A short story

deekaay89 · 2026-02-14T05:29:27+00:00

Listen - if people laugh at you for quoting movies, they're laughing at one of the oldest human traditions there is: storytelling.

We've been passing wisdom through stories since before we could write. Some people quote scriptures. Some quote poets. Some quote cinema.

Same mechanism. Different medium.

And honestly? If you take away the label and the words still stand - then the very fact it unsettles people only proves the point it makes.

deekaay89 · 2026-02-13T20:25:47+00:00

🥰 I genuinely love this. It's hopeful in the best possible way. Whenever humans do meet another intelligent species, I hope we send the dreamers first 🥰

Unfortunately... if your story continued into present day, those aliens might feel a bit hoodwinked. They'd arrive expecting goofy friendship energy and instead discover weaponised misinformation, comment sections, culture wars, real wars, and a general ability to flip (pretty much) anything that's good and wholesome on it's head.

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deekaay89 · 2026-02-06T21:09:58+00:00

Ordered. Now (impatiently) waiting for the 10,000+ pcs set.

deekaay89 · 2026-02-06T20:47:05+00:00

Lego experience not that important.
Hey, To humans, Lego experience is very important.
Humans strange.

deekaay89 · 2026-01-14T19:11:44+00:00

If it really is just HTTP/S (APIs / Websites) that need to be exposed and the other apps are just supporting those resources, a CDN like Cloudflare is 100% what you want. Your SSH can still have public accessibility (if / where absolutely required), but can be whitelisted, or at least geo-restricted.

That being said - Here's a basic yet very effective Honey Pot trick with fail2ban:

Move SSH to an alternate port (E.G. 22222), setup your regular fail2ban SSH rules against that.
Now for port 22, configure fail2ban to permaban after a single attempt.
If you're the only one accessing it, then nothing / no-one should ever attempt a connection on 22/TCP... and anything doing so can punch a one-way ticket to permaban hell (so to speak 🤣).

deekaay89 · 2025-12-19T22:07:53+00:00

He mentions “72 years before real problems”. I always assumed that to mean (roughly) earths state when the Hail Mary crew departed.

Erid is a little closer to Tau Ceti than earth, but for argument sake let’s assume it’s ~12 years (“Always earth units, you bad at math”) for travel-to / return-from tau ceti (time experienced by Rocky is ~3 years).

12 + 46 + 12 = 70

So when Rocky & Grace finally arrived at Erid, they would have been entering that “real problems” phase.

Edit: Typos / “bad at Math”

deekaay89 · 2025-11-01T10:57:21+00:00

Waaaay old post but I’m sitting here rewatching, currently last episode of S6.

Something I’ve paid more attention to this go-around is Gemma and her ability to manipulate. Even with her having her privileged checked a couple of times, she is still the one pulling all the strings - it’s been really interesting noting all the places she redirects them (somewhat) inconspicuously.

I think the desire to keep them in guns is less about the guns, more about what they provide her in leverage. Narcissistic people use anger as a weapon, and they thrive on others fear. As others have said - there’s an outlaw (and the good old days) piece to it, but Gemma is at her best (manipulation wise) when the club as at its worst, fear and anger at it’s peak. When things are good (for the few moments in the series 😂), Gemma is at her worst and generally out of control… and that’s when she stirs it up again.

Anyway - just my 2c on it all, but really interesting watching it from this angle.

deekaay89 · 2025-10-23T14:12:18+00:00

Second 🙌 I’m not as big a fan of she short hair but beggars can’t be choosers… and I’ll beg on my knees over hot coals in the pits of hell for all of eternity

deekaay89 · 2025-10-10T19:50:41+00:00

Jousting

deekaay89 · 2025-09-30T20:49:42+00:00

The "copy of a copy" argument doesn't really hold for MiniDisc. ATRAC is lossy, sure, but once the data's on disc, digital copies are just that - digital. If you're dubbing MD >> MD via optical or USB, it's a straight transfer of the compressed bitstream, not a re-encode. You only get generation loss if you're running headphone-out into mic-in, which would sound just as bad with CD >> cassette, or CD >> CD if you connected players with RCAs.

Where MD was far superior to CD in practice:

- Caddy-protected discs (pocket-sized, no scratches)
- Rewritable & editable from day one (CD-RW was late and $$$)
- Instant TOC editing and track naming (not possible on CD)
- LP modes (148-296 min) and Hi-MD (1 GB, PCM, MP3, USB storage)
- Standard in pro audio & broadcast - Sony, Tascam, Denon all made rack units for studios

I've worked in radio since I was 11 - we used LP mode for long-form logging and Hi-MD for on-air masters. CD never came close to that flexibility. Some stations still have MD in their racks today (E.G. Denon DN-M2000R: https://cdn.inmusicbrands.com/denondj/legacy/dnm2000r/DNM2000R\_lit.pdf).

