sNTxRr's ramblings

A few people have asked me some version of the same question lately, in roughly this order: am I using AI to job hunt, isn't that the résumé spam-cannon thing everyone hates, and does any of it actually work.

I've had a few people ask me, in roughly this order, whether AI is going to replace incident response, then whether I've actually tried it, then whether it's any good.

The Problem with Traditional Deployments If you've ever deployed applications to production servers, you've likely encountered the same security headaches I have: Exposing servers to the public internet just to deploy code Storing long-lived SSH keys in C…

I've had some folks ask for details about how I host this blog, so I'm sharing my configuration.

A while ago I did some research and looked into various open source SSO (Single Sign On) options.

Early in my Home Assistant journey, I ran across https://labzilla.io/blog/homeassistant-door-chime - which I quickly adapted for my own needs.

Today I went on a journey.

version: '3.3' services: uptime-kuma: image: louislam/uptime-kuma:1.23.0-beta.1 container_name: uptime-kuma restart: always volumes: - .

I had a few folks ask me for this, so I'm sharing it here: services: vaultwarden: image: vaultwarden/server:1.28.1 security_opt: - no-new-privileges:true volumes: - .

High level goals and considerations Considerations: The current Etherpad (https://etherpad.seattlematrix.org| https://pad.seattlematrix.org) is in active use, and we should attempt to preserve existing pads The admin interface is not currently enabled, we…

Capturing a few one-liners without having to search for them again Count files in a directory: ls | wc -l Recursively count files in directories: find <directory> -type f | wc -l