Dan 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺☁️🦘

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Jack of all trades IT related. Emphasis on cloud, cyber and AWS in particular (although I dabble out of professional necessity in the other two main cloudy flavours).

Started off my computing journey programming the TI 99/4A (we weren't rich enough yet to afford a C64) from magazines. Amiga lover till the very end.

Melbourne-based

Tech InterestsHome automation, clouds, devopsy and automatey stuff
Other interestsFood, travel, movies, snow sports
Webhttps://www.makovec.net/about-me
HomeMelbourne, Australia
I can see that Mastodon has jumped the shark into birdsite-territory levels of abuse. Mods on my instance made a statement, I respectfully suggested I wasn't comfortable with the statement. In return I've been accused (by other users, not the mods) of being a racist and told I should leave the instance. C'est la vie

When your kid asks for a switch for Christmas.

#Christmas #switch #gaming

@caseybriggs are there any more of your ABC colleagues on Masto? It looks like there's a scheme afoot to have journo accounts independently verified - https://www.presscheck.org/outlets/abc-news-australia
PressCheck.org

Ah, #microsoft #surface chargers. They're like #magsafe but shit.
Anyone else with an #ax-3000 (or any other #Asus router) notice that every now and then, it just forgets about all the static DHCP leases you had configured?
Side-note to future me: don't upgrade the #tradfri firmware - it kills group binding and you'll have a bad day https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/E1743.html#ikea-e1743
IKEA E1743 control via MQTT | Zigbee2MQTT

Integrate your IKEA E1743 via Zigbee2MQTT with whatever smart home infrastructure you are using without the vendor's bridge or gateway.

It's also allowed me to completely do away with about 8 #homeassistant automations and simplify another couple. Less to maintain! 😊

Ooer! I just discovered group pairing for #zigbee devices in #zigbee2MQTT. The upshot being that in the event of my #raspberrypi completely crapping out, my #ikea #tradfri and #styrbar switches will still operate my #philipshue lights even if #homeassistant and Z2m are completely tanked.

This should get hubby off my back about stuff not working when I fsck up the pi 😂

Morning tech support call with the parents, 700km away. "We can't watch TV, it wants your gmail password".

Turns out it's been a year since I set it up. Looks like #googletv devices (in this case a #Sony) get a 12 month session. Also, they neither seem to support app-specific passwords, nor "enter this simple code into a web browser" auth mode. Nope, you have to type your main account password using the bloody remote control.

Fortunately, it's an account just for the TV. I did however have to reset the password to something simple (and insecure) enough that a 70+yo can enter it using an IR remote, un-assisted. #uifail

Looks like #macos #ventura has hit 13.1. Only one more release until it's safe to install folks!