Home network schema This series of posts describes the setup of a custom router for a home network. The router takes full advantage of multiple Internet connections, seamlessly manages Internet traffic when one of the connections drops or behaves poorly, and provides some additional functionality like firewalls, adblocking, VPN tunnels for specific clients, bandwidth shaping, network flow monitoring etc.| Sagar Behere
Home network schema This series of posts describes how to set up a custom router from scratch for a home network. The router takes full advantage of multiple Internet connections, seamlessly manages Internet traffic when one of the connections drops or behaves poorly, and provides some additional functionality like firewalls, adblocking, VPN tunnels for specific clients, bandwidth shaping, network flow monitoring etc.| Sagar Behere
I am a self-hosting hobbyist. In a moment of madness, I signed up for a cheap IPv6-only Virtual Private Server (VPS). The consequences of being ipv6-only were a bit more than I had naïvely assumed (although obvious in retrospect). This blog post describes the steps needed to prepare the VPS for my self-hosting adventures. Read along if you are into self-hosting but new to IPv6.| Blog on Sagar Behere
I stand in the wind Amidst flying autumn leaves Still not light enough.| Blog on Sagar Behere
“Are you a human being or a chatbot?”“We are a chat agent” This was an actual chat conversation snippet between me and a customer service .. entity! Did I just interact with chatbot or a human being who was constrained to following a strict script? Was I stupid enough that I failed a Turing test? I have so many questions! Maybe you, dear reader, can figure this one out?| Blog on Sagar Behere
I just got a new UM790 Pro Mini PC (barebones with RAM and SSDs separately purchased and installed). This blog post describes some fixes to improve WiFi and Bluetooth performance (range, speeds, reliability etc.) as well as cooling and fan noise.| Blog on Sagar Behere
This post explains how I built a Network Attached Storage (NAS) for home use in August 2023. The various hardware build steps are carefully document with lots of photos.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Seafile is a secure, reliable, and performant file sync and share solution. I have been using it since about 2014, occasionally trying out other solutions, but keep returning to Seafile. It has a fairly large feature list and works on every major OS/mobile-device. Self-hosting it has been painless and performance is rock solid. This post describes one particular feature that is useful to me and is present ONLY in Seafile (to the best of my knowledge). (I am not associated with Seafile in any ...| Blog on Sagar Behere
“If you already know some programming language/framework X, what are effective ways to rapidly learn a possibly similar new language/framework?” I found myself pondering this question recently. Wouldn’t it be nice to discover a system to learn something new that optimally exploits what you already know?| Blog on Sagar Behere
Over the last few years, I have tried a number of productivity apps for todos and task management: Todoist, Trello, Things 3, Google Keep, Evernote, OneNote, Emacs org-mode, etc. but nothing stuck. The pattern is: In an initial burst of enthusiasm, I create a large-ish initial todo list by making a brain dump of tasks in a productivity app. The list then languishes. Rinse and repeat when I come across (yet) another promising app. Why does this happen?| Blog on Sagar Behere
Whilst dead, I yet live A fool by his own lusts bound Buried above ground| Blog on Sagar Behere
This post explains a home-grown personal finance tool that aggregates transactions from various bank accounts and credit cards, auto-categorizes them, and presents information/analyses via a set of dashboards. All this is accomplished without sharing your banking credentials and financial transactions with a third party.| Blog on Sagar Behere
When no wind at all ruffles the Kiri tree leaves fall of their own will. –Nozawa Bonchō (1640-1714), loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch| Blog on Sagar Behere
A single pane of glass protects me from icy winds who is more fragile? I protect the glass In turn, the glass protects me Perfect symbiosis!| Blog on Sagar Behere
The pattern: How to remotely access a service that is bound to localhost and refuses to respond to requests not originating from localhost? The instance: If using Speedify CLI on a linux-based router with no GUI stack, how to nevertheless view the Speedify GUI in a web browser, from another device on the same network? This post documents some non-conventional hacks needed to get a working solution.| Blog on Sagar Behere
I try in vain to stem the tide To see in stillness beauty untold I try in vain to slow the ride Not knowing Beauty lies in how things unfold!| Blog on Sagar Behere
