The Book of Dave

A mostly harmless geek in New Zealand, Technical Director @satellitemedia, have made people. Left foot braker. Likes to take photos. Contributes to the internet

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2025-05-22 21:14:34

I've installed https://openmaptiles.org/ tile server and maps on my home server so that I can serve my own maps to my website and kitchen dashboard.
One fewer damn Google service inside the house now and have maps without any advertising and I don't have to deal with Google's Cloud Console. So much winning!

2025-05-22 07:44:32

I think easily my least favourite thing, aside from pumpkin (which is cattle fodder at best), is writing bash scripts that have file or directory deletion in them.
No matter how much I've checked it over and over that it's not going to go crazy and rm -rf /usr or something, the first run is way too much adrenaline

2025-05-16 06:15:42

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@nprofile…6t6n A bloody brilliant idea. I am going to store that away so that I may have the same in 89 months and 2 days from now, when afternoons will belong to me and not the man.

2025-05-16 04:49:03

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@nprofile…6t6n You have an afternoon rss feed? What is that? How does that work?

2025-05-03 06:52:04

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@nprofile…5plc @nprofile…6gy4 I did exactly the same thing and on finding nothing I did a little swearing in the general direction of the Bay of Plenty

2025-04-29 00:23:27

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@nprofile…5plc aside form the length, which is good, all the rest of those requirements are against NIST recommendations and are actually counter to good security (being changed monthly)

2025-04-28 19:58:06

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@nprofile…5plc You'll get there. Once you've been working for a few years, it'll be come second nature and you won't even have to think about it!

2025-04-07 07:33:57

Fennel is a weed. It should not be in sausages. It is not food. Stop trying to make it cool. It is not food. It's not even food that my food eats. Enough with the bloody fennel.

2025-03-25 04:27:05

This is our house shaking from the #eqnz today down in the lower Te Wai Pounamu, 1,324km away, for almost 8 minutes.
https://static.mastodon.nz/media_attachments/files/114/221/171/407/888/356/original/123a1eae6443d92b.png

2025-02-15 23:04:21

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@nprofile…jc9n Goes with the supply of various glues and adhesives that have also already dried up, but we keep them, just in case

2025-02-15 22:58:02

I bought a can of black spray paint to paint a thing I made.
I used about a quarter of the can.
So do I put the can in the cupboard to be thrown away in about 10 years from now when I find it again or just throw it away right now.
I suspect this is the first can of black spray paint I have bought in my life so far.

2025-01-21 01:05:34

Surely Metservice and NIWA (and probably others) have to move off Twitter now after that display from that bozo Mush?

2025-01-09 04:29:19

Youngest daughter has moved to Signal with me and started posting cool things to entice the rest of the whānau to join us in a Facebookless place.
Decided Signal was probably easier to move to than a self hosted XMPP thing. But one step at a time, hey?

2025-01-07 21:50:11

Decided to delete Facebook (Instagram went earlier this week) due to the latest Facebook announcements. But the family uses Facebook messenger to keep in touch.
So now I need to find a replacement for all of us, otherwise I'm not going to know what the hell is going on with them.

2025-01-06 22:38:56

I think I'd like to come back in 10,000 years if for nothing else to see if agapanthus are the only plant growing in Aotearoa, having smothered all other plants out of existence. I think that is their plan

2024-12-08 04:09:43

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@nprofile…gyq6 I did :-)

2024-12-08 04:04:12

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@nprofile…gyq6 never smoked tobacco, so cannot be sure

2024-12-08 03:32:02

Tried smoking some bacon covered in brown sugar, maple syrup, pepper and chilli flakes.
Going to have to experiment with that some more.

2024-08-09 23:59:28

Just paid $9 AUD for a coffee in Melbourne. I think I need to be earning Aussie dollars to buy stuff here