Lightning Shock
Jan 18
Technology DIY, palmface, shithappens No Comments
AWS Transfer Service comes with a Bill Shock. Life lessons from not reading the fine print. I cant believe it costs that much to run a relatively passive service. ?

Rubbish from my head, Published to the Web. Punishment for people like you, Who have nothing better to do.
Jan 18
Technology DIY, palmface, shithappens No Comments
AWS Transfer Service comes with a Bill Shock. Life lessons from not reading the fine print. I cant believe it costs that much to run a relatively passive service. ?
Jul 22
FLOSS, Tipjar Linux, scripting, Tipjar No Comments
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There are use cases that require the secure wiping or deletion of files. There are already a lot of available utilities available in most modern distributions such as srm, swipe, etc. These however entail installing an additional package which is fine for work machines. The use case I had is to securely delete a transient file after it was generated and used in a Continuous Integration server. Installing the secure-delete package is trivial but a base Linux system already has the tool that can do the job: dd
Jul 05
Garbage life, musing No Comments
Happiness is an elusive treasure for most but in reality it is hiding in plain sight.
Happiness is located at the crux of being content with what you have and what you are willing to forego.
Getting more means exerting additional effort and taking on more responsibilities. If those start being a burden then it is a good sign your personal inflection point is already known. The question now becomes “are you ok to maintain this as your status quo, or do you still want to achieve more?”
Apr 21
Garbage Leadership, musings No Comments
Dec 23
Top of my head DIY, Garbage, home, housebandry No Comments
I am not a handy man as I never inherited that skill from Daddy. I am very of wary of powertools even if I am fascinated by them. I always treat the tools with respect whenever I use them. Much like today.
I am glad to say the powertool I am using today (portable impact drill) didnt cause me harm. It was the underside of the monoblock chair that did me in and caused a mini red fountain in my foot’s second toe. It was a perfect storm of carelessness, stupidity and timing.
I did see Daddy again in that brief 30 seconds of pain though. I squealed the same way I imagined he would have. Murmuring self-directed invectives while brimming with pain.
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