airgapped

I picked up programming using “C for Dummies” book at age 13 and absolutely fell in love with developing/tinkering. My school didn’t offer any IT lessons (yes I am old) so I couldn’t wait until I got to a college that offered CS classes. Once I started these classes, I started absolutely hating development, to the point I dropped the course six months in and ferverently avoided anything IT related for the next decade. Eventually I found my way back to it via homelabbing for my own projects through organic need.

The point of my long winded anecdote: a formal education may actually hinder your IT learning more than it helps. The best teacher I found was in fact necessity or passion. Formal education will also teach you next to nothing about skills needed for selfhosting.

everyone else arguing about being snowflake or not, I just want to know the joke

I think this meme is to do with newly introduced about:keyboard in Firefox that allows you to edit default keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+Shift+C is a common shortcut that ends up unnecessarily launching DOM inspector.

On the off chance anyone uses BorgBase for off-site backups, I would like to shamelessly plug a Prometheus exporter I wrote for monitoring your account. It exports name, available/total space and last modified time for all repos in your account.

also Linux: what will it bork this time?

It is complete overkill for most home server tasks but I would look to run something like this for next 10 years at least so I can see it making sense if you cost it out like that.

Depends on your personal use case of course but for comparison I have a (relatively) piddly Intel N305 processor mini PC with 16GB of memory and currently run a 25-30 container load, including Plex and a torrent server. My setup currently idles at around 20% CPU and 25% memory utilisation, so I can quite confidently say the linked N5 ought to give more than enough headroom to handle a typical homelab/self hosted load.

Today I learnt, thank you.

Question please, how would podman alleviate container update woes?

A reverse proxy saves you from having to expose your services directly and acts as a go-between.

Internet <--> Reverse Proxy <--> Service

Nice tips! Personally will use SSH aliases and canonicalised hostnames.

Other topics covered in post:

• Forward Yubikey Agent
• Reuse connections
• SSH straight into tmux
• Alias commonly used hosts
• Do not add testing stuff to ~/.ssh/known_hosts
• Make connections last longer
• Canonicalize hostnames
• Yubikey and GitHub, without touching it every time

Just under two right now but it is throwing out 55-60GB a day at the moment. Gotta keep those Linux ISOs seeded!

This week I finally managed to route torrent traffic through a VPS that was sitting around gathering dust. I am behind CGNAT so was taking me 6 weeks to do the kind of traffic I do in a day now. I couldn’t be more chuffed.