fighting the lack of good ideas
I recently had cause to do an extensive trellised timechart for a dashboard at $CUSTOMER in Splunk. They have a couple hundred locations reporting networked devices. I needed to report on how many devices they’ve reported every day over the last 90 days (I would have liked to go back further…but retention is only 90…
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After years of thinking about it, I finally got around to it. I’ve rewritten my RSS feed driven website https://datente.com to run on Python from PHP. I’m sure there is much room for improvement in the approach – and would appreciate any constructive feedback you may have. Here’s the GitHub repo: https://github.com/volcimaster/dorss.
I found out about sshuttle from a random tweet that happened to catch my eye. Here’s the skinny (from the readme): Your client machine (or router) is Linux, FreeBSD, or MacOS. You have access to a remote network via ssh. You don’t necessarily have admin access on the remote network. The remote network has no…
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After a friend of mine told me he wanted to deploy Jitsi on my main webserver, and me saying “sure”, I decided I wanted to get it up and running on a new server both so I knew how to do it, and to avoid the latency issues of videoconferencing from central North America to…
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I noticed I haven’t updated my previous post on keeping my Let’s Encrypt certs updated since building-out a couple new servers. systemctl stop httpd.service /bin/certbot renew –preferred-challenges http-01,dns-01 –must-staple systemctl start httpd.service systemctl restart postfix Not a big change, but one worth making If you haven’t installed certbot yet, you should
“Telsa will add solar power to the Cybertruck to generate 15 miles per day. Fold-out solar wings for the Cybertruck would generate 30 to 40 miles per day. The average daily commute in the US averages 30 miles per day.†https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/11/solar-power-tesla-cybertruck-could-have-free-15-40-mile-daily-commutes.html (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1197889310550216704) Or remember my comments on SolarCity 3 years ago? Offering a solar option…
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As I mentioned a while back, I am maintaining a merikebi for myself of as much of my public internet content as possible. The initial seeding of content was done via WordPress import. Then I added a dump from Pocket of everything I’d saved there. Lastly, to keep it going, I made a few IFTTT…