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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 20, 2023
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=> My Perfect Home Lab — An Antithesis
After reading about the new home lab subspace on BBS, it’s time to write a little about my ideas of the perfect home lab, which I wanted to do for a long time.
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I’ve had this situation for three years, but then needed to have a wired Internet connection for remote work during and after COVID-19 to improve latency. While my connection is now much better than before, my LTE Internet speed was okay for ordinary web browsing and the occasional download and cloud sync.
In the last 20 years before that, I’ve always owned a second computer as a backup computer and server at home. For a couple of years I’ve connected an external RAID 5 to my server. In the last years before cancelling my wired Internet connection, I only owned a NAS, which had a single SSD installed to avoid any noise, and I did online backups. My DSL connection was always the fastest available and I always got the maximum connection rate.
=> I just want to fucking play Call of Duty on my day off
Me: I finally get to play this brand new copy of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on my day off
Me: [Puts disc into PS5 and clicks play]
PS5: MUST INSTALL UPDATE FOR THIS APPLICATION FIRST
Me: ok
PS5: IT'S 63 GB
=> No, i am not from the future...
.. i am just too stupid to enter the correct date in my feed.gmi ;-)
But this whole "timetravelling" thing reminded me of a story i read a while back about the "John Titor" persona that emerged some time around the early 00s...
That i never heard about it back in the day (even as someone who frequented UFO and conspiracy forums quiet extensively) is quiet interesting... perhaps another proof of how more diverse the internet back then was. So, as it was way too hot to sleep last night i crawled into this rabbit hole and spend many hours reading and digging deeper.
=> Using git bundle to synchronize a repository between Qubes OS
In a previous article, I explained how to use Fossil version control system to version the files you may write in dom0 and sync them against a remote repository.
I figured how to synchronize a git repository between an AppVM and dom0, then from the AppVM it can be synchronized remotely if you want. This can be done using the git feature named bundle, which bundle git artifacts into a single file.
=> Maybe it's time to post something again
We need more of Richard Stallman, not less
Ego can't listen. It can pretend to. Quite convincingly, too: whatever it takes to keep the other egos a combination of misinformed and guessing so as to be a fine mix of lesser and behind.
Ego loves seeing other egos as whatever form of lesser (e.g. "dangerous maniac") being/personhood/individuality necessary to feel, um, more-er.
=> Announcement: Weather CGI Fixes
In the early days of my capsule I implemented a weather forecast CGI. A visitor can enter a five-digit US ZIP code, and the CGI will present a one-week weather forecast from the National Weather Service. That CGI is still online today.
The original script was written in Bash, but in July of 2022 I converted all my CGI content to Python. In preparation for that change, I compiled a database with a list of ZIP codes, their corresponding cities and states, and the NWS weather stations and grid numbers needed to get the ZIP's forecast via API. This required me to first find a source that gave the latitude and longitudes of each ZIP code, then querying the API with the list of coordinates to get the stations.
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