Ever so fragile These eggshells I’m walking on With thundering feet.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Windshield wipers strain to clear my view but the storm is on the inside| Blog on Sagar Behere
This post is a review of Relica Backup, the software I use and depend on to backup (and restore) all of my data across several computers. Relica seems to be relatively unknown on the interwebs; I have not yet come across any user reviews or articles that describe actual experience with the software. So this is my attempt to fix that. I am not associated with the Relica folks, just a satisfied user spreading the word about something I like 🙂| Blog on Sagar Behere
Recently, I have become aware of a burden of thoughts weighing down upon me. Intrusive, endless, unstoppable, uncontrollable, unwanted thoughts. If I desire to sit quietly for five minutes, without fruitless thoughts buzzing constantly in my mind… I can not! Sometimes, I become aware of a new thought arising.. in a parallel thought, I even realize that the newly arising thought is pointless and unproductive.. that I should not be entertaining it.. but that realization is impotent. I watch h...| Blog on Sagar Behere
I have been experimenting with different recipes for a basic bread loaf to make at home without a bread machine. After many experiments, here is the one that works for me. It creates a fluffy, healthy loaf with good taste and lasts about 3 days. This bread is made out of a mixture of all-purpose wheat flour (75%) and 100% whole grain wheat flour (25%). I would like to increase the percentage of whole grain wheat flour but need to conduct more experiments to create a loaf that is not dense.| Blog on Sagar Behere
One foot leaves the ground then the other. For a split second, I’m flying!| Blog on Sagar Behere
Whereof what’s past is prologue; what to come, In yours and my discharge. -Shakespeare, The Tempest Act 2, scene 1, 245-254| Blog on Sagar Behere
Let us arrange these lovely flowers in the bowl since there’s no rice. -Basho| Blog on Sagar Behere
The first morning of autumn: the mirror I investigate reflects my father’s face -Shiki Masaoka (loose translation by Michael R. Burch)| Blog on Sagar Behere
Silence. A strangled telephone has forgotten that it should ring. -Michael R. Collings| Blog on Sagar Behere
The speed controller oscillates unstably- Mr. Toad’s wild ride.| Blog on Sagar Behere
I glance up the clouds have changed configurations while I read of love and inconsistent moods.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Losing its name a river enters the sea (Photo courtesy: Axel Leonhardt. Gothenburg harbor.)| Blog on Sagar Behere
One call invites One hundred comrades; One smile beckons Ten thousand admirers. – Zen Poem by Dogen| Blog on Sagar Behere
In my new clothing I feel so different, I must look like someone else – Basho| Blog on Sagar Behere
Observe: see how the wild roses bloom within forbidding fences! – Shida Yaba (1663-1740), loose translation by Michael R. Burch| Blog on Sagar Behere
I want love splashing To your voice like wet children Playing in the stream.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Eros harrows my heart: a wind on desolate mountains uprooting oaks.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Come, investigate loneliness! a solitary leaf clings to the maple tree.| Blog on Sagar Behere
I like to wash, the dust of this world In the droplets of dew. – Basho| Blog on Sagar Behere
In the shadow of the cherry blossom complete strangers there are none…| Blog on Sagar Behere
The geese fly off.. and it comes to me that I am still here. – H.F. Noyes| Blog on Sagar Behere
in one room everything I have and a window| Blog on Sagar Behere
I finish my tea The cup still full of warmth – Philomene Kocher| Blog on Sagar Behere
Fireworks. I close my eyes for a second look – John Stevenson| Blog on Sagar Behere
A deep gorge… some of the silence is me – John Stevenson| Blog on Sagar Behere
Old passport the tug of my father’s smile – Yu Chang| Blog on Sagar Behere
No sound to this spring rain- but the rocks darken – Anita Virgil| Blog on Sagar Behere
The moon broken again and again on the sea so easily mends – Choshu| Blog on Sagar Behere
A firefly flitted by: “Look”! I almost said but I was alone – Taigi| Blog on Sagar Behere
An Ocean away- tried to draw her closer with pencil and paper.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Summer night: in my eyes starlight hundreds of years old – George Swede| Blog on Sagar Behere
This huge ocean- I could stand here forever it would still come to me.. – Proxade Davis| Blog on Sagar Behere
Today it struck me- the thought of red suns setting after I’m gone. – Gunther Klinge| Blog on Sagar Behere
