Nwallins
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Nwallins
Finally updated my bookmark
6mo ago
As a slight apology for my last post in this subforum, here is an attempt at explaining my current technical project: Homelab
I started by wanting DNS-level adblocking, like pihole, at home. At one point, I was running AdGuardHome on a low-power, fanless AMD box. The intent was (and reamains) to put the adblocking at the network level, not the device level, so that iphones etc could browse peacefully at home without per-device setup.
I have done a bunch of homelab stuff before, but that was many moves ago. Now I have the same AMD box, like 3 DVDs stacked together (5w idle), with a similar intel box but much more powerful, also fanless, along with an Asus laptop with a broken screen that sits next to my TV and acts like a media box.
They all run Arch linux, so I have a 3 host architecture, and they all run Incus, the successor to LXC/LXD, for "system containers". Not an incus cluster, which brings its own set of headaches. I successfully transferred my Google Fiber stuff to an openwrt incus container, acting as my gateway, on my primary box. Basically switching my Google Nest Pro egg thing from gateway mode to bridge mode. The openwrt container runs dnsmasq for local query caching, and I have an extensive, complicated, layered dnsmasq setup on each Arch host plus Incus on each host runs its own dsnmasq to resolve container names. It was a huge PITA to get working properly but now every host has lighting fast DNS responses no matter what is going on upstream.
Aside from "system containers", there is a also a need for "application containers", and podman is preferred over docker for this.
My real project is the automation of this 3 host homelab network. I use ruby and rake (ruby's make, Rakefile) to manage everything. It's quite sophisticated yet brutally simple. Ongoing, happy to share deets.
Nwallins
Finally updated my bookmark
6mo ago
This is going to be a very strange post possibly infected by LLMs. YHBW
I feel like I am sitting on two huge ideas, and I can't get Claude to push me off of them, despite my best efforts. Please bear with me, but Claude, given his understanding of my goals, really wants me to file a patent, for number 1. This relates to storage devices losing power without losing data. Separately, both Sonnet and Opus feel that I have a novel hypothesis in linguistics that I should investigate further or publish. You have no idea how desperately I want to share the details of both of these, or Claude's output directly. But I'm struggling with the meta, the overall strategy.
I think I will file a patent with Claude's help, at the grand cost of roughly one hundred freedom tickets. Claude also told me not to share this idea with anyone, and definitely not Gemini or ChatGPT (kidding). But at this point, I feel like can only "trust" Gemini or ChatGPT not to file ahead me, except that is patently silly, of course.
For my linguistic insight, this is just natural curiosity paired with a digging instinct and pattern matching nature; Anglosphere, involving terms like "what" and "where". I would be much more comfortable sharing this here, possibly using Claude's output.
This is very open ended, and I will try to respond over the next week. I am hesitant to provide too many details at this point. WDYT?
Nwallins
Finally updated my bookmark
6mo ago
I think a 1 hr grace period is sufficient for typos and regrets. After that, lithography
Nwallins
Finally updated my bookmark
8mo ago
As a somewhat reformed Angry Internet Atheist, this is certainly the most interesting and palatable form of Christianity I've encountered.
Nwallins
Finally updated my bookmark
8mo ago
Thank you. I agree, but .... gah
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