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Pre-Unlock
The pre-unlock state of the host should contain no secrets used during regular operation. But it must contain some secrets, both so that we can unlock it and so that it supports as much redundancy as possible even when locked We want SSH access to…
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Storage Unlock Policy
I currently run my cloud hosts in a manual-intervention-required configuration for storage. Even the VPNs can’t come up until someone connects and provides a key to the hypervisor to unlock storage and start services This is a configuration I intend to continue when setting up…
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Meikee 25W RGB LED Wall Washer Light
The Meikee RGB LED is a weatherproof RGB LED light bar. It includes a 433 MHz radio reciever and an AC zero-crossing sensor, in addition the 3 PWM LED outputs. It’s easy to hook up to all the internal hardware, the RGB outputs are labeled on the…
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Vornado Transom Fan
The Vornado Transom fan is a blower fan designed to mount across the bottom of a hung window. I like the fan hardware. It includes an IR remote, runs at 4 discrete speeds, can be reversed electronically, closes when off, and includes a thermostatic function. I do…
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Guest Room Video System
I have a terrible FireTV in my guest room. If I let it be online it downloads 20+ GB of ads per week, despite no one turning the screen on. So I am going to dumb it down to a simple HDMI monitor and install…
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AFROG Desk Lamp
The AFROG 2th Gen Multifunctional LED Desk Lamp With Wireless Charger is a USB-powered desk lamp with touch controls for cool and warm light options, fine-grained dimming, a sleep timer, wireless charging and a USB-A power port. It has small green and blue LEDs inside the timer…
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esphome
I’ve been writing notes to myself in the readme.me of my esphome repository. I’m going to make posts here instead, where I can leave pictures without putting them into GitHub And maybe other automation things. We’ll see
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Constraining Shapes
I’m thinking of something of a VM map that looks something like this, duplicated at each hosting provider: zCloud Overall hypervisor, installed on the “bare metal” I rent; all other VMs are internal to this hypervisor Does not host any client-facing or VM-facing services. Forwards…
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Hosting
I am thinking about setting up a hosting platform. I want to host my own things. I want to offer free hosting and other online services to people in my community. I would like to sell certain kinds of hosting in support of my tech…
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CUPS – IPP vs. IPPEverywhere
CUPS, the tooling of most printing workflows on UNIX-ish systems including MacOS and many linux distributions, is an archaic, unwieldy, tool. It is also indispensable, at least for the moment IPP is a venerable printing standard that has been around since the 1900s and is…