Last night at 1 minute past midnight, just before heading to bed, I received the following notification from my main production Proxmox system: SMART error (Health) detected on host: chonk| Danb Blog
Over the past year I’ve been looking into alternative options to help treat my Ankylosing Spondylitis, and in particular the relative impact of Enthesitis which has been a growing problem for me, with it building an increasingly distracting deep ache in my shins, forearms and hands. Whilst looking into such options I discovered that the medical cannabis is now legal in the United Kingdom, although limited in provision via the National Health Service, but there are plenty of private clinics ...| Danb Blog
A few days ago I received a notification from Reddit advising my account has been given a warning, saying that a comment of mine had been removed for potential copyright infringement.| Danb Blog
Advisory: I am not a legal expert and there could likely be inaccuracies in this post. Today Gumroad announced that they’ve become open source, with this being echoed by the founder and on social sites like Hacker News:| Danb Blog
Last year I wrote about scripting monitors for my Gnome/Wayland/Fedora environment, and I’ve heavily utilised that script in my day-to-day PC use. Recently I jumped over to KDE for a change but my prior script was gnome specific and therefore no longer functioned.| Danb Blog
From my time exploring and using a range open source and/or self-hosted projects I’ve built up a range of known “amber flags”. I hesitate the call these reg flags, as by themselves I don’t think they’re specifically problematic, but they usually act as indicators of projects that aren’t aligned with my personal ideals in software I look for.| Danb Blog
I’m often looking at the licensing of open source projects, either out of personal interest or while moderating posts to /r/opensource, and through this I’ve seen a recent trend of projects having something like this in their readme:| Danb Blog
Played quite a lot this year; Got excited about Switch gaming for a while during the summer, and then later in the year I got myself a Quest 3 VR headset.| Danb Blog
Bitwarden found itself caught in a spot of drama last week introducing non-free and non-open code into their desktop client. I don’t use Bitwarden myself, but in a similar vein I remember they launched their “Passwordless” project as open source while under non-open terms.| Danb Blog
Before getting into this post i want to make it clear I’m not a legal expert in any way and the following post is based upon my interpretations from spending a lot of time looking at software licenses.| Danb Blog
I’ve recently been moving most of my projects from GitHub over to Codeberg and a self-hosted Forgejo instance. A few of my projects make use of GitHub actions to perform automated testing, so I ideally also wanted to transfer over this testing.| Danb Blog
At the end of last year I gained an allotment which I’ve been using to grow food. So far this has been much more successful than my attempts to grow food indoors as, with the summer growing season in progress, I’m currently eating daily from self-grown food, albeit mostly lettuce.| Danb Blog
Update: Since writing this Futo have published a statement in regards to their use of open source, which shows intent to stop redefining the term and instead establish “Source First” - Futo statement - Futo video - Brodie Robertson video| Danb Blog
Skip to implementation Context So recently I decided to create a much needed update to one of my apps that I’ve left neglected, with the last update being deployed over a decade ago in 2013.| Danb Blog
On my PC (Fedora 39, Gnome Desktop Environment via Wayland) I often find myself switching monitor configuration. I have a dual-4k-screen setup, and jump between a few modes: Normal/Development - Dual screen, both at 175% scale Gaming - Single screen at 100% scale Recording - Dual screen, alternate primary screen, one 2x scale, one 1.| Danb Blog
At the tail end of last year I took on a new allotment plot, on which sat a pretty standard little glass greenhouse. Unfortunately though, this greenhouse hadn’t had much recent attention in its provided state, with quite few missing or broken panes:| Danb Blog
Below are the games in 2023 that I spent more than a few hours playing, along with my brief thoughts. This is roughly chronological from start to end of 2023, although some games I’d often return to here and there.| Danb Blog
Earlier this year I got an itch to grow herbs and vegetables. Unfortunately, living in a flat, I have no outside space while my best window locations don’t get a great amount of sunlight.| Danb Blog
Recently I’ve been playing with a Raspberry Pi Camera module 3. One thing I’ve been toying with is putting together timelapses to observe how my different plants grow. There’s a lot of content out there for this use-case, like this project by Jeff Geerling, but there’s a lot of variation out there in terms of camera versions, compatibility libraries, legacy modes and Raspbian versions, which makes finding a working example tricky.| Danb Blog
Sometimes you try to do something but, much to your surprise, there’s no discoverable information on the internet to guide you. My most recent experience of this came when attempting to remove the rear seats in my Volvo C30.| Danb Blog
The Web Environment Integrity proposal, authored by folks at Google, has caused quite a stir over the last week, and for good reason. It’s another familiar case of: “Here’s a thing needed for security.| Danb Blog
On my main desktop PC I primarily use Linux (Currently Fedora 38) but I do dual-boot with Windows for testing or for some games that don’t work quite right in Linux.| Danb Blog
For BookStack I’ve been consistently creating videos on YouTube for almost 2 years now, but recently I’ve been thinking about providing an alternative option for the following reasons: I’ve come to really appreciate the open & connected federated world, and would like to make the videos available via those means.| Danb Blog
Since the start of the year I’ve been paying for general web search through the use of Kagi at about £8 ($10) per month. I’ve long desired the ability to have some control over the results served, and Kagi seemed like a good way to gain this control.| Danb Blog
There are many ways to deploy an application to a server, and often that depends on the technologies in play, access management and application setup. That said, even for a simple static site I think it’s common to folks to over complicate things.| Danb Blog
After updating PhpStorm to 2023.1 I found the UI scaling on my Fedora 37 (KDE/Wayland) system was off quite significantly, with the UI being super-scaled/zoomed-in, even though the zoom setting in the IDE config was at 100% and could not be reduced.| Danb Blog
Recently I’ve upgraded to a Synology DS220+, and with that started to use “Active Backup for Business” for Linux server backups. Along with that I use Tailscale to facilitate the private networking of these remote systems to avoid exposing everything involved to the public web.| Danb Blog
Thought I’d document my current homelab setup. I’m not one to go full-out with a server rack, my setup is contained within a couple of shelves within some storage cubes:| Danb Blog
As i’ve written about before, I think the term “Open Source” is quite important but it’s not uncommon to see the term stretched or misrepresented, often for business benefit. For the last year I’ve been recording such scenarios and a frequent character in those records has been Runa Capital, a venture capital firm founded in 2010 that has a focus on tech.| Danb Blog
When looking at scenarios when open source is misrepresented I’ve commonly come across cases where a project downplays the distinction between open source and source-available-style licenses, choosing to advertise the project and/or themselves as open source while licensed in a non-OSD adhering manner.| Danb Blog