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@pjf@cloudisland.nz
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Joined June 04, 2020
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 1h ago
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Woo! New #Immich release with upgraded face-recognition sharing getting very good reviews and feedback. If you've been looking to get your photos off "the cloud" and onto a private, open source service that you host yourself, then now is a really good time. Face sharing has been a bit of a roadblock for a lot of people (especially families), but not any more! https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v3.3.0 #SelfHosted #Homelab #photography #DataSovereignty
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Release v3.3.0 · immich-app/immich

v3.3.0 NoteWe're collecting feedback related to people sharing in this discussion: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/32196 Welcome to Immich v3.3.0! This release includes people sha...

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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2d ago
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Look, I get it, LLMs can't replace *your* expertise, but as a white middle-aged man in tech who is often confidently wrong and taken seriously anyway, they've already mastered the only thing I've ever been good at.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2d ago
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I don't even know the date of the upcoming Victorian state election and I'm already exhausted by it. #vixpol #auspol
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 1w ago
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I'm now running navidrome¹ to stream my music collection and it's pretty great. I'm also very grateful that Picard² exists to fill in the metadata on CDs I ripped 20+ years ago. No gratitude to all the AI bots scraping musicbrainz/listenbrainz constantly and ruining things, especially when they could just bulk-download the data legitimately³. — ¹ https://navidrome.org/ ² https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ ³ https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/08/19/growing-pains-an-update-on-the-listenbrainz-service-status/ #music #streaming #navidrome #homelab #musicbrainz
Navidrome
Navidrome

Navidrome

Welcome to Navidrome! Learn More Download Your Personal Streaming Service Navidrome allows you to enjoy your music collection from anywhere, by making it available through a modern Web UI and through a wide range of third-party compatible mobile apps, for both iOS and Android devices.

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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2w ago
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Happy birthday, Glen Eira #RepairCafe!
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2w ago
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Lol, I love #immich's "on this day" feature, it really shows off what I use my phone for. #catsOfMastodon
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 1w ago
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I don't think @jonny@neuromatch.social convincing a flagship LLM to leak its own code, torrent files, and mine cryptocurrency will ever get old. https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117324790823856750
neuromatch.social

jonny (nonvenomous): "Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Alm…" - neurospace.live

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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2w ago
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I know I'm very late to the party, but Rosehaven¹ is very good and wholesome² and beautifully Australian. It doesn't seem to be on iView any more, but if you can find it then it's some of the best Australian comedy out there, and a balm for the soul.❤️ — ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosehaven ² Wholesome by Australian comedy standards.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2w ago
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OMG!!! NEW CAT JUST DROPPED¹!!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilcayo — ¹ Was formally described by international zoologists. Local communities had known about the cat for ages.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
Me: "Did you know that if you're in the vacuum of space, your lungs continue to do gas exchange, but because there's no air they just strip all the oxygen out of your blood? You've got something like 12 seconds before you're unconscious from hypoxia." Kids: "Wait, you were scared of the ghost story we told you by a fake campfire, but somehow you're okay knowing *this*!?" #parenting
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 3w ago
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Apologies to everyone for being behind on personal correspondence, I have been overrun with tasks and am desperate for sleep. I love you all. ❤️
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 1mo ago
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I wasn't planning on cleaning my Model M keyboard today, but an accident with an almost full cup of coffee necessitates otherwise.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 3w ago
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I want to like the new release of #Jellyfin, which was thoroughly tested and is better than the old version in every way, EXCEPT it changed the position of one button that I always use and maybe now I need to give up on computers entirely.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
An Australian supermarket is distributing Disney licensed figurines, and I almost died when I heard a child say "I guess I'll trade my Woody for Anxiety". #parenting
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago

I wasn't expecting this weekend to be a romance weekend, but babe just asked if we can schedule a @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social install!!

