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adding ebpf exporter to home OBS

2026-05-25
Could it be simple as: sudo apt install libelf-dev pci.ids -y cd ~/src git clone https://github.com/cloudflare/ebpf_exporter make

Homelab OBS - How I got started

2026-05-10
I finally got some time to work on the Observability for my homelab. Prometheus, standard exporters, Grafana, alert-manager, and Jaeger are living in their natural habitat. And… Awkwardly …

Setting up Vault HA with CockroachDB

2024-08-24
Frankly most of this was pretty easy and not much to write about… auto unseal is a bit tricky to setup freely

Getting akkoma to run

2023-11-23
While trying to deploy akkoma with docker on my rootless docker environment, I have encountered the classical permission denied error:

Migrating my Blog to Hugo

2023-01-01
I love WriteFreely, I really do. And to my surprise it actually under a quite active development. The only complaint I have is that there’s a feature I wanted so badly for a very very long time, …

Moving Writefreely Site to Docker

2021-08-30
Moving WriteFreely site to Docker Though I’m not a big fan of unnecessary containerization, at some point, you’ll want the convenience of the docker, you know, like eliminate the need to …

Docker started using 192.168.0.0/16 subnets all of in sudden

2021-02-03
I was having fun with Jupyter and wanted to move it to my Docker host so it can benefit from the GPU. With effective configs:

Just when you want to use `systemctl --user` with fish

2021-01-28
~ > systemctl --user status Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory ~> systemctl --user status ● $HOSTNAME State: running Jobs: 0 queued Failed: 0 units Since: Wed 2021-01-27 …

Disable Translations in Apt

2021-01-06
Sometimes non-server distros come with a lot of languages, takes a long time to update. So: #/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99translations Acquire::Languages "none";

Less Preferable Releases in Apt

2020-12-25
While trying to install Maltego on a development machine, I’ve added the kali-rolling distribution to my sources.list.d. After an apt update I found myself sat in front of a machine suddenly …