I run two PiHole's in my home network - one as a container on my NAS, the other also as a container on it's own dedicated VM. The idea, in theory, is that as long as the NAS is up, I should have some sort of DNS services around. It's kinda one of the staples of the network. Switching, routing is up first.. then the …

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Nothing too big here. I asked Perplexity for a random 32 characters string for use as a salt for a cookie: So, neat, copy/paste.. and my app complains that the string is too long. 1>>> foo = "4aG7eJ9dLpM8nBcF5tRgYhK6oIuZ1xWvE3cD2sN" 2>>> len(foo) 3>>> 39 ... I didn't think it was that hard of an ask...

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I recently found a neat little self-hosted projcet called LubeLogger, which is sorta like a vehicle management tool. This does some neat things like recording my fuel usage (which I've been doing for years in a spreadsheet), tracking maintenance and repairs, and scheduling reminders based on milage and/or time. The …

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At work, I was recently asked to allow an on-premise Python application access to SharePoint Online (SPO). The now-depreciated way would be to go to your SPO site, append /_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx to the site's name (so it would look something like …

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Stuff So it's been a little while since I've tinkered with this stuff, so I've been self-refreshing myself as I go along here. The big catalyst for this work was the release of Proxmox 8. The key takeaway during the upgrade is that it's a typical Debian upgrade, and so it went more or less without incident. Great! The …

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A short post while I am thinking about this - because I sorta figured it out. I am still working on sunsetting my monolithic server (well, it's a glorified desktop with relatively more storage than other hosts on my network), and was working on setting up CheckMK on a newly minted VM. CheckMK is an open-source …

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Whelp, I'm not really certain how I got here.. but at some point, I wound up with a pair of computers running Proxmox with the intent of running Kubernetes. It started out pretty innocently: I watched a TechnoTim video: And it looked neat enough, so sure.. why not, let's try that out. In the video, around the 6:00 …

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One year ago, we welcomed this idiot into our home. Hopefully he'll stick around for several years more, taking us on his adventures.

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I am not very good at networking stuff together. I mean, if it's a simple network, I can usually manage. When it comes to thinking about VLANs and similar topics, I start to get a bit hazy.. but when it gets into configuring devices to carry VLAN traffic, I really need to get back to basics and do a lot of "Ok, make …

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I have this short little PowerShell function that I use all over the place. It simply adds an ACL entry to an object, usually a network folder: 1function AddNTFSPermissions($path, $object, $permission) { 2 $FileSystemRights = [System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemRights]$permission 3 $InheritanceFlag = …

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