Toots for pugmiester@bsd.network account

Written by Martin Pugh on 2025-01-22 at 13:49

Hay folks. I have a birthday event coming up later in the year and while the lazy choice is to just use a Facebook event (bleugh) because everybody I would be inviting is already there, are there any good fedi options that anyone could recommend?

At the moment, I'm considering just using email as likely the lowest friction option but just wondering if there are any better options already out there that don't necessarily involve people setting up new accounts to interact?

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2025-01-21 at 21:43

I was just about to rush and remove all of the "share to Facebook / share to X" buttons from my website and then I remember... I never had any of that crap in the first place.

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2025-01-07 at 08:35

Yesterday I worked through one of my new monthly tasks at home - "Check the backups are working". We don't have a lot of stuff, but it would be a pain if we lost it. I have a fairly simple backup process for the apps we use and I know the rebuild from backup process works as I documented and used it as part of the build process while I was cleaning up the home lab setup recently.

I added in an extra off-site copy yesterday. That's not the fastest process in the world as we only have around 35mbps of upload available (and 19GB of VM backups) but it ran and it works.

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2025-01-01 at 00:10

Happy new year one and all.

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-27 at 21:35

I'm not a great fan of karaoke, mostly because a lot of people massacre the songs they sing, but every now and again you get an amazing performance.

Tonight, in the local pub, the DJ performed "that song". I've heard it performed a few times and it's one of those songs that you can't just "wing it", you have to to be completely on the ball.

It's the Ballard of Barry and Freda.

https://youtu.be/uSBuPTLh8BE?si=vtxQRAjpsZqv5c2B

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-24 at 12:17

A note of caution.

Sure, changing a failed led spotlight bulb in the bathroom with the lights on makes it easier to see (especially when said bathroom has no windows) but.....

Do not look into light with remaining eye....

That is all.

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-23 at 10:11

Do we have any OpenBSD relayd experts out there that can help me figure out what I'm missing?

I'm back to getting my home lab cleaned up and moving my blog over to a server running relayd and httpd. http/https traffic from a client reaches relayd and is passed to httpd running on the local machine on port 8083.

I'm struggling to get relayd to forward the client source IP to httpd so I can grep the access logs for bad actors. All the traffic is showing as sourced from ::1

Here's a snippet of my relayd.conf with I think the relevent bits

http protocol www {
 match request header append "X-Forwarded-For" value "$REMOTE_ADDR"
 pass request header "Host" value "martin.hatstand.org.uk" forward to 
}

http protocol https {
 tls { keypair martin.hatstand.org.uk }
 match request header append "X-Forwarded-For" value "$REMOTE_ADDR"
 match request header append "X-Forwarded-By" value "$SERVER_ADDR:$SERVER_PORT"
 match request header set "Connection" value "close"
 tcp { sack, backlog 128 }
 match request header "Host" value "martin.hatstand.org.uk" forward to 
}

[#]OpenBSD #relayd

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-21 at 21:14

"You just killed a helicopter with a car".... "I ran out of bullets"

Yeah, we're onto movie 4 in the series

[#]IfYouKnowYoyKnow

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-20 at 14:34

Feeling rather sorry for myself. Stuffy head and coughing and sneezing, perfecet timing just before the weekend.

Tonights plan was going to be - head to the pub for a few beers and catchup with the early evening crew (although it's likely to be hammered because it's the last Friday before Christmas) and then head to my brothers for food and a catchup.

The plan now looks more like - soak in the bath and get some sleep.

Talk about a rock and roll Friday...

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-20 at 11:46

New blog post - Rewriting URL's using OpenBSD and httpd.conf

This is just a reminder for future me, when I forget how I got it to work next time.

There's nothing particularly interesting, unless you also get stuck trying to get a URL redirected to another directory.

https://martin.hatstand.org.uk/posts/2024/rewriting-with-httpd/

[#]OpenBSD #SelfHosted #LocalHosted #httpd

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-20 at 08:17

"You have free access to GitHub Copilot"

Erm, how about you fuck off and think about the planet for a change.... *Marks as spam....

[#]NoAI

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-19 at 08:30

I had a calendar event and home assistant automation set to trigger the house battery and car to charge overnight while the Octopus Agile electricity price was practically zero for almost 7 hours and it didn't run. So, we're pulling from the grid this morning which sucks. I know, I know, first world problems. It just irks my paying 15p/kWh when we would have been paying practically zero to fill the battery and running off that now.

[#]FirstWorldProblems #HomeBattery #HomeAutomation

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-12 at 22:36

Pub quiz tonight. We we're ok with the questions round, mostly average with the music round although it did peak with music question one with less than a second into "Lionel Ritchie's walking on the ceiling". All I needed was to hear the echoing footsteps.....

[#]YesImOld

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-11 at 10:08

Yeah, things are broken and I don't have the mental capacity to figure out what's going on right now so I'm switching back to my old web host for the blog in the short term.

Why is this stuff so darned hard? :-(

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-11 at 08:31

So, looking at the logs on my reverse proxy (OpenBSD / relayd) this morning, it looks like there are incoming connections from public IP addresses that are somehow getting forwarded to a locally hosted webpage that holds the links page for my home lab. That's using a DNS name that's not public so there should be absolutely no way for anyone outside my local network to resolve that name. I might be switching my blog back to the old server for a while until I have the brain space to troubleshoot this. Right now it makes no sense at all.

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-10 at 16:43

The slow and steady progress on the homelab / home network cleanup continues.

Now I've finally figured out what I was missing from relayd.conf to get my tls certificates issued, I've moved my blog to the new host. It's not perfect, but it's progress and seems to be working OK for the moment but I'm log watching for anything outstandingly bad I might have broken in the process.

[#]HomeLab #SelfHosted #LocalHosted

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-05 at 11:18

The cleanup and migration of my homelab has stalled recently. Partly because I've had lots of other stuff to do at home but also because I got myself backed into a corner.

I was working on migrating my blog to the new server but couldn't get TLS working. I had a test site up using plain old HTTP, and even had a LetsEncrypt certificate being issued, but I couldn't get the proxy to work using TLS.

It turms out, all I needed to do was walk away from the problem for a week and when I returned I would instantly spot the missing "tls" keyword in my config. Once added, "it just works", like all of the examples said it should. No more excuses for not moving the blog now so that's back on the plan for weekend.

Likely a blog post to follow, so when I forget again next time, I have something to look back on.

[#]HomeLab #SelfHosted #LocalHosted

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-05 at 11:04

Hi all, sorry for the late reply but just as I was putting together another blog post, so I could more easily include the config files, I spotted my mistake.

I had forgotten to include the tls keyword so instead of having

relay www6tls {
  listen on ::0 port 443 tls
  protocol https
  forward to  port 8084
}

I had

relay www6tls {
  listen on ::0 port 443
  protocol https
  forward to  port 8084
}

It turns out, if you bother to tell relayd to actually use tls, it does...

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-03 at 23:02

Finally caught up with Deadpool and Wolverine. Yeah, it was about as silly as I was expecting.

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Written by Martin Pugh on 2024-12-03 at 23:01

That's nearly the end of December 3rd and so far I'm #whamagadon safe. Not listening to much commercial radio probably helps.

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