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📙 Introduction # This will be a story about how a git push containing an Ansible firewall role went out to my self-hosted CI runner and subsequently not only took down every service I host, but locked me out of every single one of my servers.

🎬 Intro # This post will be about how you can easily clone MIFARE Classic cards with a Proxmark3 device.

🎬 Intro # This is kind of a part 5 of my 100TB NAS project/series, well, it is and it isn’t but I’ve included it as part 5 regardless.

🎬 Intro # Pocket ID is a lightweight, self-hosted OIDC provider that’s perfect for homelabs.

🤦 Intro - The rantings of a muffn # As usual, I’m doing substantial yapping before the guide, if you don’t like reading and/or know what you’re doing, jump to the guide Here we are again.

🎬 Intro # vSAN is something I’ve been pretty enamored with for a long time, since it was first becoming a thing.

🎬 Intro # Look, cheap and mini are subjective so this may not be what you might imagine when you read the title, but, subjectively, this build is mini for an 8 bay NAS with this kind of hardware and objectively, it’s cheap.

Below are some of the projects I have been working on that I am most proud of.

This is the definitive guide to MANS - I truly outdid myself with the yapping on this one. 🎯 Introduction # MANS (Muffin’s Awesome NAS Stack) is a flexible, efficient approach to building a NAS that prioritizes storage efficiency and ease of expansion over

You can skip my yapping and jump to the fix. 🎬 Intro # In my apartment, I have an ESXi host that runs some local services including my router/firewall. vCenter is located offsite, which is fine, usually.

📔 Intro # Anyone who’s tried torrenting over VPN knows it can be a bit of a pain.

🎬 Intro # As I age throughout this life, my priorities are changing.

🎬 Intro # I’ve recently been looking to move all my firewalls from pfSense VMs and Mikrotik hardware to OPNsense.

AI Usage # AI tools have been used in my content for two purposes: Generating featured images for certain blog posts.

🎬 The Plan # I’m dubbing this setup and its configuration ✨ MANS ✨, Muffin’s Awesome NAS Stack.

📔 Intro # This post will be a tutorial on how to get rclone working on Synology’s DSM and enable one/two-way sync between your Synology device and an rclone compatible cloud backend.

🎬 Intro # Feature creep is a hell of a drug.

🎬 Intro # Cheap cloud storage is dead.

📔 Intro # Recently I have been experiencing some odd behaviour in my new whitebox ESXI server build.

This is an image heavy post. 📔 Intro # My 3D printing journey started like many others, with an Ender 3 (Pro in my case) and covid lockdowns.

📜 Intro # Recently, when I have tried to SSH to vCenter I have been getting the following:

📔 Intro # When I got my Steamdeck in mid-2022, I couldn’t find a way to stream my Xbox to my Steamdeck locally which sucks because I use my Xbox far less than I should.

📔 Intro # When I started this blog in 2015 it was more to learn than to actually write anything.

📔 Intro # I no longer use Goatcounter.

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👋 Intro # I finally took a big leap in my life and said a giant ‘fuck you’ to landlords and decided to buy my first place in London.

This is nothing new, sadly # This is not a new build.

Intro # POV - Your Mighty is dead and the charger is gonezo.

Intro # This post will be a simple guide on how to upgrade your Cisco Nexus 9000 switch.

🕊️ RIP Unlimited Plex: Gone Too Soon # Whilst this posts methodology is still sound, there are no longer any options for reasonable amounts of cloud storage for cheap.

2020 was supposed to be a year of adventure and wonder for my girlfriend and me.

Building Another NAS # A lot has changed in my life over the last 6 months or so, moving out of my flat and quitting my job to travel the world only to have 2020 suck all meaning out of every fibre of my being making me yearn for the eventuality of Earth…

Another one of these?

Introduction # This post will be a brief intro into VMWare’s distributed switch technology and how to get your feet wet in the setup.

Intro # For a while now I’ve wanted a compact, ‘at a glance’ look at some of my lab statistics and other things in my flat, since my lab is elsewhere.

Intro # So it’s that time of year again when my girlfriend and I decided we wanted to move, after a few months of searching we found a very cosy (and a not so cosy rent price to go with it) flat in Zone 1/2, London.

Intro # So a lot of you read and enjoyed my colocation post a while back and since then things have been going well.

How to pfSense # So, you’ve decided to ditch that POS ISP provided router, or just literally anything marketed towards consumers and have installed pfSense, so.. what now?

Intro, A look back into the past # So a while ago, I posted this rundown of my Plex server and storage setup for media, and it got some traction, which is nice.

Get fucked HP. # So there I was, moving VMs off of my main host (DL380 G7, 2x x5690’s, 192GB RDIMM), getting ready to replace the 8x 300GB RAID10 array I’ve been using for a while now with some 1TB disks and SSDs, awesome, right?

It’s colo time baby!

Hallo 👋 Born in the mid 90s I was always fiddling with electronics and computers, which is why I’m here now.

Intro # Virtualization is awesome.

Surprisingly, I don’t have any backups of my stuff.

I have a lot of 9211-8i’s in the lab, probably about 12, all flashed to IT mode.

Intro # So I need to create an IPSEC point to point link between two sites so my two FreeNAS boxes can replicate between each other as per this project.

Intro # So I started off my IT career as an intern for a rather large company in London.

Intro # BT is an alright ISP, I get good speeds (150D/40U), never get throttled and have yet to hear anything about my internet activity which involves a fair amount of P2P.. their hardware however is god awful, and the BT HomeHub 5 is no exception to tha…