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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 1mo ago
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Hey #homelab friends, I've been thinking about what would happen if the kids desktops had a hardware failure, and how we might best do backups. Said backups need to happen automatically, need to survive being interrupted, and require no input from the user. I'm considering just putting their entire home directories into a syncthing share with rolling versioning, mirroring to the enterprise storage Linux server we've got in the garage. That should be enough to handle both hardware failures, but also "oops, I deleted this file" accidents. Other suggestions are welcome. Kids are on Windows right now (will move to Linux Mint eventually).
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 1mo ago
Replying to
*Of course* the nerds restoring original Star Wars from film to spite the special edition have spent over $16,000 of their own money buying reels, having them professionally cleaned, professionally digitised (scanned at 100MB per frame), and then on the storage needed to allow editing of such a huge amount of data. And of course that's going to be nothing compared to the amount of personal love and labour put into such a project. I'm kinda in awe, and I *love* that people do this. https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k80/ #StarWars #4k80 #4k77 #restoration #movies #film
thestarwarstrilogy.com

Project 4K80 | The Star Wars Trilogy

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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 1mo ago
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I've started doing more walks with Mr 9 where we simultaneously take seperate well-known routes to the library or park, in order to build his independence for when he turns 10 and follows his dream to travel the world as a Pokemon trainer. #parenting
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
Happy Australian Emergency Test Alert Hour!
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 3w ago
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Hey friends, I'm behind the times. Bandcamp used to be the ethical place to buy DRM-free music you can put on your own device, but I don't want to assume that's still the case. Where's the go-to place now?
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago

Hey folks, letting you know that the #Newkind Australian Social Change Conference is coming up, running from 30th Sept through to 4th October this year in Dja Dja Wurrung Country, in Redbank, Victoria.

This is genuinely one of the best events I've ever attended, and I'm very fortunate to be speaking again this year. The event prices includes all meals, entertainment, and a place for you to camp, with an option of tent hire available. The conference is family friendly.

I'll personally be presenting on urban plant fibres, enshittification trends, and will also be helping at the repair cafe. There are talks and workshops examing the racial justice, wealth inequality, indigenous knowledge, Polynesian dance, degrowth, and more.

https://www.newkindconference.com/

Retoots appreciated.

#victoria #narrm #melbourne #sustainability #degrowth #socialchange

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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
Replying to
@georgepenney@sunny.garden : If you have some dolls they *love* tea parties, and very much add to the whimsy.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
Finding https://www.worseonpurpose.com/ to be an interesting read. #enshittification
Worse on Purpose
Worse on Purpose

Worse on Purpose

The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.

