I raced in our second #autocross event of the year yesterday, and it was a ton of fun (as always). I love when we get a course that wraps around the stadium and uses up most of the parking lot.

https://youtu.be/fDf80PISgVU

My little #Proxmox setup is growing!

Work gifted me a pair of HP Elite Mini 800 G9 PCs to supplement my #homelab efforts (recognizing that my weekend/evening tinkering helps me be more effective while at work).

Each of these little guys packs a 12-core 12th-gen i7 and 96 gigglebytes of RAM. This should keep me sated for a little while.

Merry is Very Concerned about what dad might be eating for breakfast.

#DogsOfCoSo

There are some great ways to use generative AI.

Copy/pasting responses to "explain" things to others isn't one of them.

https://capsule.jbowdre.lol/gemlog/2024-04-05-using-genai-responses-explain-things.gmi

It's early Monday and this made me spill coffee on myself.

I strapped a 1TB SSD to each Blade, and did a Very Professional Job of mounting them in the wall.

I've fleshed out my Salt high state for these to address the prereqs I could think of, so I think I'm about ready to start putting these to work soon.

We are so very lucky that this got caught by a dev who just happened to be investigating a performance issue before it was released to stable distributions.

This is a fascinating/terrifying timeline of the events leading up to yesterday's discovery that #xz had been compromised (leading to an #ssh backdoor):

https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

#cososec #security

There are few things more infuriating than watching someone else use a computer.

Being able to read a restaurant menu board from the back of the line is pretty neat.

🐍 How I added a snek to my GitHub contribution grid:

https://capsule.jbowdre.lol/gemlog/2024-03-28-unnecessary-github-eye-candy.gmi

Long hair: ✅
Clean-shaven: ✅
Sexy specs: ✅

Continuing my unintentional transformation into that cool young dude in my avatar...

(I had Lasik ~12 years ago, and it's been great, but I've noticed my distance vision slipping a bit over the past year. So now I get to wear glasses again (though with a much lighter Rx than last time!) while I wait a few years to see how my eyes progress. I can get a Lasik adjustment, but can apparently only get one of those so want to make it count!)

I found a GitHub Action which sends a snake chomping through your contributions grid and I'm very entertained.

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/generate-snake-game-from-github-contribution-grid

Question: why do some people preface their question with "question:" instead of just asking the question?

Maybe I'm just old, but I really hate when companies try to use a Discord chat instead of a discussion forum.

https://capsule.jbowdre.lol/gemlog/2024-03-25-discord-not-a-forum.gmi

📡 I put together some notes on my Gemini Capsule setup:

https://runtimeterror.dev/gemini-capsule-gempost-github-actions/

You gotta stop letting your mama dress you, you piece of shit.

"Hey I see your session is about to time out. Would you like to stay logged in?"

Yeah, that'd be great, thanks.

"Okay, I'll let you stay on this page but as soon as you try to do anything you'll get an error that your session is expired and you'll have to log back in again."

... I rescind my thanks.

I'm not sure how I didn't previously know about https://cht.sh/, but it provides super-handy cheatsheets right in your shell - and it's AWESOME.

Usage details are at https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh, and it didn't take me long to add it to my Nix home-manager-managed fish shell config (https://github.com/jbowdre/dotfiles/commit/e1a8a05514cca14de227e1d00447a17f5e1503cb).