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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-30 at 13:50

The Belgium drink of champions! (Zero sugar version!)

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-30 at 09:12

There's a special Women's Lunch event happening this year at #CfgMgmtCamp! Make sure to sign-up if you're a woman and you haven't already! The lunch is free too!

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-30 at 07:36

Bruxelles I am in you. So excited to be back and already had mini meetups with others at customs!

[#]FOSDEM

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-29 at 23:20

On my way to Belgium for #FOSDEM and #CfgMgmtCamp !

HMU if you want to hack or want an #mgmtconfig sticker!

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-28 at 23:53

Sleazy #Lufthansa... I can't check in, so I decide to buy a seat so at least I'm not stuck in the middle middle... Right after that check-in starts magically working.

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-28 at 19:10

To be clear, I've written tons of horrendous code. I probably still do. But I try to share it so that others can help me learn from it, and it turns into a teaching experience and an opportunity for growth.

Let's build a better world.

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-28 at 19:09

Here's another reason open source software is better:

Proprietary software let's incompetent programmers hide their mistakes. It lets malicious companies hide their evils. Open source lets anyone audit the code.

This means those people can learn from their mistakes and be better.

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-28 at 19:07

Since it's obviously broken, and I'm not actually antagonizing a human, we can have some fun:

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-28 at 18:23

The #lufthansa chat bot is really not good.

It's kind of amazing how bad their online website is, and you'd think they would perfect that before adding broken bots :/

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-25 at 06:40

FWIW I don't own any cryptocurrency, but I'm fascinated with the idea of a decentralized financial system that actually works.

This is driven by my increasing dissatisfaction with the modern banking system, which I genuinely think has more scams and fraud going on than anything I've seen in the cryptocurrency world.

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-25 at 05:37

Cryptocurrency algorithmic design idea:

Be able to set a blockchain flag that prevents how quickly you can transfer currency, depending on the amount.

For example, $1000 you could do right away, but for $10,000 you'd need to make an initial "early commit" which can only complete 48 hours later with a second signature based on the current chain (to prevent pre-signing) and so on... That window stays open for a set period and so on...

This could help solve some of the ransom issues.

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-24 at 02:45

New Blog Post:

Working around an iPXE issue

(not syncing, kernel panic)

https://purpleidea.com/blog/2025/01/23/working-around-an-ipxe-issue/

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-22 at 22:10

I'm probably an awkward interview candidate, but the fittingly named "Abnormal DevOps Iterations" podcast show had me on last week. Here's the recording if you're interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wwQCuK5ZcA

[#]mgmtconfig

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-21 at 19:28

Does anyone know if there are any open source VOIP TTY solutions for deaf/hard of hearing people to make phone calls through a software SIP server?

Eg: https://tenacitycorp.com/iptty/ but not proprietary.

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-18 at 05:34

FYI: From Fedora40 -> Fedora41 there's a API breakage in dnf download which has the --downloaddir= arg renamed to --destdir=

Ask me how I know =D

This is a pain to special case in all my scripts, so I guess I hope you all move to newer Fedora soon.

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-17 at 00:33

So what happens? I act the madman out of the anger and frustration he forces upon me and thereby prove his point that I am a madman.

[#]StarTrek

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-15 at 20:22

cc @AirPassRightsCA

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-15 at 20:22

15 years have gone by since this commentary about Air Canada, and it feels like things have only gotten worse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCg3SOpQIJU

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-13 at 17:30

Quebec spends money on this instead of healthcare:

https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article551349.html

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Written by James Just James on 2025-01-13 at 07:37

For those #cfgmgmtcamp attendees who are still wanting to buy swag for the conference, the shop is still open until Wednesday end of the day (EU timezone). All items will be made to order in a single bulk order with our printer, so get your stuff and support our conference :)

https://shop.cfgmgmtcamp.org/

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