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• Post #3478845

  Hach, FOSS is wonderful. Just took me one "git grep network" in the portage source repo to figure out that I can likely set up a SOCKS5 proxy into the build to ensure that my CCache can reach my kvrocks instance. Pretty surprised that there wasn't anything in the Gentoo Wiki. Looks like I will be writing a bit of documentation at some point this week. #Foss #Gentoo

• Post #3050792

  Hm, just spend a few hours trying to figure out why my YaCy peer is accessible by some peers, but not accessible by others, but I just can't figure it out. For some reason, YaCy seems to be returning 404 to requests occasionally, but without anything in the logs indicating why. #YaCy #HomeLab

• Post #3050791

  I launched my first few crawls overnight, and there's so much I want to say. Let's start with a few numbers. First of all, YaCy is finally an application which puts some load on my Homelab. See picture 1. It peaked at around 4GB of RAM, even though it currently has no limits, and there was still RAM to spare on the machine. During that time, about 20h, the crawler fetched about 100GB worth of data. 1/x #HomeLab #YaCy

• Post #2685526

  How the hell is buying ebooks in 2026 still this fucked up? I'd like to buy a couple of WH40k novels. For some reason, Black Library themselves seemed to have stopped selling their books directly somewhere in the past two months?! My German book store then leaves me two choices: I can buy the Omnibus of the novels in dead tree form in the original English. Or I can buy an ebook, but only in the German translation. I cannot buy an English language ebook version. 🤦 #Bookstodon

• Post #2685525

  So, I've finally figured out why Black Library isn't selling books on their website anymore: They've now got an app for that. And you can't download newly bought ebooks anymore either. I'm not going to start reading their books on an app. Also hint to the business assholes: This is going to increase the ebook piracy. Massively. How are they this stupid? #Bookstodon #BlackLibrary #WH40k

• Post #2559005

  I think it is good that my private Forgejo instance is not publicly available. The things I'm doing in my Go project could single-handedly poison every coding LLM out there. 🤦 Today: I need to refactor my test helpers because I managed to introduce a package dependency cycle. #Programming #Golang

• Post #2300249

  Today's Google search query: database schema design basics. 🫣

• Post #2300247

  Going to patch another LPE now, it seems. 😔 Or rather, implement the mitigations. #HomeLab

• Post #2300246

  Little happy moment: After logging into my Command and Control host, an automation I implemented a while ago fired because the k8s certs in my kubectl config will expire in a few weeks: #HomeLab

• Post #1733396

  I've reached two new milestones in failing to talk myself out of buying an MNT Reform Next: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next. One, the website now lives in a constantly open tab. Two, I just looked up how old my current Asus Zephyrus is, and found out that it is already six years old. I find the machine interesting due to the Open HW, but especially due to the upgradability. I'm really not a HW guy whatsoever, so the open hardware is mostly interesting from an...

• Post #1733395

  This good boy would like you to know two things: 1) He is the goodest of boys and definitely doesn't need to be on a leash. 2) He definitely wouldn't have run after that bunny even if he wasn't leashed. That's baseless slander. See point 1) #DogsOfMastodon #dogs

• Post #1733390

  Customary computering on the train picture. Today, the goal is to get some blog post drafts spruced up a bit and ready to publish. One about my database setup for my little Golang project including CI setup, and the second is a reflection on one year of k8s in the Homelab. #trains #DeutscheBahn

• Post #1598038

  @louis@social.louis-vallat.dev Alright, that worked quite nicely! You were entirely correct, and I learned something about how access modes actually work. Thank you very much for the tip. That saved me from having to switch over to another CI system before continuing with my actual project. 🙂

• Post #1510763

  Look look, our backpack is the answer to commuter's needs, it has many small inside pockets for all the gadgets! What do you mean you want to see pictures of those inside pockets? What are you, an uncultered country bumpkin?! https://bagaboo-bags.com/product/backpacks/lizzard-commuter-backpack/dark-grey-orange

• Post #1510762

  Okay, after going through the entire "Backpack subreddit google doc" spreadsheet I've now got 58 tabs with maybes. Now to actually chose exactly one of them...

• Post #1510761

  And finally done. At the end, the decision was between a Thule Paramount and a GotBag Pro Pack. I ended up ordering a Thule Paramount: https://www.thule.com/en-us/backpacks/laptop-backpacks/thule-paramount-backpack-27l-_-3205014 Main reason was that Thule also offered a rain protection cover, while GotBag didn't, and I tend to get rather wet during my commute in sad regularity.

• Post #1510760

  A friendly note to the weeds on my balcony I've been trying to remove for the past two hours: I know a guy at BASF. It would behove you to not continue growing with quite this level of enthusiasm.

• Post #1510755

  I have just switched from normal cigarettes to an Iqos heater. This has had two consequences. First, I'm not familiar with all of the tastes available and just bought a couple random ones. And of course one of those was of the menthol kind. Blegh. It seems menthol smoke technology has not improved one bit since the days when my beard wasn't gray yet. Second: My cigarettes now have a USB-C charging port. 🤦 #Smoking

• Post #672446

  This new wildcard-capable DNS challenge from LE is looking really good: https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01.html For me, it's going to be a way to finally fully automate my LE cert renewals. Up to now it was always partially manual, because Strato doesn't support an API for record updates. #HomeLab #LetsEncrypt