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mmeier

@mmeier@social.mei-home.net

I really like watching compiler output scroll by. Selfhosting and my homelab are my biggest current hobbies. I'm also a big fan of the EU (the idea, not necessarily all parts of the current implementation ;-) ), but don't fear: Political posts will be a very occasional thing.

#fedi22 #homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting

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mmeier, to homelab
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I've got an idea. Let's form an IoT company. One that makes really great, high quality, well designed products. You know, ones that don't drop out every time you look at them wrong. We offer them cheap, burning through some VC money.

We will certainly fail. But for one glorious moment, people will know good IoT. And the next time somebody tries to sell them crap, they get beaten to a pulp with their shitty products.

And perhaps then, we will actually get good IoT stuff.

#HomeLab #IoT

jwildeboer, (edited ) to random
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The is live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lXgbp48gHI This might help some of you deciding who to vote for in the upcoming election.

mmeier,
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@jwildeboer Thanks for tooting this thread!

To the "too far away from the lives of EU citizens": I'm actually interested in the EU and its workings - and I completely missed that this debate was going to be on. 😔

mmeier, to gaming
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sigh
It is time again, almost two years since I last played. Just dropped a wad of cash on Paradox' doorstep for the new DLCs released in the interim.

It was high time to get back into gaming again.
Hey, at least I yet again resisted Total War: Warhammer 3, that has to count for something.

See all of you in 3 to 4 months. 😅

mmeier,
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@jippi That's one of the things I really like about Stellaris - I return to it every two years or so and I'm getting to play an almost new game. The only plan for tonight is to take a look at all the new things and try to decide on the composition of my first empire.

Has anybody ever gotten around to writing a "Here is a brief list of changes for people who last played in 20XX" guide? 😅

stfn, to random
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I sometimes feel that the longer I am a developer, the more often I get this "coder paralysis". In the past I would just sit and write code, and be happy that it works. Now when I code, I get those doubts if the code I am writing is correct, is adhering to standards, is following the right patterns and written in the right architecture. Sometimes those doubts are so string it makes it hard to move further with the project.

I wonder if other people share those feelings?

mmeier,
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@stfn Yes, very much so, although in a slightly different way: The writing of the code goes relatively smoothly, but I've got something you might call "design paralysis". By the time I'm writing the first line of code, I'm drowning in diagrams of all kinds and a hundred tasks prescribing the way forward. I've completely and utterly lost the ability to produce anything even remotely approaching a prototype.

box464, (edited ) to random
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I love seeing other people's tidy work from home setups. It gives me a sense of serene calm. ☺️

Then I look down at my chaos vortex of a desk, swipe away the dog fur from my keyboard, locate my mouse under yesterday's mail, and get back to work. 🌪️

mmeier,
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@box464 Yupp, I've also seen quite a lot of pictures of really nice desk setups scroll past. I'm also definitely among the "eh, works for me" crowd.

Perhaps we should start the IDontCareEnoughDesks hashtag? 😁

technotim, to opensource
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Over the last few weeks I have been looking for a more advanced self-hosted monitoring system. One that gives me more than just a simple up and down status and one that is config based. I think I found it!

Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeZQjWlDUHs

mmeier,
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@technotim This looks pretty nice, especially the fact that it is configured with files, instead of needing to configure everything via the Web GUI, like in Uptime Kuma. I will definitely have to have a look at it.

mmeier, to bluesky
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Federation, huh?

If I set up a Mastodon server in my Homelab and block mastodon.social's IPs, I will still have a federated Mastodon instance.

If I set up a PDS and block BlueSky's IPs, I have a resource hog and nothing more.

The difference is extremely stark. I don't get why people don't see that, or chose to ignore it.

stfn, to random
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Today it's two years since Putin attacked my neighbour. I'm proud that Poland is giving so much to help Ukraine, and I believe everyone should give as much as possible to help them win, any other outcome will be a disaster to the Ukraine society and to Europe as a whole. And Ukraine should join NATO and the EU as quickly as possible, those two entities are the only ways Europe can be safe and prosperous.

mmeier,
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@stfn Yes. I'm still smirking when I'm reminded of the Polish tanks "vanishing" from the warehouses.

And we should do more. There shouldn't even be any discussion about artillery shells. Sure, perhaps our arms industry was a bit small for supplying an actual war. But that was two years ago. At this point Zelensky should be begging the EU to stop sending shells because they ran out of frigging space to store them.

mmeier,
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@stfn Yeah, and Czechs were recently saying they knew a way to provide 800k artillery shells soonish. Which again makes me think: Germany is one of the richest countries on earth. We still have a lot of industry. We should be churning out arms like there's not tomorrow right now.

mmeier,
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@stfn Yeah. That was one massively failed 20-year bet on the entire "When we trade with them there's not going to be war" idea, and now we're paying the price for that after being rather rapidly cut off from cheap energy. I'm still rather relieved that the Scholz admin at least had enough fortitude to swallow the sanctions instead of running (too much) interference...

evan, (edited ) to random
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"An individual should be able to run an ActivityPub server for themself and their friends and family."

mmeier,
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@evan Absolutely. "Whoa, I can self-host my own social media?!" was what brought me here originally.

