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Some editoral style vandalism in SoHo last spring.

#photo #vandalism #nyc #newyork #newyorkcity #soho #photography #streetphotography #postvandalism

And yet another one from lovely #Soho made while the night conquers day! Life and scenery here in Soho are aspects that make this part of London a very special one!

#visitsoho #topeuropephoto #londonpop #theglobewanderer #ilovelondon #travelersnotebook #passionpassport #thisbeautifulengland #bestvacations #earthscope #bbctravel #londonamazingcity #bestunitedkingdom #exploreeverything #lifeofadventure #exploringlondon #london4all #londonvisitor #travellingthroughtheworld 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #londononly 🇬🇧 #picoftheday #london4all #visitlondon #england #uk #visitengland

This image shows a narrow urban street scene at twilight. The street is lined with tall, mostly brick buildings that have a variety of businesses, including pubs and restaurants, evident from their illuminated signs. There's a noticeable red neon light further down the street contributing to the vibrant and lively atmosphere typical of a bustling city area. People are visible, some walking and others standing and chatting near the buildings. The road is wet, possibly from a recent rain, reflecting the lights and enhancing the evening mood of the setting. The setting gives an impression of a lively, possibly historic, city district, typical in many European cities.

Always nice to visit #Soho in the darker hours of the day - the change between light and darkness is astonishing here while all the shops and pubs illuminate the scenery!

#visitsoho #topeuropephoto #londonpop #theglobewanderer #ilovelondon #travelersnotebook #passionpassport #thisbeautifulengland #bestvacations #earthscope #bbctravel #londonamazingcity #bestunitedkingdom #exploreeverything #lifeofadventure #exploringlondon #london4all #londonvisitor #travellingthroughtheworld 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #londononly 🇬🇧 #picoftheday #london4all #visitlondon #england #uk #visitengland #pixelfedengland

This image shows a picturesque street scene at dusk in an urban environment, possibly in a historic or older part of a city. Prominently displayed is a corner pub called "The Glassblower," which features bright warm lighting that contrasts with the twilight ambience of the street. The architecture has a traditional British style, suggesting the location might be in the UK, possibly London. The street is wet, reflecting the street lights and shop windows, indicating recent rain. There are some pedestrians visible, walking along the sidewalk or near the pub. The scene captures a classic, cozy urban vibe, typical of many British cities.

#RIP #NYC #StreetArtist Matthew Courtney .

( apparently murdered in his apt according to friend John S hall )

Matthew was a Portland, Oregon native who moved to NYC a couple decades ago to commute from Bushwick to sell his paintings in #SOHO.

https://youtu.be/JB6js2Q2hnE

Debating buying a new laptop. I have a Dell XPS 17 (9700) w/ 10th Gen Intel and a NV 1650 GPU. It's "fine" but there's this one cheesy Windows CAD app that I run that could use a boost.

What is the short list of non-US laptops that are Linux first or at least Linux friendly these days?

While I appreciate Intel's Quick Sync for additional GPU processing (on-machine content capture), I never do that on my laptop so all AMD would be fine.

I don't need a "super crazy" GPU - just something competent for 3D. 4K/UHD+ and great 16"-17" screens are the other non-negot requirement. Dual NVME for dual boot would be nice.

What non-US laptop vendors do you recommend? Is Lenovo considered non-US nowadays? What's out there? Asus? MSI? Tuxedo? Slim? Generic AliExpress (lol)?

Reccos appreciated.

#Linux #laptop #soho #HomeLab #Intel #AMD

Seeing some noise about changes to Plex's subscription policy today. I'm out of the loop since converting to Jellyfin so not sure if there was an actual change or not.

Anyway...

The purpose of this message is to reassure Plex users that are considering switching to Jellyfin that it is worth the change.

I used a lifetime Plex Pass for something like 10+ years. I switched to Jellyfin about six months ago.

I have zero regrets.

Every little change to Plex in the last ~five years has been abrasive to the user. One thing that really bothered me was using their centralized sign-in mechanisms. For a locally hosted library why do I need to auth using something off-site, especially when I'm at a remote, low bandwidth site that has intermittent connectivity... and this causes issues. I get it, some of their auto-magic remote access features more or less requires this - still don't like.

What really put a sour taste for me was realizing they are farming usage data. Yeah, eff that noize.

Jellyfin can be a little rough around the edges at times. The UX is not at the same level as Plex. You know what though, this many months in I don't even notice any more. It is perfectly adequate and in the absence of Plex would probably be considered best in class.

Also, Jellyfin is noticeably improving release over release. I notice little tweaks here and there that make it nicer and there has been good improvements in the speed of the backend. A year ago Jellyfin was basically unusable for my large library. Now speed is a non-issue.

Embrace Jellyfin plugins. They are very helpful for meta data and tagging. Migrating my library was mostly painless. There were a dozen or so assets that needed manual intervention and when investigating it was like "how did this even work under Plex?".

Hope this is the "pep talk" needed to give Jellyfin a try.

#Plex #Jellyfin #Linux #SOHO #HomeLab #SelfHost #RunBSD

Throwback to one of the coolest bars I've ever experienced. This place is called Disrepute and it's in Soho in London. It's subterranean and kind of looks like a lavish train car. The crowd was actually so warm and not stuffy at all. There was this gorgeous couple from Essex sitting next to us and we ended up befriending them and sampling different cocktails for the 2 hours you get to chill here (yes it's that popular. I did manage to charm the front people so they gave me two slots that night 💅). Florence Pugh was also randomly there but I didn't realize it was her until she left 🤷. Such a great spot though. Loved the design.

