Big George

BigG@mastodon.africa

father, husband, <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/squash" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#squash</a> player, heart attack survivor, still overweight, <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/rugby" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#rugby</a> supporter, and (I think) general nice guy. I love <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/open" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#open</a>-source software and all it stands for. I'm not sure where I stand on the political spectrum. don't like nazis and racists. believe in individual rights. decentralize over centralize.

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Ok Durban. On my way to you. What are your other two wishes? #durban
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Nothing like a Castle Tank beer at Waxy o&#39;Conners. Don&#39;t know what Castle Tank beer is ? Look it up.... #Castle #tank #durban
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@kimvanwyk westville. You close ?
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ok, going to vibe code something...... I want to backup all my containers from my docker server (because it is based on Ubuntu snaps which is shyte), remove the snap version, install docker-ce and get all the containers up and running again.... using Claude to automate it. what can go wrong..... ?
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Hey @dick_turpin I hear its like 28 degrees there. We call that spring......
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Getting my English son to watch &quot;Vetkoek paleis&quot; . Hilarious... #oldsouthafricantvprograms
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Hello All, A favour to ask please. If you follow me, please can you also follow me at @george as well. It is a secondary account if there are issues with my current account. Yesterday the server was down I think for maintenance, and I felt very lonely ;-) Thanks
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btw Mastodon.africa admins, thanks for the maintenance effort. I assume it was upgrades ;-)
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@withaveeay @george Thanks man.
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@dick_turpin &#39;sausage&#39; is for you....
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@withaveeay @junglegeorge dude.....
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Seen on my walk this morning.
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Ahh... the lesser spotted Chuckles... the chocolate that #woolworths is trying to drive into liquidation...
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The more I get into #homeassistant the more impressed I am. A bit of a learning curve for some of the more detailed stuff, but once you get going, seriously impressive. Nice work @homeassistant
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Ate my first Avo from the tree I planted a few years ago. Perfect flavor and consistency. It is the tree&#39;s first crop and there must be 20 or so of the fruit. Smashed avo for breakfast for the next few weeks. #avocado
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Having a good #selfhosting day today. Set up a technitium local DNS resolver. Clustered it over two servers one virtual and one a Raspberry Pi. So got redundancy... set up all my local machines and services as local dns entries with Nginx Proxy Manager, because I keep forgetting the frikken is and ports.... and I tidied up my Homeassistant setup.... now for some wine....
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Still the best one..... #wine
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Shock and horror.... One of South Africa’s biggest airlines may close down within one year – BusinessTech https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/859066/one-of-south-africas-biggest-airlines-may-close-down-within-one-year/
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On a my way to Zambia.... Vic Falls here i come.... #Zambia. Will be working sadly....
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I think I made Claude tired last night..... #claude #ai
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mmm.... Trump : &quot;The straits of Hormuz must be opened&quot; Also Trump : &quot;We are going to blockade the Straits of Hormuz&quot;... Huh ? #Maga #murica #trump
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I had an experience the other day that led me down a little bit of a rabbithole.... basically let me ask.... Have you ever got a response to a thoughtful email and think: &quot;Wait, did &lt;insert name here&gt; even read this message and think about it, or did they just run it through ChatGPT and hit copy-paste?&quot; Turns out there is a name for that feeling. It’s called **Epistemic Laundering**. In finance, money laundering is about hiding the shady origin of cash to make it...