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2026-11-06: Notes and Research, while I fiddle with the servers

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 13:16:15 +0530

Collection of notes over the past week when I attempted to try move my Hetzner VM to some immutable operating system and then decided not to. Update: I seem to have buggered this up as well. I needed to write down the failure as to why I have not move and I cannot seem to find that post anywhere. Sigh …

2026-10-22
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Temporarily writing here while I move servers.
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These will move to my main blog when I’m done

2026-10-22
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Notes while I fiddle with the servers (2026-10-22)
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The Big Idea
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Move from Debian to Flatcar on the main server.
I wanted to move to something completely black box and appliance like Talos, but I am not that brave. I still want my K3s, and my instance is not that large that I can run full fat Kubernetes.

2026-10-22 09:45
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Good I decided to review my files. If I had just generated a new instance on Hetzner, I might have paid double for the instance I use (CPX32)
Moved my terraform state from s3 to local.
S3 meant my self hosted Garage instance. Found that I did not use it as much as I intended. So will retire it. (That will probably be phase two when I revamp the home network). Since last December I’ve hardly touched the state of the VM. So makes sense for me to maintain state locally.
Found that OpenTofu can encrypt at rest local tf state files. Time to move from Terraform to OpenTofu
2026-10-22 10:45: Buggered it up enough, between backups and moving VMs that the current thing will destroy my VM. that is what I don’t want! will need to see what to do. But the dream of just changing enough stuff is gone now.
my dream of an entirely gitops driven workflow is undone by the ai-pocalypse
options? am too used to this machine to downgrade. so will manually nurse it.
worst case option? will downgrade if it comes to that.

2026-10-22 11:05
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Just realised that the PHP world is on fire.
Taking a break from doing things above to adapting two images for my containers
2026-10-22 11:31: mistakenly created the wrong server. twice Grr!
2026-10-22 12:17: New server up and running. Had to change my ip in just two places. Good boy, old Jason for using variables everywhere. Break time.

2026-10-22 13:20
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Back to thinking ’bout what to do with Flatcar now
2026-10-22 13:55: Just realised I should go back and figure which of my workloads run PHP, and then upgrade them to the latest safe images/versions
- Sendy (14:37: done!)
- Baikal (17:45: done! vendored and adapted the unofficial, yet official ckulka image)
- Kanboard (left as is and will let flux automatically handle the upgrade. fguillot is pretty good at keeping his work, shipshape) (Update 2026-10-23 11:25): I was right. A new image shipped and the cluster moved to the patched version overnight

2026-10-22 17:50
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enough for today. will figure out the new node and flatcar tomorrow.

2026-10-23
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Notes and Research, while I fiddle with the servers (2026-10-23)
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The Big Idea
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Move from Debian to something on the main server.
Noodling on what that something might be …
Two main yet conflicting needs are
1. It should be stable and boring and well known like Debian
2. It should be amenable to being controlled with code
One approach will be to just having an OS that is completely configurable.
NixOS beckons. But I think that is a project for a machine at home, not for something that I want to run on the wide net and in production. (this is just a matter of comfort and opinion. Not fact. Other folks routinely do run workloads on the net with NixOS)
The other approach is what I’m doing. Nothing matches what I’m looking for more than Talos. But I’m a bit hesitant, because at least now, Talos (despite the MPL) is Sidero Labs. Not community owned like Debian.
After a bit of thought, well, if this is the risk to take, I’ll take it. And see how it goes. After all, I say I want something long term, but in the long term I figure out said something’s shortcomings (like I hate not being able to update Debian like an appliance) and then want to switch anyway.
So, I already learned all about containers and how to create and write them last year. So this year, the big change, in addition to Talos is Cilium.
The other thing I’m dropping is provisioning the Hetzner instance with OpenTofu/Terraform. A single node does not quite warrant that level of work.
Am pushing this to when I scale this up to AWS.
Think the VM should handle this. My current idle load seems to hover at a few % cpu and about 50% of my 8gb ram

Tentative Plan
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Create a Hetzner instance with Talos and Kubernetes on it
Cilium
Flux
Traefik
Letsencrypt
Move workloads from the other cluster to this one. (Examine and drop the ones I don’t need)

2026-10-23 17:20
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Got the instance up with Talos installed. Now to figure out more next week.

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2026-11-04T06:47:47+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:47:47 +0000

retired https://moi.janusworx.com.
one less moving part to keep track of.

