Author: Victor Frost
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Bringing Down the Cloud: An Intro to Self-Hosting and Home-Labbing
This blog post is my attempt to provide and introduction to the world of Self-hosting and Home-Labbing. It’s adapted from a talk I gave to the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society on 4/3/2025. So, let’s start with the basics! What is Self-Hosting? Self-hosting, as the name may imply, is the practice of hosting digital services…
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On Solarpunk
Recently, a newbie in a Solarpunk discord server I’m on asked for someone to explain what solarpunk actually is. Here is what I wrote and, to be honest, I’m quite happy with it. Solar punk is a movement that looks forward and envisions a future of sustainability (rather than perpetual economic growth) being a key…
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Just in Case
So I’ve been working on something wholly original. It’s a set of 3D printable pieces that anyone can use to make custom boxes/cases/trays/hutches… anything vaguely rectangular/square out of 5mm plywood. As you can see from the image above, it’s still a work in progress, but work is now down to getting things like the 3d…
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Tool Organizers!
In my perpetual bid to use the space I have as efficiently as possible, I’ve designed up a bunch of tool holders (especially for my mini cordless tools)! Most of these are specific to my particular tools, but can be easily modified to fit others. They’re just stuff I needed and found useful so you…
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Sanitization
In reaction to the newest firmware changes from BambuLab, I’ve changed my A1 3d printer to LAN Only Mode and blocked its access to the internet. I’ll miss the convenience of being able to start and monitor prints from my phone but I use OrcaSlicer and I don’t like comapanies telling me what I can…
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MiniBuild: Coffee Scoop
Morning-Coffee-Wise, I’m perfectly content with the instant stuff. My wife, however, needs to brew a cup with her fancy stainless steel mesh pour-over cone. According to the instructions on the side of almost every bag of ground coffee she keeps in the fridge, the ideal amount of grounds for pour over coffee brewing is 2…
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MiniBuild: Buzzicle Instrument
I needed a practical sound effect for a doorbell buzzer for the Old Time Radio Show at Anime Los Angeles this year. So I decided to build one with what I had on hand. My inital thought was to replicate the mechanical buzzing by using a relay, but the only relays I have on hand…
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New Year, New Habits, New Goals.
It’s January 1st and, as arbitrary of a date as it may be to set up new habits and plans for the year to come – because the best time to start on new habits or goals is NOW, no matter time of year it is – it’s also not at all arbitrary because, hey,…
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AI Helpers
I use AI helpers a lot. Today I decided I need help managing my to do list and so I made Taskmaster. It’s based on Dolphin-Llama3.1 and runs Ollama on my main home server using a GTX 1070 for the GPU. This is how I tested my prompt for it. VICTOR Hello Taskmaster, I am…