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Some time ago, I built a box to track ADS-B data in my location.

The current mess in the Linux world is dirtyfrag.

At the end of last year, I made a post talking about how I don’t need no stinkin’ HA in my homelab.

I’m approaching about a year since I reconfigured my backup strategy to rely on Proxmox Backup Server.

This is a rambling tale about redundancy, understanding needs, and the sunk cost fallacy.

I have a very, very old Polycom Soundpoint IP 321 in a drawer.

For the past few months, I’ve been test-driving T-Mobile’s Backup Home Internet that’s based on their cell network.

A while ago, I highlighted a design in my homelab where I kept core services running on a low power core to get longer runtimes on my UPS.

After it was announced that data from Government sites such as the CDC and FDA were being removed, I did what any good Data Hoarder does and started hoarding more.

Last Year I showed my system and talked about how I use Trunk Recorder to monitor P25 radios.

With the maybe looming ban of TikTok in the US, here’s how to download all your likes, favorites, and even entire creators you follow.

Coming later this month, I have a post on monitoring my Trunk Recorder installation with Zabbix and Prometheus.

One good practice for most environments is centralized logging.

A few months back, I set up an ADS-B plane tracker to watch airplanes that were in the area.

If you’re like me you have a problem with keeping nearly every cable you come across.

I recently figured out a solution to a problem I’ve long been battling.

This is the first hardware based project I’ve shared, but this is how I built my ADS-B Tracker.

This is a post that’s largely going to be me complaining about shitty cable internet that I’ve lived with since its inception.

One thing that is a key asset in any environment is reliable, thorough monitoring.

After Ubiquiti’s recent security faux pas, I started to question the best way to access my Unifi Protect cameras.

One project I recently invented for myself is cleaning up my jumbled mess of firewall rules.

Trigger Warning: This post talks generally about human mortality and loss of your home.

When you have a homelab, you’re going to start having a number of internal websites and services you use.

Hanging out in subreddits like /r/homelab, /r/servers, and /r/datahoarder, I see this question asked too many times: I have extra space in my home server, how can I sell this for other people to use?

If you’ve poked your head outside in the last few weeks, you’ve noticed that LastPass had a security breach where customer vaults were exposed and downloaded.

If you ave a homelab, you’ve probably collected a few TB of data that needs backed up.

One thing that quickly becomes annoying is disruptions to my main home internet.

This site isn’t anything too special, but I figured I’d share how I host things for others who may be interested in owning their words.

There’s an old joke in Programming that 90% of your time is spent naming things, and I think this extends into Homelabs and any other computer environment.

One critical thing for any environment, in my opinion, is monitoring.

I double NAT my home network.

I recently made a design change to my homelab that paid off in leaps and bounds, and just secured my homelab as a part of my critical infrastructure during emergencies.

I really like filtering my mail.

One challenge of running servers, especially if you have more than a few, is keeping all of the software up to date on them.

If you’ve been on the Internet at all today, you’ve probably heard that there is a pretty nasty RCE issue with log4j, a logging package for Java applications.

After some light Google-ing, I couldn’t find a simple example for Emby running behind an Nginx reverse proxy.

Obvious Disclaimer: I’m not a professional security researcher.

This is a quick how-to showing my procedure for setting up new drives with LVM.

I’m pretty protective of my data.

One of the most important parts of keeping data safe is offsite backups.

If you’re installing Debian on a regular basis, or want to automate the installation a bit more, building a custom Debian installation ISO can be quite handy.

In the past, I showed how to add a firewall rule in Debian 9.

One tool that is pretty neat for anyone who manages more than one machine is Puppet.

This is a minor inconvenience that I’ve dealt with for far too long.

In Part One we looked at how to download our photos from Google Photos to a local drive.

One service that I’ve come to rely on is Google Photos.

I suffered a pretty hard burn out a couple of years ago.

I’m not a huge fan of meta posts, but this seemed like a fairly major change so I’m making one.

This is something that bothered me when adding more than one server to PHPMyAdmin.

So I recently have fallen in love with single sign on.