VMs moved, fresh local and offsite backup cycle run, secondary machine idled, and the KVM I ordered arrived while I was out for a run.
After a slice of apple pie, I think it's go time.
Reclamation day is at hand!
While I'm waiting for stuff to shuffle around and also get another backup cycle in, I'm reading up on the overlap and interaction between pkgin (binary package manager) and using pkgsrc to build and install software in the pkgsrc tree.
I'm leaning towards using pkgsrc as primary, because ultimately, I'd like to actively support NetBSD packages in the amateur radio space - there's no linbpq, nor xastir package, and those are things I could try and contribute as an example.
NetBSD sea trials day 2 - currently doing work to free up my secondary machine for a bare metal NetBSD install now that a root-on-RAID config is understood (and documented in my wiki). This mostly consists of migrating a couple VMs back over to my primary machine, writing out a NetBSD USB stick image, and I ordered a cheap KVM as a quality of life item (the second machine ran headless)
Also tried running sysupgrade in the NetBSD sea trial VM
NetBSD sea trials day 1 - learned how to install NetBSD to a RAID-1 raidframe array following this guide: https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_install_netbsd_on_raid1_using_raidframe/
Setting up the partitions themselves can be done in the extended partitioning menu in sysinst, but I _think_ you would still need to mark the partitions active, and also run installboot from that guide manually, so it's just as easy to do it all at the command line ahead of time - that cost me a few attempts before the guide.
Regardless, it works :)
My #NetBSD sea trials commence this weekend.
Yes, b'y!
(addendum: we will also refuse inbound connections from non-private IPs..it occurs to me that maybe these devices are being put into a DMZ on cheapo routers at the branch locations? Because it actually seems, overall, like a lot more work to get additional public IPs for crap when you also likely need IPs for other stuff like POS gear in retail, VPN to the head office, etc)
But the true genius in this plan is that we'll also have the pro model firmware that permits it, and we'll charge more for it.
And clearly, there are entire market segments that would line up to do that exact thing.
Reading about the refrigerator hack and it mostly being a case of putting devices directly on the internet - when I am an industrial magnate, and a captain of industry, I will instruct our engineers to put a simple check into the code, and refuse to bring up network interfaces with IPs that are globally routable, whether that's non-ULA IPv6, or a non-private IPv4 address
RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/canada-1akomc2pz/-/a-vkpejAsKQ2K2E42JsFNdTg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
"Some sights were odder than others, she acknowledged. That includes one day when she saw the crew creating a pothole in the road.
"I thought they were nuts. We've got enough potholes in Newfoundland as it is," she said with a laugh."
Newfoundland doesn't just have potholes - it literally has road signs telling you it has potholes.
I haven't listened to any of these yet, so I can't vouch for the quality, but I didn't realize until today that RAC has a podcast:
https://www.rac.ca/thetcalive/
How bad was traffic on the way to work this morning?
I let a FedEx semi-truck merge ahead of me, and the driver hopped out of the truck, walked allll the way back to me, and handed me two Werther's Original butter mints 😁
My percolator died - it doesn't switch on anymore. It did, however, fail-brewed :) It made one last pot before giving up the ghost, so I have coffee (albeit re-heated) before sallying forth to obtain a replacement.
Canadian Tire has the same 45 cup model on sale for $65, which is great.
They were beside themselves with angst and apologizing, but it was honestly no big deal. My stuff didn't get mixed up with their stuff (which would have been problematic), they plugged everything back in correctly (even got the same router Eero wired to the modem, although the other Eero extender would have taken over and self-corrected), and my VPN link popped right back up, and now I have access to my temperature sensors and the front-yard webcam (keeps tabs on the two crows-in-residence)
Literal internet outage at the new house yesterday into this morning.
Our friends (not calling them the previous owners anymore) came over to check on the place, and also to collect a couple TiVo TV remotes from their previous service that needed to be returned to the ISP.
They'd forgotten I'd packed up their Hitron modem and Eero gear and given it to them already, so when they saw my gear from the same ISP, they uh..took it out of the house. The most literal network out-age I've ever had :)
Doing stationing calculation exercises on a fleet maneuvering board, poorly 🤠 It's still new to me, but it's pretty fun. The standard is to be able to solve for required heading, relative speed, distance required, and time, in under 3 minutes. I presently take more than 3 minutes.
FRD-10 elephant cage style HF antenna array seen (and photographed poorly) from the air departing Gander.
Apparently, the Gander one isn't called the Elephant Cage, it's called the Turkey Farm: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/no-birds-at-this-turkey-farm-inside-gander-s-top-secret-surveillance-site-1.719126
Also interesting is that it's still operational, apparently, compared to many similar sites that shut down post cold war.
I am merely a 70 dollar cab ride away from being a broken man on a Halifax pier (trapped at a hotel at Halifax airport after yet another cancelled Air Canada flight)
(It's wild how far/expensive downtown Halifax is from YHZ; I'm not doing it, I'll just rest up)
If I wanted to stream a USB webcam over the network, and consume it in (in order of preference):
- Jellyfin
- A simple web page
(honestly, either of the above would be fine), or, as a possible option:
- HomeAssistant
What is some decent, simple, as turn-key-as-practical software to do this on #linux ? I don't need features, and I don't intend to futz around with it a lot or get crazy fancy. I just want to be able to watch a live stream in a small window on a desktop somewhere else.
Neighbours brought over sweet mustard pickles 😍
