I get asked a lot lately what the I think people who want to get into cyber security should focus on. My go to answer is incident response, since it seems like the mountains of vibe code and half-assed zero trust architectures is creating galactic scale potential breach energy. Would that be […]

Do you want fries with that?

Last business day of the year! Let's go!

The idea of Matrix as a chat service is nice. But the fact that it keeps going out of sync, and I keep losing messages from other people is just plain annoying. This is worse than IRC net split (at least there was a message when it happened). #matrix #matrixchat #elementx #irc

Since yesterday I've been neck deep into writing Kubernetes alerts using PromQL (for work, not the home lab, for a change). It brings me back to a long time ago when I spent many days writing custom Python scripts to generate Nagios alerts. The big difference is that the files, variables and […]

Last meeting of the year: DONE.

People say you shouldn't blindly trust a suggestion given by AI, and you should verify. Well, I blindly trusted a human. I didn't verify. And when I finally realized their suggestion was wrong, I had the wrong thing running for 30 days, and it took me 12 hours of work to undo their incorrect […]

pro tip: a Homelab and Selfhosted infra are two different things. If you use your #homelab for #selfhosting your personal stuff, one of two things happens: - you can no longer use your homelab as homelab and for experimentation - your selfhosted infra is constantly offfline Selfhosted infra […]

Gran Turismo 7 on PlayStation VR2 is just mind blowing. I think that's the first racing game that I can drive without struggling. The 1st person view in VR makes it a lot easier. And the best part: no motion sickness at all. #gaming #videogames #playstation #PSVR2 #granturismo #gt7

New Blog Post: Hybrid Cloud with Talos and Wireguard https://blog.transitory.social/posts/2025-12-13-hybrid-cloud-with-talos-and-wireguard/ Follow along as I add a remote note to the cluster, and add three more layers of complexity. The end result is the ability to serve external facing pages […]

(To the anti-AI people: please feel free to ignore/skip this post.) New blog post! A few people have asked me how I run AI/LLM tools (ollama and llama.cpp) in my Talos Kubernetes cluster, so I decided to give it a proper explanation. This is quite a long and complex post, but I hope it's useful […]

(due to a snafu, this is a re-post) New blog post! After reading @mmeier's blog post about monitoring his Kubernetes cluster certificates, I decided to take a look at how this is done with Talos, and learned a lot from it. You can read my solution in my blog post, as well as Michael's (which I […]

(To the anti-AI people: please feel free to ignore/skip this post.) New blog post! A few people have asked me how I run AI/LLM tools (ollama and llama.cpp) in my Talos Kubernetes cluster, so I decided to give it a proper explanation. This is quite a long and complex post, but I hope it's useful […]

A few months ago I was undecided between 64GB or 128GB of RAM. My wife said "get 128 so you don't have to worry about it again". She saw the future and saved us *thousands* of Dollars. 😄 #homelab @homelab

@mydoomfr I haven't thought from that perspective. 🤣

@transicorn @KevinM1 You don't have to deal with packages in Bazzite. It's all Flatpak and Homebrew. You will very rarely have to even think about RPM at all, only very specific corber cases.

The spice must flow, and the home lab must grow! I have acquired 3 refurbished Lenovo M720q Tiny. In the picture below you will see my Framework Desktop on the right, which is currently running my single-node Talos Kubernetes cluster. Two of the Lenovo will be […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Sometimes I like to try fate. - NVMe1 = Bazzite - NVMe2 = Windows 11 - USB drive 1 = Ubuntu ISO - USB drive 2 = blank Boot Ubuntu ISO, install on USB drive 2. Boots fine, works fine. Disconnect, reboot. Bazzite is still safe. Imagine the panic if I slipped-click into one wrong box during […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115681555695296836 Perfect observation. Zero notes. Kudos.

Not sure what is worse: the fact that I have way too many tabs open, or the realization that a lot of them are the same tabs opened multiple times. 🙄

And now I have KubeVirt installed in my Talos cluster, with a test VM provisioned. Need to finish up some tweaks, then provision a real VM for real use. That's probably going to become a blog post (at some point). 😄 #homelab #TalosLinux #kubevirt @homelab

I think I'm gonna form a new band called "Cardinality Explosion". And the title album will be "All the metrics I shouldn't be exporting". Presented to you by "Random Operator Records". 💥 #homelab #o11y #observability @homelab

RE: https://mastodon.com.br/@xkcd/115670208385397574 Hahaha! I just realized that some of the XKCD comics published here have a *bonus* joke hidden in the alt-text. Epic!. 😄 #xkcd #alttext

RE: https://techhub.social/@ironicbadger/115663959435265276 Home Lab folks: I believe in you. 😄 #homelab @homelab

"Kubernetes is overkill for a Home Lab", exhibit 493 (made up number): I'm trying to make Pi-Hole egress to the internet via the loadbalancer IP, rather than the node IP (default). To do that, I need to implement Cilium Egress Gateway, which is horribly complicated, and will be used for a […]

