Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Kizomba

    Eating my traditional egg and toast on the garden side deck, I am a bit distraught. My mental health is not doing great.

    My body is okay, although I'm sick of smoking tobacco. I think coffee isn't doing me well anymore. I am trying to finish a contract for the last 2 week and it's not doing well. I am very close to give up on it, although I'd loose a big contract.

    Note to self, lets not do these type of contract anymore even if the pay is exciting.

  • To think that my previous pair of glasses lasted nearly twenty years, and yet my current pair almost two

    So there I was, sitting in the Compute Room at Chez Boca cleaning my glasses. I was holding them in my left hand, and I had finished cleaning the left lens and had started cleaning the right lens when …

  • hold

    they say hips hold trauma
    is that why I cry every night
    on the floor, stretching 
    to maintain at least my mobility
    if not emotional stability
    do I still hold your memory
    so deep in my body 
    the pain has become
    physical
    

• Technology and Free Software

  • Relax-and-Recover on Proxmox

    It now outputs ISO images with a full backup of my two Proxmox nodes every Sunday. These can be used to make a full recover of a node including bootloader and all the stuff. It just backs up the main installation disk and not the disks containing the VMs and containers or any ZFS pools.

    [...]

    Because I have no DVD drive to connect to the nodes for a recover I use "ventoy" to boot the images from an USB stick, which I prepare for a disaster recovery. You just have to configure ventoy to automatically boot the right ISO from the USB stick if you're recovering headless.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • New smolweb file transfer service

      Have you ever needed to transfer a file to someone, or maybe yourself, but you haven't had access to dropbox or whatever at the time? Or maybe you need to transfer something to or from a machine that you only have terminal access to?

      I ran into these issues, so I set up a service for piping data from the command line - literally, it acts like a unix pipe - using ingrix.info as a proxy. You also don't need to sign up for it! (Unless you want to send me a public key, see below).