Jonathan Matthews

https://snac.bsd.cafe/jcm

🌍 A UK-based, fully-remote, multi-hyphenate #Linux #sysadmin|#DevOps|#SRE|#PlatformEngineer, currently working as a #TechWriter [he/him].

🎉 Playing with #plaintextaccounting #i3wm #selfhosting and #degoogle-ing by moving from ChromeOS to something Linuxy.

💬 Very happy to talk about anything, so long as it includes #respect for people and #empathy for folks feelings 😀 #nobot

Was: Jonathan Matthews (npub1fn0…nvvm)

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jcm_at_snac.bsd.cafe@momostr.pink

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2025-06-17 08:32:58 UTC

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TVM! I'm also playing around with your "Add storage from URL" device option, to see if I can get the "virtual machine images" (mentioned on https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.3R/announce/) to boot into a pre-installed VM on your platform. I don't quite grok the intended flow from "Add storage from URL" >> Device >> Custom Image, but I'll keep kicking at it!

2025-06-17 08:12:29 UTC

@npub1t35…p885 Heya 👋 Any chance of getting a refresh on the FreeBSD installers available via https://hub.upcloud.com/storage/templates ? 14.1 is present, but 14.3's just been released ... 🙂

2025-06-15 14:06:24 UTC

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💪💪💪

2025-06-13 19:59:21 UTC

I now have 16 days off, without any client work, which I *really* hope will give me the space I need to Figure Some Shit Out.

2025-06-13 11:30:48 UTC

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Ok - last one for now: this baguette enthusiast wasted over 12 hours 😀
https://snac.bsd.cafe/jcm/s/post-118eca277a07d259b59b49b3bca812d4.png

2025-06-13 08:22:49 UTC

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We have a new winner! Bulgaria sat there for **4 hours 18 minutes**, getting 1kBps /dev/random dribbled at them 🤣🤣🤣
https://snac.bsd.cafe/jcm/s/post-34925c2052f928b6989907c89605db5f.png

2025-06-12 18:31:02 UTC

Somewhat ironically, because #Cloudflare's dashboard can't seem to let me past the "prove you're Human" page, I can't sign in to Cloudflare, in order to reset some access creds, in order to ... move my backups off Cloudflare!
Anyone else having problem getting past the robot gate in front of https://dash.cloudflare.com/ ?

2025-06-12 17:26:06 UTC

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Congrats to the Aussie scuzzball who hung on for dear life, on a 1 Kbps rate-limited connection for <b>138 minutes</b> before giving up!! 😂😂😂<br>
https://snac.bsd.cafe/jcm/s/post-b3ff01a50727aec287986fec9a41afe0.png

2025-06-12 17:18:07 UTC

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That last toot was /supposed/ to contain a screenshot of "recruitment" spam from "The Illuminati", but something mucked up with the attachment. I'm not really that much of an arse! 🙂

2025-06-12 17:14:57 UTC

I don't want to brag, but I've been headhunted by a preeeeetttty prestigious organisation, who have me in mind for immediate advancement. See all you schlubs in another lifetime!
https://snac.bsd.cafe/jcm/s/post-f65ba1831eac4b72b384d365b9d6bad7

2025-06-11 20:26:53 UTC

Today, in a fit of "sorting my tech out", I finished centralising all my static web hosting and most of my DNS.
I ditched ...
- A Fly.io container for a VM I control, hosted in the UK by a decent UK company;
- GitHub Pages for an Nginx origin on the VM, fronted by an EU CDN;
- AWS Route 53 for an NS service run by that same UK company.
Just a couple more domains to move, and I'll be *relatively* big-tech free!
(Well, modulo The Big Degoogling ... and that's a whooooole other thing!)

2025-06-10 21:52:35 UTC

I /think/ I've worked out a way to use #BunnyCDN to serve a large file, very, *very* slowly to any bot requesting .php paths (or similar) from my static site server, and thus tie up the abusers' infra in some small way. Now to figure out if I want to spend the per-byte £€$ on doing so ... #CDN #BunnyNet

2025-06-10 14:12:30 UTC

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A quick update to my note about redirecting a domain from HTTP to HTTPS using a #BunnyCDN "Edge Rule": #BunnyDotNet support tell me that the rule needs to contain an exclusion for well-known ACME paths, as pictured. #BunnyNet #CDN
https://snac.bsd.cafe/jcm/s/post-d447010805696c1471db64a33ca86320.png

2025-06-10 11:30:49 UTC

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Another example came through today:
- tooted by someone I don't follow
- on a different server
- not boosted by anyone (let alone anyone I follow)
- no replies from people I follow (only a single reply visible on the original server, from someone I don't follow, who's not on snac.bsd.cafe)
- containing some hashtags, but not any that I follow.
Is there any diagnostic info I can gather from future examples that would help you if/as you debug this behaviour? Given I'm not an admin and don't have shell access to snac.bsd.cafe, any FS-level info/logs would have to be via @npub1ef5…gcpc, if they were amenable to helping.