I'm hoping that we end up with some solution to the spam problem that doesn't involve new instance admins having to go to a couple thousand other instance admins, cap in hand, begging for admittance to their allow lists.

stfn, to Blog
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I've had so much feelings about The Social Network (the movie) and Facebook (the platform) that I put them in writing in a blog post. I'm talking about how I have been using Facebook and how I see its fall.

https://stfn.pl/blog/26-my-story-of-facebook/

mmeier,
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@stfn MY timeline for Facebook was relatively similar, although I only finally joined in 2010, right after seeing the movie. Held out on Germany's equivalent, StudiVZ, until then.

And I'm seeing the same thing when logging in now, although I would put the content I'm interested in at perhaps 10% of the timeline. And I just don't get how Facebook survives with that. Why would people scroll through that much crap for the few updates from friends still there in between?

mmeier, to homelab
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I've hit my first k8s screwup. Trying to delete an erroneous Ceph Rook deployment, and the ceph object store is stuck in "Terminating" status. Consequently, so is the Namespace it's in, and the CRD which defines it, and so is the entire Rook cluster.

What's the "I don't fucking care, kill it!" command in Kubernetes? "delete --force" doesn't seem to be it...

aral, to ireland
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How bad is the cost of living crisis in Ireland?

“A number of staff at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin are commuting from Spain and Germany because it is more affordable than living in Ireland, according to the master of the hospital.”

https://12ft.io/https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/01/01/some-rotunda-staff-commuting-from-spain-due-to-cost-of-living-in-ireland-says-hospital-master/

mmeier,
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@aral That is rather appalling. How bad does it have to be for that math to actually work out in favour for commuting from Germany?

There's also another wrinkle to that: How bad does the German healthcare system have to be that somebody decides to live in Germany, but work a job in an Irish hospital, instead of a German one?

brunty, (edited ) to selfhosted
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Fediverse! What are your favourite things and why?

mmeier,
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@brunty It's as toss-up between my Mastodon instance and Ceph.

For Mastodon, it's simple: I can self-host my own social media platform, how cool is that?

For Ceph, it's just the "huh?!" factor. When you first look at it, it seems to require a 5 people Ops team. But once you've set it all up, it is extremely low maintenance and supplies me with disk pools I can use for block devices for VMs, S3 for all manner of stuff and a shared networked FS with CephFS.

rachel, to random

I really wish fedi apps had a button on posts that could be pressed to fetch all of the replies

psssssst ​:blobfoxpleading:​

mmeier,
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@rachel Yepp, me too. I've gotten pretty used to clicking "Open on original page" by now to look at the full thread, but having it all in the Mastodon web UI (in my case) would be really nice.

stfn, to random
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I'm going to visit my parents for Christmas. First train arrives in 2 minutes

mmeier,
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@stfn Mine is going a bit better, I'm currently on just 4 minutes delay. 🤞

Do you need to catch a connection?

mmeier,
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@stfn Ah, it does always become a lot less stressful once you've caught the last connection. 😁

I still need to catch mine in the Ruhrgebiet, but I'm always planning at least twenty minutes for the switchover, so for now I'm still fine.

mmeier,
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@stfn Congrats. I'm now at 93 minutes delay. But at least it looks like there's still a chance that I will arrive sometime today. 😅

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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An abandoned power plant, presumably closed around Christmas

Gallery/info: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/frank-r-phillips-power-station

mmeier,
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@AbandonedAmerica I'm always loving the galleries from industrial sites. There's just something about those slowly rusting massive machines.

mmeier, to random
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Uh oh. Storm all over Germany today and tomorrow. And I'm planning to take the train home tomorrow.

Let's see whether Deutsche Bahn is prepared this time.

For now all the "Disruption in train traffic" messages are from points north of where I need to go. 🤞

mmeier, to random
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New spam round from mastodon.social? I got two spam private mentions in the last couple minutes on my single-user instance.

stfn, to machinelearning
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The third chapter of the fast.ai course is an excellent discussion on ethics in machine learning, in places going even further, tackling ethics in the whole of IT. The article provides real life examples how blind technocratism and biased algorithms can cause real damage to real people. A fascinating read for both technical and non-technical. Highly recommended!

https://github.com/fastai/fastbook/blob/master/03_ethics.ipynb

mmeier,
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@stfn And it's as important today as it was back then. I'm working for a large network equipment manufacturer. At the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it came out that our equipment was used to spy on Russian dissidents. The interface for that was mandated by the international standard the equipment had to follow, but that didn't make that sinking feeling in my stomach any better.

mmeier, to homelab
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Behold: THE MAP.

Next step: Coming up with a coherent plan to set up a Kubernetes cluster and migrate all of that over from my Nomad cluster.

mmeier,
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@stfn I'm using vanilla k8s setup with kubeadm as described in the official docs. Most of the time I'm just leaning towards using the vanilla version of something.

What are you planning to run your cluster on?

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