Shaun Ewing

For me it was Fifty Shades of Grey and after someone noticed it when it was on my desk in the office I paid the fee to remove the ads 🤣

Hana didn’t waste any time moving upstairs and taking over our bed after Sybil passed. This is how I woke up this morning.

This week Claude took it upon itself to trawl through my file system to find API credentials and executed calls against a production API when I was using it to write a function. While I probably shouldn’t have had those keys in another file, they were also outside the directory tree I run AI tooling in so this quite frankly is unacceptable especially as this wasn’t the API endpoint I was creating the function for to begin with. If you have API keys lying around your filesystem then go clean them up because they now seem to be fair game to Claude. I remove keys from my scratch scripts once done (they’re also not in a repo and don’t leave my machine) but I think I’ll use environment variables only from now on. I’ve been enjoying not having to babysit Claude with the auto classifier but stuff like this makes me think I should go back to manual. In the meantime my settings file has been set to block access to env files and also reads outside the current working directory. Claude isn’t happy about it and snarkily complains about its new restrictions but that’s too bad. The next breach of trust like this will have Claude run in a dedicated VM.

Dear @1Password . I tried to sign up to your forum but apparently my name contains restricted text and it won't let me join, so I will post here instead. This latest update that requires double confirmation to save an entry that doesn't have a website in it is the worst change you have made in the 10+ years I've been using your product. People use your product for more than website logins. I have everything from license keys to service accounts on systems and I do not want a website listed with them, nor do I auto fill those. While I get what you're doing, please make this a configurable setting as I almost lost a changed service account credential the first time because I didn't notice it hadn't saved.

It was bad enough when I had a Cisco ISR in my home office. I couldn’t imagine having to work with servers next to me not to mention the thought of permanent hearing damage. There’s a reason I always wore earplugs when I worked in datacentres. You can’t hear our GarageDC from anywhere in the house unless the internal door is open, but you can from the street. There’s two more servers (another Dell R630 and a Cisco UCS C240), a Definity PBX, and a Cisco AS5350 in the rack since this photo but thanks to the wonders of 10Gbps Ethernet it’s just my music and my thoughts while working in the home office. The enclosure around the rack is just a portable greenhouse but it has aircon that kicks in if it’s too warm which is a must here as it reaches 48c in summer so it’s never more than 25c in the rack. It was supposed to be temporary until we got a permanent solution for cooling but it’s worked so well we’ve kept it. With gigabit fiber Internet and a 3000VA UPS we can also host things from home too.

I learned about their existence watching Mr Bean where he has to top up his meter to turn the lights on. youtu.be/vZOJMZEITzg

I first encountered it in Jakarta about 10 years ago. A friend of mine who works in hotels said the reason they’re doing it is to discourage room sharing. Doesn’t bother me if alone or with my partner but I wouldn’t share a room like that with a friend or family.

Fine here.

Sending lots of hugs to those who also lost their fur babies. I haven’t gotten back to everyone as I’m a bit overwhelmed and burst into tears whenever I open this post but your kind words mean a lot. Spent the weekend with my partner and our 15yo Hana.

Said goodbye to Sybil yesterday after being my companion for 20 years through good times and bad. I was 22 when she entered my life as a little ball of fluff RSPCA rescue and now I’m 42. She was spoiled rotten and I hope she had the best life possible but I’ll miss her dearly.

Turbulence doesn’t exist up the front while the supply of napkins and wine remains available.

You can get a jar here in Australia too, you just have to ask the pharmacist.

We have Lyrebirds which are basically a Mockingjay and will copy anything from crying babies to chainsaws. One time I left my cordless phone outside and the battery went flat. For about a month I was hearing the low battery alarm because a Lyrebird decided to copy it 🤣

I am sure all @plex users are anxious to know when the ads will return.

Thanks @Atlassian for forcing your AI into the Confluence "what's happening" feed. It's so useful how pages in English are now summarised in German.