Jason @jason@social.irrwitz.com

"Goldfinch" by "Black Isle". A light and sharp IPA that should cut through tonight's dinner of potatoes, sauerkraut and Leberkäse.

#beer

"Baron Rojo" Red Ale by "Birra and Blues" from Valencia in Spain.
Rather nice. Sort of like a malty lager, could image it going rather well with rabbit or similar.

#beer

Is this the most Scottish thing you'll see today?

#tunnocks #scotland

EU seeking to crush alternative firmwares on your router, phone etc?

https://blog.mehl.mx/2019/protect-freedom-on-radio-devices-raise-your-voice-today/

Much mirth and amusement in #foss #vim and #emacs communities just now, for there is
http://emacs.dev
And then
http://vim.dev

Ways to not spend your evening:
Traipsing through a dark park looking for a random lost dog (not mine!) and approaching people to ask if they've seen it.

Ways to not spend you evening:
Walking through a dark park and being approached by a rather larger than average person with a portable sun taking out your night vision.

Yeah, sorry about that.

Never did find the wee sod, hope they found their home OK.

AWS/Intel apparently used this advert on Reddit recently.

Moving home is like living in a "SIDRAT", a reverse TARDIS. With all the boxes it's smaller on the inside than on the outside.

A quick wireless scan shows that we're the only people around here with a customised SSID. Am I the only geek on the street?
Oh gods.
The neighbours will keep asking me to fix their PCs and I barely know Windows any more!

Aaaaand we're back. Minor glitch with DynDNS picking up the local upstream LAN IP rather than the WAN IP but it's all working now.
Messy cables abound. Need clearance to knock holes in walls to pull cables to resolve that.

We spend the evening with Sugarsnap chocolates and Omnipollo Imperial stouts. A rather winning combination.

#beer #chocolate #Glasgow

And so it begins, packing everything up to move to a new place. Big issue is Internet, 24/2 is apparently "superfast"...not on my planet. I get 80/20 now with standard FTTC (I'm lucky to live near the cabinet and the exchange).

Pro-tip: Internet is a basic utility, always check before moving (FTTP is coming, 100/100 and higher will "only" take ~7 years).

Work today was a hard fought victory against Traefik (you *WILL* route your dashboard to a customer URL!).
Home time was an unexpected attack by a MariaDB outage and a certbot upgrade taking all the SSL down.
But in the immortal words of the great philosopher Stewie: Victory is mine!
Even got a few snazzy DNS updates done. Nice!

Pain (n) : The experience of trying to get an insurance quote on-line.

Agony (n) : What one feels when trying to update an insurance quote on a website that doesn't have property tested session management and ALWAYS timesout when you try to save.

ARGH!

#Glasgow this morning from Queens Park flagpole again, looking Nirth towards the city.

#Glasgow this morning from Queens Park flagpole, looking East towards Cathkin Braes.

I used to be a member of Nottinghack when I lived down there. Great place. I'd say a Hackspace is an asset to any community

Hackspace Tour - Computerphile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlKjFZwW3Ts

Top-tip: watch using NewPipe. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/

#hackspace

Rabbie Burns night the night. Get some haggis, neeps and tatties doon yer gob.

Maybe wash it doon with a wee dram of the good stuff. Easy to spot, it's any that disnae have an 'e' in it!

This foetid tripe got dropped through the letterbox today. Baseless propaganda from a multimillionaire hoping for the UK to crash just so people will drink more and he can make more.
Really wish there was more I could do than just rant online. Complain to the ASA? Report it for causing distress? Dunno.

Oh, and pox upon CAMRA for associating with them and tacitly promoting harm on the UK.

#brexit #boycottspoons

And it's only getting worse!