During 2025-03-21-another-home-outage, I reflected upon what’s a properly ran service and blurted out what turned out to be something important I want to outline more. So here it is, again, on its own for my own future reference. Typically, I tend to think of a properly functioning service as...

   I originally setup a machine without any full disk encryption, then somehow regretted it quickly after. My original reasoning was that this was a play machine so I wanted as few restrictions on accessing the machine as possible, which meant removing passwords, mostly. I actually ended up having a...

   Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you had no or anonymized logs and still wanted to figure out where your traffic was coming from? Or you have multiple upstreams and are looking to see if you can save fees by getting into peering agreements with some other party? Or your site is...

   This morning, internet was down at home. The last time I had such an issue was in February 2023, when my provider was Oricom. Now I’m with a business service at Teksavvy Internet (TSI), in which I pay 100 per month for a 250 50 mbps business package, with a static IP address, on which I run, well,...

   Warning: this is a long ramble I wrote after an outage of my home internet. You’ll get your regular scheduled programming shortly. I didn’t realize this until relatively recently, but we’re at war. Fascists and capitalists are trying to take over the world, and it’s bringing utter chaos. We’re more...

   Meta In case you haven’t noticed, I’m trying to post and one of the things that entails is to just dump over the fence a bunch of draft notes. In this specific case, I had a set of rough notes about NixOS and particularly Nix, the package manager. In this case, you can see the very birth of an...

   I have been testing fish for a couple months now (this file started on 2025-01-03T23:52:15-0500 according to stat(1)), and those are my notes. I suspect people will have Opinions about my comments here. Do not comment unless you have some Constructive feedback to provide: I don’t want to know if...

   Well, 2024 will be remembered, won’t it? I guess 2025 already wants to make its mark too, but let’s not worry about that right now, and instead let’s talk about me. A little over a year ago, I was gloating over how I had such a great blogging year in 2022, and was considering 2023 to be average,...

   This is going to be a controversial statement because some people are absolute nerds about this, but, I need to say it. Qalculate is the best calculator that has ever been made. I am not going to try to convince you of this, I just wanted to put out my bias out there before writing down those notes...

   So a common theme on the Internet about Debian is so old. And right, I am getting close to the stage that I feel a little laggy: I am using a bunch of backports for packages I need, and I’m missing a bunch of other packages that just landed in unstable and didn’t make it to backports for various...