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I learned to today that setting MEMORY on your minecraft server causes the JVM to egregiously allocate all of that memory. Not setting it causes slow downs and potential crashes, but setting INIT_MEMORY and MAX_MEMORY gives us the best of both worlds. It is allowed to use more, but does not gobble it all up on startup. In this economy we need to save all the memory we can! Here is a non-working snippet for a minecraft server deployment in kubernetes. containers: - name: dungeon image: itzg/minecraft-server env: - name: EULA value: "true" - name: INIT_MEMORY value: "512M" - name: MAX_MEMORY value: "3G" and in docker compose dungeon: image: itzg/minecraft-server environment: EULA: "true" INIT_MEMORY: "512M" MAX_MEMORY: "3G"

- I did not realize all the places to be considered as AI water usage. Hank goes deep highlighting all of the sources he is aware of, most reports leave off a lot of these sources, some reports go maybe too far adding sources that may not make sense depending on the question you are asking. As someone that runs computers with gpus in their house, and watching LTT make AIO installs on GPUs I’ve wondered what would AI use water for, now I understand that its a lot. No where near agriculture, but a lot. Unlike running a gpu in your house, potentially with a closed loop AIO, data centers are filled with hardware making heat and it all must go somewhere. Current technology has this done with evaporative cooling, i.e. its not a closed loop, the water goes into the sky. He goes on to point out that its not just the data center, using water, but also chip fab and power plants. Something I hadn’t put a lot of thought into is the type of water. While a lot of agriculture and power applications do not use municipal water, a lot of data centers do, putting excess strain on water treatment. Something I find interesting is that Altman is doing the same thing here that he does on his fin...

Notes – 05:09 Tue 9 Dec 2025 Notes – 05:09 Tue 9 Dec 2025 dbushell.com · dbushell.com [1] Age verification hitting bluesky?? At least its not yet requiring your govt issued id or anything, but stepping that direction. I don’t know how I feel about age checks, does it actually protect kids when parents aren’t involved? I can’t say anything there, but it really does feel like its about ready to hurt the rest of us, requiring us to whip out ids and personal data for anything done online. This is a real problem that is hard to solve, and reasons why it has not been solved yet. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-09T05:09Z/ [2]: /thoughts/

Deprecations via warnings don’t work for Python libraries Seth Larson reports that urllib3 2.6.0 released on the 5th of December and finally removed the HTTPResponse.getheaders() and HTTPResponse.getheader(name, default) methods, which have been marked as... Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] Deprecation warnings are so easy to miss, ignore, become numb to. Creating tools and processes to catch and address these issues is important. I’m surprised such big projects let deprecations just hang around for years. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/9/deprecations-via-warnings/#atom-everything [2]: /thoughts/

A quote from Claude I found the problem and it's really bad. Looking at your log, here's the catastrophic command that was run: rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/ See that ~/ at the … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1] damn this is a rough one. A users entire home directory removed by claude code from an rm command. rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/ Reading the first half of that command it LGTM. If you had approved rm, you are hosed. If this is inside a larger script its running, you really gotta read close. This one still feels pretty obvious, but I can imagine some bash doing some nasty things I miss if I read it and understand it let alone glance at it. I’ll take this as a reminder that I really need to be paying full-ass attention to agents, and moving towards a better sandbox for them, something in docker, maybe something like distrobox that is a magic wrapper over podman that just gives you the things you need for what it does. Something that starts up with access to start web servers, run agentic cli of choice, see project, git [2] commit. It feels like the right thing has a lot of what distrobox does, but distrobox has too much and would be prone to this us...

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I found snow-fall component from zachleat [1], and its beautiful… to me. I like the way it looks, its simple and whimsical. Install # [2] There is an npm package <a href="https://zachleat.com" class="mention" data-name="Zach Leatherman" data-bio="A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)" data-avatar="https://www.zachleat.com/og/opengraph-default.png" data-handle="@zachleat">@zachleat</a>/snow-fall if that’s your thing. I like vendoring in small things like this. curl -o static/snow-fall.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachleat/snow-fall/refs/heads/main/snow-fall.js I generally save it in my justfile so that I remember how I got it and how to update…. yaya I could use npm, but I don’t for no build sites. get-snowfall: curl -o static/snow-fall.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zachleat/snow-fall/refs/heads/main/snow-fall.js Usage # [3] Now add the component to your page. <!-- This belongs somewhere inside <head> --> <script type="module" src="snow-fall.js"></script> <!-- Adjust the src to your path --> <!-- This belongs somewhere inside <body> --> <!-- Anything before will be below the snow. --> <snow-fall></snow-fall> <!-- Anything after will show above the snow. --> ...

Today I learned an important lesson that you should periodically check on your kubeconfigs expiration date. It’s easy to do. You can ask for the client-certificate-data from your kubeconfig, decode it, and use openssl to get the expiration date. kubectl config view --raw -o jsonpath='{.users[0].user.client-certificate-data}' \ | base64 -d 2>/dev/null \ | openssl x509 -noout -dates Note This will only work for the first user, if you have more than one user or context defined in your kubeconfig you will need to adjust.

