Defector | The last good website.Big 12 Pulls Glass Court Following Conference Tournament Fiasco
acmWE ARE SENDING TROOPS?!?!?
to what, direct traffic in the Straight of Hormuz? [head-desk]
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/03/13/world-tripoli-more-marines-head-to-middle-east/6301773437271/
andrewIt's weird that the Librarian wound up being the namshub. #snowcrash #badideas
Brian RogersEverywhere near us is out of ice melt and other salts… but they have lots of duraflame logs! So hear me out…
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseAxios: Musk’s xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems. Yikes. “Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has signed an agreement to allow the military to use its model, Grok, in classified systems, a Defense official confirmed to Axios.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/axios-musks-xai-and-pentagon-reach-deal-to-use-grok-in-classified-systems/
mrlich 🎨I just had a ‘shower thought’ which is absolutely in TERRIBLE taste, but also struck me as hilarious:
Deutsch Punk : PA Deutsch meets Cthulhu as a ttrpg!
“My character Jedediah swings his scythe at the creature because he don’ take no guff nah wunst!”
RachelWorse idea time:
Could I plug a CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe into a external GPU enclosure, or just some thingy designed for a raspberry pi, and have a tiny inexpensive 2-port 25gb router? (likely only need 10g speed)
#Homelab #Mikrotik #BadIdeas
Could I plug a CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe into a external GPU enclosure, or just some thingy designed for a raspberry pi, and have a tiny inexpensive 2-port 25gb router? (likely only need 10g speed)
#Homelab #Mikrotik #BadIdeas
Milcom Miasma"You're gonna test this, right?"
AI slop comes to genetic coding.
I feel like this might be the right time to retreat to a cave in the woods and wait for the end to come for us all.
"New virus with genetic code written by AI ‘is first step towards lab-grown life’"
ViolettivettäMost people are well aware that it is a bad idea to start cross stitching with white thread on white aida, however not enough people are warnings about the problems of starting with cream. Or mocha - ultra very light. Or using both shades before starting any other colours.
My latest project with 2 different shades, both of which are practically white on white. Even when knowing that there are 2 shades, it is difficult to see which is which.
Probably not useful ideas that I have bouncing around that I still want to work on as leaning exercises and something to tinker with. I shouldn't look at either of these.... I have much more important and useful things to do, like fixing backups and getting my resume ready....
1. SSH Certs via a local SSH CA.
* PKI is neat, SSH certs are different, and I could trust the CA so no trust on first use. Servers could trust the CA so no need for authorized keys files to distribute
* I'd still need a backup in case I had issues with cert management
* I have too few users and hosts for this to be actually worth the time/complexity
2. True Minimal Ceph cluster
* The docs and most users will give various minimal sized Ceph clusters. Cowards the lot of them.
* Single node cluster with 3 or 4 disks, OSD failure domain
* Or maybe a single OSD backed by a ZFS block device, replicas=1 lets goooooo!
* Backup the mon/mds directories to avoid data loss
* Gets me the ability to send data to it from another Ceph and use the object storage features without needing an entire cluster
#Homelab #BadIdeas #Ceph #PKI
1. SSH Certs via a local SSH CA.
* PKI is neat, SSH certs are different, and I could trust the CA so no trust on first use. Servers could trust the CA so no need for authorized keys files to distribute
* I'd still need a backup in case I had issues with cert management
* I have too few users and hosts for this to be actually worth the time/complexity
2. True Minimal Ceph cluster
* The docs and most users will give various minimal sized Ceph clusters. Cowards the lot of them.
* Single node cluster with 3 or 4 disks, OSD failure domain
* Or maybe a single OSD backed by a ZFS block device, replicas=1 lets goooooo!
* Backup the mon/mds directories to avoid data loss
* Gets me the ability to send data to it from another Ceph and use the object storage features without needing an entire cluster
#Homelab #BadIdeas #Ceph #PKI