#disrepute #london #awesomebars #soho #london #travel #photography

@k4m1 @stman yeah, according to the #RTL8139 #datasheet this is basically a very cheap 10/100M NIC designed #embedded systems and low-end/low-cost desktops, and for a device designed and sold in 2006 it made sense, given back then #Gigabit-#Ethernet and Cat.5 cabling was considered high-end.

And unlike contemporary / successor chips by #Intel like the famous #i210 (which is still offered as #i219 but mostly succeeded by the #i225 as a 2,5GBase-T version) is way cheaper, which pre-#RoHS - NICs being sold for like € 10 retail & brand-new....

The few issues known only affect like #Virtualization setups, a market this thing was never designed for (most likely also never tested against).

I'd not he surprised if a lot of cheap #ThinClients and other systems used these NICs because of the simplicity of integration, being a cheap 3,3V single-chip (+auxilliary electronics) solution and propably costling less than 10¢ on a reel of 10.000.

It's the reason why to this day we see #Realtek NICs being shipped instead of fanning-out & enabling #SoC-integrated NICs with a #MAC & #PHY instead: Because the auxilliary parts for those are more expensive than just getting a PCI(e lane) somewhere and plonking it down.

Maybe there have even been some really cheap, low-end #Routers / #Firewalls aiming at #SoHo customers back in those days, cuz back then 16MBit/s #ADSL2 was considered fast, and Realtek's NICs up until recently only delivered like 60-75% of the max. speed advertised, so by the time someone would notice, that gearvwould've been EoL'd anyway and those who did notice right-away never were the target audience to begin with.

Most modern NICs are more complex and demand more configuration / driver support...

9 AM the morning before the Easter long weekend, what are your plans?

Me?

Two days of family events.

Getting one of my 'toy' cars out of winter storage (B8.5 Audi A4).

Working on a different toy car (Miata gets new Xida coil overs).

More winter clean up yard work and burning.

Architecting a #soho edge router, file server plus local services, disaster recovery strategy for my niece's new business; parts ordering.

Realistically, the car stuff probably won't get done.

Off to grind out that last work day before the weekend.

9 AM the morning before the Easter long weekend, what are your plans?

Me?

Two days of family events.

Getting one of my 'toy' cars out of winter storage.

Working on a different toy car (new coil overs).

More winter clean up yard work and burning.

Architecting a #soho edge router, file server plus local services, disaster recovery strategy for my niece's new business.

Realistically, the car stuff probably won't get done.

Off to grind out that last work day before the weekend.

"What can I do to help my #trans friends at the moment?
Well, I walk and photo. Today, I do it with #Blåhaj"

- Blåhaj pauses with the Thinking Fountains.
- At #Westmister: " #TransMen are men #TransWomen are women. #NonBinary identities are valid. Now sort out the legislation!"
- "WTF, #UKSupremeCourt?"
- #Soho shows #TransPride.

#TransRights #photography #London #TransRightsAreHumanRights #blahaj

A blue and white Blåhaj Ikea shark is tucked between the arms of a green metal sculpture.

A blue and white Blåhaj Ikea shark is in front of the wide river Thames, and behind that the UK Houses of Parliament and Big Ben

A blue and white Blåhaj Ikea shark is lying on its back on a wall outside the ornamented front entrance to the UK Supreme Court.

Night photo of a pub called Comptons flying two Trans Pride flags.

Is there an on-premise, open source option for a monitoring/telemetry platform comparable* to say New Relic or Dynatrace with an approachable query language?

Is Prometheus+Grafana pretty much it?

Simpler the better, approachable for a casual user (i.e. curious non-technical tenants) would be great.

* Caveats for "comparable" apply!

#Linux #RunBSD #telemetry #OpenTelemetry #NewRelic #Dynatrace #Datadog #PlatformMonitoring #Monitoring #DevOps #HomeLab #soho #infrastructure #Network #CloudNative #CNI #FOSS #FLOSS #prometheus #grafana #zabbix #icinga #nagios

MP probed over ‘sexual assault’ at A-list Groucho Club

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/06/mp-probed-over-sexual-assault-at-a-list-groucho-club-22860822/

Whilst I was covering the London Soundtrack festival last month, I did manage an hour or so wander around SoHo last at night....

Dean Street photographed on Monday 24 March 2025 at SoHo, London. . Picture by Julie Edwards.

#soho #soholife #streetphotography #street #x100vi

Whilst I was covering the London Soundtrack festival last month, I did manage an hour or so wander around SoHo last at night....

Tonkotsu photographed in the Soho on Monday 24 March 2025 at SoHo, London. . Picture by Julie Edwards.

#Tonkotsu #soho #soholife #streetphotography #street #x100vi

49 years ago today
Sex Pistols played the first night of a stay at the El Paradiso strip club, London, April 4, 1976

Stage Photo by Ray Stevenson

#punk #punks #punkrock #sexpistols #soho #london #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Café en terrasse

#blackandwhitephotography #bnw #bnwphotography #streetphotography #photoderue #photonoiretblanc #soho #london #uk #england

Chrysler Building in the distance from Crosby Street in SoHo.
One of my favorite NYC vantage points. My “favorites” list might be 30-50 long, what can you do?
#nyc #soho #photography

Here is a curated, organized list of static site generators. A great place to start if you want to set up a website.

https://github.com/myles/awesome-static-generators

#Web #Internet #HomeLab #SOHO #SelfHosted #www #ssg #cms

#SoHo

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