Nothing too big here.

I asked Perplexity for a random 32 characters string for use as a salt for a cookie:

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I recently found a neat little self-hosted projcet called LubeLogger, which is sorta like a vehicle management tool. This does some neat things like recording my fuel usage (which I've been doing for years in a spreadsheet), tracking maintenance and repairs, and scheduling reminders based on milage and/or time.

The …

At work, I was recently asked to allow an on-premise Python application access to SharePoint Online (SPO).

The now-depreciated way would be to go to your SPO site, append /_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx to the site's name (so it would look something like …

Stuff

So it's been a little while since I've tinkered with this stuff, so I've been self-refreshing myself as I go along here.

The big catalyst for this work was the release of Proxmox 8. The key takeaway during the upgrade is that it's a typical Debian upgrade, and so it went more or less without incident. Great!

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A short post while I am thinking about this - because I sorta figured it out.

I am still working on sunsetting my monolithic server (well, it's a glorified desktop with relatively more storage than other hosts on my network), and was working on setting up CheckMK on a newly minted VM.

CheckMK is an open-source …

Whelp, I'm not really certain how I got here.. but at some point, I wound up with a pair of computers running Proxmox with the intent of running Kubernetes. It started out pretty innocently: I watched a TechnoTim video:

And it looked neat enough, so sure.. why not, let's try that out.

In the video, around the 6:00 …

One year ago, we welcomed this idiot into our home.

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I have this short little PowerShell function that I use all over the place. It simply adds an ACL entry to an object, usually a network folder:

 1function AddNTFSPermissions($path, $object, $permission) {
 2  $FileSystemRights = [System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemRights]$permission
 3  $InheritanceFlag = [ …

The problem...

I have something like 1200 PDfs, and the list is growing, of deliverables that we own the copywrite to that we want to put in a central place called SharePoint Online. This library will then get the benefit of being searchable, have associated metadata, and should free up time from a bunch of people for …