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David J. Atkinson

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4 yr. ago

  • Finally happish with my all-in-one homelab (20+ services and way too much tinkering)

  • @switch_plan @ndupont Oh, “in case I die” doesn’t worry me too much. None of my family is technical enough (and crazy enough) to keep this going. The lights will work fine without #homeassistant , they just won’t turn on and off automatically.

  • Finally happish with my all-in-one homelab (20+ services and way too much tinkering)

  • @ndupont Stickers, yes. Colored sticks. I put little stickers all over the computers. Most stickers have mundane details (like host name, Subnet, etc.) but I also use a sticker for each major service. Everything else is documented in notebooks or spreadsheets. It’s probably overkill, but, between my memory and the home-grown gradual evolution of my #homelab, stickers really useful. I have 9 or so computers (rack-mounted), more controllers spread around (e.g., ESP32s running WLED, Pi Zeros), and nearly 250 individual devices for #homeautomation. I’m trying to learn about FOSS for configuration control but that’s slow going.

  • Homelab for DevOps experience?

  • [META] Should AI disclosure tags [AI], [NOT AI] be mandated when sharing projects?

  • @festus @selfhosted Excellent examples. What the tag [AI] conveys is not what you really need to know, which is the quality of the code (component/unit), unit testing, and so forth. I assume there is some acceptance testing done at the project level. The human who submits the code must understand that flaws in their code is their responsibility, just as those who contribute/maintain the project are responsible at the system level. It is both an objective and reputational process. Does it really matter what tools are used if the work product passes the test, verification and validation criteria? Sloppy code is not unique to AI tools.

  • Zizians Now Considered A Terroristic Threat

  • Zizians Now Considered A Terroristic Threat

  • @lurker I don’t understand what “target” means in this context. Is there a crime to be investigated? As far as I know, you can’t be prosecuted for beliefs.

  • Raidz2 or btrfs for important document storage?

  • @Zeoic You are both correct. Chess was chosen as an early problem domain for work on first-order logic-based programming. That certainly was considered AI. People really interested in chess later abandoned logic programming in favor of brute-force, highly parallel special purpose hardware. That was not AI.

    “Expert systems” (I hate that term) are application area of “Pattern-Directed Inference Systems” (PDIS). Rule-based systems are just one type of PDIS. For example, “Constraint Satisfaction” is another powerful AI technique often used in resource optimization and scheduling systems.

  • Raidz2 or btrfs for important document storage?

  • @Blue_Morpho @selfhosted Thanks for posting this. Some interesting articles that I didn’t know about. The Wikipedia article on expert systems needs some work. Apart from editing, the content is fine but incomplete, and the citations are not the best. I may take a crack at contributing, or I might take a nap. The 80s-90s were my prime years as a developer of intelligent systems, including but not limited to knowledge based expert systems. One of the most successful AI tools I co-invented was SHINE, still in use today.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHINE/_Expert/_System

  • Setting up a backup and redundancy for my expanding homelab by

  • Self-hostable projects that are just for fun?

  • @mko I have one. Lots of fun. Made with a Raspberry Pi 0. Lots of plans online. It sits on my windowsill. Tiny! It feeds those two commercial flight tracking sites as well as others. Here is a link to the software for web interface to your ADSB receiver.

    https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090

  • Self-hostable projects that are just for fun?

  • Degoog - 0.15.0 Stable Beta

  • Degoog - 0.15.0 Stable Beta

  • @fccview I wasn’t really joking. I was hearing it.

  • Degoog - 0.15.0 Stable Beta

  • @fccview Vroom! Power tools!

    That gives me an idea.You know what a grinder sounds like, and a drill, and a chainsaw. Why don’t OUR power tools have a distinctive sound? Or the code itself? It would be faster to hear a card deck shuffled, in various ways, and know an algorithm is, than to read the documentation or the source code.Source code = math = music. We could probably pick out AI Slop instantly.

  • Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)

  • @irmadlad This what I want too. It’s farther down my to-do list, but I’ll be sure to let you know if I discover anything. Good luck!

  • Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)

  • Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps

  • @Dylancyclone @selfhosted This looks very useful. I will study your docs and see if it’s right for me. Thanks for sharing!

  • What's the laziest way to create a website that looks really nice and is maintainable?

  • Self-hosting in 2026 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure

  • @phant Pi-hole is super easy to set up and easy to build on. It’s been very robust for me and also eye-opening due to the excellent UI. About 5% of the network traffic in my house is now blocked. Thousands of DNS requests per day. Most of that is trackers. Apps and “smart” devices are very determined to phone home so you’ll have to block many of these domains manually as they show up. Be forewarned, some apps and web sites will simply stop working if you block their tracking and other info gathering on your network. Luckily, there is good #FOSS to substitute.