The other day I was thinking about some of the people who I used to follow in the old blue bird site. A few of them did open accounts here on Mastodon, mostly because it was "trendy" at that time, but most (of those few) eventually left their accounts to rot. A lot of people from the old site […]

The best way to test the resilience of your service is: reboot the server. I mean it. Don't just restart the service, reboot the server. A story in two parts: Part 1: a while ago I configured ZFS under my Talos Kubernetes cluster, and everything was fine, until I decided to reboot. When it came […]

Every year around this time I get a reminder about why I made an effort to get rid of ZWave in favor of ZigBee. All my outdoor plugs which are based on ZWave lose their minds, and it takes thirty minutes of trial and error until I can get them paired again. The ZigBee and WiFi plugs, on the […]

Eu não sou flamenguista, mas o Palmeiras continua sem mundial. 😄 Parabéns ao Filipe Luís, que já ganhou a Libertadores como jogador, e agora como técnico também. #mastofut #flamengo #palmeiras #libertadores

I don't know who needs to read this, but if you ever wanted to use Synologi as CSI to your Talos cluster, or have been using a fork of the synology-csi driver for that, know that version 1.2.1 adds support to pass the necessary parameters to make the upstream driver work with Talos out of the […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/115614481349569055 This is my current situation trying to write a new blog post. (Also an excuse to try the new @pachli quoted posts)

The fact that I don't blog on a regular basis should be proof that I don't use AI for my writing. Stay tuned. 😄 #homelab #TalosLinux @homelab #blog

Apparently the developer of this particular ZFS metrics exporter decided they don't want to maintain a container image. Can anyone recommend a reliable image built by someone that is using this exporter? I just don't see a point in maintaining my own. #homelab #TalosLinux #zfs @homelab […]

Apparently the developer of this particular ZFS metrics exporter decided they don't want to maintain a container image. Can anyone recommend a reliable image built by someone that is using this exporter? I just don't see a point in maintaining my own. #homelab #TalosLinux #zfs @homelab […]

I'm thinking about doing something dumb, and wanted to check if someone already did: can I run a Talos Docker image on a Raspberry Pi (or any ARM64) to be the control plane for a worker node running on an x86_64 (AMD64) machine? #homelab #TalosLinux @homelab

If you're waiting for the #tusky timeline rewrite before new features arrive then you will probably enjoy #pachli, https://pachli.app. You're already familiar with the UI, and there are countless quality of life improvements. Well, not literally countless. I've listed some of them at […]

I'm thinking about doing something dumb, and wanted to check if someone already did: can I run a Talos Docker image on a Raspberry Pi (or any ARM64) to be the control plane for a worker node running on an x86_64 (AMD64) machine? #homelab #TalosLinux @homelab

Deep thoughts: as much as I like Mastodon, there is a huge difference between ⭐ favorite and ♥️ like, which the platform does not account for, when compared to other social networks. Same thing when you look at ⭐ favorites vs 🔖 bookmarks when compared to browsers. Alas, who am I? Mr Nobody […]

Ok now I'm starting to get suspicious of very new projects that use excessive emojis in the readme 🚀🔍✨📦🔨⚙ 🎯 ⚡

Today is your last day to push to prod until December! (At least in the US) Seriously, let's be honest: lots of people in the US will take the entire next week off. Sadly, I'm not one of them. Be kind to your colleagues and don't mess with their holidays. 😄 #devops #sre #cloud #kubernetes […]

It finally happened! After years it finally happened! A friend sent me a message asking me to 3D print something for them. 😄 (Of course it was ready to go in under 2 hours). #3dprinting

WOW! A new Stargate TV series! This is amazing! I have watched every single Stargate movie and TV show that has been created, and for sure I will not skip on this one. Can't wait! #stargate #stargatesg1 #sg1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e82uV9sBt4I

Interesting thing I just realized while poking around my home lab: my memory usage dashboard and alerts think that the ZFS ARC memory usage is a problem. Even though that memory is just cache/reclaimable, it accounts as used memory, so last night, when I was doing large file operations, the ARC […]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pvpi/pv-pi-power-your-raspberry-pi-with-the-sun Ok this is pretty neat, power a SBC (not only raspi) the right way with a solar panel, I don't think I have a use case, but still .......

I'm here thinking about all the times people said "I'll just slap my home lab behind Cloudflare". Yeah... Are you having fun today? 😄 #homelab #cloudflare @homelab

I do feel like MS/Azure, AWS, and Cloudflare need to do a better job of coordinating their outages so some of yall can get some much needed time away from IT

I guess it’s good that we’re still up so people can complain about all the other stuff being down?

New blog post: Production-grade containers without the K8s complexity Podman Quadlets + systemd + Traefik = secure, maintainable container deployments on RHEL - Network isolation - SELinux integration - Automatic updates - Zero orchestration overhead Complete Forgejo deployment walkthrough […]

Here’s the video of my PETaflop Cluster build for kubecon youtu.be/XudewmfourQ?...