I've been working on my homelab for years, and I enjoy sharing what I learn through this blog and my YouTube channel. Over the past few years, I realized the homelab community (which isn't really a defined thing—that's okay) hasn't had its own gathering, the way makers, software engineers, embedded developers, and HPC professionals do. There are many events that have crossover into the homelab realm, but nothing focused on energy-efficient servers, privacy-respecting self-hosted software,…

OverviewThis week’s urgent queue is crowded with systems that control access to something larger than themselves. Attackers are exploiting F5 and Check Point access gateways, Arista’s SD-WAN orchestrator, SharePoint, TeamCity, and managed switches. CISA’s newest additions bring WSO2 API infrastructure and Adobe Commerce into the same patch-and-investigate cycle.The software details vary, but the operational problem is consistent. A successful update closes one route in; it does not prove that…

A year ago, I switched from Apple Music to Spotify. One of the programs I’ve noticed is Apple Music Radio, where Apple hires real people to broadcast music on live streams. Many years ago, the word, “Radio,” defined technology hardware. Now, the definition of “Radio” is more useful as a genre that is bound to a golden time in broadcast history, signaling people-driven, high quality music. (Donald Glover’s GILGA Radio is another example of this usage.) The constraints introduced by the original…

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I was already a little nervous about my new job. I was sure I would meet new people and make friends I'd likely keep for a while. I picked a table in the lunch room and said hello to the person sitting there. As we made small-talk I mentioned that I had gotten married the previous year. "Oh congratulations!" he said, "What does your wife do?" I corrected him immediately—it was a harmless mistake. We said more about our families, where we lived; over the years we often stopped to chat whenever…

A country where no citizen has ever felt a constraint. The dev box has 128GB, the model never says "this is too much," and the cloud bills instead of refusing. Then it ships to a 2GB server. On languages as materials, and the 100x receipt that proves nobody measured anything.

When economists think about how much utility is gained from additional economic resources the basic assumption is that an additional amount of income or wealth increases utility, but by a diminishing amount–because additional income or wealth has diminishing marginal returns. However, there’s also a long-standing tradition in economics of thinking about why this relationship might have an S-shape. Benoît de Courson, Willem E. Frankenhuis, and Daniel Nettle discuss this past tradition and offer…

I loved Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War, so when my friend Matti told me she had a new book out that follows the same general principle, just with a different civilization-ending weapon, I ordered it on the spot. It was another great read. Biological War is slightly less good than Nuclear War, but that didn’t stop me from finishing it in less than two days. For some reason, though, someone decided to put AI-generated images in the book. I’m not an anti-AI hardliner by any means, but why would you…

A couple of the trees blown down by Hurricane Lala at Mahukona Beach Park. The park was shut for several days with lots of trees blown down and other damage. The wharf parking area is still closed because concrete barriers, that prevent people from driving into the sea, have to be replaced. One is currently underwater, next to the steps where people get in the water. Another hurricane is currently passing close to the island so more damage is likely!

So, this month I changed my planner set-up, added new notebooks and temporarily retired others. Chaos reigns supreme for October! Check out the video for all the details. Links to everything mentioned in the video: Orilum Magical Readathon Journal Video Audrey Matteson charms On the Paper Trail LIVE in Nashville On the Paper Trail LIVE Workshops Lauren Phelps A6 Live Plan Dream Notebook Studio Calico Rolling Date Stamp (no longer available) Customizing a Soolla Bag Aura Estelle B6 Magnet…

For decades, private Internet services have uniformly tried to avoid being legally characterized as government actors. If they become state actors, they must comply with Constitutional restrictions–meaning the Constitutionally required freedoms of speech and press would extend to their user-authors and overlay the services’ content moderation decision. That would turn every content moderation decision into litigation-bait, and few if any Internet services could handle the litigation onslaught…

Hats off to Kevin for finishing this documentary on 1907s Brighton punk, and to Doc'n'Roll for screening it!https://www.docnrollfestival.com/films/punk-brighton/

Neat new writing software NEO from the author Hugh Howey (Wool/Silo trilogy). His philosophy of hitting ‘Enter’ to move through text context formatting is super simple: Hit ENTER once for a new paragraph. Hit it again for a new section break. A third ENTER gets you a new chapter.

