What my brain feels like when you’re autistic, and why I haven’t been writing much lately. I haven’t been writing much lately, as you’ve probably already noticed. Like I said before, my battery is nearing empty. Last night I was thinking about it, and I came up with a metaphor that describes what’s going on…
Help, low battery
For people who play, or have played, LaserQuest, this phrase will probably sound familiar. It comes from the packs themselves when the 7.2V battery pack is nearly empty. The pack reminds the player to return to the airlock to get another battery. But in my case, my battery is nearing empty. And I can tell…
Operation onlyfans #3, and more
Yeah, another OnlyFans update. Again 😛 Not the spicy platform. The spinning 12V PWM-controlled ones. But this story doesn’t begin with RPM charts and heatpipes. It begins with a completely different hardware component. The keyboard. A few weeks ago I noticed that some keys started failing intermittently. Specifically the numbers 1 through 4. The odd…
Fail2ban issue
Yeah, I’m using Fail2ban quite aggressively. If you access my reverse proxy over HTTP(S) and decide to do something naughty, you’ll end up in my eternal black hole. And no, I’m not disclosing which rules I use. Hehe. That said, I did discover a small glitch in my setup. I accidentally banned myself. Well… technically…
DNS, Power, and committing to shutdown
This weekend I finally cleaned up something that had been bothering me for a while: DNS and power handling in my cluster. It technically worked but had a few glitches and, moreover: It wasn’t robust! DNS: from “it runs” to actual redundancy I had a single Pi-hole running in my Proxmox cluster. It filtered ads,…
IPSec VPN Tunnel issues
Today I wanted to write about how I fixed my IPsec tunnel between my home and my office, but my ISP decided to throw yet another curveball. The start I wanted to have a secure connection between my home and my office. Initially, I had a more or less working setup using two DrayTek routers….
Hindsight and Proxmox: mistakes were made
Yeah, my Proxmox cluster hasn’t even been fully operational for 48 hours yet, and I’m already writing an article titled “Mistakes Were Made.” I genuinely wish I had known some of this beforehand, because it would have saved me time and, quite possibly, money. Storage I am already running out of storage. Yes. Not even…
Proxmox HA is alive!
This weekend was D-Day for my Proxmox HA/Ceph cluster. Spoiler alert! It actually runs! And yes, this took way longer than expected, and I had a serious run-in with Mr. Murphy. More on that later. Photos All three nodes, side by side. And yes, I bought another NOX 010 case. It differs from the NOX…
Yay, my first network switch with an attitude
I’ve owned plenty of network gear over the years. Great routers, crappy routers, access points, cheap switches, expensive ones, silent ones and extremely loud ones! You plug them in, they boot, lights blink, life goes on. My new MiktroTik CS309 is a different animal altogether. I accidentally pulled the power from it. I was trying…
Reacher update 17-01-2026
Time for a Reacher update. First official weigh-in for the Tweakers Weight Loss Challenge ( TWLC ). This morning the scale showed 110.5kg. I lost 0.4kg this week. Not the pace I wanted but hey, lower is lower! Brain out.