Posted on 2024-February-15 in storage
Objective: backup a Mac to a samba share.
For reference: I am running MacOS Sonoma 14.3.1 and default Samba (2:4.17.12) on Debian stable (Bookworm).
On the Samba side, create a new share and add a section to /etc/samba/smb.conf
[Time Machine] path = /data …
Posted on 2023-October-04 in networking • Tagged with IPv4, IPv6, DHCPv6, SLAAC
My home network is unusual, I'll grant you that. Hundreds of connected machines, servers, tablets, gadgets made me switch at some point to a /23 to push the limits to 500 entries on my LAN. In my defense, I have a lot of multi-port routers, managed switches, and …
Posted on 2022-September-01 in fun • Tagged with AI, dall-e2, midjourney, stable-diffusion, art
If you haven’t followed, there has been a recent (Summer 2022) wave of AI tools for image generation from a text prompt. It works this way: describe what you want to see, press a button, see what you get.
Here are some prompts and the images that were generated …
Posted on 2021-November-03 in networking • Tagged with router, raspberry, openwrt
Driving a home Gbit Internet connection requires heavy hardware. Or maybe not?
Following recommendations on OpenWRT forums I tried it on a Raspberry Pi 4 with an additional USB3/Gbit adapter and the results are beyond anything I could have hoped for. This is not a cheap solution …
Posted on 2021-October-03 in networking
Latest upgrade on my home Internet connection brought me to an almost symmetric Gbit link: 1000 Mbit/s down, 500 Mbit/s up. Very comfortable, but what kind of home router do you need to sustain such traffic loads? I tried a lot of alternatives which I will briefly describe …
Posted on 2021-May-31 in networking
Self-hosting is about running your own cloud services on your own hardware. Remember: there is no cloud, you are just using somebody else's computer. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes you don't want to entrust that someone else with your data. In some cases it is a lot cheaper to host …
Posted on 2021-May-23 in networking • Tagged with dynamic ip, vpn, vps
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Say you want to host some service at home and make it reachable from the Internet. What …
Posted on 2021-May-16 in storage • Tagged with btrfs, Debian, nas
Some of my currently unused 2.5-inch drives
Over the years I have accumulated so many hard drives at home it is getting ridiculous. Last time I went through a decommissioning frenzy I must have dumped at least twenty of them to the tech recycle bin. Sizes ranged from several …
Posted on 2021-March-24 in thoughts • Tagged with AI, google, information poisoning, internet, youtube
I watched this Netflix film about the flat-Earthers and found it quite enjoyable. Having been educated in the sciences, I marveled at that sorry lot trying to prove the Earth flat and invariably ending up approximating its radius. Made me wonder: how do I know for a fact that we …
Posted on 2021-January-27 in programming • Tagged with esp32, lua, microcontrollers, micropython
Espressif is this little fabless Chinese company who are behind the incredibly successful ESP8266 chip, followed in 2016 by a more powerful successor: the ESP32. This microcontroller allegedly uses a lot more power than equivalent Arm MCUs (though I haven't done any research on that topic), but what really makes …