I’ve never been able to achieve blue-tick status on the bird site, but @neatnik at omg.lol has blessed me with his blue tick. Also, you should definitely buy an account. It’s an awesome service offered at a crazy-low price.
macOS Content Caching Fails to Propogate Security Updates
Monday, August 29, 2022
Last Week on My Mac: Security updates are down again – The Eclectic Light Company: Howard Oakley is doing an amazing job at diagnosing and bringing to light (pardon the pun) issues involving macOS Content Caching Server: Over the last three months, of the nine security updates to XProtect pushed by Apple, only one has been delivered and installed correctly through my Monterey Content Caching server, that on 4 August.
Email is not a messaging platform.
Load the email app a couple of times a day, write and respond, and shut it down.
I’ve been monkeying around with websites. Of course I managed to break something. Does anybody know how to configure DNS such that it will redirect a URL to an omg.lol profile page? @maique
Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Watched on Friday August 26, 2022.
My young fella performed at school assembly today. They rocked out to a song about adjectives!
Thanks to Howard Oakley’s article Has Apple fixed recent Software Update problems? – The Eclectic Light Company I can confirm that no, Apple’s Content Caching service is not fixed. All Macs on my local network had out-of-date versions of XProtect. Content caching now disabled.
Great episode of Really Specific Stories podcast with @manton hosted by @martinfeld
Choosing a Twitter Client
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
This article was originally written for the February 2022 edition of Hemispheric News, delivered as part of the Hemispheric Views podcast member bonus program, One Prime Plus Update as of August 2022: I have basically settled on Twitterrific on iOS/iPadOS and Twitter on macOS. I don’t love Twitter, but I use the heck out of it for one reason only: following the Australian National Basketball League (@NBL) and the community of passionate fans around it.
Adventures in SoftRAID
Sunday, August 21, 2022
I’ve had an adventure with my OWC Thunderbay 4-disk drive array this week. I’ve emerged the other side, ultimately unscathed, but the journey certainly could have been easier. Let’s take a look. It all started when I reached the capacity of my RAID-5 formatted array of 4 x 2TB drives. The 6TB of storage this provided me was almost full. This array sits in a cupboard connected to a headless M1 mac mini, so all operations need to be managed through screen sharing with Screens or SSH.
A photo from Yardie Creek during our recent break in Exmouth, Western Australia.
Lightyear, 2022 - ★★★½
Monday, August 15, 2022
Incredible animation and a non-stop action adventure, with just enough Pixar feels added.
It is wonderful to be attending the Basketball WA Awards with my wife Hannah Beazley MLA.
I am loving Arc Browser, and I’m not even using the fancy “new” stuff it contains. Just it as a browser is a great experience.
The Rescue, 2021 - ★★★★
Friday, August 12, 2022
An incredible story well told.
I’m not an academic but that is not stopping me from futzing around with Zotero.
Enjoying a holiday read. A View to Die For by @cheri
Finished reading: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande 📚 I didn’t want a story justifying the use of checklists; I wanted a book providing a guide to the development of best practice checklists.
Still Loving Logseq
Monday, August 1, 2022
My love affair with Logseq continues unabated. I enjoy using the software - even through the weird and buggy bits. There is an immediacy to it that I like, which Craft has been unable to match. Craft was always too fussy, and I found myself becoming distracted by fonts and styles. The best comparison I can make is that Craft is the modern Microsoft Word, while Logseq would be BBEdit.
In E063 of @hemisphericviews we talk to @ericmwalk to find out how he is so good at Arcadia. Plus we pontificate profusely pertaining to Podcasting 2.0.