Updated 03-Aug-2025
W19/2025: Monday 05 May - Sunday 11 May 2025
Caption: Boys
Cooking
- Some good food these days, but nothing new.
Work
- End of Boy's term vacation means I can get to work again.
Tech
- Moving out of all US-based company tech. This means my VPS and all other third-party hosting and services. No more Cloudflare (my current DNS) -- possibly Gcore, no more Linode (my current VPS) -- Hetzner, etc., etc. I'm choosing Europe and / or Japan for my locations (various reasons). I cannot trust US companies with the current Nazi government and their spying and prying ways. I've been on a NZ email service for years (and am happy with them) Fastmail.com (referrer link, I get $10 for each sign-up). My Snikket is on Hetzner already, but will move from hosted/managed to self-hosted.
- Need to get up to speed with Docker and Docker Swarm.
- Also git.
- Deploy Anubis, and maybe zip bombs.
Neat approach to Data poisoning for AI bots using Hugo and Pages.
Apparently there are some nice hacks of Kindle these days, and after all, the KindleOS, is a mess of Java, Javascript, Lua, Native and React Native code... The Kindle runs stripped down Linux with a React Native frontend along with Java backend applications. So, we can't make it any worse.
Some kewl apps:
More stuff to do
- Need to move from Cloudflare, the free options at Gcore look good.
- Jailbreak Kindle
- Figure out some AI / scraping mitigation
Health
- Lethargy is a killer. Have to force activity, but in the end that actually helps.
- Some burning going on so PM2.5 on the rise (sadly, but expected).
Travel
- Stay-cation in Chiang Mai (Japanese Onsen experience, something different).
Reading
- Hell Mode through v.6 -- bored now
- Min-Maxing my TRPG Build v.1 (half-way through, interesting)
- Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon v.10
Music
Games
- Looking at the Retroid Pocket Flip 2 (Youtube video) as the next device for the boys (Christmas-time-ish). Impressive.
Video
- Star Wars Tales of the Underworld (sad origin story of Cad Bane).