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Recent Good Times 🪕

Ever get a hunch, or a predication, or a scent of the future? I would be filled with praise and joy.

So I recently rented a dedicated hardware server for not bad money, compared to the market. I very much enjoy the systems these folks have. I honestly wouldn't have had any plans what to do with it except solely to tinker with it, and test out more advanced software in a case where I "theoretically could" migrater my VPS services and sites to it. So I wandered into some nice software actually!

I've used cockpit before but never at any length. This time I've made that work, and been seeing much of what it can do. It's system admin server management software that's hosted on the dedicated server for use of managing virtual machines, monitoring resources, managing performance and also VERY CONVENIENTLY it has a log viewer! I do think, but don't quote me on it, it monitors journald. However this cockpit, as far as I can tell, was created by RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) devs it utilizes qemu/kvm and libvirt for it's virtualization panel. Mind you, that I think is an extra extension to install. Since I installed all the available extensions on debian 12 repositories I had to deal with a thing called PCP (Performance Co-Pilot, which combined with installing tuned, granted me quite a few performance profile options, and an intense amount of indepth logging available for the debian 12 base bare metal OS.

One thing I had to deal with was however, that with PCP there's a number of related processes, it's modular in nature, and they almost all of them open a lot of ports on your public interface AND VOID MY WHITELIST FIREWALL!!! That was not cool, and it's not like you know, entire public IP ranges aren't known, and bombed with fuzzers, and some worse than others. And, it's not like you know, that any sofware is "just good", "nah, she's good n secure, don worry bout it", BULLSHIT, smh, it superceded my firewall even. I fixed that though, I was just suprised.

Another thing I'm working on rather heavily is packets flask app project. My twtxt apparatus, for microblogging, and I plan to tie it to XMPP using a SliXMPP library XMPP bot that can accept commands from MUC group chat or PM privately, and post automatically. I have a number of other cool ideas, but I don't wanna really tell anybody cuz I've found not many if anybody really gives a shit. Oh well. However I think the web application, once really polished up and beyond a proper v1.0, should probably actually be enticing for folks, and DEFO one of a kind for sure!

Yea, and as much as I'd like to work on this blog, and have converted it to pythons, and fixed things like the templating being a pain, and the fact I can't use block CSS elements inside of posts (grrrrrr), pyblog project is still basically in competition for dead last on my priorities for programming. However have you noticed the cool new styles updates? LoL I went down the rabbit hole again ⛳🐇

Tags: good-times, news, the8woodcutter, system-administration, sysops, linux, debian12, flask, packets