Oh what’s the name of that conference? That would be very cool to listen for insights from for sure!

Lamp loves me

I really enjoy the pikvm and the switcher for my home lab. Redfish support gets fishy with a switcher if that is a concern though.

I do love a good mesh for a cluster block though. My next next next project is using KubeOVN to turn my cluster block into a switch with “out” connections to connection other devices (wifi, laptop, cameras, etc) to it as my network router and of course upstream from the modem and hotspot for Internet connection.

I would recommend 4-5 nodes. 5 if you want true high availability. 4 still requires some intervention in case of failure.

Just because it’s bare metal. Got to think of your Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) which is to say if a whole node goes bust how long will it take to potentially order and install a new one.

If you go kubernetes (k8s) I would recommend rke2 or k3s. They are really straightforward setups and pretty enterprise ready out of the box.

If you have a hard requirement for Ceph I would recommend doing Rook-Ceph which makes deploying and management a lot easier by letting k8s handle it. For simpler but less performant (in my testing) persistent volumes (PVs) like ceph Longhorn is really easy to deploy and manage.

For backups Velero is really nice for apps in your cluster, since it can be done per namespace and include PV data too. Rke2/k3s both have nice etcd (the backend data base for k8s) snapshoting and backup tools too for full disaster recovery.

Rke2/k3s both have ways to auto deploying charts from the filesystem too https://docs.rke2.io/add-ons/helm

This is a good stepping stone for GitOps imho. If that matters to you at all. Starting with just having a git dir for these files, then later doing some like ArgoCD

I would also recommend, since you are looking at hyper converged storage have dedicated network lines for it is generally recommended. So create a bond of two ports per node just for storage, tag them with their own vlan, and in your setup of rook or longhorn specific that vlan interface as the device for data to flow.

Pxe boot is also nice at this scale, either setup on your router (OpenWrt has decent support), you maintance laptop/machine, and/or do something like Tinkerbell (cloud native pxe from your k8s cluster!). It’s just nice to be able to blow away a node and rebuild if you are tinkering a lot.

Remember cattle not pets, and welcome to the range cowpoke!

The pikvm and pikvm switch are really fun tbh

If someone says you don’t need a lawyer or a union you probably need one

I’ve had to help walk back some family here because “if only I made a bunch of money instead of x” talks. Mostly by saying “yeah stinks, all you did was actually help people, should of embezzled enough money to get a foundation” or something.

Like I get it. Money is a form of power, and those without power are powerless, but so many egotist out here only imagining they matter if they changed civilization across the multiverse in some delusional power fantasy really out screwing with the perspective.

Grime calculus that is modern ethics. One of the funniest examples to me is Russia Orthdoxy, the Iranian ayatollah, and American Evangelicals all claiming each other in vary amounts being the forces of Satan and The Gays.

Again dark humor to me. They are monsters excusing the oppression and murder of people though, but when fighting Satan muders ok./s

Plenty of secular satans out there too. Communists, Nazis, The Jews, Blood thirsty anarchists, narcists, billionaires, schisos, etc basically any polball or Jreg character. They can be used to justify some horrendous deviation from morality and ethics. You know killing baby hilter kind of stuff. Reeducation camps are ok if they’re “terrorists” and the government is moved by the will of the people. Etc. etc.

Huh cool. So Declaritive programming like kube manifests but for a given interpreter or meta-programmer instead of the k8s API or operator?

I mean even more options there like Longhorn or Rook-Ceph

I mean yeah. This was the very reason to dump a ton into “the metaverse” in order to maximize possible data collection

Power transfer from royalty to nobility it sounds like. How is union memeber treatment in his companies at least?

Every “debate” “free speech” group on Facebook eventually devolved to a Nazi hangout and kicked me out for being too left wing. Everything left wing group got sucked.

It’s a shithole unfortunately

Own a musket for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. “What the devil?” As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball-sized hole through the first man, he’s dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it’s smoothbore and nails the neighbor’s dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grapeshot, “Tally ho lads” the grapeshot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

It’s crazy because ethenol COULD be just a byproduct from food production. Talking to farmers about a decade ago that what they were aiming for. Basically a step before just tilling it or burning it back into the field if it was misshappen (consumers don’t buy ugly veggies) or worse infested/rotting.

The subsidy structure messed that up apparently. The subsidized crop insurance made it not worth it, plus the ethanol subsidies required dedicated fields.

I 100% would rather see solar over dedicated ethanol fields and all of the water usage and pollution they represent.

Does it require it to be good? Like an audited service working with government databases and some kind of PKI system or is it just heuristics? If it’s the latter, then half ass a local vision model running client side during registration that trys to determine age, and defaults to “sure”. Have the age range the guess falls into (6-12, 13-18, 18-25, 25-999) be random number tables pick a fake number in the guess age range and move on. If a user WANTS to be precise let them. Maybe a test on “adult” questions like what is your favorite brand of toilet paper, what did you last pay for eggs, when cleaning a rug what method do prefer, etc (localized to region maybe just so people unfamiliar with a thing don’t get stressed by these bs questions).

Even better federation if we could have a concept for the federated servers so that they have a concept of what info actually needs passed along (as in above 18) and pass just that info if the user allows. Useful idea for other bits imho anyways. Pick and choose what actor metadata we share, allow servers to share data calculated on metadata without sharing it, etc.

Otherwise as others have said, Tor, i2p, and maybe freenet? The best case is servers in free countries support all three clearweb, tor, and i2p, and local server behind the wire support just the secure one that works in their security environment.

What prevents this? Is it just that you would a need a server that is a bridge on both networks?

“I wonder what sort of pressure would have led to that…”

Religious fundamentalism and authoritarism.

Establishment democracts trying to again to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. What kind of tratoris brainrot do you have to have to on one hand acknowledge a growing faciest federal government and on the other hand fight to disarm the people, worse specifically the people mostly likely targeted by that government, while also kneecapping people and communities rights to repair and create what they want and need themselves.

But surely the platform for “intellectual skin heads” isn’t full of crap /s

Honestly if Breitbart said the sun will rise tommorow I’d be worried that it wouldnt