Neil Brown
Neil BrownEvery so often, I see some spam which baffles me.
Today, someone offering to sell me "AI-generated posts" for my blog.
Mate, if I wanted to use AI-generated posts, why on earth would I be paying you for them?!
Neil BrownTomorrow, I will be doing the tech support equivalent of juggling while riding a unicycle (which I can do :)):
Troubleshooting a printer problem over the phone.
Thoughts and prayers, please. 🖨
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Neil BrownDiagnosis: printer was not plugged in.
Recommendation: plug printer in.
Neil BrownOoh! New project which looks useful to self-host.
Ah! Clear installation instructions, or even an apt package.
Oh! "curl pipe sudo bash this script", docker, yarn, pip, node, appimage, cargo, just host our own VM :(
Neil BrownAge verification: what’s the harm?If you have not read @girlonthenet@mastodon.social's latest post about the #OnlineSafetyAct , that's your evening sorted.
Neil BrownTomorrow, I will be doing the tech support equivalent of juggling while riding a unicycle (which I can do :)):
Troubleshooting a printer problem over the phone.
Thoughts and prayers, please. 🖨️
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Neil BrownYou are the first person today to say "thank you".This comment, from someone in a customer-facing role, made me more sad than is probably reasonable.
Neil BrownThe UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including
Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre serversI kid you not.
Neil Brown“Neil, I don’t understand why you self-host so much. You’re so old fashioned, you should be using the cloud it is so much better”
Also
“Neil, the service I was using for $x has shut down without notice and $y has changed it terms of service and wants to scan my content to train its AI and $z is changing its subscription model to charge me loads more - what would you do?”