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Linux.conf.au 2020 – Thursday – Session 3 – Software Freedom lost / Stream...

Open Source Won, but Software Freedom Hasn’t Yet: A Guide & Commiseration Session for FOSS activists by Bradley M. Kuhn, Karen Sandler Larger Events elsewhere tend to be corperate sponsored so...

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Linux.conf.au 2020 – Friday – Session 1 – Protocols / LumoSQL

The Fight to Keep the Watchers at Bay – Mark Nottingham Disclaimer: I am not a security person, But in some sense we are all security people. Why Secure the Internet In the beginning it was just...

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Linux.conf.au 2020 – Friday – Lightning Talks and Close

Steve Less opportunity for Intern type stuffTrying to build team with young peopleInternshipsThey Need opportunitiesThink about giving a chance Martin Secure Scuttlebuttp2p social webmore like just a...

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Sidewalk Delivery Robots: An Introduction to Technology and Vendors

At the start of 2011 Uber was in one city (San Francisco). Just 3 years later it was in hundreds of cities worldwide including Auckland and Wellington. Dockless Electric Scooters took only a year from...

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Linkedin putting pressure on users to enable location tracking

I got this email from Linkedin this morning. It is telling me that they are going to change my location from “Auckland, New Zealand” to “Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand“. Email from Linkedin on 30...

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Talks from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 – Part 1

Various talks I watched from their YouTube playlist. Application Autoscaling Made Easy With Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) – Tom Kerkhove I’ve been using Keda a little bit at work. Good...

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Donations 2020

Each year I do the majority of my Charity donations in early December (just after my birthday) spread over a few days (so as not to get my credit card suspended). I also blog about it to hopefully...

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Moving my backups to restic

I’ve recently moved my home backups over to restic . I’m using restic to backup the /etc and /home folders and on all machines are my website files and databases. Media files are backed up separately....

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KVM Virtualisation on Ubuntu 22.04

I have been setting up a computer at home to act as a host for virtual machines. The machine is a recycled 10-year-old desktop with 4 cores, 32GB RAM and a 220GB SSD. Growing the default disk...

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Prometheus node_exporter crashed my server

I am in the middle of upgrading my home monitoring setup. I collect metrics via prometheus and query them with grafana. More details later but yesterday I ran into a little problem that crashed one of...

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