Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
The auckland bagel this week was just a fucking ad. Two sponsored posts and every other thing was discounts at a store. Rough week for auckland.
But in better news. Our football team won, Mamdami praised our approach to housing and we got some cycleway improvements
WTF is the ‘Auckland Bagel’?
Some guy got annoyed that people kept complaining that there was nothing to do in auckland so he started a newsletter where he goes over whats coming up this week and next. Its pretty good usually.
That cool. Though see what you mean with this week just being a list of sales.
Just an update on the logo vote - I cancelled the vote, it became clear that people cared about it more than I thought, and many people particularly liked the banner (laser kiwi) so I regret grouping the logo and banner together and should have let people vote separately.
I am going to try to get some other options and then we’ll give it another go.
Still stuck and not moving anywhere. On the bright side we have been getting scuba certified. On the world’s second largest coral reef so it seemed like the right place to do it.
That’s awesome! I’ve only scuba dived once that wasn’t in a pool, and I was barely a teenager, but I have a friend who got certified and has dived all over the world. He loves it, and it sounds like a lot of fun!
Where did you go? It’s definitely worth trying again if you have interest. I never really cared to get certified in the past but it has been absolutely amazing!
I’ve had a opportunity for a couple of dives in a pool, but the one time I did it outside a pool was in Vanuatu when I was on a school trip as a teenager.
My friend did it while on his OE, went diving all around UK and western Europe. Now he lives in SE Asia and has done a bunch of stuff there too. Loves it!
He has no kids, so can do that sort of thing. I haven’t even left the country since my first kid was born!
I finally got external access to my homelab working! It’s been one of those long weekend projects that’s taken far too many long weekends.
…also hi, I’m new to this community. Based in Ōtepoti since 2002 :)
Welcome! It’s always great when you finally get something up and running that you’ve been working on for a while. Did you just go for a reverse proxy and port forwarding, a Cloudflare tunnel, or something fancier?
Went with a Cloudflare tunnel in the end, which I’ll be able to make more use of as time goes on :)
Ah yes a classic. Some things that might catch you out as you built out your home lab, things that caught me out:
- Cloudflare has a 100 second timeout
- Cloudflare has a 100MB request size limit
- Cloudflare doesn’t like you streaming large amounts of video
- Cloudflare only does the HTTP and HTTPS ports. Services relying on other ports can fail.
This all applies to the free version of Cloudflare, presumably you can do more if you pay.
I have spent countless hours trying to solve issues caused by these things without knowing they were the cause 😅
Good to know, that might be a problem with Navidrome later on, I’ll see how often I hit the limits.
I don’t think music will be an issue. Streaming lots of video (like with Jellyfin) has gotten some people blocked, you hear stories occasionally.
Most of the problems I had were trying to uploaded big videos (300MB+) to Zusam, a sort of private sharing forum. I hit both the request limit and the timeout when trying to upload via a slow connection.
If you can, set DNS entries within your network as well so things you do at home don’t have to go via Cloudflare.
That’ll be my next job, I tested music streaming all day today and didn’t run up against any limits. Good thing to note about Jellyfin too.
