Tom @tswsl@fosstodon.org
Researcher working on instumentation and data acquisition for marine energy projects.
General interests in tech, FOSS, electronics and sci-fi of varying quality.
M7TLZ
Joined Dec 2020
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#introduction #introductions
Hi all!
I'm Tom (he/him), physicist/engineering/programmer currently working on instrumentation and data acquisition for marine energy projects.
Linux user (Fedora and Debian), programmer (Python, C and some C++), and electronics hacker/maker/breaker.
Based in Swansea on the slightly soggy south coast of Wales.
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A belated upload of some of my #emfcamp shots. A very enjoyable weekend away, and far too many things to see and do, let alone take photos of!
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I am alive today because I always wear a high quality full face helmet.
Never go cheap on safety gear.
You can't predict everything.
After a very hectic few weeks of work and moving house, I am very much looking forward to a fun weekend away at #emfcamp
Now sitting at the station with a coffee, waiting for train number 1 to arrive!
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is insufficiently documented
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Canonical: You like snaps now
Snaps: I don't respect your system settings, themes or anything!
Me: Oh no
Snaps: My file chooser doesn't remember your sidebar folders in Nautilus like everything else, also, get used to navigating from / every single time, because I don't remember anything else either
Me: That's not what I—
Snaps: Also now you have to remember to update your software in yet another place
Me: Please stop
Snaps: Btw I take up way more resources too
Canonical: You're welcome
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Boss: your leave request broke the system
Me: uh sigh
Boss: why do you want to take the specific week off in 2038
Me: for this exact reason
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Outlook on the desktop is where hopes and dreams go to die.
Ticket acquired for #emfcamp this summer \o/
I also need to work out who a bug report should be filed with for that one, but one step at a time...
https://leftdiodes.co.uk/2021/12/22/if-pre-oops.html
Trying to get into the habit of putting more write ups online when I break/fix things in case they're useful for other people.
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Two days of debugging while adding IPv6 to a wireguard VPN ended up being due to two very daft errors on my part:
IPv6 forwarding and IPv4 forwarding are different settings (guess which wasn't enabled?)
Static route on my router set on the wrong interface
Happy new year! Starting as I suspect it will continue 🙂
I mean, I *could* have taken the pinephone out of the case, popped the back and removed the battery to get to the SD card.
Or I could export the SD card with NBD and write an image over the network from my laptop instead.
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One of the traditional signs of autumn... 🐑
(https://mobile.twitter.com/BarryReed10/status/1446082935732547586)
Note to self: AWS t3.micro and t3a.micro reservations do not appear to be interchangeable. 🤫
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A "podcast" behind a paywall is not a podcast.
A "podcast" that only one app can receive is not a podcast.
A "podcast" without a public feed that can be freely pulled into any podcast client or RSS reader is not a damn podcast, don't let people get away with calling it that.
Researcher working on instumentation and data acquisition for marine energy projects.
General interests in tech, FOSS, electronics and sci-fi of varying quality.
M7TLZ
Joined Dec 2020