In the Steven Universe cartoon series, most of the characters are some kind of space alien gem or semi-precious rock. They don't just use the best-known gems, but dig deep into the collection drawers to pull out azurite, chalcedony, various kinds of agates, and even some questionable "gems" like flint.This raises the question (or at least it does for me): which of the gems would make good lasers?I've grouped the gems into four categories according to their pew-pew prospects, starting…

Topokki is a favorite of mine and topokki with noodle is usually rapokki, however this is with rice noodles. Would it be ripokki? Or wait, they might be sweet potato thread so is it swipokki? I dunno – it’s with noodle. Excited to try, let us begin. Nongshim Taekyung Holey Topokki With Noodle Jjajang – South Korea Detail of the side panels (click to enlarge). Looks to be meat free but check for yourself. To prepare, add everything in a room temp to fill line. Set lid on top loosely and…

From Stay Alive! Berlin 1939-1945, by Ian Buruma (Penguin, 2026), pp. 279-280: But [Heinrich] George did not have to worry. He was one of the very few to be put on a special list of national geniuses (Gottbegnadetenliste), along with Richard Strauss, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and Heinz Rühmann, who were exempt from wartime mobilization. Women, too, were ordered to take on the jobs of absent men. Sabine Alenfeld, whose Jewish husband, Erich, was becoming a nervous wreck, worked from 6:45 p.m. till…

This playbook grew out of my own need for a practical Active Directory field guide that I could use during real penetration tests instead of relying on scattered notes, command collections and memory. Over time, I kept refining it around the way I actually work: establish what access and evidence I have, understand what each result proves,

Built To Spill - UCLA, Westwood, California, April 29, 1997I caught Built To Spill last week — my first time in many, many years. And lo, it was good. The current BTS lineup is made up of just a relatively young / very energized rhythm section, leaving Doug Martsch to handle each and every tricky guitar move. And wow, did he handle those moves. In his ever understated way, Doug remains one of the coolest players, an ideal blend of Mascis, Marr, Young and beyond. Seeing Built To Spill had my…

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Order packing videos are pretty common from small artists on Instagram. I contributed some 42mm Jesmonite D20s with custom stands to a recent charity auction. Getting ready to pack it up along with some extras, I thought some folks might enjoy watching that along with some commentary. The post Packing the Ireball appeared first on Evermore Stud.io.

I saw this This is like the infamous 1996 WWE “curtain call” incident, where the characters break kayfabe and hug each other, revealing the entire act to be a setup. The difference is today no one is even trying to hold character anymore, as no one cares that much. As it’s said, “it’s a big club, and you’re not in it.” This agrees with earlier posts about the “big tech” being the biggest winner of the second Trump administration, despite nothing in ‘23-24 and their CEOs opposing him. Big tech…

We are all frauds. We cry about objectivity, but we never practice it in the truest sense. Because there is no way to bypass your emotions and remain rational—unless you have outsourced your decision-making to a system or a preexisting framework. Almost none of us truly believe in systematic thinking. All the talk of mental models exists only on paper or in a book. Fun to read, but never to implement. We are all looking for hacks to bypass the ordeal of figuring out the right decision. We want…

I am an AI skeptic/hater/slow adopter, due to a combination of concerns about the ethics and environmental impact of AI and the fact that I like doing things myself. I knit my own socks, I built a swing for my porch this summer, and every Thanksgiving I make pies from scratch — even the crust (do you like my handmade em dash?). adactio.com/links/22777

While figuring out what I could do for a breakfast smoothie with ingredients on hand this morning, I learned of a neat trick for hulling strawberries: using a straw. It's very simple. Insert a straw into the base of the strawberry and poke it up to remove that little white stem thing. Makes for less waste when you're preparing them for just about anything. Awesome! (The smoothie turned out okay! It was skyr yogurt, skim milk, strawberries, blueberries, and ice.) ¶ I figured out how I'm going to…

PC There’s no escaping the obvious X+Y format when describing the absolutely wonderful Ambrosia Sky. That’s because it’s absolutely Prey meets PowerWash Simulator, albeit with a smaller budget. And that works for me. Dalia is a Scarab, a sort of investigative action-type who is returning to her former colony of stations situated around the rings of Saturn, trying to recover survivors and data after the outbreak of a fungal disease called Clusterlung. Not only do these spores infect humans and…

one day i will have posters and walls to put them on an xbox, the original one, and a 360 and maybe a ps2, and a cute shelf of all the games i love. a handful from my uncle, everything i found from the trade-in pile at eb games, more not yet found on cashies trips and reclaimed from my dad i'll have stickers on all the doorframes. photos i've taken, printed out, stuck up haphazardly on the wall behind my computer the collection of cds i want to build, thrifted and found and stolen and borrowed,…

Have you ever had the urge to leave the beaten path and just go exploring in the wilderness? To leave the safety of the hiking trail or road and walk through dew-soaked, waist-high prairie grass and copses of young trees? To head away from civilization just to see what's out there, hidden by trees or hills? Just to see what it's like? To see what it smells like, what it sounds like, what the ground feels like beneath your feet? It's finally cooled off for the autumn season. The road I drive…

Ran another session of our family Tegel Manor game. Session RecapThe group keeps trying to reach the western tower, but don't quite seem to get there. They head south through some servant rooms, finding one of the maid bedrooms. They dig up a fancy silver goblet from a chest, but the room is, unsurprisingly, very haunted and starts to breathe heavily, the walls bulging inwards and threatening to crush the adventurers. Jokel orders the ghosts to calm down, but even his extremely loud voice can't…