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
I'm beginning to actually understand Ceph and I fear my brain may never be the same again.
Well, the disk moves I started earlier today have completed, so my home databases now use an SSD based storage pool in the cluster instead of spinning rust. Let's see if that helps the performance a bit.
I also do still need to get everything moved to the 10 gig network as well, but one thing at a time I guess.
This is very normal levels of odd jobs people do around their home, right?
One for the road.

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.

