Cambridge-based professional nerd, currently trying out self-hosting a Mastodon instance.

Date I last completly hosed this instance: 2025-02-04

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Homepage: https://i.am.eddmil.es
Github: https://github.com/EddMCambs

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nowadays, the office burning down wouldn't be existential, I suspect I could have the office services spun up in the cloud in a few hours.
Now a co-ordinated catastrophe in europe-west1, that would send me to update my linked in account asap :p

2025-04-05 16:09:10 CEST

See this is the magic of the #Fediverse : I'm browsing up my feed today and this post (https://fosstodon.org/@tripplehelix/114285503797146600) is boosted into it. Pretty unremarkable, except the guy in the video in that post is someone I knew back in the mid 2000s, but who I haven't spoken to in about 15 years. I should get back in touch really...
(H/T to @npub1940…uh9v for posting it, and @npub12hz…ynw4 for boosting it into my feed!)

2025-03-08 20:39:24 CET

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while it absolutely wouldn't be where I'd start with the tax policy, the entire isa limit should probably be reduced, not just the cash isa (and I say that as someone using a decent chunk of my isa allowance to buy shares). At the point you're able to *save* a figure that's not far off the median household income in some regions, you should probably being taxed. on the returns, be it cash or stocks and shares.

2024-11-30 13:54:20 CET

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your maths is missing a pretty important point there. yes ~£850k is a great retirement figure today, but to meet it, our hypothetical retiree would have needed to be putting £2k a year into the fund in *1979*, when the UK median salary was ~£5,000 a year. Anyone who could afford to do that is not worrying about their pension today.

2024-08-21 16:05:14 CEST

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if by any chance IDNet are in the list of 'a few others' I might be able to test switching in. I've been considering a switch to Andrews and Arnold recently (if you're still offering multiple ipv4 addresses - hosting all my services on a single address is starting to get painful :p)