Ramblings
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Adventures with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX
Asterisk, running on one of my Pis, has been giving me grief recently and dropping calls at random times for apparently random reasons. It reports that it loses contact with the gateway, or that after 11 seconds a critical packet wasn’t received (usually on call setup), or that there’s been no RTP traffic, even when…
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Leathercraft – Card wallet
The second leathercraft workshop was held today at work. On the menu – simple wallets. I opted for a card-holder style wallet, but with only a single card-pull; the template shown below was only applied to the thinner piece of leather, while the thicker piece was left as a rectangle. Used a groover to outline…
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Bajan Sweetbread
While cleaning out my Google Docs, I found this recipe. Ingredients Dry goods 1 250 g plain white flour 1 tbsp grated nutmeg 1/2 tsp salt Dry goods 2 50 g shortening 50 g margarine Dry goods 3 175 g brown sugar 50 g cherries 50 g raisins 225 g grated fresh coconut (not desiccated)…
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Cutless bearing – new tube glassed in
It’s been a long time since I last saw “Blue Opal”, though I’ve been able to keep up with what’s happening to her via regular calls to the yard where she’s being worked on. Today, I got a photographic status update. That’s the new stern tube glassed in, filler work has started, and they’re doing…
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Leathercraft – Bracelet
Work has some nice perks, such as an “analogue” space, where workshops are periodically held – calligraphy, photography, sewing, leathercraft etc. Last week, I had a space in my calendar that lined up with a a leathercraft workshop that was being run by the Dublin Leather Store. For this first workshop (there are a few…
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Setting up Pi-Hole in LXC
I already have AdGuard installed on the Windows PC (at the network layer), but I’m starting to reconsider running browser extensions and their ilk – they’re executing with potentially full rights in the DOM (AdGuard injects JS to manage things for instance), and all it takes is one of them being sold/pwned, and my data…