*☆｡ﾟjuni's caramel tech café･ﾟ*☆

Now, let me just preface this with a disclaimer: … and get used to this puppo, as you may see this a few more times in this post :’).

recently i’ve been diving into the rather intimidating but endlessly fascinating world of hardware hacking, and after a few aliexpress orders and bad financial decisions, I now have some of the tools required to start to poke around under the physical and…

this all started when my friend gave me a surprise care package at 8:11pm on a Thursday evening while i was practicing soldering in their garage, after I’d had an exceedingly bad mental health day.

for those who occupy a cherished space alongside me in this wibbly wobbly plane we exist in. vira (the mystical) who knew that someone who you met, face down on a table in a first year elective class would come to mean so much?

it all began with a brilliant video released by the venerable Dammit Jeff - How to ACTUALLY quit spotify!

a while ago, i installed custom firmware (CFW) to my 3DS to play modded & emulated games & ROMs, following a number of excellent guides on YouTube and the incredible project that is the 3DS.hacks wiki. now, aside from the fact i’ve spent more time doing a…

My most recent endeavour: transforming my cute lil second-hand Panasonic LetsNote CF-SX2 into a retro, Windows-XP-era (because my childhood absolutely demands it) Linux media ripping and burning machine!

i am what some might consider a “camera person”. 5/5/26 film photo dump from last few months 23/11/2025 captured - on film, this time — by the ever-lovely vira!

After spinning up a new unprivileged Proxmox LXC with an installed (but not yet configured) Tailscale node, using something like a PVE helper script, you may want to turn it into a subnet router to access your internal LAN devices remotely.

Recently, I ran into issues getting certain Steam games running when installed to an NTFS internal SSD that I’d formatted to share across my dual boot Arch Linux and Windows 11 machine.

ahhh, ly. how you betrayed me.

Side note: yes, I know that very capable and feature-rich tools like snapper and timeshift exist that can achieve similar outcomes.

Inspired by the following article (applies to OpenBSD): Be your own privacy respecting (meta)search engine with SearXNG!

i do life. sometimes, at least. allegedly . . . 05/05/2025 film dump from last few months!

now, i’d like to preface this all by saying: this is, by all measures, absolute madness. the biggest thing that i’ve learnt throughout this entire process (aside from how to speedrun de-bloating & installing windows and, to some extent, also installing li…

I encountered some issues downloading complete albums due to some songs being age-restricted because they, GOD FORBID, may have had the f-word (and other OBSCENITIES) in their titles… so here’s my workaround for an automated solution that simplifies this:…

as noted in my caramel slice entry 109, i have recently discovered the tool OpenCamera, which is an alternative camera app that i’ve been using to take purposefully-downscaled & compressed .jpeg photos. i’ve been finding it a beautiful lens through which…

Please note: this is a downloading service that uses public spotify playlist information to download songs from YOUTUBE MUSIC, which is a service that I PAY FOR with a YOUTUBE PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION.

For a number of reasons (notably… well, fuck streaming services and how they treat artists & their customers alike), I have begun to collect & self host my music library, in an attempt to Ditch Spotify Completely and switch to spending the equivalent amou…

Here’s a small tutorial to satisfy your Peak Paranoia Needs: installing the kiwix server to “self host the internet (well, manuals & documentation &… wikipedia) before it’s TOO LATE!

Installing the super cool glance homepage within a custom TrueNAS app (TrueNAS SCALE Fangtooth 25.04.01) via YAML.

Ahhh, nvidia.

Just a smol lil guide for myself (that will be periodically updated over time as i return to the self-imposed joys of small-scale mc server admin :3) to set up a minecraft server from scratch, as I cannot count the number of times I’ve had to re-learn this

A while ago, my friend had played around with installing Arch linux, and I warned her against choosing it as an OS for dual-booting due to how notoriously difficult….

Below lays out my adventures setting up syslog-ng as a pfSense package to get pfSense (&/or Suricata - the same process can be applied, see the very helpful guide here) logs into a Splunk (Cloud) instance!

The constitutes as the first of (perhaps a few) posts within which I plan to document the highlights/learnings of my foray into the mythical, wonderous world of Powershell (7), alongside the troubles and toils that I will (inevitably) encounter on the way…

Finished Setup - a Sneak Peak: Appealing?

Running within proxmox LXC (so can be notified even if TrueNAS fails): On your Proxmox LXC, install docker-compose and create a new directory with a docker-compose.yml: services: gotify: image: gotify/server ports: - 8081:80 environmen…

partying is something that i rarely do, but when i do, it is typically with a number of cool folk and beverages . . . behold: some ephemeral moments. 12/07/2025 captured on film by a brilliant soul by the name of sage. find more of their work (photos, ess…

Recently, I’ve been playing with Wazuh, the “Unified Open Source XDR and SIEM.”* My thoughts on the actual platform are still in a state of active formulation as I deploy and test the various capabilities… but all things considered, it’s a pretty cool pro…

.dotfiles or… (.)²files?

Smol Objective: Revisiting branching, checkout’s, and stashing!

Here lies the ramblings of a madwoman; bumbling her way around in the darkness in an attempt to understand the wide world of websec… … in the absolute broadest of strokes: Token-based (JWT): Authentication state is stored on the client (local/session stor…

just a lil guide for my future self when i inevitably forget this again (and it’s probably still wrong oops-) - Steps: - Find the commit you want to revert to & copy its hash: - Return to your open project: for me, i was working with a locally-cloned copy…

and now - to the story of how this blog was born!

an addiction: in pictures. timestamped to perfection, and updated routinely (AKA whenever i remember). 22/8/2026 - slice 244!

caramel slice rankings: Black Forest Bakery slice - found at: Taylor Blend + Saporito Espresso.

debian 12 container install inside proxmox `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y network settings: If your router supports subnets/VLANs, connect this to the isolated VLAN. within proxmox, assign static IP not in use and point to your router’s gateway.!

burn it all down… or?

- so, how did we get here?

NOVEMBER, 2024: ’twas a rather life-changing, trip, i’d say.

DECEMBER, 2023: a (large) trip with a dear group of uni friends, an amalgamation of utter chaos and love:

NOVEMBER, 2023: some of the most blissful and simultaneously heartwrenching moments in my recent memory:

Hi all!

… & pulling files from an external SSD &/or an internal HDD.

~ Using TP-Link TL-WN722N ~ The GUI way of adding a USB device to a Proxmox VM didn’t work for me when using a USB network adapter (the device id was not showing up when trying to add to the VM via the GUI), so here is a simple manual workaround. - Steps:…

Here is a little guide from a nightmare I encountered whilst trying to perform a maintenance update on a pfSense router… I hope my pain and suffering can help someone else :’).

Here’s a quick little rabbit-hole of upgrading ESXi clients, and a crash course on TPMs and their equivalents!

- Pre-requisites: Have a working Splunk instance (Splunk Enterprise, in my case) to connect to.