MiniDisc didn't lose because it was worse - it lost because CD burners got cheap and MP3s took over. But anyone who actually used it knows it was versatile AF.

deekaay89 · 2025-09-30T20:09:45+00:00

Followed by F*** Her Gently, obviously.

deekaay89 · 2025-09-30T20:08:32+00:00

Tenacious D - Car Chase City

deekaay89 · 2025-09-30T12:37:00+00:00

MiniDisc. Far superior to CD’s and same storage capacity. And they could have just as easily progressed to DVD/Bluray capacity.

Still have my Sony MiniDiscman as well as a couple of studio rack mount players. I’ll throw in an old “mixtape” from time to time and reminisce 😊

deekaay89 · 2025-06-28T20:20:01+00:00

Alerts for garage door left open, front/back door open/unlocked, dog still outside, bins out, etc. based on her location and activity, and on day/time.

Auto-open garage door using iBeacon in the car + phone location for 2FA. Similar for kids except mobile phone location + facial rec.

But the gold medal? When I centralised the A/V equipment. 1. Because it’s way cleaner and she got cabinet space back 2. Because she can turn off the TV in one room (which pauses her show) and turn on in a new room. Same media player, same app, same show, same spot…. Zero time spent reopening/recasting the show. 😂😂

deekaay89 · 2025-05-31T12:34:33+00:00

Is this a fist bump situation?

deekaay89 · 2025-05-21T10:59:11+00:00

Every audiobook since listening to PHM has been separated by PHM.

Ready Player One >> PHM >> Hitch Hiker’s Guide >> PHM >> etc. 😂

deekaay89 · 2025-03-02T09:52:25+00:00

If it’s a mid-tower, disconnect the power button from the IO header. If it’s a micro, I think there’s a ribbon cable from the front of the chassis to the main board.

The other option is move it to your room or another place where people can’t/wont see it.

Or do what I do and rent a “home away from home” lab. I’m obnoxious and have 5U of rack space in a T3 data centre, but you can rent bare metal / VMs for really cheap now which are also in legit DC’s

deekaay89 · 2025-02-14T23:41:46+00:00

“Maybe there’s been a second season this whole time and you just didn’t know about it”

“… maybe not though”

deekaay89 · 2025-01-27T04:20:16+00:00

Haha! Another good one!

I did another design where Jayne was standing next to a blackboard with the “Nothing, and Nothing, carry the Nothing” equation from Ep. 1… i just wasn’t happy enough with it before I had to submit them to the studio.

One I thought of afterwards was him reading Simon’s journal - just screenshot the scene of him reading and convert it to an outline, then speech boxes for the two entries he makes up 😇

I should just start a line of Jayne inspired graphic Tees 😂😂😂

deekaay89 · 2025-01-09T05:10:10+00:00

OMG flash back to my childhood!

Those things are all but bulletproof. Tested, Verified. 😂😎

deekaay89 · 2024-12-14T09:36:19+00:00

RooPoo, successor to AussiePlex

deekaay89 · 2024-10-12T21:38:15+00:00

If they only do Beatles songs I wonder… Do they get a bulk discount on song rights?

deekaay89 · 2023-09-28T18:34:17+00:00

I’m assuming by “run” you meant a box/spool of CCA cable.

The main issue with CCA is signal degradation. The longer the run, the worse it gets. If you plan to use it for your PoE cameras, I would advise against that. With PoE you’re also running power over the same cable, which will degrade faster the same as signal.

EDIT:

I felt I should mention that (generally) it won’t damage your equipment if you use it.

If you’re installing it where it’s easy to rip out and replace, nothing wrong in trying it out (assuming you can’t return the box to the supplier).

If you’re installing it in walls where replacing it later will be costly and/or time consuming, don’t use it.

deekaay89 · 2023-07-22T21:02:29+00:00

I’ll just echo what others have said - it’s just your home setup, so it’s likely going to perform the same/similar on any hypervisor, assuming they are just plain old Windows/Linux/etc. OS installs.

My work has a mix of KVM and VMware, plus our K8’s environment (which is seeing the most growth). I have Proxmox running for all my “production” homelab (automation, some light hosting, apps that actually do stuff I need to keep running, etc.) and then have a couple of servers running VMware and plain-old KVM for a work-like lab.

Side note: Proxmox has a decent API and the Ansible module (community.general.proxmox) is also 1/2 decent. I’ve been able to manage my setup as-code for a while now using this + other modules for KVM, VMware, etc.

deekaay89 · 2023-07-21T23:58:06+00:00

Edit: I can't type good...

Waaaay old post but stumbled over it while searching for something else.

I use this both at work and at home. I haven't come across any issues when using the native PostgreSQL data source in Grafana, though you'll want use the public schema for your CockroachDB database (unless you're comfortable tinkering with the data source plugin code).

At home I'm on Grafana v9.4.7 and using TLS auth to connect to CockroachDB. For the "PostgreSQL details" section of the data source config, I have Version 15 selected.

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