is really dumb or being framed. I suspect dumb26 Apr 2026 02:06 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkehtfhxsc26https://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mk3g3nvvyc2oI had some money in a 60 day notice account, only comes 60 days after I ask So started with $10,000 withdraw all Comes out 60 days later, leaving $28 in Interest earned over 60d Withdraw all Today is 60 days later Balance is 54 cents I've cued that to withdraw today Estimate 3c left next round22 Apr 2026 11:41 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3g3nvvyc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mjxhl63vds2wLast night I noticed the back panel of my phone is coming off. It appears my model ( Pixel 7a ) has a problem with swelling batteries. New phone is going to cost $1000 . Yeah, I'm buying the same unsupported brand that just died on me. Pixel 10a this time20 Apr 2026 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxhl63vds2whttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mjl6vzwiuk23Such a pain that so many podcasts make it hard for you to download these days I just grabbed one via downloading their youtube mirror Bypassing youtube anti-download is at least something I can do already (with yt-dl) vs trying to unravel a podcast to find the mp3 file16 Apr 2026 00:50 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjl6vzwiuk23https://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mjvgzkrt422oPretty much sums up the US right now Original story was about apparent insider trading by people who knew about US presidential announcements in advance20 Apr 2026 02:42 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvgzkrt422ohttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mjsjo77fxk2sSo it appears that there are two similar names for this sort of common New Zealand biscuit Either "Belgian Biscuits" or "Belgium Biscuits". After the citizens or the country. Appears the first is more common but I grew up using the second and TIL there are two terms in circulation18 Apr 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjsjo77fxk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mjsjo77fxk2sSo it appears that there are two similar names for this sort of common New Zealand biscuit Either "Belgian Biscuits" or "Belgium Biscuits". After the citizens or the country. Appears the first is more common but I grew up using the second and TIL there are two terms in circulation18 Apr 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjsjo77fxk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3midomofers2kInteresting article on the future of the US in world affairs and how other countries will treating it going forward As the author points out this is probably irreversible https://www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2026/03/26/united-states-trump-rogue-state-iran/31 Mar 2026 07:45 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3midomofers2khttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mjnntdnces2rUsed llama.cpp & actually got a model working locally on my 8GB AMD video card using their Vulcan backend https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp llama-b8809/llama-server -hf ggml-org/gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF -ngl 99 Interface is similar to online models. Just a baby model to fit in my video card so not that smart17 Apr 2026 00:22 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjnntdnces2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mjlrr2iwa223Think I worked out a trick. I login to X once every couple of weeks and the top dozen links it gives to me are really good. Then I close the window and wait a week or two.16 Apr 2026 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjlrr2iwa223https://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mjl6vzwiuk23Such a pain that so many podcasts make it hard for you to download these days I just grabbed one via downloading their youtube mirror Bypassing youtube anti-download is at least something I can do already (with yt-dl) vs trying to unravel a podcast to find the mp3 file16 Apr 2026 00:50 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjl6vzwiuk23https://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mjidxlqzbc23Just joined a substrack on one guy posts automated "good Night" and "Good Morning" messages every day. Exact same text and has gone on for at least 18 months It is about 10% of the traffic in the general chat channel. No doubt any attempt to complain will cause a firestorm14 Apr 2026 21:42 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjidxlqzbc23https://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mjg4frakq223Discussion about citizens assemblies and I said politicians used them for controversial topics like abortion to give them cover to enact laws and some guy tells me this is bogus since politicians should just follow medical professionals evidence based advice on abortion regulation 🤦14 Apr 2026 00:22 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjg4frakq223https://bsky.app/profile/slyall.bsky.social/post/3mipetxzluk2kThere is a new version of "Cape Fear" out soon. Lots of people seem to think they should have made a live-action version of The Simpson's episode instead of a straight remake An April 1st trailer of Javier Bardem going "I will send you to heaven! Before I send you to Hell!" Would have been great04 Apr 2026 23:22 +0000at://did:plc:zbomenm2ullhccevxdir2pwl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mipetxzluk2k