+1 for the Seiko 5s. Love me a SNZG07J1

+1 for Forgejo. I started on Gogs, then gathered that there had been some drama with that and Gitea. Forgejo is FOSS, simple to get going, and comfortable to use if you’re coming from GitHub. It’s actively maintained, and communication with the project is great.

Great question (and we are reaching the outside edge of my knowledge here). Something like 3-5% of carbon in plants is taken up from the soil by plant roots. I don’t fully understand the mechanism, but the organic carbon percentage is an important competent in the calculation of how much artificial nitrogen a crop is going to need, so I guess it’s probably some biochemical process for making the nitrogen available.

The organic carbon percentage is closely watched by farmers and is something of an indication of soil health. ie if your crop rotation is reducing the OC% over time then you probably need to reconsider it. It’s one of the reasons burning crop stubbles is a much rarer practice now.

Hay is cut from any sort of cereal plant early in it’s lifecycle, specifically before the plant starts concentrating it’s energy into the seeds. At this stage the plant stalk is sweeter (even to a human - give it a bite). After flowering, the plant is concentrating it’s energy into the seeds. By the time it’s fully done this (which takes a number of weeks), there is very little protein in the stalk, and it’s far less palatable (or nutritious) to animals. The plant stalk is now essentially ‘straw’.

Commercial hay can be mowed from a meadow (in Australia usually ryegrass) in which case it will have all sorts mixed in, or from crops intended for making good hay (in Australia usually oats or wheat). Commercial straw (which has a tiny market) is cut after the grain has been harvested from the top of the plant. In commercial broadacre cropping in poor soil areas (the bulk of Australia’s grain areas) it’s usually better economics to keep your crop residue including straw since the cost to replace the carbon would be higher that what you’d get for the straw after the cost of harvesting it.

Source: I play a lot of Minecraft

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Shoutout to Magic Earth, the (weirdly named) iOS app that uses OpenStreeMap data. Works on CarPlay, has reliable routing, and I get a buzz out of updating a changed a speed limit or something on OSM and then seeing the change implemented a few weeks later when I’m driving through there again.

• Climate change contributing to
• Climate refugees contributing to
• Breakdown in social cohesion contributing to
• Populism, oligarchs, and authoritarianism contributing to
• Breakdown of international cooperation contributing to
• Inter-nation conflict contributing to
• GOTO 10

I love this idea (of just picking something I’m loving each month), it would help me overcome my decision paralysis about who to support.

Yes, a few. Signal (daily use), LetsEncrypt & Certbot (EFF). It’s not enough.

One day I decided I’d spend $x every January (when I do all my other donations) on open source stuff I depend on, and roughly in the proportions I depend on them. It quickly became impossible - I can’t just fund Debian (which I use a lot of in VMs), I’d need to think of all their dependencies, same with NGINX, Node etc etc. The mind boggles.

I need something like a Spotify subscription for open source to assuage my guilt of the great value I extract for my personal use of open source.

Thanks. I’ll keep an eye out. Now I know that it gets daily use, a more expensive machine doesn’t seem so crazy.

Or start scratching the shit out of your hand half way through a tummy rub.

Thanks for the tip on the squeal. Now you’ve said that I realise I don’t hear it when I’m frothing directly in a ceramic mug (as I do for hot chocolate), so I’ll try a different jug.

E. Jean Carroll could buy it off them for the lols.

I’m on board with original punctuation going inside the quote, but then to be consistent, capitalization has to as well. So instead of “This comment…” it should be “this comment…” since in the original quote that was just a clause separated by a comma, not its own sentence.

The Debian thong made me laugh. Who is buying this? For themselves, their partners? I’m imagining Christmas morning when I’m trying to explain the value of this gift you’ve just opened.

#2 back and sides, finger length on top

I’m on iOS. I’ve been testing a beta of Jello that looks really promising, but as a beta has a bit of distance to go. I’ll check out Feishin though - thanks for the recommendation.

I’d love Jellyfin to turn out to be the solution, but I suspect it’s not, at least yet.

I’ve got three of these little 1L HP’s, one for production, a spare, and one for development. But really, it’s a small load - that list would happily run on an old nuc. The constraint is really memory which I’ve mostly addressed by moving from VMs to LXCs. And I could be even more efficient by just running all the docker containers on one host if I had to.

Storage for media and backups is a Synology NAS.

Infrastructure:

• Proxmox VE - everything’s virtualised on Debian, mostly in docker inside LXC’s for neat backup/restore and moving between nodes
• NGINX Proxy Manager - in front of most of my homelab services so they have https certificates
• Tailscale - access everything, everywhere, including on phone, securely
• Uptime Kuma - monitoring, with ntfy notifications
• apt cacher NG - unnecessary caching of apt updates

Apps:

• AudioBookShelf - Audio books (download them from here into BookPlayer (iOS) to listen in the car)
• Kavita - eBooks.
• BOINC - curing childhood cancer
• Forgejo - git repository. I do a bit of dev, but everyday self-hosters should probably still learn git to manage their configs
• Jellyfin - TV/Movies
• Syncthing - I replaced dropbox with Syncthing and FileBrowser, and Evernote with Syncthing and SilverBullet

Currently in testing on the dev server:

• neko - virtualised browser. Been experimenting with this in a container with a VPN for really simple secure browsing - ie launch it, do your online banking and then destroy the container.
• Dashy - I go through periods of wanting a pretty home page with all my services, set it all up, then fail to actually use it and eventually delete it, then hear about another cool one…
• Sharry - securish file sharing. I don’t love just emailing my accounts off to the accountant.
• LimeSurvey - survey software (like Survey Monkey) - just something I’m testing for work
• Omada controller - I’ve got a TP-Link switch and WAP that don’t really need centrally controlled, but you know, can be.
• A couple of development environment LXCs I use VS Code in

I still have not landed on a music system. I’ve put some of my library on Jellyfin, and tried a couple of apps with, but haven’t hit on a good combination yet. [edit:formatting}

Yes, in a shallow tourist mine in Australia. Apparently coal starts to flake easily once it’s been exposed to air for a bit, so they kept a big chunk in a large jar of water that you could take out and handle. It felt like a light wet rock.

The sample, and the coal at the workface of the mine was stereotypicaly black. We wore hats with lights on, and when we emerged back out to the daylight I had an overwhelming urge to speak in a Monty Python type Yorkshire accent and go home and have my back scrubbed clean of the coal dust by my swarthy tired looking wife while I sat in a tub in front of the fire in the kitchen and our urchins played in the street.

I don’t want to give the impression I’m a big fossil fuel tourist, but I’ve also seen blobs of crude oil on beaches near Mediterranean sea oil terminals.

Sadly, I didn’t try to set fire to them on either of these occasions, which I now regret.