I recovered from a small disaster today using the neko dockerised web-browser.
I set up a remote backup with Proxmox running on a HP mini and a Synology a month ago at a friend's house 3000 km away. I thought I'd reserved all the IP addresses, but last night the Synology IP address changed, so the NFS shares to Proxmox and Jellyfin broke. That wasn't to hard to fix remotely, but I don't want it to happen every time the DHCP lease expires.
So now I need to log into their router and reserve the IP addresses...
I can get on the local network there by ssh-ing into one of my entities (via Tailscale), but how do I get to the web interface of the router?
Enter neko. It spins up a browser in a Docker container that can be accessed over a web address. So I created an LXC, installed docker and spun it up, then was able to use that to open the local-only web interface to the router.
neko is intended for watch parties, so multiple people can be logged in to the same browser window at a time - there's a toggle to take control of the window for clicks and typing, but apart from that it's all pretty straight forward. There's a very noticeable lag, but it got the job done.
Perhaps there was an easier lighter-weight way of doing this? In the old old days there was a text browser called Lynx - so perhaps there's some modern iteration that could have done this job?
Why is the cat showing its arsehole?
My cat did that to me the night after we adopted her. I called the rescue center to ask them about this behavior, and I was told that my cat had formally “accepted” me as her family and that the starfish-flashing is a sign of affection and acceptance.
That's just a cat thing. Some of them are intent on displaying their poopers whenever possible, especially if it's right in your face.
Because cat people are weird as fuck.
That's not an arsehole... It's part of the fediverse cluster !!! (The asterism ⁂).
This is also my only question.