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General Tech

Banned from YouTube???

Update: After 24 hours the block was removed. However, I’m banned again today – super annoying. I really don’t know how this is happening. Today I am suddenly unable to stream any YouTube videos. Instead of streaming, every video just says “This content isn’t available.” I have tried changing networks, tried running from a VPN, […]

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Fitness General Tech

Review of the Xiaomi Mi Band 9

I recently got a Xiaomi Mi Band 9, which I wanted as a watch replacement that will also buzz me for messages and calls. It was dirt cheap, at $65 AUD, but I’ve been pleasently surprised at how good the build quality and functionality has been. Watch The band can be set to be always […]

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General Tech Linux Uncategorized

The Cognitive Dissonance of Listening to Jupiter Broadcasting Podcasts

Jupiter Broadcasting is a group who make several Linux themed podcasts. I love Linux, so I have really enjoyed their content over the years. They get really deep into some of the technical details of projects and tools they experiment with, and they also often have actual developers, testers, documentation folk, etc. on their show. […]

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Systems Administration

Notes on setting up Jellyfin in LXC container on Proxmox

Creating the container A lot of this is sourced from: https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/23/setting-up-intel-gpu-passthrough-on-proxmox-lxc-containers/ Hardware is a refurb ex-enterprise Lenovo M720S SFF PC, with a i3-9100 CPU. On proxmox host, set up non-free repo, by adding non-free to each line: Then, to check it’s working correctly, run vainfo: Now, make a Ubuntu 24.04 LXC container in proxmox. Once […]

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Non-Technology

Property Investing is not Good for Society

Specifically, I mean buying property with the intention of selling it at a higher value than it was purchased at. So why is it not good? My key thoughts are: Increasing Demand Demand for a house can come from a growth in population in an area, or by an increase in the desirability of services […]

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General Tech

Making an RSS feed for NT Government Newsroom

NT Government has a “Newsroom” site for official press releases, which is quite nice, but only allows subscribing via email. I like to follow news sources using RSS, as it’s an open standard, properly federated, and it’s the most convenient way to read and track these sorts of sites. Unfortunately NT Gov hasn’t got RSS […]

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Non-Technology

Attending the NT Government Voluntary Assisted Dying Community Consultation – Thoughts

Yesterday evening I attended a community consultation event on Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD), which is expected to be put into law by NT Government in the near future. I thought the event was very well run, and provided lots of information to me on the specifics of what is being considered for the NT’s legislation. […]

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Linux

Getting overGrive Google Drive Sync tool (partially) working on a Steam Deck

overGrive is a great program to sync Google Drive files under Linux, however it’s a bit complicated to get it working on a Steam Deck because of the read-only filesystem. I’ve based this on the guide that Martin Wimpress wrote up here for ZeroTier: https://wimpysworld.com/posts/install-zerotier-on-steamdeck/ Step 1 – Install rwfus tool to allow installation of […]

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Programming Systems Administration

A Userscript to click the “Recover Permissions” button for every space in Atlassian Confluence Cloud

When administering a Confluence Cloud instance, we encountered the issue where I needed to use the API to check every space’s permissions. However, in Confluence’s REST API, you need to have “Read” permissions on a space to be able to read the permissions. To get this access, you can (as an admin) go to the […]

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Linux Systems Administration

A tool to take Cisco Umbrella logs and output them to Syslog messages

I wrote a tool recently that allows taking log files from the Cisco-managed S3 bucket, and outputs each log line as a Syslog message, with the content of the log line as a JSON-formatted message. Details of the Cisco-managed S3 bucket are here: https://docs.umbrella.com/deployment-umbrella/docs/cisco-managed-s3-bucket Once logged onto disk, the output of this tool looks like: […]