#introduction Hi, I'm Benjamin, but some of my friends call me Wings. I'm a sysadmin for a living, and my hobbies include coding, distributed storage, blogging and tinkering with my home lab. I also game, walk, play board games and go to meetups. New to Mastodon, old to the internet. Hello!
What is the #nonbinary equivalent of "sir" or "ma'am"?
Or more to the point, what are my fellow enbies response when someone sir or ma'ams you incorrectly?
Homelab / sysadmin
Hello world! I've been working on some fun stuff - mostly automation related. Hope to be posting blogs again soon and continuing on my adventures. Big thing is a MooseFS playbook for automatically creating and maintaining MooseFS clusters, which I'm finally finishing up and publicising.
when you download an image from the web these days, instead of a PNG or a JPEG, you get one of these new formats which is 8% more efficient, not compatible with any "pre-covid software" and has a name which sounds like
JEG
WebUP
High Information Format Format
webLICC
AppleLuppy
j-eggings Layer 6
ProRes ProxyGold (Grain Profile)
PrBufEncapDCT
h.26vorbis
h.26NeRFscene
Radiance XML
EXIFnoimage
rayJSON
WebX 2000
base64staticBlogSVG.meta
bitplaneConwayAnim
What Musk has done is akin to a normal person agreeing to waive all inspection contingencies in order to buy a house, signing a contract on the house while publicly proclaiming “I’m going to fix this place up from the dump it is now,” then deciding during the closing period that the house is too much of a dump and demanding to be let out of the contract while personally attacking the seller. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-doesnt-want-to-buy-twitter-anymore-but-twitter-should-make-him-pay-for-it-11652833353
Gmail will block all third party mail clients starting from June: http://www.pmail.com/newsflash.htm
That is, unless they pay $4500 minimum for an audit :D
Stop using gmail and enabling their monopolistic practices, if you already haven't.
Just found this project that is digitizing old shellac records now in the public domain. You can listen on the site with their neat digital record player or download the flac files.
#music
https://publicdomainpool.org/en/index.html
HPC sysadmin, open source developer, homelabber. Distributed storage enthusiast.
I blog and microblog about home labs, cryptography, systems administration, gaming, and other stuff that interests me. If you're into geeky things, it might interest you.
Pronouns: They/them.