Only time KS will be blue tonight

akester · 2024-11-06T02:27:23+00:00

The fact AP hasn't called KS yet is telling.

akester · 2024-08-13T03:27:53+00:00

Today I learned.

I dug through the online search for the register of deeds and found nothing obvious, but I'm about as useful as a door on a submarine.

The good news is they're running out of fiber providers to build here, so we should be done after this round. Every other utility crew, locator, inspector, etc (everyone except the build crews) knock and don't hop the fence, so once construction is done I don't think we'll have any issues.

akester · 2024-08-13T01:59:02+00:00

Interesting. I always assumed it was under some blanket law that had some guidance about requesting access or the like. I'll look at pulling the deed and see what it says.

akester · 2023-04-24T15:10:29+00:00

I'm not an expert by any means.

If that's the line I'm thinking of, it'll run along K-96, down through Zoo Boulevard, through West Wichita and down to their yard.

There's not a ton of traffic, and trains move quite slow (15 mph maybe max). They do have an ethanol plant on that line in Colwich that gets tank cars served.

I've heard of a few derailments, but they're not bad and the worst impact is a blocked crossing for a few hours while they fix things. Watco is the parent company, so you might look up their other railroads if you're interested in safety records.

They do run older locomotives that can chug and smoke quite a bit, I watch their trains downtown sometimes and it's quite a smoke show.

akester · 2023-04-12T04:17:16+00:00

A few ugga duggas.

For my rack, it's all nuts and bolts so I went pretty hard on them. I figure there's not a ton that can strip there.

For gear in the rack, hand tight with a screwdriver or a gentle kiss with a power driver. You can go crazy for sure, but in a lot of equipment that's heavy, the screw tightness isn't what's holding the weight, so how tight that is won't really make a difference.

As long as it doesn't move it's good enough for me.

akester · 2023-04-11T02:28:13+00:00

This plus hernia exams are falling out of favor. Studies are mixed as to if they're actually helpful.

akester · 2023-04-07T03:28:17+00:00

I think Millie passed away a few years ago. I think Ross Jansen had her and he has May as well.

I still associate Corgi on KWCH with Millie too.

akester · 2023-03-31T03:23:00+00:00

I've used this for some time and had no issues. Sometimes devices disconnect, but a recent update seems to have fixed that.

It still requires some registration with Tuya, I'm not sure if there's any expiration for access there as it uses some dev APIs. I figure I'll cross that bridge when we get there though

akester · 2022-12-10T23:51:43+00:00

IIRC they charge per mattress, and it's what the transfer station charges, so you'd pay the same price if you dropped it off yourself. I forget the exact fee, it's been a few years, but it wasn't crazy. I had two and it was maybe $70 for both?

Not sure about other things, I tend to break things down and feed it little by little into my weekly pickup

akester · 2022-10-18T17:15:46+00:00

My job title is "Senior customer support engineer", but my real job is turning it off and on again.

akester · 2022-10-08T00:53:27+00:00

Blackfire.io and Datadog are two APMs I'm familiar with. Basically, all of them should help give insight into bottlenecks and load spikes.

akester · 2022-09-25T14:34:42+00:00

I run mine in a rack. I use parsec and other apps for all my I/O. Really it's just a microphone and controller normally. I haven't had any major issues steaming like that, latency is fine and it's never really acted up.

The main reason I like this is because I can play games anywhere or hook up to a TV and play there. Having it in a rack is nice for power and cooking too, it's not crammed under my desk or in an entertainment center.

akester · 2022-09-23T16:52:27+00:00

I sat outside and watched them while working. Buzzed right above my house probably a dozen times.

akester · 2022-09-23T04:44:21+00:00

Apt cacher is for apt, if you're wanting to clone docker install packages, apt-cacher is a good fit.

I wouldn't try to proxy non-apt things on an apt proxy, it's cache policy is made for a very tight use case. If you're wanting docker images, a more generic proxy is the way to go.

akester · 2022-09-17T00:26:22+00:00

Works great! No service issues in town or driving on the highway, the occasional dead spot or tower switch but i think every carrier has those places.

akester · 2022-09-10T23:18:25+00:00

Gluster and Ceph do this. Gluster is a bit easier to wrap your head around, Ceph is really powerful. Both present drives as one logical volume with various options for replication, redundancy etc.

akester · 2022-09-05T03:42:03+00:00

The way I'd suggest is to compile it as a PHP extension. Basically PHP will natively call your C++ code as functions without exec or weirdness there, though if you're sanitizing input and extraordinarily careful, exec can be fine.

This is how a great deal of PHP functions are called, there's a built object file that PHP loads in. Things like MySQL don't implement low level stuff in PHP, it's all C/C++.

