Joe
I am Joe, a programmer, sys admin, skeptic, geek and arsehole. The former being the most relevant. I am also the creator of Pjuu :)
Cumbria, England

Posts

  • Joe 3 days ago
    Today is bad day for IT in the UK. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users

    I don't know what this means for Pjuu at this point. The site/software is maintained by ourselves and not an entity so I'm unsure at this point.

    I never thought that the UK would become a true survelance state but it has. The book 1984 came out of this country and we've clearly learned nothing from it.
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  • Joe 2 months ago
    Sorry guys been away for a long time. Not sure if I’ve mentioned but 14 weeks ago I welcomed my first child. Elliot is his name, he doing super well
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  • Joe 5 months ago
    Hey all. If you ever have any issues with Pjuu you can now check it's status via https://updown.io/tzyi
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  • Joe 6 months ago
    I've been following the AI revolution quite carefully. As would be expected for someone who run a website that still looks like it was 10 years ago, I was skepitical. But, it's amazing! What it can conjure from the simplest inputs it uterly outstanding. I don't trust it though. But I am watching. OpenAI should go back to being Open. Linux worked well because of it's openness they should keep that in mind. Microsoft may want the opposite but that's a failing platform, Azure runs on Linux.
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  • Joe 7 months ago
    Afternoon everyone. I'm currently experimenting with some patterns for re-writing Pjuu. This is coming at a good time as I'm building a very large application for work where these patterns will be useful. I'll try keep people updated on progress before I'm ready to open it to the world.
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  • Joe 7 months ago
    Testing image upload
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  • Joe 9 months ago
    Merry Christmas everyone!
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  • Joe 9 months ago
    Cold one today
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  • Joe 10 months ago
    Sorry again guys. I got the alert about the SSL but unfortunatley me and @ant were very far away from computers.
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  • Joe 10 months ago
    Well I made the wrong decision; concentrating on privacy. We we're around a few years before Mastodon and at the time privacy was my biggest concern with social networks. I didn't see how federation would solve the privacy issue but now, 10 years after I first thought of Pjuu I can assert I was incorrect. We don't solve the privacy concerns, there is nothing here that couldn't be solved by being a Fediverse node whilst still allowing us to chat with others... more in the comments.
  • Joe 12 months ago
    ☹️ I did add uptime monitoring but some reason it never pinged me about the SSL. Sorry all.
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    Hi everyone 👋🏼

    We're planning on moving Pjuu's hosting over the next few weeks, just letting you all know in advance that there will be some planned down time coming. We're planning on moving to AWS. The cost of hosting there when I reserve the instances is substantially lower and we're already using S3 for the CDN so hopefully uploads will be quicker.
  • Joe 1 year ago
    Sorry everyone. Unfortunatley our nginx wasn't restarted after the certificate upgrade and it went un-noticed.
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    A good in depth look at the potential new UK Online Safety Bill. https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-under-the-uks-online-safety-bill/
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    How has everyone been? I've been really bad at checking up on the site recently. Sorry.
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    Well finally moved in to my new house. Have everything pretty much set up and have 4G internet which isn't to bad considering I live in the country
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    Merry Christmas everyone! 😁🎄
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    How is everyone today?
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  • Joe 1 year ago
    Happy #FridYaY all. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    Hey everyone. Sorry been lurking for a while. How are we all? Happy #FridYAY
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    Apologies for the downtime again. The hook to restart the web server when the certificate updates clearly hasn't worked. I will look in to it.
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    Happy #FridYay everyone :)
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    Happy #FridYaY everyone
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    Sorry about the certificate issue everyone. After moving to LetsEncrypt I forgot to set something to automatically restart Nginx once the certificate renews. I should get this sorted for next time.
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  • Joe 2 years ago
    Unfortunately, today my little dog Pip passed away during routine surgery. Me and @sarah are both devastated. RIP Little Pip.