Always fighting for Labour to defeat the Tories and Reform in every local, regional, and national election we have. I hope you’re doing the same.

Enterprise architect, Linux nerd, politico, street photographer, stationery dork. Opposed to the corporate web, deeply pessimistic about the future as democracy, diplomacy, and the rule of law decline, and perpetually cynical.

Sceptic with little tolerance for anti-scientific and anti-intellectual bullshit.

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Cake day: November 6th, 2022

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  • @Lemjukes @Sunny It’s a KVM that you access over IP. It’s physically plugged into a machine’s HDMI and USB ports so, unlike software solutions, it can be used to access the BIOS/UEFI and system functions prior to hitting the desktop (like login managers and recovery consoles), and allows you to boot other operating systems and the like. It can also act as a PXE host for loading disk images, issue Wake On LAN to its connected machine, and likely a bunch of other convenience functions.





  • @madcaesar @otl It’s a small server running OpenBSD, configured to operate as a router and/or firewall.

    Linux and the *BSDs can operate as very good routers and firewalls, usually being much more configurable and enabling you to do more complex than off-the-shelf consumer-level hardware routers. Using them on a small form factor computer with a cheap switch in front of them can give you a better performing and nicer to use alternative.