Tag: self-hosting
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The Detector Was Never Looking
A neural network running at 5.8 milliseconds an inference, pointed at a room with cats in it, that had never once detected a cat.
I have an NVR. It runs in a container on one of the cluster nodes, it does object detection on that node’s integrated GPU, and it is fast: 5.84 milliseconds per inference, sitting at about 6% of what the detector can do. Person events come in with confidence scores between 0.73 and 0.93, which is healthy.
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The UPS Was a Battery, Not a Shutdown Controller
systemctl is-activesaid active. The daemon had never once logged in.I went to look at a UPS status page expecting to be bored. The server it protects sits on an 850 VA unit over USB, the monitoring daemon has been running for as long as the machine has, and the whole thing had never asked me for anything.
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You Cannot Audit a Migration From the Destination
A December migration silently dropped six published posts. The audit I ran eight months later couldn’t see it, because an audit only examines what arrived.
In August I ran a full audit of this blog. It was thorough in the way audits are thorough. It probed 87 URLs, checked every outbound link, read the database, and produced a list of real problems:
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The 2026 Software List: 110 Applications I Actually Run
Four years ago I published a list of twenty. Nine of them are still here — and the other ninety-odd arrived to keep them company.
In September 2022 I wrote 20 Must Have Software Applications for Every PC. Dashlane, Chrome, Microsoft Office, Kaspersky, PuTTY, TeamViewer. It was a list of things you install on a laptop or desktop.
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The Pi That Can’t Run a Browser
A 2012 Raspberry Pi, a 320×240 touchscreen, and four things that failed silently while reporting success.
I have a dashboard. It runs in a container, it pulls from five services, and it lives at a URL. Which means I see it when I go and look at it, which is less often than I intended when I built the thing.