When I bought my home a few years ago I knew I wanted to do something with my home network that would be better than what I had been doing. I ended up going UniFi. I bought a couple of U6-Lites and installed them on my second floor ceiling in two places. I also picked up a Lite 16 PoE to power them. With a USG-3P to be the router. I of course self hosted the controller for all of that in a docker container. This little did I know was the begninning.
Today I finally got tired of seeing so much spam, junk call and texts. Also in the past I have had someone take one bit of information about me and then do a search and was able to tell me a uncomfortably ammount of data about me. I set about looking at the various data privacy/removal tool/sites. My goal is to reduce the ammount of information about me out there so the bar is just low already. Which should hopefully have a knock on effect in reducing junk email/mail/text/calls. Only time will tell.
Yesterday morning I was permanently banned from Reddit on my main account. No warning, no lube, no nothing. This is mostly for me to vent but readmore to see my timeline of attempting to deal with this. My expectation is that nothing will happen and I will be wasting my time.
From time to time it is nessary to update the Chirpy theme I use here on my site. I end up failing to recall my steps everytime so I figured I better write them out and maybe someone might find it interesting.
I have been looking for a cross os and cross platform note taking software. In my searches I found several that would do for basic needs but I wanted something that really works for me. So my requirements were markdown formatting, syncing of notes with ease, and of course free with preference of being open source.
Sometime ago I wanted something that could be used to be liken a stream of my thoughts. Later I saw a blog post on the Matrix.org blog talking about Matrix Live Blog. I saw it as the perfect thing to be the conduit for my random thoughts that have no purpose in being toot’s or blog posts. I have been poking it for some time and still have tweaks I want to do to the code to fit what I want. What makes it great is if you use a static site like I do, you only need javascript and a matrix server and chatroom. So nothing server side unless you count the Matrix chat server. I have a chatroom and have a link on the left that demos the live blog. You can find the Matrix chat room that backs the page here.
I just recently put some effort into rebuilding my server(s) host os for my VMs. One of the things I dreaded was loosing racadm just in case I needed it when upgradeing from CentOS 7 to Rocky LInux 9. Spent some time going down the wrong rabbit holes among other things. I ended up stumbling on a posting/faq(?) to install racadm on ubuntu. In it held some keys to getting what I want done.