Gary Parker :party_porg:

Chaotic Neutral↣Lawful Evil, depending on caffeine intake. Sometimes a bit snarky. Does telecoms/networks/datacentre at a large East Midlands university for $dayjob. Obsessive music fan, sometime videogamer, lapsed tabletop gamer
"Weirdly disjointed" - DJDarren
Proud^w #UCU member 😔
Fully paid-up #6music Dad

Public Key

npub17ee2rneqadpr43vgsxmfh5njhc35hjg72p2uc3v7y2n8f7a88jxqn8hanv

NIP-05 Address

WiteWulf@cyberplace-social.mostr.pub

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs0vu4peuswks36ckygrd5m6fetug6tey09q4wvgk0z9fn5lwnnerq6pqazh

Author Public Key

npub17ee2rneqadpr43vgsxmfh5njhc35hjg72p2uc3v7y2n8f7a88jxqn8hanv

Show more details

Last Notes

2025-04-19 18:20:20

- reply

@nprofile…x759 oh, mate, I would *love* to see that. May have to plan a road trip at some point.
Any particular connection between Reading and DEC?

2025-04-18 17:52:48

Got this nice shot of Columbus’s statue with a lion and some funky atmospheric optics in Barcelona today
https://cyberplace.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/360/238/830/051/266/original/755f8bae732723e6.jpeg

2025-04-17 05:06:47

Oh, this is interesting (and a little scary)
tl;dr don’t use SSDs for long term, offline storage. The data degrades after as little as two years without the drives being powered up
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups

2025-04-16 18:20:03

- reply

@nprofile…5lc3 that…..isn’t even funny 😦

2025-04-11 16:36:28

- reply

@nprofile…sjm8 @nprofile…x759 honest question: how many are you getting for it to be worth considering this? I’ve only had 3 or 4 since it started and see it as a kinda cute fediverse in-joke, but I can understand it being less cute if it’s every hour.

2025-04-11 11:48:03

FFS, the new “self service” machines in Subway are a binfire. The whole point of subway is customising your sandwich, and that’s just so much quicker and easier telling a human what you want.
This way I’m stood prodding at a low quality touch screen while the human that’s actually going to make the sandwich stands there and glares at me judgementally

2025-04-08 09:27:50

- reply

@nprofile…0xkc @nprofile…x759 indeed. IP addresses (v4 or v6) are binary (numbers) commonly expressed in quad dotted notation (decimal) for IPv4, or variable length hexadecimal for IPv6, for easier human consumption.

2025-04-03 20:40:50

- reply

@nprofile…x759 Little Brother *trilogy*? I only read the first one (and really enjoyed it); didn’t know there were more.

2025-04-02 11:49:55

- reply

@nprofile…gqlq well, I mean there is that. It's second day running I've har cause to have a good moan about the quality of their writing :)

2025-04-02 11:40:13

- reply

@nprofile…gqlq well, yes. I honestly don't know why I still have them in my RSS reader

2025-04-02 11:26:36

Can anyone else spot the problem with this Verge “article” and its picture lead? 🤨
https://cyberplace.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/268/123/517/172/418/original/8d8adda7479e070c.png

2025-03-29 17:14:23

- reply

@nprofile…x759 very similar work for me this week. I had a virtualised Synology NAS that was almost entirely used as a docker host, running under ESXi on a little Lenovo SFF PC.
I installed proxmox on another machine first, migrated the Synology VM to that, then installed Proxmox on the Lenovo and moved the VM back to it.
Then I ran up a bare bones Debian server VM, installed docker and portioned, and moved all the containers off the Synology to the Debian guest.

2025-03-20 09:03:25

Oh blimey, Eddie Jordan’s dead. He was an interesting fella in an otherwise uninteresting (to me) sport

2025-03-16 09:19:04

- reply

@nprofile…x759 I’ve never heard of RWG, but am a Gamma customer for other things. That thread suggests the two are connected. Are Gamma in trouble?

