Weekly Notes 11 May 2025

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).
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