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Homelab troubleshooting

Upgraded a bunch of stuff in my homelab last week! Added a new proxmox host and moved the plex server onto my old gaming PC with a new 16-bay JBOD from QNAP. I’ve run into a couple issues and wanted to make some notes for my future self if I need to solve them again. e1000 NIC hangs Under increased load, the NIC on my old gaming PC would hang and fall off the network. It had only happened once or twice before and it wasn’t worth the extra investigation yet. With the plex VM now on that box, the […]

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Simple Sabotage Field Manual

Author: United States. Office of Strategic Services Release date: August 4, 2008 [eBook #26184]Most recently updated: February 4, 2024 Language: English Credits: Produced by: David Reed Simple Sabotage Field Manual Office of Strategic Services OSS REPRODUCTION BRANCHSIMPLE SABOTAGE FIELD MANUALStrategic Services(Provisional)STRATEGIC SERVICES FIELD MANUAL No. 3 Office of Strategic Services Washington, D. C. 17 January 1944 This Simple Sabotage Field Manual Strategic Services (Provisional) is published for the information and guidance of all concerned and will be used as the basic doctrine for Strategic Services training for this subject. The contents of this Manual should be carefully controlled and should […]

did:web Setup Notes

Here’s my notes on using @lukeacl.com‘s lovely did:web tool (source here). Get an invite code for a PDS. I’ve got a guide for setting one up without using docker if you want to run your own. I’m happy to get you an invite code on hellthread.pro if you would like to test it out. Ping me on IRC or bluesky. My personal account is on there but of course I have no uptime guarantees. For this example, I’ll show the steps I used for making a did:web from my tilde.team account. The did:web setup on bluesky does not support paths, […]

Bluesky PDS Migration Notes

I ran into a couple snags while moving my Bluesky account to my self-hosted PDS. Wanted to gather these in one spot for future reference. I followed @bnewbold.net’s guide for migrating with the goat tool. In no particular order, here are the fixes for each of the things I ran into. Missing Blobs But the post is right here??? I deleted some other old hellthread posts trying to clean this up and struggled a bit. I tried downloading the missing blob: So expected blobs are 668 but there are 670? and why is this post visible but the blob is […]

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Pinball Resources

A sort of link-in-bio page. I control the accounts listed below.

Pinball Expo 2024

Just got home from Expo. What a blast! Spent a lot of time in the tournament room volunteering and playing poorly. Super cool stuff this year for the 40th year of expo. As always, the homebrew pins are a delight. The standing hugging pin had some crazy shots. 1930s flipperless pins were also a huge highlight, complete with era-appropriate tunes and outfits. Rob Berk also brought out all five of the Hankin pins which were very cool. Bummer that there were so few produced. Glad to complete my tour of all the Star Wars pins as well.

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I wrote some notes on mastodon maintenance/upgrades and why I went with Jortage for tilde.zone's media

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wordpress.com sucks

Moved some stuff around the other day to preserve my benharri.wordpress.com subdomain. I discovered that a redirect costs $13/year to be able to send your traffic to your own site. This all feels so hypocritical with Matt Mullenweg’s recent ranting about WP Engine disabling post revisions. Bro, come on…. wp.com is just as bad if not worse and it’s essentially typo-squatting with the same name as the open source project at wordpress.org. What an impressive conflict of interest. Definitely won’t be using or recommending wordpress.com to anyone.

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Put together a silly little php script to build an SVG QR code dynamically. This started a while ago as a quick way to get a printable QR code for each pinball machine that would shoot you to an issue report form with the name of the game prefilled. I previously generated a bunch of PNGs with qrencode(1) and used php to list them on the web but that requires ssh access to generate new ones. For some reason the old one is a fish shell script (I use it as my interactive shell but don’t usually write scripts with […]

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Worth the read if you have a spare moment. So, there’s a man crawling through the desert. He’d decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, had great fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit a big rock, and then he couldn’t get it started again. There were no cell phone towers anywhere near, so his cell phone was useless. He had no family, his parents had died a few years before in an auto accident, and his few friends had no idea he was out here. He stayed with the […]

Thunderbird Fonts & Colors

Saving this as a post here for my future reference. The key to getting the “default” fonts to apply to plain-text (and all mails with the allow messages to use other fonts setting off) is also changing the fonts for Other Writing Systems. Why is it like this? Who knows! This answer brought to you by a semi-not-recent reddit thread. [–]Yukness   2 points 3 years ago The display fonts are set in the Advanced section of Language & Appearance in Options. Did you set the fonts with Fonts for-Other Writing Systems? If not, that might explain why Unicode plain […]