- This looks like a really good low cost option for some workholding. There is never a shortage of workholding in the shop and everything has a place. Having something low cost that you can have a bunch of makes a lot of sense. Maybe you still need a super scucum unit for really clamping the shit out of something, but this easily covers most use cases in a garage workshop. I want to build it. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

- Moore’s Law is Dead pitches a pretty ingenious sku for the new gabecube aka steam machine. I fully support repairability and ewaste reduction. most of these components have not had MAJOR improvements in years, hence his channel name. There is a possibility here that Valve could ship with their unique hardware, (apu, psu, case, ports, networking) and let you bring your own ssd and ram from an old device that you might not use anymore. I love this idea. At the same time it feels like entering the star wars universe where there are no more new manufacturing and everything is cobbled together from old hardware made long ago. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

When using two GitHub accounts the gh cli gives very easy gh auth switch workflow from the cli. from the docs gh auth switch –help Switch the active account for a GitHub host. This command changes the authentication configuration that will be used when running commands targeting the specified GitHub host. If the specified host has two accounts, the active account will be switched automatically. If there are more than two accounts, disambiguation will be required either through the --user flag or an interactive prompt. # list accounts gh auth status # switch accounds (interactive if more than 2, i've never seen this personally) gh auth switch

Check out basecamp [1] and their project fizzy [2]. Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been. References: [1]: https://github.com/basecamp [2]: https://github.com/basecamp/fizzy

- What a heart breaking video to listen to. I’m trying to do a better job of being positive right now. I’m trying to look at the world in what I have control over (not much more than my attitude about it). AI is killing so much right now I’m trying to look at it as the good tools the engineers made it to be. Ownership is dying around every goddamn corner. Hats off to Edison, this guy gets it. We need more companies like this taking a stand for the average person who wants to make it out there. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

- What a great campfire story Casey stumbled into. Whether any of this is true few will ever know, but its very reasonable that a race condition and a stalled job to apply configuration caused by someone who left the company 10 years ago caused an outage. I find it hilarious that they call this guy he answers, yup I still know the password, but how do I know you’re legit, I’m not just handing out the password. Casey did a stand up job telling this story. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

- Linus is Techbrophobic [1] like the rest of us. This is such an unexpectedly mild take from him. I expected some threat to the mother of the vibe coder, but he gave a pretty great middle of the road take. The industry sucks, it smells off, we know a lot wrong with it, it feels like theres a lot more wrong than we know. But the tools that its making are really good when used in the right ways. They are not a replacement for anything, they are assistive. They can lift someone from not knowing how to code to making a small webapp for their use. Someone who wants to write backend and give them a decent front end, someone who whats to write front end and give them a decent backend. Great take from someone with more experience than most can ever dream of having, worth a listen. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /techbrophobic/ [2]: /thoughts/

gpus are awesome [1] and I need one for Bambu Studio to be usable in a distrobox. Adding the --nvidia flag to distrobox create bind mounts the nvidia /dev/ devices and sets up the necessary environment variables. Once we are in there are a couple of packages to install to make it work. distrobox create --name bambu-studio --image archlinux:latest --nvidia distrobox enter bambu-studio sudo pacman -S nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils vulkan-icd-loader nvidia-smi glxinfo | gprep OpenGL sudo pacman -Syu --needed base-devel git git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-bin.git cd paru-bin makepkg -si paru -S bambustudio-bin bambu-studio distrobox-export --app bambu-studio References: [1]: /gpus-are-awesome/

Check out garbage-day.nvim [1] by Zeioth [2]. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Garbage collector that stops inactive LSP clients to free RAM References: [1]: https://github.com/Zeioth/garbage-day.nvim [2]: https://github.com/Zeioth

snow-fall Web Component—zachleat.com A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat) Zach Leatherman · zachleat.com [1] This is a very fun way to add some whimsy to your site, added it to mine immediately when I saw it. This is what digital gardens are for, Fun, entertainment, and self-exxpression. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://www.zachleat.com/web/snow-fall/ [2]: /thoughts/

- This ball vise Idea is incredible and I want one. Its a heavy workholding unit that can accept a variety of tools and manipulate things to a lot of angles while working on them. This looks really good for painting miniatures soldering or generally working on small 3d printed parts that I do. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

The k3s system-upgrade controller is a fantastic tool for upgrading k3s automatically. It has done a fantastic job for me every time I’ve used it. Today I ran it on a cluster that needed to upgrade several minors and I learned that the controller does not pick up on changes to the channel url if you change from minor to minor. The solution I came up with was to name the plan with the version it supports. Then on each patch upgrade, change both the plan name and the channel. I use gitops with argocd, it automcatically cleaned up old plans, created new plans, and the system-upgrade-controller picked up the plan and started applying immediately. # Server plan apiVersion: upgrade.cattle.io/v1 kind: Plan metadata: name: server-plan-v1.33 # <- This is important if you want to change the channel name namespace: system-upgrade spec: concurrency: 1 cordon: true nodeSelector: matchExpressions: - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane operator: In values: - "true" serviceAccountName: system-upgrade upgrade: image: rancher/k3s-upgrade channel: https://update.k3s.io/v1-release/channels/v1.33 --- # Agent plan apiVersion: upgrade.cattle.io/v1 kind: Plan metadata: name: age...