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IN: Coffee. OUT: Artificial Stupidity. ☕️ ➡️🤦🏼‍♂️ / SA @awscloud ☁️ opinions my own / he/him / @jamesoff@jamesoff.net

Taunton, England
Joined March 2008
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I'm running ASICS London 10K in July for @samaritans (tw: suicide, depression) Over 700k people take their own life each year – that’s one person every 40 seconds Without them, that could've been me. Please donate what you can to get me over the line ➡️ justgiving.com/fundraising/r…
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I once worked with a manager who asked “Why do we all need these SREs when the site never goes down?”, and I think about that a lot.
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This year has been one of the most difficult of my life. As we approach the final days of 2022 - I decided to take a moment to check in A year of change, reflection and new beginnings (tw: suicide, depression) ➡️ rkulidzan.com/2022/12/16/a-y…
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FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE is now available: lists.freebsd.org/archives/f… Including EC2 AMIs in 26 regions and the AWS Marketplace: aws.amazon.com/marketplace/p… aws.amazon.com/marketplace/p…
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My mastodon server is now running on FreeBSD/EC2, thanks @cperciva :)
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Replying to @Raspberry_Pi
@Raspberry_Pi All my friends are leaving and this makes me sad. So I made Bye-Bye Bird. Connected to the Twitter API, it sheds a single tear when someone uses the #RIPTwitter hashtag.
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Year 2001 - mail server maintenance, our first SMP machine running #FreeBSD 4.x. Please retweet if you ever used vinum(8)
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This man is quite delusional: he seems to think HE'S The Doctor from the future. [ ⁦@StarTrek⁩ ⁦@bbcdoctorwho⁩ ⁦@Showmasters⁩ #LCCWinter #TheDoctor ]
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Ah fuck. @mikemackay is gone, but never forgotten. The bio at the end worded in the past tense really hits right in the gut today.
New Database post by Mike MacKay and Samaneh Utter: Use vertical partitioning to scale data efficiently in Amazon DynamoDB aws.amazon.com/blogs/databas…
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For anybody interested in Cloud Networking as Code, join me in a cloud agnostic ‘Cloud Networking as Code’ Slack group: join.slack.com/t/cloud-netwo…
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Quirky.
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It’s DONATING TIME! If you are able, please consider signing up too :)
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Home is where the router is
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The Bendix Central Air Digital Computer (CADC) was introduced in 1955. It was a critical component of fighter planes, using tiny gears to compute parameters such as airspeed and altitude. It contained 46 synchros, 511 gears, 820 ball bearings, and a total of 2,781 major parts. 🧵
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James Seward retweeted
There once was a hacker named Haskell Who was used to coding in Pascal But all his strings, you see When passed to functions in C Were not properly NUL terminated,8;]q@3U`@|J'{ZP(q{Z?7*qV!RMiQ!9C>5ZGb'z;1PJx>Gc8WS`gq0g>,$}=o\l1.1p$xZINv6v1Z^C$v*S,Y;5.[=xLaAdE[eW.:L-}Tr+Fv5:/c5s:%
There was also a hacker named Russ who wanted to debug and discuss he analyzed the vault to remark but he was running on Sparc bad alignment, SIGBUS
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On Mastodon as jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net :)
iOS 16.1 (upgraded Monday evening) is hitting my battery hard
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Great googly moogly. We've released a new version of Textual! The TUI library for #Python 🎉 This version has all the stuff I've been banging on about for months. CSS, devtools, live editing, data-tables, and more... Here's the announcement: textualize.io/blog/posts/tex…
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Sneaky: setting a ticket to auto-close after three days of inactivity... on a Friday.
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