Life moves fast and sometimes we have less time than we want to for the fun things like projects and open source. And by "we", I mean "me".
I just submitted TetherFi version 54 to the Play Store today, which should bring some additional fixes to the experimental SOCKS proxy mode as well as improving speed and fixing a couple crashes. I plan to have it sit in beta for a bit just because its a larger update. If you are interested in testing, you can join the Open Beta program on the Play Store, otherwise just sit tight. Hopefully 53 is working well enough for now :)
Over the past few months I've been playing around with reproducible setups. I have a dotfiles repository that I recently converted to "install as an ArchLinux package" where the package keeps track of dependencies and installs system files into expected locations. So far, it's pretty nice, though not nearly as advanced (or complex) as something like an Ansible. For now, that's how I like it to be.
Over the past few months I've been playing around with reproducible setups. I have a dotfiles repository that I recently converted to "install as an ArchLinux package" where the package keeps track of dependencies and installs system files into expected locations. So far, it's pretty nice, though not nearly as advanced (or complex) as something like an Ansible. For now, that's how I like it to be.
I bought a cheap box off of AliExpress to use as a Opnsense router (which would replace a Google Fiber Wi-Fi 5 router that is now 3 years old). Opnsense is super cool, and I had just gotten everything setup (VLANs directly to my Omada AP, IDS and DNS blocklists) when suddenly, the cheap box just refused to boot. Even messing with the CMOS battery did not fix it, it just suddenly, randomly decided to die. Not a nice thing to wake up to, given that the router needs to have 100% uptime in order to achieve maximum Wife-Approval-Factor. For now I've ordered a second box to play around with (from Amazon this time, instead of AliExpress so I have the amazing return policy), and when it gets here hopefully I can make it into something neat again :)
The other night I also tried installing clamav onto my home server to see how it could help keep an eye on files on my server machine, given that the server is used by multiple people and not all files are mine. Well as fate would have it, I had just purchased an external enclosure off Amazon (I think it was a Terramaster) and had just gotten around to sticking an empty IronWolf Pro 12TB inside it. Clamav started scanning, and all was fine, until suddenly, it started hitting my drive at 4500MBps reads, and it did this constantly. Overnight. While I slept. I woke up to two drive alarms and 2 dead drives. RIP my old hard drive, you had served me for 5 years before being unceremoniously killed by clamav.
Needless to say, I have uninstalled clamav for now. I did not realize the configuration would need to be so specific to not cause problems.
Needless to say, I have uninstalled clamav for now. I did not realize the configuration would need to be so specific to not cause problems.
Thankfully, I was able to recover most of the drive by copying off of a previous test drive used for setting up an LVM cache. After about a day or so of tinkering around and cp mv over an SSH session, all of the data should have migrated smoothly. I guess, even when your server files are "not important" it's still nice to have backups - but how can you afford large backup drives in this economy!
Anyway, I'm starting to ramble so I will wrap things up here. The tl;dr is, I'm still here but just very busy. I've got updates I want to make, and projects I want to try, and set ups I want to start (Home Assistant!). I've got some now, and more later.
Stay tuned!
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