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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-02-02 at 23:00

wondering if I should buy a plush owl since I'm going to be in the US for Superb Owl day...

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-29 at 20:48

Played #Wingspan again this evening. Lost. Again #Fail

I suck so badly at this game :(

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-27 at 20:00

This made me chuckle... https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/jan/27/instant-regret-why-is-the-uk-still-addicted-to-the-worst-kind-of-coffee #Coffee #Fail

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-24 at 16:17

One of those days where I'm only now managing to have my mid-morning cup of tea :-/

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-20 at 11:30

Started the week with the news that our #OpenStack #Swift cluster has corrupted another container database (x3, all three replicas). AFAICT from our Phab logs we've never observed this before, and now it's happened twice this month :-(

Links for the curious:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383053

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384128

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1093304

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-18 at 18:11

Out on the #bike today, on a cold grey Fenland day. Gradually recovering feeling in my toes!

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-17 at 11:43

Saw the #physiotherapist this morning for a shoulder/back issue that's been keeping me up at night. Verdict is nothing seriously wrong, I'm just older and more busted than the average Swift cluster #harsh

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-15 at 13:02

Anyone know how directional the antennae you get on #Wifi access points actually are? My #Openwrt One has 3, and I don't know if I should be worrying about which direction they point in...?

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-13 at 12:53

I'm concerned that the government has wholesale bought into AI hype, without a clear idea of the risks and realistic possibilities of the technology (nor e.g. on being clear whether they mean using ML models for image analysis, or generative AI to spew plausible-sounding BS by the gigabit).

To pick an example, locally the problem is not lack of detection of potholes, but that there isn't the money (or people-power) to actually fix the potholes that get reported.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/12/mainlined-into-uks-veins-labour-announces-huge-public-rollout-of-ai

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-06 at 22:22

I should note #thanks to @FediTips for their account migration guide https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/ which made the process pretty simple once the old server was available again.

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-06 at 10:01

@admin ...though it looks like folk who have follower-approval turned on will have to approve the new account. Sorry about that!

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-06 at 08:46

toot.bike is back again (thanks to @admin !), so I've pushed the buttons for account migration. I think that means most people should just end up following me here by the power of Technology :)

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-03 at 09:34

unfortunately, that server being kaput means I've lost all my followers (at least until toot.bike comes back enough for me to export them) :(

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Written by Matthew Vernon on 2025-01-03 at 09:32

My previous server https://toot.bike seems unhappy (only errors for >24h), so I think I am moving here...

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