Maybe not what you want, but have you considered VPN’ing at your router? Doesn’t help if you travel, so maybe worthless…

You can/could also find Coffee HOWTO in your distro’s HOWTO package. (I found a reference back to v0.5 of the document in 1998.)

Has simple schematics to get you started for the hardware, using the parallel port to toggle relays.

It’s a very neat little document, and inspired me to write a simple kernel module so I could echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/whatever/coffee0 to turn pin 0 high on the parallel port. (This is silly, and it’s much easier to just do things in user space!)

…and regular old murder for ReiserFS.

Not sure what it is about filesystem maintainers…

Humans weren’t meant to live with zero autonomy.

Not every parent removes all autonomy from their child. Sorry that happened to you, sounds like it sucked.

Cool, I recommend it!

I have my public facing reverse proxy point to my public services, and I also have it set up as a “roadwarrior” VPN to my home. So, I can connect my phone via WireGuard to my VPS, and a local DNS resolves my private services to the private IP addresses in my home network (so, I also run a reverse proxy on my server, for internal services).

I also have an off-site backup using this — just a raspberry pi and an HDD at family’s, that rsyncs+snapshots over the WireGuard network.

I’m sure I’m not following all the best practices here, but so far so good.

VPS with a public ip (which just takes all the fun out of selfhosting)

Why do you say this? My VPS only runs a reverse proxy and WireGuard, with all services hosted on my computers at home.

March in San Francisco is feeling like August in LA.

I’ve heard stories of grad students flat out refusing to work with HF. (Never relevant for me, other than being something very scary.)

Having kids has made random conversations somewhat frequent for me.

Something that I found super interesting learning about amateur (ham) radio was that antennas don’t always work “backwards” as you’d expect. From Maxwell’s equations they obey reciprocity, so it stands to reason (or so I thought) that an antenna that’s good at receiving is also good at transmitting.

But it’s not true! It turns out that the noise floor of the environment — in part due to atmospheric stuff like lightning — is so much higher than the sensitivity of radios (well above thermal/Johnson noise) that an inefficient antenna can be a really good antenna for receiving, in certain circumstances. Namely, if a receive antenna is inefficient but has good directionality, it can be useful…but probably no good for transmission!

It’s not super profound or anything, but I found it pretty interesting.

Remember that RAID and redundancy is not backup.

Try to 3-2-1, or something similar/better, if you can.

I am fairly sloppy here, and I am also very cheap. I have multiple copies in my home for important stuff (mainly Immich), the in use copy being on SSD and a few backups on spinning rust. I have a raspberry pi with an external HDD at family’s place, with a daily rsync+snapshot, for off site backups.

Of course, I’ve never had a catastrophic failure, so who knows how smooth that would be…

I switched to Technitium and I’ve been pretty happy. Seems very robust, and as a bonus was easy to use it to stop DNS leaks (each upstream has a static route through a different Mullvad VPN, and since they’re queried in parallel, a VPN connection can go down without losing any DNS…maybe this is how pihole would have handled it too though).

And of course, wildcards supported no problem.

Maybe take a look at Outline. (Not affiliated, but I host it for myself.)

I also host KitchenOwl, but mostly just as a grocery list.

Oh thank God it’s tobacco, I read it as Tabasco and was very worried.

Never done meshtastic, but I do a little amateur radio. For a high gain antenna, do you just experiment with where it’s pointing, or do you point towards something in particular?

The dot-com bubble burst, but…well, it got better.

Of course there were some casualties (famously pets.com), but Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Amazon…yeah they got their clock cleaned at the time, but long term they were pretty successful.

Well, smallpox was definitely harmful to humans, and it’s a virus which is different from an animal.

(…and yes, I know that “harmful to humans” often means “good for the planet.”)

This louse was reportedly not harmful to its hosts.

Kinda interested to hear an ethics of science type argument for/against this human-made extinction.

“Can the US lose in a way that allows the crazies in office to save face in their eyes?” seems an important question to me. Because if the options are the US clearly losing vs. the US clearly losing but nuking Iran so everyone loses…

Not the same, but for my Immich backup I have a raspberry pi and an HDD with family (remote).

Backup is rsync, and a simple script to make ZFS snapshots (retaining X daily, Y weekly). Connected via “raw” WireGuard.

Setup works well, although it’s never been needed.