Weekly Update 301

First up, I'm really sorry about the audio quality on this one. It's the exact same setup I used last week (and carefully tested first) but it's obviously just super sensitive to the wind. If you look at the trees in the background you can see they're barely moving, but inevitably that was enough to really mess with the audio quality. I do actually have a windsock for the mic, but it's in a drawer at home so for the remainder of this trip it'll be indoor recording only. Speaking of which, because there was a lot of enthusiasm for Charlotte and I to do one together on the cultural differences we've both experienced living in different parts of the world, that'll be next week's video. Less techie, but hopefully something you'll all enjoy 😊

References

1. NDC Melbourne was very much like a reunion being the first NDC event we've been back to since London in Jan 2020 (and being able to share it with the kids made it extra special 😊)
2. The travel thread continues, with much more to come yet before hitting home (a lot of gorgeous Aussie countryside scenes in there, and the best is yet to come)
3. Sixt had a data breach (but don't worry, lots of European companies are being hacked!)
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Weekly Update 300

Well, we're about 2,000km down on this trip and are finally in Melbourne, which was kinda the point of the drive in the first place (things just escalated after that). The whole journey is going into a long tweet thread you can find below (or mute - that's partly why it's in a single thread):

It’s time for the next great road trip 🏎 pic.twitter.com/9B9k9cXQvH

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 14, 2022

Next week is NDC Melbourne so please get along to the event if you're in town, it's kinda amazing to think I'll finally be back at an NDC after all this time 😊

References

1. We're on another epic road trip (that's the tweet thread, I'll keep adding to it as we go)
2. Been listening to the Hardcore History podcast which is epic... (...but very heavy listening I need to break into smaller sessions)
3. It's NDC Melbourne nest week! (my first time back at an NDC since London in early 2020, and the inaugural event for Melbourne)
4. The DivX SubTitles breach was 783k records worth of plain text passwords (it's a 12-year-old incident, but still...)
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Weekly Update 299

How on earth does an enterprise rack-mounted NAS not come with rails to actually install it in the rack?! So yeah, that's what's in the box, something that should have been in the original box and not in a separate purchase. Just to add to the Synology packaging insanity, I went to install a couple of spare NVMe drives in it today and... there were no screws in the NVMe slots 🤦‍ I'll be doing the next four weekly updates from various locations around the country as we hit the road again, stay tuned for epic tweet threads of amazing locations 😎

References

1. The MyElectronics.nl Raspberry Pi racks are really sweet (the rack is looking pretty slick now!)
2. Apple Watch fall detection is pretty amazing when you actually see it work as intended (I've had lots of easily dismissible false-positives on mine, but my father just demonstrated precisely how it's meant to work)
3. A lot of personal finance is just basic maths and simple market observations (why is anyone even remotely surprised that interest rates are going up?!)
4. The Indonesian government is now the 33rd gov on board HIBP (also the first one from Asia)
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