I have pretty much landed on a similar simple solution for my homelab. A minipc with dietpi + docker + dockge + bunch of homelab apps using docker compose. Important config backups on a S3 compatible bucket in cloud + photos backup on connected USB HDD.
Wow - wordstar makes a mention on HN. During the college days mid 90s some of the admins in our lab used Wordstar. For us kids it was Framemaker or Word. We couldn't convince the admins to move to a Windows 3.1 based hot modern UI :-)
I used to have my own local root CA as well but now trying the Let's Encrypt with DNS-01. What is the easiest combination of software to try it? I have failed miserably trying Opnsense + ACME client plugin + Cloudflare DNS + HAProxy / NGinx. I would get 100% ssllabs certs but somehow the reverse proxy won't forward to internal services. Next I am gonna go caddyserver for reverse proxy as it has SSL with LE inbuilt. Let's see.
I've had a lot of success with https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated . It exposes the different parts of the process (deploy challenge to DNS, deploy cert to filesystem, etc) as hooks, so it's pretty easy to integrate with anything and however you want, if you don't mind writing a bit of bash. There's a few scripts out there that use Cloudflare that you can use as well.
It's almost as if everything on this earth is a reflection of Sun. We finally figured out how to harvest it at scale without depending on nature in the middle.
Heck, the next big revolution will probably be solar + agriculture dual land use, since you don't need all the sun's energy for plant growth during the day. It might even lead to higher yields because the solar panels might integrate led lighting for growing in the night.
Some specific crops grow better in the shade and the bonus is that they cool the air around them. That improves the efficiency of the solar panel. It's a win-win all around.
The one challenge is getting the mechanized equipment of industrial farming around the panels without damaging them. There are companies working on improving that too.
Some plants can indeed get saturated (they tend to tuck their leaves in past that point), but I could imagine more serious savings from the practice if the partial shading from solar installations reduces evaporation. In most places (particularly those where solar is most profitable) agriculture is limited by availability of water, so anything preventing evaporation is a potential boon.
A lot of plants outdoors are grown in partial shade via shade netting. In my head, it makes a lot of sense to supply some of that shade with solar panels. Likewise, it's a win because we "dual" use the same land surface area. We also probably save on water by not leaving so much of it to evaporate from the direct sunlight.
Maybe someone smarter or more knowledgeable can help out, but this strikes me as a very elegant solution.
Any increase in yield reduces the amount of land needed. I thought land use was the putative horror critics of solar were objecting to, so surely they'd want to cut down the much larger area used by farming?
It will be cool to send a buddy drone with these landers. A minute or so before the touch down, detach from lander and shoot the landing. Then go back and attach with lander for charging and do periodic flights.
I have both configured. Photoprism doesn't have a native app but I would recommend using PhotoSync if you are on iOS. It works infinitely better than Immich's upload for camera rolls that have 50k+ photos/videos in them. It also works in the background much better than Immichs app.
"La Zona Blanca" ad [1] mentioned in the article is funny. But I do agree with the note "When did we decide on Hare Krishna cult members?" There must be better ways to spend the ad money OR may be Sega marketing was using Hare Krishna members as purple cows [2]
Hard disagree. Without the cult members the ad would have lost a lot of comedic flair. It would have landed in an uncanny valley between serious and not-serious. Kalinske was out of line trying to micromanage at that level.
I used to do Algo with a VM on GCP. But fly.io and tailscale has made this really simple. Try this if you are looking for an easier alternative https://github.com/patte/fly-tailscale-exit
Razing money or not as a self proclaimed PaaS geek I have always enjoyed reading fly.io blogs. Two of my favorites are How they run containers as VMs [1] and How they outgrew Hashicorp Nomad and wrote their own scheduler [2]
At the risk of sounding old - this is called mediation part of the usage based billing in the Telecom/Utility billing, which happen to be the OG of usage based billing with millions of record. I have worked with Digital Route for this in the past. Definitely good to see newer architectures and thinking applied to this problem for newer use cases. Godspeed to OpenMeter.
