I've been running my Internet Monitoring Pi for a year or so, and it's nice to collect data on Internet performance from inside my network.

But my router—currently an ASUS RT-AX86U—also tracks its own metrics for inbound and outbound traffic, among other things:

Sometimes having the raw data from the router that's on the edge of the network can tell a different story than measuring things behind the router. So I want to grab this data

Since being DDoS continuously earlier this year, I've set up extra caching in front of my site. Originally I just had Nginx's proxy cache, but that topped out around 100 Mbps of continuous bandwidth and maybe 5-10,000 requests per second on my little DigitalOcean VPS.

So then I added Cloudflare's proxy caching service on top, and now I've been able to handle months with 5-10 TB of traffic (with multiple spikes of hundreds of

...or at least, not without a lot of patience or a fat wallet.

But why ? And are there any signs Raspberry Pis will become available to the general public again soon?

To be clear, I'm speaking of the mainstream SBC Raspberry Pis, like the Pi 4 model B, the Compute Module 4, the Pi Zero 2 W, and even in many cases the Pi 400. The Pico and Pico W are both readily available, at least in most markets where I'

AnsibleFest is fast approaching, and this year it'll finally be back in person, in Chicago. Since that's a short jaunt from St. Louis, I'll be headed up to talk about my Homelab this year!

More specifically, I'll be giving a talk titled Ansible for the Homelab , and I'll walk through how I have at least part of my sprawling homelab environment automated using Ansible.

I'll be posting a version of the AnsibleFest talk to my YouTube channel, but

According to AI, this is me.

Or at least, what I look like if I deliver the prompt Jeff Geerling, realistic, photograph, sharp focus to Stable Diffusion , a machine learning, text-to-image model. But if you take that same prompt and paste it into the Stable Diffusion Demo , you'll get a different result.

Dall-E 2 and Stable Diffusion are two frontrunners in the current AI/ML image generation race. Put in the right descriptive text, and the machine learning

This is the BliKVM PCIe , a full computer on a PCI Express card. This is an IP KVM (Internet Protocol Keyboard-Video-Mouse) that can be put inside another computer or server.

Most server motherboards already have remote 'lights-out' management functionality built in. Most frequently this is referred to as IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface, but Dell calls it iDRAC, and HPE calls it ILO.

But not all servers have it. And even if they do, sometimes you have to pay extra

I watched TheOdd1sOut's How to Find Inspiration ¹ and remembered the most important lesson I learned from my high school English teacher:

Short is good. Short is hard .

The teacher ² didn't exactly put it like that. But he harped on something nobody else did: writing concisely.

Every week we would read a work of American literature. And every Friday we'd turn in a one-pager encapsulating our knowledge of the book. I was an odd duck for how much I enjoyed the

Linus Media Group , the media production agency behind giant YouTube tech channels like Linus Tech Tips and Techquickie , just launched the LTT Screwdriver , a $69.99 ratcheting screwdriver geared for building PCs and general use.

And Linus Sebastian, the man behind it all, didn't hold any punches. In the Screwdriver launch video , he said:

There are loads of perfectly good screwdrivers. But this one? This one is the best.

Between a recent written warranty kerfuffle and various 'hot takes' from

I use yt-dlp to download videos off YouTube quite frequently. I'll use the videos as reference, and I often use it to grab the VOD for one of my livestreams, since there's no simpler way (I'm not going to dig through the bowel's of YouTube's UI to try to download one of my own videos...).

But I also can't handle the default .webm videos in all my video editing tools natively, and transcoding is annoying