2025-03-14 09:52:08

Come and work with me and my fabulous network team in Loughborough, UK!
Happy to answer questions in public or via DM
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ032/it-specialist-network-and-smart-campus
#jobs #FediHire #networking #cisco #wifi #internet #dnac #ise #hybridWorking
https://cyberplace.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/160/167/985/972/385/original/7cd5a3fdee6adbde.png

2025-03-13 08:26:12

- reply

@nprofile…mkga a friend of mine used to regularly travel to the Isle of Wight, most of the way by train, via London.
One day he had to book a train to London, and found it was significantly more expensive than his usual train to Southampton. So he booked tickets to Southampton and just stopped at London.
Ridiculous, eh?

2025-03-07 08:24:55

- reply

@nprofile…d2rl you look happy, which makes for a very pleasant change. Hope things are going well for you down under 🫶🏻

2025-03-05 12:39:24

- reply

@nprofile…5zrl sorry, I have to ask: why is this marked as “sensitive”?
It’s a nice drawing, though

2025-03-01 22:33:32

There has to be some sort of German-esque compound noun for the disappointment, tinged with amusement and admiration for skills, that follows seeing something really neat and technically nerdy, then realising it’s not real, and a @nprofile…pqrf job 😆

2025-02-25 08:11:32

- reply

@nprofile…5lc3 the Civil War will be one of bureaucracy

2025-02-25 08:09:17

- reply

@nprofile…5lc3 another example of “AI generated content isn’t evil if we find it entertaining”, right?
We’re a contrary bunch 😏

2025-02-24 13:33:53

Worth a read if you operate a GSM gateway for sending monitoring alerts to mobile phones
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/114058929657124922

2025-02-23 20:16:44

Please be very careful if you run #pihole in a #docker container and see an update available (particularly on a NAS like #synology). It’s a big update to a new major release (v6), and there are a *lot* of changes that could break your existing deployment.
Read the docs, understand what’s happening, and pay particularly close attention to all the new and renamed environment variables

2025-02-22 13:24:54

- reply

@nprofile…x759 I was going to pick something like this up for the second-hand Audi I just bought, but the hardware in this 2014 model only does 3G 🤷‍♂️🙁

2025-02-15 20:07:00

- reply

@nprofile…cl5w oh, that looks purty!

2025-02-14 17:39:13

Hey @nprofile…79ya: if I put a word in my filter list, can we assume I mean exactly that word with no other letters around it, please? If I filter ‘trump’ I still want to see posts with ‘trumpet’, for example
Have we learned nothing from Scunthorpe? 🤔😂

2025-02-13 10:29:40

Interesting that Apple, whose #AI news summaries most notably drew the BBC's ire earlier in the year, where not included in this 🤔
Considering I'm at a conference with a *massive* focus on AI automation of network management, reporting and protection, this stuff does not fill me with confidence, at all
AI Summaries Turn Real News Into Nonsense, BBC Finds
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/02/12/2139233/ai-summaries-turn-real-news-into-nonsense-bbc-finds

2025-02-11 14:55:36

- reply

So, these tools #cisco were telling us we can use to monitor and manage energy use are natural language based, ie they use #LLM and #AI to produce those reports. I asked if, given the 10x power requirement claim they opened the session with, we can disable the natural language component and just use manually written queries?
“Thank you for your feedback, we’ll look into it…but as AI becomes more efficient that shouldn’t be necessary in the future” 😂

2025-02-11 13:39:03

Wow, #cisco reckon a #Google #LLM driven web search consumes ten times more electricity than a traditional Google search 😳
Given how much they’re pushing #AI themselves, I think it’s significant that they didn’t say “AI search”, but LLM. Can’t tarnish the product your colleagues are trying to flog in the next room
(I’m in a datacentre sustainability session, btw)

2025-02-11 09:07:14

Sat in the #CiscoLiveEMEA keynote
I get the sneaky suspicion they *may* be a little interested in #AI 😏
Which I very much am not, thank you
I just want to move packets from one place to another, in the fastest, most efficient and resilient manner possible with a given budget
Stop trying to put AI in everything 😒

2025-01-24 13:23:01

- reply

@nprofile…5lc3 thanks Kevin, it’s the right move

2024-11-23 14:38:18

- reply

@nprofile…hujc @nprofile…0gdn although it wasn’t promoted as such at the time (because he wasn’t massively well known, and Fish is a narcissist control freak), it’s basically a collaboration album with Steven Wilson. It’s very good, imho