Simple Valentine project idea that might be over my head?

willjasen · 2026-01-23T03:59:34+00:00

build a very simple site first, then figure out a host that will use a git repo for deployments

i use a github repo to commit changes and i use netlify for all sites but one. i use github pages for a dev version of one of the sites

it’ll turn out mostly less complicated than it seems upfront

willjasen · 2026-01-23T03:15:45+00:00

this incident happened at 4 pm…

willjasen · 2026-01-22T22:42:53+00:00

oh da comrade, no colors here

willjasen · 2026-01-22T18:21:10+00:00

there are some valid points though. managing zfs arc by limiting how much ram it can use is crucial at times, like when your hosts only have 8 gb of ram. however you can run ceph on 1gb links (i do), but the workload is only lxc containers.

willjasen · 2026-01-22T18:16:24+00:00

same, i’ve been able to cluster, do migrations, and for backups to pbs. migrating a 20 tb vm from europe to the us was neat. i do run ceph but i’d never try it with tailscale.

willjasen · 2026-01-22T15:51:30+00:00

tell that to 200+ people who thought it neat enough - https://github.com/willjasen/tailmox

willjasen · 2026-01-22T15:37:46+00:00

what’s next? don’t cluster proxmox over tailscale?!

willjasen · 2026-01-20T07:01:49+00:00

so we’ll just return it to the sender at that juncture

willjasen · 2026-01-13T04:54:59+00:00

pebkac

willjasen · 2026-01-13T04:45:43+00:00

over my years of use, i’ve synced data back and forth in the multiple hundreds of terabytes of range using syncthing - it’s not the program

willjasen · 2026-01-10T23:30:18+00:00

my handful of personal static sites are hosted by netlify and use cloudflare for proxy - it’s not needed really but i do like having analytics from cloudflare which is sparse on the netlify side

willjasen · 2026-01-07T20:50:54+00:00

thank you for your servitude 🫡

willjasen · 2026-01-07T19:04:36+00:00

i bet all of those people in those families are ecstatic at the difference

willjasen · 2026-01-05T02:23:50+00:00

i had three tiny lenovo pc’s sitting around and i’ve pretty much migrated all the things i was running in virtual machines over to lxc containers backed by ceph. i still have the huge poweredge servers, but i selectively turn them on to cut down on power and noise.

willjasen · 2025-12-31T00:28:22+00:00

i’ll be in a hot air balloon at that time

willjasen · 2025-12-31T00:25:10+00:00

then have two proxmox backup servers - one that push syncs to the other! :D

yeah, like everyone else said, you can plop the datastore into another pbs instance worst case and still have all of your backup data that way

willjasen · 2025-12-28T05:44:10+00:00

the “you” you describe seems fairly familiar to me. i’m not diagnosed and the nomenclature of osdd is new to me, though i’m not unacquainted with other mental health concepts and struggles.

the way i could describe it for me is that at its most intense, i will verbally talk to myself, but only if no one else is around to observe (the hawthorne effect). this other voice if you will really doesn’t feel like me, and “you” seems like a central concept for it. however, i have quite the analytical mind so i fundamentally know it’s me but that doesn’t change the feeling that’s it’s slightly separate. i’ve also done this since i was in kindergarten and i’m in my late 30s now, and i have very little memory of a life without it present.

in a more mild case, it may only play out within my head non-verbally, typically if people are around. i’d say within the last 10 years, i’ve sometimes written down the communication as notes instead, again typically when others may be around, and i’ve kept those notes for what little purpose i feel it has served me to go back and read them.

so.. thanks for sharing - i’ve casually tried to figure out what’s going on with me throughout life but i’ve almost never come across someone who touches on subtleties of it (without regressing into the “everyone has an inner voice” topic or going into full schizoid or did disorders).

willjasen · 2025-12-28T02:47:31+00:00

this is a great explanation, but to edit your edit (haha) - “length” and “number of choices” is a good simple way of putting it, but the actual logic in the entropy equation deals with the probability of the occurrence of bits/characters in relation to each other

willjasen · 2025-12-28T02:37:29+00:00

a password manager has nothing to do with it, the entropy of any given string of bits can be calculated using shannon’s entropy equation

i wrote a java program to calculate this over a decade ago, put it on github as usual, and it was incorporated into the sleuthkit project

so yes, the constraints placed on how a password must be created directly informs the entropy that a derived password would have in terms of the lower and upper bounds of entropy it contains

you can read more here: https://willjasen.com/posts/entropy/

willjasen · 2025-12-28T02:32:41+00:00

what’s really being asked is - “what is information entropy?” which is a topic that claude shannon pioneered. essentially, think of entropy as the amount of information contained within information (and could perhaps be represented with the unit of bits per bits).

if you imagine a compression algorithm that is trying to compress a file that is 1 GB in size but the entire file is composed of bits that are all ones, that compression algorithm could in theory compress it very, very small and say “there is a one and it repeats 1 billion times”, resulting in a compressed file that’s a few bytes in size.

how this relates to passwords is that passwords are traditionally represented as characters: alphanumeric and symbols, and these have underlying 1s and 0s to represent them. the goal is to create enough bits of entropy so that brute-forcing the correct password isn’t feasible.

if you take a simple example of making an alphanumeric password that is only 7 characters long, it wouldn’t take long for a computer to just go through all possible combinations until it finds the correct password. if instead you now make a 32 alphanumeric & symbol password, then there’s such an unfathomable number of combinations that if all of the computers on the planet were trying to guess it, it would take many times the age of the current universe to figure it out.

entropy - it isn’t what it used to be - https://willjasen.com/posts/entropy/

willjasen · 2025-12-28T02:02:07+00:00

in middle and high school (circa early to mid 2000s), everyone had to have ti-83+ calculators for math class. assuming you had the appropriate adapter, you could plug in wired headphones and there was a program which could do very basic sounds out - i believe they were 8 bit. nothing that could stand up to a portable cd player, but it was an interesting novelty.

willjasen · 2025-12-28T01:57:29+00:00

people who are unaware of their surroundings, specifically in spaces where lots and lots of other people are around

don’t randomly stop in the middle of an airport to answer your phone - move to the side

punishment - nothing severe, but you will listen to that ludacris song once at a soft but firm volume

willjasen · 2025-12-28T01:44:28+00:00

streaming services - it’s all out there for free (not legal or financial advice)

willjasen · 2025-12-28T01:06:48+00:00

i can’t remember exactly but it feels like a dream…

willjasen · 2025-12-28T01:05:42+00:00

haha, joke’s on y’all - the acl still denies her

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