A Nerd’s Ramblings

Smart lamps are expensive and there are very few out there! Throwing smart bulbs in might be great but when someone turns off the light at the switch it makes them useless. Since starting the home automation adventure, I have wanted to find a relatively cheap solution to this problem. Armed with a 3d Printer and some Shelly 1 Plus devices, I think I have found the solution. Lets start with a warning though, this is a fairly simple process, but you will be touching mains electronics… if you mess up you could have 240v running through you....

Plausible is a fairly simple analytics company. Unlike google, which takes every scrap of data they can, plausible respects their customer’s visitors. They are an open-source and affordable provider. I started using them recently to see who is visiting my site and from where. The only problem most of the people that go to my site are nerds like me… so they run an ad-block. Most ad-blockers unfortunately block plausible....

In this guide, I will show you how to automate the deployment of k8s on a XCP-NG server. We will use Terraform and Ansible to deploy and configure the hosts. This guide still largely applies to other distributions of Linux, the main section you would have to change is the adding the repos and installing the packages. You will need to find the repos and the package names might be slightly different....

A quick side note, this was a artical I started writing back in Febuary last year when returning from Fosdom 24. I have worked on it since some about but this is more a capsual of what my brain was thinking and isn’t a complete argument. There is lots more I want to say on the matter which I maybe will someday. For now, I thought I may as well post it....

Means.tv rss feed Another service which dosen’t provide a rss feed… so I ended up creating one. The git repo is below and you can find a list of all the creators feeds (including floatplane): godfrey.online/rss For means.tv I generate Atom, json and standard RSS feeds. Git repo

Just a simple vim notes file. Nothing of much intrest but I want to be able to refere to this and it might be a bit useful? Tabs :tabe (file) This will open a new tab. gt is next tab gT is for previous tab Splits CTRL-w + HJKL Movements around splits. CTRL-w + V Vertical split of the same type as you are on already CTRL-w + < Resize split to the left....

This artical was written a long time and left in a very uncomplete state. I still need to add links but I thought I would post it otherwise I will never post it. Please excuse the state this is in. I have since moved onto a framework and then a surface tablet since I completed this mod. My thinkpad is now dead, the screen flickering returned. I have a feeling this is because the cable died....

AUDIO VERSION Your browser does not support the audio element. Introduction I am guessing you probably are the sort of person that checks YouTube for your video needs, twitter for news articles you might like and so on. I was once like that and I didn’t see any problem at all with it. Honestly, I liked it… Check one place for when I want videos and one where I follow along with what is going on in the world....

Some time ago, I created an RSS feed for Floatplane using bash scripting. Initially, all the channels were combined into a single feed. However, I have recently rewritten the script in Golang and made it accessibe on my site link. The updated version of the RSS feed now includes several enhancements. These include image thumbnails, channel icons, and separate listings for channels with sub-channels.

PGPP is a new mobile carrier that aims to provide increased user privacy and security. It is designed to use already existing infrastructure with clever techniques that reduce the usefulness of the 3 main tracking tools used by carriers. This project is intended to hamper bulk data collection, but does not claim it would withstand a targetted attack from a state actor. This is because a state actor could and probably would have full visibility of the network....