Ads and data brokers are out of control

Digital advertising is everywhere nowadays. However, they are actually a giant risk to privacy and now, safety. To be successful, digital advertising depends on showing you highly targeted advertisements, which ultimately incentivizes them to build up profiles about you via your browsing history, search queries, location, demographics, and even behavioral patterns. More data about you means they can find ads that you’re more likely to be influenced by.

Replatforming RKE1 to Nix-based K8s - Part 1

RKE1 (Rancher Kubernetes Engine 1) was Rancher’s first way of automatically deploying Kubernetes to a cluster. Think of it like minikube or on-prem EKS or K3s. Three years ago, it was marked as end of life (EoL) with the last release being July 2025. They have no migration guide and their strategy is just rebuild the cluster. I have 3 nodes a bunch of services running in Kubernetes. I don’t want to take everything down and rebuild it all. Let’s rebuild it while the plane is in the air.

Syncing my Christmas lights to my Sonos

Last year, I setup a Christmas lights show at my house. I started with some basic light sequences just to learn. I wrote a post on the basics. This year, I upped the ante and added more lights and starting making sequences linked to music.

I have one light controller running Falcon Controller/FPP, a Kulp K8-B controller. How do I get sound out? I looked at options for getting sound out to a speaker. For my first pass, I decided to push it to a Sonos Move speaker since I had one.