My homeserver went silent. DNS died. Router failover was useless as always — so I fixed it properly. keepalived floating IP, both AdGuards in parity, warm standby backups for Vaultwarden and Gitea. Also accidentally learned a lot about headless XRDP the hard way — LXQt, TigerVNC, rage quitting, and eventually XRDP and XFCE just working. Part 16!
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Where We Left Off Part 15 was about moving the configs off GitHub to Codeberg. The infrastructure was in a decent place. Two servers running, monitoring up,...
I don’t use Twitter or Microsoft Edge, but my network logs tell a different story.
Following my post on why I’m skipping the proprietary "Little Snitch" port for Linux, I spent Saturday evening watching the "invisible conversation" between my family’s idle devices and Big Tech servers. Even with no one actively online, the telemetry never stops.
The receipts are now on the blog:
https://the.unknown-universe.co.uk/privacy-security/my-logs-disagree/
My logs today show a lot of "ghost" traffic. Despite me never using Twitter (X) or Microsoft Edge, syndication.twitter.com and mobile.pipe.aria.microsoft.com are hitting my DNS filter every minute.
It is a clear example of why I rely on a network-wide shield. I do not need a proprietary app to tell me this is happening; I just need the connections dropped. My network is quiet because I host the gatekeeper.
Just migrated from a bhyve VM running Pi-hole to a Jail running Adguard Home.
Few of my 20 (!) clients are lagging behind but a proper rdr rule in pf does the trick.
It’s working great so far but the web GUI is lacking many info. Anyway it’s a win: same service quality (so far), easier maintenance, lower resources, and a Linux VM shut down.
Maintenance Proxmox & Docker : comment je suis devenu spectateur de mon infrastructure
Découvrez comment j'ai automatisé la maintenance de mon infrastructure Proxmox et Docker. De la gestion redondante des scripts entre les nœuds au pilotage à distance de WordPress et Gitea, je vous explique comment mes clusters sont devenus autonomes et résilients, me permettant de passer de l'administration active à la simple supervision.https://blablalinux.be/2026/04/08/strategie-automatisation-globale/