@siguza yeah, not great. Hoping we don’t get some major event, but I think I’ll stay away for a while.

getting to the point of daily earthquakes at home. probably going to stay away for a while

Any day now we will see an executive order mandating electrolyte feed for trees to increase lumber production. It’s what the plants crave, after all.

@hailey been playing with ESPHome, the inline c++ is just a genius feature. wanted to hand roll all code straight on the esp32 but esphome kept popping up on google and ended up giving it a shot. deploying it OTA is just so nice, and predefined filters are so easy to use. ChatGPT is actually somewhat decent at generating yaml snippets to avoid looking up docs constantly, too! (but still requires an attempt at understanding the output / fixing the occasional mistake)

@http @ErikJonker cheap price to pay for a Russian oligarch to unfreeze his assets.

@0x47df wordart gone but not forgotten

but this is actually going on a SBC as a scratch buffer FS that gets synced over samba to zfs pool. the true purpose of this setup is to have a 25GbE thunderbolt SFP28 NIC working on my MacBook

portable optane actually works

@nicolas17 I have a m2 to 6 SATA adapter I am running on my rk3588 board. Works pretty well, plan to make a camper van NAS with it

@siguza @spv I think the real answer is architectural rather than DNS/L3 stuff. But: anycast still requires an AS and announcing /24s, which is obviously impractical. Maybe v6 could change this? DNS is somewhat doable, but you still need your services to be designed to handle split brain scenarios gracefully.

@siguza @spv IRC technically is like that, just round robin dns on top of linked servers. But it feels like anything designed from the dot com boom onwards just assumes sysadmins are willing to go insane lengths for that 99.99999 uptime, rather than architecting fault tolerance.

@spv a waste of money to be running 32c AMD epycs for this, no doubt. But I would have kept it if not for this behaviour from my provider. Absolute rug pull.

@spv privacy for one, my ISP telling me they’d announce a /24 of mine then just ignoring me when I actually got to it, but really it is high uptime requirement services like mastodon/irc that I really have running on actual dedis these days.

But also damn, I also kinda want to start coloing SBCs around rather than actual servers. It’s crazy what modern SoCs can do, and they can probably provide enough compute for the high uptime side of my infrastructure..

I’ve been mostly moving stuff over to self hosting at home these days, except this mastodon instance and IRCd, so I will probably be decommissioning my boxes there. Thinking of getting some colo next, I have some 1Us that could do the job just catching dust.

My server provider just mailed me to tell me they’re increasing the prices and halving the bandwidth of my servers. Seems kind of ridiculous, I can accept either one or the other, but doing both with a month in advance notice seems a bit of a rug pull.

this song just hits the right spots in my brain, have been obsessed with it for a while. https://soundcloud.com/wshdway/found

@kopper ffmpeg can do anything. ffmpeg can show you God and convert Him to an animated PNG

The US looks more and more like a mob run banana republic. I so damn wish to see a stronger, united Europe acting like a real superpower in my lifetime.

@never_released Broadcom speedrunning into buying every single tech company ever existed is some wild stuff to be seeing