{"id":11336,"date":"2024-10-15T07:30:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T21:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=11336"},"modified":"2024-10-17T07:11:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T21:11:26","slug":"random-short-take-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #98. Some of these links have been in my queue for a little while, so apologies if it&#8217;s not as fresh as it could be. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let&#8217;s start off with a brilliant article from JB &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/aliensideboob\/p\/going-tharn?r=5cf0v&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email\">Going tharn<\/a>&#8220;. We build all these systems to get stuff done, and when it goes wrong it can go ever so wrong. To quote the article, &#8220;[t]hat is the terrible power of modern systems, I think. They make us alone, atomise us, and disconnect us from each other. They turn us <em>tharn<\/em>. They replace those human connections with a User-Platform relationship that feels remarkably similar to the old master-servant relationship in its power imbalance.&#8221; I haven&#8217;t read something that resonated with me as much as that in quite some time.<\/li>\n<li>My friend Damo is heading off on esCarpade later this week, raising money for Camp Quality. If you have some of the folding stuff lying around <a href=\"https:\/\/fundraise.campquality.org.au\/fundraisers\/DamianSheather\/escarpade\">I urge you to support him<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2024\/09\/27\/which-disk-format\/\">Which disk format?<\/a> Howard Oakley asks (and answers) the question so I don&#8217;t have to ask it anymore.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nextlevelsddc.com\/netapp-insight-2024-announcements\/\">Here are some of the announcements<\/a> from NetApp Insight 2024.<\/li>\n<li>I enjoyed Tom&#8217;s article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/networkingnerd.net\/2024\/09\/24\/semper-gumby\/\">Semper Gumby<\/a>&#8220;. It&#8217;s important to try and be as flexible as possible, even when you get old and crotchety like I am.<\/li>\n<li>Preston has started &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2024\/10\/01\/assorted-musings-episode-1\/\">Preston&#8217;s Assorted musings (Episode 1?)<\/a>&#8221; and I believe it&#8217;s already a series. Worth checking out if only for the fact that he puts some thought into it rather than just spraying links to random articles everywhere like I do.<\/li>\n<li>Paolo put together a handy article on how to <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/configure-object-first-vsa-as-veeam-repository\/\">configure the Object First VSA as a Veeam Repository<\/a> if you&#8217;re into that kind of thing.<\/li>\n<li>Over at El Reg there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/10\/09\/smart_tv_spy_on_viewers\/\">an article on how your Smart TV sucks. And it&#8217;s tracking you<\/a>. No surprises there, but look into blocking yours with a pi-hole if you can (or however you like to restrict access to things that shouldn&#8217;t be talking to the big, wide world).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #98. Some of these links have been in my queue for a little while, so apologies if it&#8217;s not as fresh as it could be. Let&#8217;s get random. Let&#8217;s start off with a brilliant article from JB &#8220;Going tharn&#8220;. We build all these systems to get stuff done, and when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,65,332,5,1138],"tags":[110,475,848,787,963],"class_list":["post-11336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dataprotection","category-netapp","category-off-topic","category-storage","category-veeam","tag-howto","tag-netapp-2","tag-random","tag-storage","tag-veeam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11354,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336\/revisions\/11354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}