Psi-Jack ^{(16 Posts)}

So, I got the Fediverse working, sort of. When I post to Friendica, these little posts, they get posted over to WordPress, linked back here, and from wordpress they also get posted up on Mastodon.social, which is pretty cool. It’s not entirely what I expected or wanted, seeings that I still cannot have WordPress itself actually follow my posts from here. Instead, Friendica is posting to it. Still it’s some level of progress. Also, switching from Nginx to Apache has been an interesting journey! More to come on that subject later!

So I decided to bite the bullet and actually look into other things, like fish shell. As an alternative to my zsh with zim, I have to say it’s rather quite interesting, and in some ways impressive. It does pretty much everything zim did for me, and better. We’ll see how long I end up using it…

With my continued efforts on my blog, I’m working on trying to get the whole Fediverse setup so people interested in my writing can tune in and follow. This comes the nature of Fediverse, and I’m currently now using WordPress for the main blog, this here, and for smaller thoughts, status updates, and just general chitter chatter, Friendica for the more simple shorter messages, a microblogger alternative to things like twitter was. In trying to get all this working, I’ve been running into numerous troubles. Problems to which actually have yet found a solution for. When I add myself via WordPress’s Friends/AcivityPub from my Friendica instance, I get errors. When I do the reverse from Friendica to WordPress, I get…

So I finally started doing it! With all my past dislike for Docker, my past failure with OpenShift, my long reluctance to Kubernetes and Containers and such, I’ve finally broken down and started really learning Kubernetes. To start, I investigated into the manual way to get into Kubernetes. See my one problem I always had with Kubernetes was storage. How does one handle storage in a clustered system, and actually get stuff done? I’ve tried a number of solutions for this over the years, and I’ve even implemented a few new approaches to some of them in this very project alone! First time I really got into it, Ceph was badly supported in Kubernetes. Now it seems, it’s much more…

So, I lied, apparently. Well, not really, just decided things were not as I’d like them to be, and some people were just not as they should be. I’ve chosen a different path and with many different reasons for it. I stopped working on and with Garuda. Certain differences of opinion, and certain people, well, more specifically, one person. Edu4rd, whom likes to hide under the hidden A Garuda Admin account, while being an insulting belittling and simply pompous rude person. Not just that, but because EndeavourOS does things very simple, and don’t make massive alterations to the distro like Garuda does. So I’ve been running the distro for several months now actually. I run it on my desktop, on…

To VPN or to PVN? That is the question. So to explain and translate these two as one of them is one I in particular made up based on what’s actually going on. VPN has been around for ages, and is generally used to bridge two private networks together, or at the very least bridge one private device into a private network, and do so securely with encryption. Public services like NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, etc. These are not actually bridging two private networks together nor are they bridging a private device to a private network. Instead what’s happening is you’re setting up an encrypted tunnel from wherever you are, be it home, a hotel or some random public WiFi, to…