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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 3w ago
I have absolutely no idea how any country with below-replacement birthrates and an ageing population can argue against immigration, yet still expect the benefits that labour provides, like food availability, trades, and medical care. If we were using a system that prioritised essential jobs over pandering to the rich, then maybe, but instead we have capitalism. (And I know, I know... blaming the immigrants is a way to mislead people so they don't blame the ultra-wealthy, but still...)
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 3w ago
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@hackuador@functional.cafe : Oh gosh, I guess could submit a FOSS #Homelab talk of some description.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 3w ago
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@robin@social.riley.pub : Goodness me you look great!! (The glasses do, too!)
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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@mjd@mathstodon.xyz : Wait, I thought it was only required for *safe* interstellar travel?
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
I'd forgotten that I wrote Harry Potter and the Australian Bureau of Statistics some ten years ago, but since I'm getting AO3 kudos I'm guessing it's #census time again. https://archiveofourown.org/works/7728838 #census2026 #census26
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
Homelab nerditry
Ugh, I'm migrating a jellyfin instance across to an entirely different operating system (Windows to Linux Container), and it does not want to be straightforward. https://jellyfin.org/
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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And now I've found a bug, so I'm installing extra C++ vim tooling for a game I'm playing that was originally released over 30 years ago.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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Homelab nerditry
@purserj@aus.social @thorne@rants.au : Getting a second-hand PowerEdge with 48TB of spinning rust included has greatly reduced the space constraints in our household.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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Homelab nerditry
@purserj@aus.social @thorne@rants.au : We sure did!
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
Coming out of a short depressive episode, which is good. This one wasn't subtle. Absolutely nothing brought me any joy, which at least made it easy to recognise as brain chemistry and not anything else. Bae, bless her heart, asked if my depression was from all the C++ I'd been looking at, and I had to explain it was instead the other way around.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
Hello C++ friends, is there an equivalent of perlcritic or phpstan for C++? Plenty of compilers and linters will give me warnings when I'm doing things wrong, but I want something that says "what you're doing is fine, but best practices would be to…" Thank you in advance!
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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@ewenmcneill@cloudisland.nz : In some ways yes, and the bug I've encountered is fixed in dev, but dev also has a showstopper bug and a lot of the code is in a very early '90s style
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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@DevRhiana@ruby.social : Lol, I read the meme before seeing who posted it, and thought "Dang, that's exactly what Rhiana is going through…"
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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The bug was already fixed in dev. "How about a new release?" I ask. "We can't have a new release, there's this other showstopper that needs to be fixed." So anyway, I've now fixed that other bug (a very easy to make logic error), because apparently that was enough to nerd-snipe me. I'm hoping the next step won't involve me having to touch their build platform, because I'm still new enough to be terrified of CMake.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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For all mankind S4 spoilers and rant
@vk5qi@cloudisland.nz : It sure did! 😢
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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One of the things I'm most looking forward to in having an enterprise grade #homelab server is being able to set up NextCloud for everything. Then whenever the kids ask if they can sign up for , I can point out that we have at home.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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For all mankind S1E10 spoilers
Also, relieving Ed of command and sending him back solo? What the heck? Having a solo astronaut on the base or in the CSM is *hugely* dangerous; if anything goes wrong they don't have a buddy to save them. I get that in this alternate timeline NASA is taking more risks, but *voluntarily* having unbuddied crew on lunar missions feels like an unacceptable level of risk.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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re: Homelab nerditry
@loathsome_dongeater@toots.matapacos.dog : Mostly the sentence "Jellyfin's internal databases cannot be copied or adjusted easily." https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/migrate/
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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For all mankind S4 spoilers and rant
My goodness, what happened this season? There seems to be a *lot* of motivation attributed to people who are working a two-year mission for the hazard pay as a job away from their families. There's a *big* difference between going on strike because conditions aren't fair, and going along with whatever BS Ed and Dev have cooked up. Plus, if you have the delta-V to move an asteroid from trans-Earth injection to Mars orbit, surely that means after refueling and re-anchoring you've also got the delta-V to move the asteroid from Mars orbit back to trans-Earth. Sure, you might have to wait until the next transfer window opens, and there's logistics and so on, but this is a show that's aimed squarely at space nerds. You can't gloss over this. Am I missing something?
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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@xan@xantronix.social : Thank you! I'm going to try this as soon as there's no longer a cat asleep on my arm
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
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@jamesh@aus.social @xan@xantronix.social : Thank you both! clang-check already found a potential memory leak!
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
Civilisational collapse
I have such mixed feelings looking at us going through the collapse of western civilisation. On one hand it has the possibility to do a lot of good, to reduce much of the inequity that western civilisation maintains. But on the other hand, the transition can be rough, and I want people to be okay. Collapse rarely happens all at once, and so I desperately hope for a transition that's as smooth as it can be, but I know there will be shocks along the way. The biggest thing I worry about is foreign trade and food security. Complex systems are the first to collapse, and while international trade is not the most complex, it has lots of moving parts and complex inputs. I don't have any good solutions here expect to build communities, keep a supply of emergency fresh water, and (if you can) some shelf-stable calories like dried rice and beans. If you have space for a garden, that's great, but not everyone does. I just want everyone to turn out okay.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf@cloudisland.nz
· 2mo ago
Replying to on bsd.network
@dexter@bsd.network : Questionable Content is a web comic that's been continuously running for over 20 years, and Comic Rocket is a now rather old website from very good people that helps you keep track of where you are in your web-comics. Unfortunately, the Questionable Content (QC) website got hacked a while back, and was down for a while. It's now back, but due to changes in the HTTP Response headers it would no longer load in Comic Rocket. Of course, QC also offers an RSS feed, and I have other ways of reading it, so me locally hacking HTTP headers is just a supreme form of laziness because I don't want to otherwise change my ways. :)
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