All my mastodon posts are now archived on the main blog at https://janusworx.com/nm

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117556829744551402

2026-10-31T09:06:11+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:06:11 +0000

Books I Read in October, 2026

https://janusworx.com/reading/books-i-read-in-october-2026/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading #mjbReading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117534724681065618

#mjbwrites, #books, #reading, #mjbreading

2026-10-21T12:49:35+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:49:35 +0000

Potato quality video, but still one of the best live renditions of Endless Summer Nights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2E_RWRY0xQ

#mjbMusic #RichardMarx #DaveKoz

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117478980033167589

#mjbmusic, #richardmarx, #davekoz

2026-10-04T03:11:25+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 03:11:25 +0000

“Zulfein Safed Ho Gayi 19 Saal Mein” | Himanshi Babra’s Emotional Poetry Recitation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKOtfNKMoZo

The kids are alright!

#Urdu #Poetry #HimanshiBabra

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117380447298606309

#urdu, #poetry, #HimanshiBabra

2026-10-03T14:51:17+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:51:17 +0000

Books I Read in September, 2026

https://janusworx.com/reading/books-i-read-in-september-2026/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading #mjbReading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117377536964581235

#mjbwrites, #books, #reading, #mjbreading

2026-09-27T06:15:50+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:15:50 +0000

@aworkinglibrary Talk of a god-like AI that needs to be constrained projects our present fears into a hypothetical future, one that can only be addressed with more talk; meanwhile, we neglect our obligations to name and prosecute war crimes that *have already happened.* Casting AI as the monster-to-come obfuscates the monsters already in our midst.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117341536273680165

2026-09-27T06:15:36+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:15:36 +0000

@aworkinglibrary We need not speculate about AI taking all of our jobs when—today!—the same humans peddling AI are also laying people off right and left.
We need not prophesy a future in which a rogue AI murders people en masse when—*today!*—we have humans making the choice to fire missiles at schoolchildren.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117341535394788009

2026-09-27T06:14:49+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:14:49 +0000

from @aworkinglibrary’s latest:

So we talk about about how AI will kill us, and it seems like we’re doing something, but then ever more terrible news emerges and the talk carries on. Meanwhile, all of the potential horrors ascribed to a future AI are in fact real and present today, but have been (are being) enacted by humans. We need not contemplate how an AI could infiltrate an organization and turn it to its own ends when—today—we have chatbots encouraging people to commit suicide.

#AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117341532288751269

#ai

2026-09-01T10:12:14+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:12:14 +0000

Books I Read in August, 2026

https://janusworx.com/reading/books-i-read-in-august-2026/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading #mjbReading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117195245793829119

#mjbwrites, #books, #reading, #mjbreading

2026-08-31T14:33:25+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:33:25 +0000

Here Are the Winners of the 2026 Hugo Awards - Reactor

https://reactormag.com/2026-hugo-awards-winners/

#SciFi #Fantasy #SpeculativeFiction #Books #Reading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117190610453972370

#scifi, #fantasy, #speculativefiction, #books, #reading

2026-08-28T04:34:23+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:34:23 +0000

RE: https://sfba.social/@kickingvegas/117170039449651138

Data point #2

#Emacs

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117171268072660080

#emacs

2026-08-26T00:57:23+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:57:23 +0000

RIP Dolly!

I will always love you.

#DollyParton

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117159090136955214

#dollyparton

2026-08-25T08:40:26+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:40:26 +0000

and speaking of #Emacs, v31.1 is released 🎉

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-31

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117155248633002343

#emacs

2026-08-25T04:34:25+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:34:25 +0000

found #OrgWildNotifier for #OrgMode

I now get notified for all my tasks with system notifications. Feel so much lighter!
I never realised just how much cognitive load I was carrying.

To all you kind folk who make #Emacs such a joy to use, you have my undying gratitude!

https://github.com/emacsorphanage/org-wild-notifier

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117154281228905367

#OrgWildNotifier, #orgmode, #emacs

2026-08-24T02:12:08+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 02:12:08 +0000

Watched Zhang Yimou’s, Shadow yesterday.

If you are familiar with Yimou’s oeuvre, nothing will prepare you for this gorgeous black and white whiplash.

It’s beautiful!

https://www.rogerebert.com/features/on-the-distinct-humanism-of-zhang-yimous-monochrome-shadow

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117148059462036841

2026-08-20T03:39:43+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:39:43 +0000

no matter what thorn niggles your side in #Emacs, Emacs always has something to salve it.

Org Agenda would always split the window horizontally and open below, when I wanted to open it to the right. I’d always then get it to how I wanted it laid out by grumbling, resizing my window (emacs frame) and then finding some size at which it split vertically and then getting it back full screen.

