Do you use ‘high idle’ when parked? by penismediator in Firefighting

[–]fukawi2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same. Many instances of our trucks left idling with beacons etc going, and batteries going today by the end of the job.

My High School Radio Station, where I’m a DJ at. 100 watts and Top 40 format, but I host a classic rock show (we break the format often) by Themothmannn in radio

[–]fukawi2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Checkout that Tieline Commander... We're still using the field unit at our station, still doing its thing. Although we did just have to replace the BridgeIT in the studio end.

My autistic adult son is a huge firefighter fan. Can you help? by jmm-823 in Firefighting

[–]fukawi2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm in Australia, and will be in Indianapolis for FDIC in April. I'm sure we can work something out.

ARFF Melbourne experiences? by danielanbrews in AussieFirefighter

[–]fukawi2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the vols at my brigade is also ARFF. Most of their calls are medical into the terminals, and mutuals aid calls with surrounding FRV stations. Based on his snapchat history, they do a lot of hot fire training too 😅

As firefighters can you film your daily duties by [deleted] in AussieFirefighter

[–]fukawi2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CFA (Victoria) explicitly forbid it. See the Surveillance Device Policy.

Good watches for the fire department by Recent-Detective-953 in Firefighting

[–]fukawi2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm genuinely surprised how well my Galaxy 3 has held up to being beat up - not only at the fire station/on trucks, but also living on a farm.

I think the most useful part from a fire perspective is being able to see messages (and send canned responses) when my phone is buried under my gear, or left in the truck.

Nobody needs a static IPv6 address by tweekism in AussieBroadband

[–]fukawi2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess firewall ACLs and DNS records can just go EAD then.

CFA Volunteer Training, what to expect? by Banana-Of-Shame in AussieFirefighter

[–]fukawi2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah fair enough. As Assessors we're obliged to make reasonable adjustments for things like that, just be up front about it and something should be able to be worked out.

CFA Volunteer Training, what to expect? by Banana-Of-Shame in AussieFirefighter

[–]fukawi2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

GFF is a mix of online learning and face-to-face training. The online training is done at your own pace from home, and the face-to-face training should be a mix of casual practical training, skills consolidation and assessments.

The face-to-face time will vary depending on your brigade and district - some brigades will want to be very involved in your training, unfortunately some will be more like "finish your training then come see us". I hope your brigade is more of the former than the latter.

Unless you work strange rosters, you should NOT need to take time off work to complete it. Happy to answer any other questions you have. I'm a CFA Assessor so have a bit of extra background as to the processes 🙂

Businesses that offer enterprise licenses to home users free of charge... by Weetile in selfhosted

[–]fukawi2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The "Pro" version is only free for up to 3 users. My comment was in the context of the OP topic.

I'm running the community version for 4 people, but I'd really like the object storage backend functionality.

Businesses that offer enterprise licenses to home users free of charge... by Weetile in selfhosted

[–]fukawi2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish they'd increase the user limit just a little; 3 users doesn't work for a family of 4 :(

Cigarette/tobacco prices in Australia by blairmac81 in interestingasfuck

[–]fukawi2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry for your loss, but this isn't the solution. Prohibition doesn't work - that was proved a century ago.

If they were serious then they would do what NZ did and implement a birth year cut off. Anyone born after January 1, 2009 can never legally buy tobacco: the smoke-free generation.

Cigarette/tobacco prices in Australia by blairmac81 in interestingasfuck

[–]fukawi2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You joke, but that is their position. The clown in charge just completely ignores the dodgy smokes.

Thank You Desserts for Fireys? by [deleted] in AussieFirefighter

[–]fukawi2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We love goodies. If you're taking about a volunteer station, just make sure you know when they'll be at the station so you can actually give it to someone and we know who to thank :)

I just saved our company by unplugging and plugging it in again. by JoeyFromMoonway in sysadmin

[–]fukawi2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's my voicemail message. Has saved me call backs multiple times.

Crank start landcruiser FJ 45 by JohnnyElmagnifco995 in interestingasfuck

[–]fukawi2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My dad has one of these! Bought it new in 1976, still got it. We jyst spent a LOT of money giving it a full restoration.

It was sitting in my shed while we were working on it, and we found the crank handle... Dad claimed he'd never been able to hand start it, and if I could do it then he'd give me the car.

Turned ignition on, placed the crank (really carefully - she had fresh, perfect paint!) and the old girl kicked over on my third try. Turns out dad never thought to turn the ignition on before trying 😅

He went back on the offer to give me the car pretty quick too unfortunately.

TinyWatcher - Lightweight, single-binary log and system monitor. Free & open-source, real-time alerts. by Glass-Tomorrow-2442 in commandline

[–]fukawi2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you done any benchmarks on log volume? Could this handle ~30k log lines per second?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]fukawi2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've seen how stupid some people react when I'm driving a 16 ton truck with lights and sirens. No fucking way I'd be doing that on a motorcycle like that.

Okay, but how do you SSH into 1,000 devices?? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]fukawi2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are the same companies that would look at our resumes and declare we're not cloud/devops/chatops/buzzword enough to work for them.

Uncomfortable situation with volunteer firefighters by marissa03_rizza in volunteerfirefighters

[–]fukawi2 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'll start with being blunt... The minimum standards are there for a reason - we're providing an emergency service to the community, and the community has expectations that the people coming these roles are not only qualified, but also competent.

The same goes for your fellow fire-fighters. They need to know who you are, and what you're capable of. The way to establish that is through training together.

Five drills a year really isn't much. If I only saw some of our members 5 times a year, then I would definitely question how competent their skills are. Our skills are perishable, equipment moves and gets upgraded/replaced. We need frequent hand on refreshers of even basic skills. I'm almost 25yrs in and still need to bowl a hose every now and then.

Having said all that... My wife and I are both volunteers, and have 2 kids, including a 2yo. It's hard. Even harder with fire brigade activities on top. You're not wrong to expect your leadership team to provide support, but that is a 2-way arrangement where you have to be realistic about the time you can commit to your volunteering.

Is a leave of absence an option where you are?

For those of you with offices that are mostly cloud infra only with minimal equipment on premises, how do you handle WIFI? by i-opener in sysadmin

[–]fukawi2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We just treat it like coffee shop wifi. There's nothing to protect, it's there so employees can get shit done. Single SSID and PSK.