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  The new Siri is just as absolutely terrible as the old one. With the slight exception being that this time, I let myself hope it wouldn’t be complete crap. But it is, don’t waste your time.

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  Well then… After three years at Tailscale, today I’m starting a new chapter at Unraid as Head of Product Marketing. I’m proud of what we built at #tailscale and enormously grateful to the people I worked with, and to everyone who watched the videos. 1600 subs to 78k, 10m views, and over 150 videos. Not too shabby. Now I get to spend more time furthering the self-hosting mission I care so much about. I’ll be doing product work, community, technical education and, yes, plenty of video. There’s...

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  Surely someone at Apple must appreciate that this is a shit user experience? And most people are just going to click yes regardless? It's not adding extra security when done en-masse like this after a .x OS update. SO frustrating.

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  3d printing will always be an incredible gift. Printed the awesome labrax model to tidy up my lounge media closet.

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  Migration complete https://blog.ktz.me/ghost-to-astro/ #selfhosted

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  If I've done this right, my blog is now migrated to a fully static backend using Astro. I didn't do a radical redesign of the theme for the migration MVP, but I did add a better search, an archive and some other small things likely only I'll notice. But completing this project is a big day, really. This marks the end of my blog being CMS based since before it morphed into what is now LinuxServer.io (before splitting off again a while later). LSIO was just my blog in the earliest day...

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  I’m seriously considering shrinking my ZFS pool to protect myself from current hardware pricing. My primary pool is split into 2 z2 vdevs each presently. 7x 20tb disks + 3x 18tb. The pool is about 62% full. I could easily delete a ton of media and get it under 40%. And with USED 18tbs on average going for $275 a pop these days, I think that’s just smart. My doing this I can keep 2-3-4? Drives as spares. Maybe I won’t need them. But I think I’ll worry a bit less about them if I know I can h...

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  Set up a Hermes instance last night with a few different local models hooked up from my Mac. I’ve hooked that up to home assistant via an mcp server, and have already automated more little QOL things in the last few hrs than I have in the last few months. Absolutely end game being able to use natural language to debug automations via telegram without having to tether to a computer. This is huge! #homeassistant

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  If you've been missing #selfhosted podcast since it wrapped, then there's a new show in town. The spiritual successor. Check it out! https://bitflip.show

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  What do you think of Unraid? #homelab #selfhosting

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  Thank the stars for Linux. Seriously, I mean, it is such a gift to have it. The fact that I can download all software I need from the internet, for free, legally, to make my computer work - and it’s arguably as good or better for the most part on the desktop than any commercial option - is nothing short of a miracle in this age of surveillance and enshittification. To all of you who see this that contribute to this modern marvel, I thank you. 🙏

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  Happy Ubuntu LTS day!

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  I just found two sticks of 32gb DDR5 RAM in a box from when we packed to leave last year. Back then it was worth $100. Now? I can retire.

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  Another #factorio post. https://blog.ktz.me/factorio-controlling-space-ship-collectors-filters-via-circuit-logic/

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  A few days PTO and I'm finally getting to grips properly with more complex use cases for circuit networks in #factorio https://blog.ktz.me/factorio-controlling-imports-from-space/

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  Liftmaster hates this one simple trick! Security+ 3.0? HACKED! (OK not really). I had a spare remote and have wired it up to two relays powered by #esphome so I can open my garage doors in #homeassistant without the stupid myq cloud crap My house. My hardware. My way! As it should be. Also, yay. Go Artemis II !

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  @bazurk do you actually want automatic updates though? Waking up to an update alert is preferable to waking up to an app with a botched db migration that wiped all your data because you weren’t there to do it.

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  What does your #selfhosted backup situation look like? Mine is a box at a friends place with ZFS zrepl based replication hourly. Plus a second box at my parents for geographically distributed safety using restic to separate any ZFS replication issues. Basically a backup of a backup 🎰

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  https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/red_hat_ai_dev/

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  I spend a lot of time cleaning up audio lately and have been sleeping on dxrevive pro. Holy shit!

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  I’ve had one of thise periods lately where every waking second has been filled with things I had to do whether I liked it or not. My task list is pretty much complete tonight. And I have no idea what to do with myself.

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  SPACE IS COOL

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  A day off well spent. #factorio https://blog.ktz.me/factorio-recycler-belt-stacking/

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  It’s time to consider leaving GitHub. The community aspect no longer truly outweighs the harm of feeding the corporations models. Self-hosting Forgejo is easy and free. #selfhosting

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  Now, more than ever, there is such incredible value in escaping algorithmic bile. Get an RSS reader. Find real people, writing real words, think for yourself, and enjoy the imperfect, non-engagement bait way the internet used to be. A few of my fav feeds - https://xeiaso.net/ - https://alexwlchan.net/ - https://www.tara.sh/posts/ - https://soap.coffee/~lthms - https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/ - https://garrido.io/

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  I wish they'd bring us a Silcon Valley 2 AI edition. It would be savage.

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  Brutal. When Microsoft acquired GitHub.

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  Home Assistant renamed "add-ons" to "apps" recently. Whyyyyyyyyyy? It's so frustrating that they are still moving stuff around like this. Guides, documentation, and videos all point at add-ons - and have done for years - so unless you have a _really good reason_, don't change it! #homeassistant

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  Episode 1 coming Friday. https://bitflip.show/about/

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  https://bitflip.show/1/ We did the hardest part, episode 1 is out! I hope you'll enjoy this new podcast about the pragmatic side of infrastructure and the wider conversation around technology.