Daniel Colquitt

The system disk on my home server started dying overnight with filesystem corruption and no luck with fschk. Luckily I take daily snapshots of the disk and, after running out to the store for a cheap replacement disk, I was back up and running in a few hours.

I hadn’t tested the backup and […]

'That's boss scran' - Japanese ambassador enjoys bowl of scouse Hiroshi Suzuki, ambassador to the UK, visits Liverpool to strengthen ties between the city and Japan.

Scouse is boss scran, la!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3d4k005wno

Today I did some Honest Work, ie. real analysis, it was a successful afternoon of wrangling inequalities

TIL it is possible to restrict access to S3 buckets based on IP addresses using aws:SourceIp key. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_policies_elements_condition_operators.html#Conditions_IPAddress

Many rows of pumpkins in a field

Picture of kids in autumnal scene with scarecrow

It’s pumpkin pickin’ time 🎃 🍂 🍁🥮

@diazona thank you!

Colquitt A small instance for members of the Colquitt family

Ive got a favour to ask. I’ve just changed some of my backend configs. Can someone check that https://colquitt.xyz is still accessible and everything loads okay? Thanks! #mastoadmin

Yes. Next question.

With the number of applications to most schemes measured in the tens of thousands and success rates in the 5%-10% range, the system is saturated. Science funding, and hence science careers, is no longer a meritocracy — it’s luck of the draw […]

https://bsky.app/profile/tomgauld.bsky.social/post/3ljkdnua2jk2

Monday: “Hi there. I hope you had a good weekend. Here’s a crisis that needs dealing with now.”

Me: “Okay, I suppose I can sort that out.”

Monday: “Great, thanks! Here’s another crisis.”

Me: “Hmm. Okay. I’ve sorted that too.”

Monday: “Hey, friend! Guess what…?”

Me: …

It sure is a good thing we have highly distributed cloud systems that eliminate single points of failure.

Today’s word of the day is cold. Today started with watching the eldest play football in a bitterly cold wind and ended taking the girls to a party on an indoor ski slope. I fear that I will never be warm again.

@slothrop clearly, they thought that those extra 200g would push you over the edge.

Want a rant for the day? Well, that's too bad, I'm going on one anyway.

Ready? Here goes: computer science is, at the end of the day, a mathematical discipline. That doesn't mean all *programming* or all *software development* is, but if you want to understand the theory behind why computers […]

I hope @ivory are working on quote support … 🤞
https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115378848435180844

The first beta release of Mastodon 4.5.0 is ready for testing!

Quote posts are finally here, as well as automated fetching of remote replies and a lot of other improvements.

For server moderators, there is also a way to block registrations based on keywords appearing in usernames.

Please test […]

@slothrop my condolences

I also don’t like the idea of proxying my mail through a 3rd party server (that’s why I self host).

I did have to patch the imap backend for z-push because iOS now expects to receive full S/MIME messages rather than just the headers, as it used to. I also opened a pull request in the z-push […]

I’ve finally managed to get push notifications working between my #selfhosted #mail #server and #iOS Mail using z-push (https://z-push.org/) to implement an ActiveSync compatible server.

It’s not straightforward because, except for ActiveSync, the native Mail app only supports push […]

Physics Insight

Standing in the shadow of giants…
https://xkcd.com/3154/

Looks like there’s a large scale problem with #Vodafone in the UK. Fibre and mobile broadband down, as well as Vodafone.co.uk. I really hope that it’s #dns and not a #CyberIncident

Well… here’s a new one. Someone trying to mine crypto via SMTP:

postfix/smtpd: warning: non-SMTP command from unknown[xxx.xx.xx.xx]: {"id": 1, "method": "mining.subscribe", "params": ["MinerName/1.0.0", "EthereumStratum/1.0.0"]}

No, thank you. On to my #blocklist you go, courtesy of fail2ban […]

Yesterday's #SysAdmin task of moving my ElasticSearch node to a new VPS seems to have completed overnight without any disasters.

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow.

This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

elle (@ElleGray@mstdn.social) Attached: 1 image this feels right

Please, please, please, please be true!
https://mstdn.social/@ElleGray/115328347772862788

@MartinEscardo Aïe!

So…we’ve just submitted our eldest daughter’s application for high-school. How on earth did we get here so quickly?!

From 2006. A younger and shell-shocked looking Catherine on a balcony holding a very tiny baby with the mountains of Vancouver in the background. The baby is so new, Catherine still has the pregnant bump.

Conventional wisdom says motherhood should wait for tenure as before you land a permanent post, #academia is just not that family friendly🙁

@carersinstemm.bsky.social are calling for change and to celebrate their new report, a Saturday🧵on parenting & academia! 1/9 👩‍🔬🧪🔭⚛️

ℹ️: carersinstemm.co.uk

PostgreSQL 18 Released Comments

Upgrade to PostgreSQL 18 completed, without a hitch, in less than five minutes! PostgreSQL 18 promises some significant performance improvements (https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-released-3142/). #MastoAdmin #SysAdmin