Chinwag Posts

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
Had my attention drawn to the fact that Teams has a setting to identify and filter out profanity from transcripts of meetings, and I wonder if the energy cost and subsequent environmental impact of enabling that in Australia might be excessive and irresponsible.
Imagine telling people you were kicked out of Australia for being too racist.
I wish I'd realised you can set up streaming replication with PostgreSQL with a newer version of the server at the receiving end much earlier. I've always matched versions, assuming I had to, when I could have saved time on later upgrades by promoting the replica after a sync.
Unexpected rail replacement bus really reminding me that it's Monday.
Please join me in celebrating the fact that after about a whole year, I finally remembered that I was completely out of soy sauce while I was actually in a supermarket.