Today I found transpose-frame and breathed a sigh of relief!

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TransposeFrame

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117125754637626322

#emacs

2026-08-08T03:50:29+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:50:29 +0000

Oh, and Skeletor’s the best part of the movie. He has the best lines!
It’s like they got @skeletor to play the part!

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117057849217804324

2026-08-08T03:42:40+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:42:40 +0000

watched #MastersOfTheUniverse on Prime last evening.

Lots of in jokes. Lots of throwbacks and a couple of delightful cameos.

It’s delightfully campy and a lovely homage to the original TV series and to the 80s.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ym5Nbizd3Uo

#HeMan

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117057818463436672

#mastersoftheuniverse, #heman

2026-08-06T03:17:55+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:17:55 +0000

via, Daring Fireball
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/05/please-use-ai

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117046396538135158

2026-08-06T03:17:32+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:17:32 +0000

Please use AI

And be sure to use AI when working on your next
book or essay or piece of art or photography,
and then smile or even laugh at your own
cleverness when you see how good it is,
and how easy,
because who the hell has time
to work at something, to give time to craft, to
create with their own minds, to spend
years being mediocre. Why do that when
mastery, or at least competency
is so simple
only a good prompt away?

— Shawn Smucker

https://shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use-ai

#NoAI #AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117046395067731087

#noai, #ai

2026-07-23 Notes

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:53:16 +0530

Just a test to see if this appears in the general feed.

Feedback on this post?
Mail me at feedback at this domain.

2026-07-22T12:10:57+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:10:57 +0000

The kids are alright!

(it’s the adults who are rotten)

#JantarMantar #StudentsProtest

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/116963557843355321

#JantarMantar, #StudentsProtest

2026-07-15T01:56:24+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:56:24 +0000

The “End of Reading” Panic Is Missing the Real Problem

20m. Worth watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Th-i2RTv3A

#Reading #Books #BooksSaveLives

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/116921505156463824

#reading, #books, #BooksSaveLives

2026-07-03T14:15:48+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:15:48 +0000

Moved From Papermod to Blowfish

https://janusworx.com/work/moved-from-papermod-to-blowfish/

#mjbWrites #Hugo #Blowfish

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/116856464932622701

#mjbwrites, #hugo, #Blowfish

2026-07-02T14:45:23+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:45:23 +0000

Books I Read in June, 2026

https://janusworx.com/reading/books-i-read-in-june-2026/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading #mjbReading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/116850918907747506

#mjbwrites, #books, #reading, #mjbreading

2026-06-24T15:50:23+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:50:23 +0000

“You’re going to get left behind if you
don’t use Al.”

Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without
needing Al summaries.

via, https://liberalsarecool.com/post/818082394090405888/cosign

#AI #Reading #Writing #Thinking

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/116805876002083649

#ai, #reading, #writing, #thinking

2026-06-23T11:52:21+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:52:21 +0000

You Can Now Search this Blog

https://janusworx.com/work/you-can-now-search-this-blog/

#mjbWrites #Hugo #Papermod #Pagefind #Forgejo

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/116799277714445164

#mjbwrites, #hugo, #PaperMod, #pagefind, #forgejo

2026-06-22T11:45:21+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:45:21 +0000

#EvaCassidy is to me what #JimReeves was to my dad.

Evening listening that takes your cares away …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AihMB3GgwmA

#mjbMusic

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/116793587867720328

#evacassidy, #JimReeves, #mjbmusic

2026-06-22T02:49:25+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:49:25 +0000

upgraded to the latest #Darktable.
My first upgrade, since I’ve begun using it in earnest.

Nothing broke. Very grateful!

https://www.darktable.org/2026/06/darktable-5.6.0-released/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/116791480540702153

#darktable

2026-06-09T14:21:07+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:21:07 +0000

Books I Read in May, 2026

https://janusworx.com/reading/books-i-read-in-may-2026/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading #mjbReading

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/116720590375257944

#mjbwrites, #books, #reading, #mjbreading

2026-06-06T04:05:56+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:05:56 +0000

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116696597934617319

This! I did this! Beginning 2016 methinks. Took me close to a year, to completely jump ship.

Also, if you hate Adobe enough, then you will live without a photo editing workflow that works the way you want, for years. (I’m not bitter at all), but there are other tools. I’ve gotten used to Darktable now. (it’s finally gotten to where I can use it without it breaking my expectations)

But most other things were there waiting for me on #LinuxMint and it’s been a joy.

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/116701184411935547

#linuxmint

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