2025-06-09 14:32:37 UTC

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Thanks. I've scrolled through the original comment's thread (hxxps://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114651808724246941) [CW: not pleasant], and I don't see replies from anyone I follow. The boosting account (hxxps://infosec.exchange/@Newk) is not someone I follow. The snac UI here (on bsd.cafe) doesn't show me replies from anyone, let alone anyone I follow. HTH.

2025-06-09 09:20:04 UTC

I don't understand why #snac has placed this toot in my "private" timeline (i.e. /username/admin). I don't follow the boosting account, and I don't follow any of the hashtags.
This isn't a question about blocking those specific hashtags or people - I know how to do that if I want. I'm trying to figure out how to drive snac so that I don't get unwanted toots thrust in my face that I didn't ask for. What am I missing?
https://snac.bsd.cafe/jcm/s/post-f58542d3b9bb7081025c3d8c17f57283.png

2025-06-09 09:17:51 UTC

I don't understand why #snac has placed this toot in my "private" timeline (i.e. [https:///<username>/admin</username>](https://<snac-server>/<username>/admin )). I don't follow the boosting account, and I don't follow any of the hashtags.
This isn't a question about blocking those specific hashtags or people - **I know how to do that if I want**. I'm trying to figure out how to drive snac so that I don't get unwanted toots thrust in my face *that I didn't ask for*. What am I missing?
https://snac.bsd.cafe/jcm/s/post-3e72d00148c12bd7cfe0de3a5736c980.png

2025-06-08 16:37:58 UTC

Some brief notes after wrangling a few domains over to a #BunnyCDN Pull Zone today:
- Their "Force SSL" marker does *not* enable HSTS for a domain, thankfully. It just enables an automatic http->https redirect.
- Sadly, "Force SSL" doesn't also offer an option to *disable* path persistence across such a redirect (which is a good idea to render the redirect useful to a human, but useless to a machine and thus prevent accidental use of a http://... URL in code)
- Fortunately there's an easy way to cope with this: 1) Add an early Edge Rule, as pictured in this screenshot; 2) disable "Force SSL" for all the Zone's hostnames!
#BunnyNet #BunnyDotNet #CDN
https://snac.bsd.cafe/jcm/s/post-d1a65fd108e0c705b024b01eae5ee236.png

2025-06-08 08:35:52 UTC

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Ah, understood - thank you. In this instance, the original toot was from someone I'd prefer not to see on my timeline view. I know I can mute or block them - are those my /only/ options to prevent their toots from reaching my timeline view when someone I follow replies to them, and I'm using snac?

2025-06-07 23:54:28 UTC

A #snac oddity; why does my view of the timeline of toots from folks I follow show me replies from folks I follow but when they're talking to people I /don't/?

2025-06-07 09:02:37 UTC

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TVM - appreciate the info 🙂 Someone also told me that "Mona" works, but I've not tried it just yet ...

2025-06-06 11:29:33 UTC

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Thank you. He came to us only a few years ago, and he was given his own garden to play in, and a house full of love. I'm glad his last few years were relaxed and sun-filled. He'll be sorely missed ❤️
https://snac.bsd.cafe/jcm/s/post-2ee79d912f744069693ddb82f2bc066e.jpeg

2025-06-06 09:42:13 UTC

Fellow #cat staff members: this beautiful chap, Charlie, recently crossed over the bridge, and I'd like to get a little book of remembrance for the folks who loved him. Do you know anywhere in the UK that would do a good job of printing such a thing?
https://snac.bsd.cafe/jcm/s/post-15ac32084848fff245b56db84b067015.jpeg

2025-06-06 08:43:10 UTC

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Oh, ta - much appreciated!

2025-06-06 08:27:55 UTC

Heading off on a hike to a cafe some miles away, in order to wish the departing barista farewell. It's always nice when folks move on&up in a way that makes them happy! ❌☕❌

2025-06-06 08:06:57 UTC

Ok - I'm giving #snac (.bsd.cafe) a proper shake as my main fedi account. I still can't get the #IceCubes app to add it as an account, so I'm going to use the webUI for now.
If you're seeing this via a boost from my other account then please consider following the boosted account directly, as I won't be boosting its toots particularly often! ❤️