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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Can confirm. Neighbors house had an attic fire with knob & tube wiring.

    … Just like the stuff still in my place today. Eek! Landlord won’t upgrade unless there is a problem. In my house, the breakers are all 20amp and that’s a lot to run on, best guess, 70 year old wires.

    Oh, and do not assume anything is wired as expected. Test after. I’ve found a couple plugs “upgraded” to 3-prong by jumping the load and ground together. That made for a fun firework show when my metal fan touched something metal. Even the landlord was impressed by that stupidity.

    A cheaper solution is to take a copper wire and connect the ground screw of the socket to a water pipe. It does the job and is better than nothing.









  • “Oh no, those poor ticket buyers. How can we make this right?”

    A fit of laughter washed over the C-level executive suite as hardened stoic expressions melt under the absurdity of the line.

    For the Ticketmaster empire has fulfilled its purpose once again; to draw out the anger, to be the hated, to consume and regurgitate the evils and greeds of the land.

    Lunch is delivered, and that was the last thought on the matter for the day. Talk of vacation homes and weekend yacht excursions permiate the walls; yellowed ever so slightly over the decades.

    The delivery driver sulks away, untipped, from the lions den as their phone buzzes with a new notification.

    Sender: haveibeenpwned.com

    “Oh, shit. What this time?”






  • Hmmmm. We’ve had single click LAMP installs way back in the early 00’s. Heck, web servers were a single check box in OSX. It’s just gotten really complicated since then.

    Data centers work great because tech and staff work together in proximity to keep things smooth. To decentralized a data center …

    I’d start with a VPN; without which, you’d have too many unknowns. I’d have local user space (probably a VM or docker environment) linked to a remote auto-magically configured proxy server and network infrastructure. (A lot of people do this anyway with wire guard or the like) Complete automation is the key here.

    Users would install apps from docker (preconfigured) and the environment automatically establishes the VPN and sends port data and settings to the proxy service. DNS/fail2ban/security is set up, and goes live in a minute or two. Of course that wouldn’t work for things like Pihole or adguard.

    User is responsible for disk/CPU, service provider for networking, well except ISP stuff. But anything average-user-easy will have to be mostly prepackaged for ease of use.

    Oh, and if there are things that go wrong, clear explanations are essential. Things like “could not bind 0.0.0.0:80” could be “Hey dimwit, you already used port 80 for XXXX program. Pick something else!”

    Or, you know, a script could do that.


  • Enlightening read and explained very well.

    As for the Apple bug bringing back old photos from an erased data partition; non-applicable if I recall. Apple identified the bug having to do with restoring devices from backups. Backup data contained the presumed deleted content.

    This article is therefore correct that deleted photos from reset devices (and not restored from backup) could not be recovered from the data partition.


  • I don’t think self hosting is average person territory at all.

    I noticed 2 services out of dozens weren’t working last week and restarted their docker containers when I got home. Working again! Easy.

    Nope. They only work on local LAN. Turns out IPv6 wasn’t working so I had a heck of a time tracking that down.

    Home assistant kept giving me errors about my reverse proxy not being trusted, but all the settings were correct. Tried adding IPv6 addresses too, but never got that working. The only thing that worked was change the network interface from Ethernet to wireless.

    There are a LOT of gremlins in selfhosting. It’s a fun hobby and rewarding, but definitely not for everyone.