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The bracelet you left behind so easily removed handcuff of my desire.| Blog on Sagar Behere
If the striker thinks he scores Or the keeper cries in shame They understand not the crowd’s applause I make, and hear and earn again For I am the crowd and I am the ball I am the triumph and the blame I am the turf, the pies, the All Always and ever, I am the Game. It matters not who won or lost Nothing is the score you made Fame is a petal that curls in the frost But I will remember how you played. –Terry Pratchett (Unseen Academicals)| Blog on Sagar Behere
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I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair...| Blog on Sagar Behere
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“She says “Would you like to make love or should we have an intelligent conversation instead? I have been reading Noam Chomsky lately, I think he’s a marvel” The Vietnamese guy, you know, he doesn’t know what she’s talking about. He’s Vietnamese.”| Blog on Sagar Behere
We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Everybody loves a warm blanket.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Verboten: – Bicycles, skateboarding – Do NOT walk on grass! – Picking flowers – Having picnics – Driving motorcycles and cars – Photography Allowed: – Walking your dog – Throwing trash in to the trashcans| Blog on Sagar Behere
Love everything about this picture 🙂| Blog on Sagar Behere
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.| Blog on Sagar Behere
The baggage service is a telephone.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Saw this on a bench by the roadside. Yet another reason why I love Sweden. “Technical gadget found on this bench, Wed. 12/9. Will return if described. Ring XX XX XX”| Blog on Sagar Behere
A lovely poem by James Kavanaugh. I don’t know its title. Some people do not have to search they find their niche early in life and rest there, seemingly contented and resigned. They do not seem to ask much of life, sometimes they do not seem to take it seriously. At times I envy them, but usually I do not understand them seldom do they understand me.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Another lovely poem by James Kavanaugh. I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Found on top of a teabag. Life, the Universe and Everything in your cuppa.| Blog on Sagar Behere
On campus, “Drive slowly. Think of me.” transforms to “Drive! Don’t think!” 🙂| Blog on Sagar Behere
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Though I fly through the valley of death, I shall fear no evil. For I am 80,000 feet and climbing.| Blog on Sagar Behere
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The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. -J.R.R. Tolkien| Blog on Sagar Behere
Here’s looking at you, kid.| Blog on Sagar Behere
KTH takes security seriously. Saw this guy guarding the forest facing entrance.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Formation flying with SAS Flygklubb| Blog on Sagar Behere
Boys will be boys 🙂| Blog on Sagar Behere
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. ‘Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Simply the BEST series ever. Go watch it now.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Stop!| Blog on Sagar Behere
Season’s greetings from Stockholm University| Blog on Sagar Behere
“Belongs to the PhD section. If you eat the food, we’ll fail you in your exams :P”| Blog on Sagar Behere
You are here. Somewhere above the map.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Look famous. Be legendary. Appear complex. Act easy. Radiate presence. Travel light. Seem a dream. Prove real.| Blog on Sagar Behere
You don’t need much else| Blog on Sagar Behere
Clever, clever Bernini. Read the description here| Blog on Sagar Behere
How would YOU enjoy life?| Blog on Sagar Behere
Came to work one morning, and found my shiny macbook pro/27" monitor replaced by this!| Blog on Sagar Behere
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All that we see or seem, is just a dream within a dream.| Blog on Sagar Behere
Why does the prisoner in the tower watch the flight of birds?| Blog on Sagar Behere
“There’s something I forgot to tell you.” “Tell me.” “I’m not left-handed either.”| Blog on Sagar Behere
Watch it now. Thank me later.| Blog on Sagar Behere
“We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.” (Image source: Ciugi)| Blog on Sagar Behere
As 007 walked by He heard a wee spider say, “Hi.” But shaken, he shot It right there on the spot As it tried to explain, “I’m a spi …”| Blog on Sagar Behere
Thanks, little buddy.| Blog on Sagar Behere
“..the face of the most beautiful of women and the mind of the most resolute of men.”| Blog on Sagar Behere
I don’t fall for temptation. I choose to succumb 😀| Blog on Sagar Behere