Data Hoarder 💾

• Fleet: More than 10 devices · More than 50 TB

• Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting

• My MVPs: Audiobookshelf, Arr stack broadly, Actual Budget, Self built utilities and custom code, Homedex

I set up homedex alongside portainer and dozzle

My Neighbor Totoro’s release in china was delayed by 30 year due to political tensions. The eventual release got a new poster:

I like it much more than the original

Have you been eating your syrup cold this whole time?

What do you mean? I can’t arrange by penis (SFW)

What do you mean flat?

That doesn’t unlock the long tail of MLB games. IPTV groups really only unlock 2-3 MLB network channels that don’t cover all games

The content host blocks IPs based on reputation (VPN exits are well-known) but so many people have done the exit through a VPS that those IP blocks are poisoned and could go at any moment. A true residential IP can’t be blocked because those are legitimate customers

TorGuard’s exit nodes are only in the US, so doesn’t solve the problem OxyLabs seems to block Streaming in their TOS BrightData doesn’t block streaming, so I’ll dig into that one. Thanks for the suggestion!

IMO, Tor should be reserved for escaping repressive regimes and avoiding nation-state level content blocks. Plugging up the network with baseball streaming doesn’t seem like a fair or reasonable use of public resources

Babadook remains the most uncomfortable film I’ve ever watched

This is my own bad take: I feel the same about ticket to ride. I do not want to count individual train cars to get my points or validate I did the route or that I have the longest train.

Me draw card. Me place car. You give score. That’s about as much as my caveman brain can handle

Did you try turning the faucet off first to stop the water from rising while you were working?

It’s also 180K for a 15-20 year refresh cycle. These are commercial units that are used in harsh environments… not a cabinet you buy once and it sits in your bedroom.

Add in wiring plus the install costs and $180K seems like a good deal

Distributed decision making, and these are all systems that are transactional or regulatory and not necessarily driving revenue / customer value.

The IT / Systems team was told “stand up an SMTP server so we can send emails” and there’s no more discussion of capturing / trapping / dead boxes. And as an engineer if you start to add that scope, “why are you taking so long? I just need to send emails.”

And then the delete account project is “GDRP says we need to delete accounts. So delete them in the least expensive way possible.” Which means, as an engineer, don’t spend a ton of time on this. In my previous company, we were still manually deleting accounts. As in SRE connected to the DB and ran a SQL command, by hand, with a piped in user ID.

The notifications team is responsible for sending messages. Why do they care, or should be responsible for, identifying if a user is deleted? They’re responsible for maintaining the SPAM/unsubscribe list but not the user accounts.

it’s distributed decision making, no one cross-cutting or thinking about these edge cases that impact multiple systems

The @deleteduser.com example is the easiest to explain

A user, Bob, has an account and has attached his email address. Later, Bob says he wants to delete the account. For legitimate reasons, the company doesn’t want to delete all associated records (think, user generated content or user to user interactions that shouldn’t simply disappear. Or maybe audited transactions.)

The company also doesn’t want to have those associated records pointing to nothing … maybe the schema doesn’t support that (eg required foreign key constraints) so it has to point to something

So the company changes Bob’s account details. They delete his profile picture, his phone number, etc. but Name and Email are required by the database. Their deletion process changes Bob’s name to deleted_user and they change his email to deleted@deleteduser.com thinking that’s a dead domain that’ll never be valid to receive emails.

Later, another process triggers an email. Someone sends Bob’s account a message, replies to a thread, etc. this process doesn’t know / care that Bob’s account was deleted so it fires the email to deleted@deleteduser.com

There are a lot of problems with the decision making here, and there are better ways to handle all of this. But these are all rational decisions in the moment that can cause an email to be sent to an “invalid” email address

Too close to The Splooge

I’ve got one Jammy box and one Resolute… I don’t love Canonical, but not enough hate to migrate my hosts to another distribution

R u srs?

Plex operates TURN servers