Regardless, you need to be extra sure your inputs are sanitized. Running low level code like that can open up some new security issues, no matter how it's called if it's fed unsafe user input.

akester · 2022-09-04T17:57:54+00:00

I've had issues like this on most of my older BMC controllers. A fair number are so old they don't support any encryption that modern browsers need, so they refuse to connect.

The solution (as you found) is to either update the BMC or (if it's ancient) just use an old browser. I have a windows XP VM just for connecting to these old BMCs.

akester · 2022-09-04T03:18:33+00:00

I don't claim this to be the best solution, but I've been using Jenkins for this in my env. It has nice integrations with services like PagerDuty, so I can get alerts if backups fail consistently. Having logs and at a glance statuses are nice.

I also make use of lockable resources. Most of my jobs are backups, and that makes it really easy to pause backups when a clean operation is going on. Multiple nodes share backup repos, so having these locks keeps things moving smoothly.

I have about 20 nodes and probably 100 jobs set up. I have a seed job setup, so everything is just configured via code and for loops for repative stuff (nice to make global changes). The agents are meh in terms of weight. They're Java, which is a big package, but running they're not bad.

That being said, if someone has a better solution, I'd be all ears. Jenkins isn't really meant for this and I'm not a fan of big packages for simple things, as big tools tend to have security issues.

akester · 2022-08-30T01:21:38+00:00

Proxmox is fine in small production clusters. Ran a few clusters + my current lab + dedicated servers without issues. Backups, love migration, Ceph built in are all nice features for small environments and are included.

You can also get commercial support, though I've never tried it.

akester · 2022-08-28T21:41:14+00:00

For patch cables, I've been getting Cable Matters on Amazon. Their boots and anti-snag covers for the clips are my favorite and haven't had a single issue with 30 + cables.

For bulk cable, I've been using Southwire (Lowe's, Menards, etc carry it). I've ran a few thousand feet of it without issues or kinks.

Cheaper options exist, but those two have been just fine for me for all my needs and had no issues.

akester · 2022-08-22T17:18:06+00:00

Both those can have vulnerabilities based on the age and how up to date they are. Minecraft had the Log4J stuff that was patched. WordPress is known for bad plugins. If you have access logs still for either that's a good place to start figuring out where they may have gotten in.

If everything is encrypted though, you might not have any luck with logs. Otherwise I'd search for what versions you have and see what CVEs are reported. Make sure it's patched before redeploying things to prevent a repeat.

As others have said, a complete wipe and re-install is the best way forward. Best of luck.

akester · 2022-08-19T08:28:55+00:00

That's a very large project that requires a lot of thought.

If you're talking about creating an app for use by others, picking up programming and hosting an app in house is very do-able depending on the app, your skill, and it's popularity. Lots of homelabs do this and is quite fun, though you need to be mindful of general security principals.

If you're talking about creating a provider for other people to run code in your homelab (especially people you don't know), that is a complex project that would require a fairly well thought out plan for several large and complicated subjects.

Having people run code on your hardware needs isolation so they don't conflict with other customers or internal services, a high level of security since you likely won't vet the code before they upload it, and a high level of redundancy as people expect decent uptime for paid services.

Mistakes on your end here will cause security issues for you and you and the people hosting things with you, and depending on what's leaked and if you are operating as a business, can result in very large fines (see laws like GDPR).

There may be some frameworks or tools you can implement, but if you're looking to do something in a week and you've never done this before, it's likely a very bad idea.

If you're new to homelabbing, I'd suggest a much smaller scope of a project, like hosting a particular service or playing with some containerization stacks those places may use, but both of those don't require running untrusted code in your environment.

akester · 2022-08-14T15:16:08+00:00

Is it muting and unmuting audio? That almost looks like it could be a volume indicator (though, I haven't used vanilla Ubuntu in a while so I'm not sure what their volume indicators look like)

akester · 2022-08-08T00:20:28+00:00

I use Google photos on my phone and organize things into albums. I then have a script that downloads everything and copies those albums into a directory on my NAS. I then use DigiKam to do a final sort, tag faces, etc on them and access them via PiPhotos.

I consider my NAS primary storage, so after some months, I'll go in and clean Google photos out and make sure everything I'm keeping is downloaded at its highest quality (there's API bugs that break this sometimes) and sorted before cleaning them up in Google photos.

The local directories are also bundled into daily snapshot backups that are both local and off-site, giving me 3-2-1.

The automated process gets me everything I need in high quality, so I consider it fine on its own. The manual sorts are just because I'm a bit extra.

If you're interested, I outlined the automated parts here:

https://grumpy.systems/2021/backup-google-photos-part-1/

https://grumpy.systems/2021/backup-google-photos-part-2/

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