
Recent blog posts
Goodbye ICE 3M!
In 1994, Deutsche Bahn (DB) placed an order for 13 ICE 3M trains. These were
the international variants of the 50 ICE 3 trains that would enter service in
1998. The "M" in 3M stands for _mehrsystemfähig_ , as the trainsets would be
able to operate under different power supplies, initially for Germany and the
Netherlands and later in Switzerland, Belgium, and France. To supplement DB's
order, the D
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Querying an object's access tier
Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering moves your data to the most cost-effective S3
storage tier based on the object's access pattern for the price of $0.0025 per
1,000 objects it monitors. Since the movement is done by the service you don't
know, or need to know, the access tier the object is currently in as all
objects can be retrieved asychronously. If you opt-in for asynchronous archive
tiers, you can
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Service disruption on 25 March 2025
Last month, my homelab experienced an incident that resulted in service
disruption for 3 hours and 8 minutes, and because I like to cosplay as a
sysadmin in my free time this is a post-incident analysis. The effects of the
disruption were mostly external, mainly affecting the main site and ytrss,
internal systems remained unaffected.
A virtual machine hosted on Linode needed to be moved between p
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Creating databases and tables for Athena
Ben Welsh and Katlyn Alo have created a course that walks through running your
first Athena query, complete with sample data. I've written about Athena a few
times on this blog and the course works as a great primer. This post will act
as an addendum to the guide, specifically step 4, where you create an Athena
database and table.
A database, in Athena, holds one or more tables, and the table poi
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Recent toots
@cinimodev I've had the site open in a browser tab for the last few days. Way
too easy to sucked in...
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I wanted to track down a 53ft shipping container used to transport goods to
the US. That's when I came across "Matt's Place". A website with a huge
collection of intermodal containers, sorted by type; documenting images,
markings and current owners.
The FAQ describes the site's purpose is to act as a photo gallery for
"transportation historians, scale modelers, and people in the transportation
in
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@0xabad1dea This screams, "SAVE ME FROM MY MISERY!"
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@82mhz @sanderium @cinimodev
Now that you're not on Hugo, you're really missing out playing Whac-A-Mole
with all the deprecation warning and errors—it keeps you on your toes.
I've been holding back on upgrading from Hugo v0.132.2 because data.getJSON is
deprecated. One weekend, I'm sure I'll get the motivation to fix that and
upgrade.
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Recent beer check-ins
Pesky P. is drinking a Stella Artois by Stella Artois at Stadhuis Leuven
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Pesky P. is drinking a La Goudale - Blonde à l'Ancienne by Brasserie Goudale - Les Brasseurs de Gayant
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Pesky P. is drinking an Ichnusa Non Filtrata by Ichnusa
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Pesky P. is drinking a Salted Maple Stout by Totem
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Recent Anilist activity
Pesky watched episode 4 - 5 of Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-hen.
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Pesky watched episode 2 - 3 of Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-hen.
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Pesky plans to watch Shuumatsu no Valkyrie III
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Pesky watched episode 1 of Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-hen.
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