We almost all stopped looking up at the skies and instead are now looking down at our little phone screens. Somewhere along the way, the infinite got traded for the immediate. Some things to wonder about: Did you know that our Sun has been fusing 600 million tons of hydrogen every second for more than…
Proxmox update: 10Gbe network. CHECK
Nerd alert! The three Intel X710 10Gbe network cards are in! Thank you Ebay! ( in earnest this time! 🙂 Port 1 will be used for the Ceph sync for the VM’s. Port 2 will be used for data towards my network. More soon! Brain out!
Nuclear energy, the numbers don’t lie
Why two nuclear plants might end up costing up to €275 billion — and why solar wins without even trying. Disclaimer: This analysis is not anti-nuclear — it’s about math and realism. And besides that; I know how to create an Excel sheet and do some basic math. 🙂 Several Dutch political parties want to…
Operation: Onlyfans #2
If you’re looking for kinky content, you’re in all the wrong places — again! This story is about dust bunnies and compressed air — again! Part #1 can be found here! This is just a short update. After watching one of the videos from this channel — not this specific one! — I figured it…
Reacher update: 25-10-2025
Another week ehhhhh no, month, another update. 😛 Weight: 107.3kg Chest: 106cm Waist: 105cm Belly: 105cm Body fat: 26.3% ( 7 day average: 26.8% ) My weight’s still moving sideways for now. The goal of double digits remains out of reach. Another update in hopefully 7 days! Brain out.
Non verbal communication – The Nightmare!
It’s been a while since I last posted about how I perceive my autism. This time, a deeper dive into one of its biggest pitfalls — probably the biggest one for me. non verbal communication You know, that mysterious 80% of all communication that apparently happens through small muscles in our face and body. Those…
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, NO POST
Yeah, I know. That’s one hell of a cryptic title for this POST (pun intended 😛 ). Proxmox node 3 Yes! This post is about the third Proxmox node I’ve been assembling. Last Sunday, I finally had some spare time to install everything into the newly bought case. The process itself was straightforward: add extra…
1984 is calling, it wants its policy back.
This week I wrote about “mass surveillance in the name of protection”. This is the Saturday/Sunday follow-up. (c) (r) ™ :-). (cross out whichever day doesn’t apply — or both, if you’re reading this on Monday!) What I’m writing here may sound absurd — but it really isn’t. Take a second and consider how your…
Mass Surveillance in the Name of Protection
The cost of confusing data volume with intelligence Once again, the EU is trying to push a bill that would allow scanning private communications for illegal content — all in the name of fighting terrorism and, of course, the golden ticket: child abuse. Don’t get me wrong, child abuse is absolutely horrific. But this bill…
Proxmox update
And time for a short Proxmox HA update. Hardware The first new — or actually, second-hand — hardware is coming in. I found a used 10 Gbit Ubiquiti XG 16 GEN 1 switch for a nice price. It comes with ten SFP+ ports and four regular RJ-45 ports, all supporting up to 10 Gbit. Core…