FrederikNJS

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All my docker images are in code in Github.

Renovate makes a PR when there are image or helm chart updates.

ArgoCD sees the PR merge and applies to Kubernetes.

For a few special cases I use ArgoCD-image-updater.

I have my Firefox configured to force HTTPS, so it’s rather inconvenient to work with any non-HTTPS sites.

Because of that I decided to make my own CA. But since I’m running in Kubernetes and using cert-manager for certs, this was really easy. Add a resource for a self-singed issuer, issue a CA cert, then create an issuer based on that CA cert. 3 Kubernetes resources total: https://cert-manager.io/docs/configuration/ca/ and finally import the CA cert on your various devices.

However this can also be done using LetsEncrypt, with the DNS01 challenge. That way you don’t need to expose anything to the Internet, and you don’t need to import a CA on all of your devices. Any cert you issue will however appear in certificate transparency logs. So if you don’t want anyone to know that you are running a Sonarr instance, you shouldn’t issue a certificate with that in it’s name. A way around that is a wildcard cert. Which you can then apply to all your subservices without exposing the individual service in logs. The wildcard will still be visible in the logs though…

https://piefed.zip/post/1240538

PSU can indeed make a pretty big difference.

If you only have a 80 Plus certified PSU, and see 65 watts drawn at the wall, your system might actually only be using 52 watts, the remaining 13 watts are wasted as heat in your PSU. 80 Plus Gold, Platinum, or Titanium all carry higher efficiencies, but also cost more to buy.

Actual efficiency is also heavily influenced by the load. Most PSUs are most efficient at 50% load. Both lower and higher loads with result in worse efficiency.

Here’s an article with some more details: https://www.technewstoday.com/power-supply-efficiency/

https://minerva-archive.org/ is working on archiving all the data from Myrient. Unfortunately their main page is down right now. But they have a client that volunteers are running to coordinate the archival efforts. Last I heard they already had >80% of all the content archived

Resilio wouldn’t work well for distribution…

But archive.org seems to handle torrents pretty well. When they have a bundle they add a torrent with the same content, and set up themselves as webseed… Then everyone can download either directly or through torrent, and choose to seed what they want. If the content changes, post a new torrent… Of course that means that any old seeders get invalidated… But if they care about seeding they could update the torrent and point it at the old download to avoid redownloading everything. But also, how often does this content actually change? If a game iso/rom is ripped/dumped correctly isn’t that data kind of final? Why would the bit-perfect data need to change?

Over the past month, I built an old 5th gen Intel NUC into an emulation station with Batocera, it now plays everything up to and including N64, dream cast and PSX games.

Then I bought a used Wii, threw homebrew and nintendont on it, so it now that handles game cube and wii games.

So many good old games I never had the chance to play growing up (never had any consoles)…

Gaming in the past is pretty damn awesome, especially when you can get just about any game you would want.

The original image seems to be from here, where the resolution is quite a bit better.

https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/1j8zen7/a_greater_eu_in_a_multipolar_world_zoom_in/

Next to the UK the text reads:

“Following Brexit, Scottish and Welsh independence and Irish reunification, the former United Kingdom ultimately rejoined the EU”

In addition people often use VLANs for security segregation. For example you might buy a bunch of cheap Chinese security cameras, but want to ensure that they can’t send anything back to the manufacturer. Then you can make a VLAN with no Internet access for the cameras.