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Marcus
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• Privacy, open source software, cybersecurity, self-hosting/homelab and tech enthusiast
• Father, husband, occasional gamer
• Website: https://marcusadams.me
• Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@gerowen
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Playing #Fallout4 on #SteamDeck and have an observation. The shadows aren't screen space because they persist when an object is well outside your viewport, including characters and other non static objects. Also, the sun in #Fallout 4 moves in discrete steps instead of gradually.

#Gaming #PCGaming
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Playing some #Fallout4 on #SteamDeck and two obserations about a recent update.

1) Having the "SteamDeck=0 %command%" launch argument seems to break the game's ability to launch now.

Continued...

#Gaming #PCGaming
A screenshot of my Fallout 4 character.
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
gerowen.bsky.social
So, using systemd-analyze, I was able to add several options to my service files for Minecraft and Luanti to lock them down considerably without breaking their core functionality. I may poke around some more and then use this as a template for the future.

#Security
My Minecraft systemd service file. [Unit] Description=Minecraft Java Edition Server ConditionPathExists=/opt/minecraft/minecraft_server [Service] Type=simple User=minecraft Group=minecraft ProtectProc=invisible ProcSubset=pid WorkingDirectory=/opt/minecraft/minecraft_server ProtectHome=true PrivateTmp=true ProtectSystem=strict ProtectKernelLogs=true ProtectKernelModules=true ProtectKernelTunables=true PrivateDevices=true PrivateUsers=true ProtectControlGroups=true ProtectClock=true ProtectHostname=true RemoveIPC=true RestrictNamespaces=~user pid net uts mnt cgroup ipc NoNewPrivileges=true SystemCallFilter=~@reboot @clock @swap @resources @raw-io @privileged @obsolete @mount @module @debug @cpu-emulation CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_SYS_PTRACE CAP_NET_ADMIN CAP_SYS_ADMIN CAP_CHOWN CAP_FSETID CAP_SETFCAP CAP_FOWNER CAP_IPC_OWNER CAP_SYS_BOOT CAP_SYS_CHROOT CAP_SYS_PACCT CAP_KILL CAP_IPC_LOCK CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG ReadWritePaths=/opt/minecraft /var/log/minecraft InaccessiblePaths=/mnt /media ExecStart=java -Xms2G -Xmx8G -jar server.jar nogui ExecStop=/opt/minecraft/mcrcon/stopserver.sh TimeoutSec=0 RemainAfterExit=yes StandardOutput=append:/var/log/minecraft/survival.log StandardError=append:/var/log/minecraft/survival.log [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target A screenshot of the output of "systemd-analyze-minecraft". The final line says: → Overall exposure level for minecraft.service: 2.7 OK 🙂
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
gerowen.bsky.social
My yearly viewing of #VForVendetta feels oddly more appropriate on this #November5th.
A screenshot of my Jellyfin server's page for the movie "V for Vendetta".
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Not my first time apparently.
A screenshot showing my "Wordle in 2" badge and a message stating I've earned it 4 times.
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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My wife and I were playing #VampireSurvivors together and something flaked with the network play and she got kicked and it gave me all of her items, so I ended up way more powerful than I should have been. I'm curious though, I bet Death can be killed, there are items past him on the map.

#Gaming
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 AM
gerowen.bsky.social
It's addicting, but no matter how good you think you're doing, you WILL die eventually.
November 2, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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#VampireSurvivors is on sale on Steam so I decided to give it a shot. It's actually pretty fun. It starts getting "really" difficult around the 10 minute mark.

#Gaming
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
gerowen.bsky.social
#Kiwix has a new release; binaries are available to download on their website.

Link: kiwix.org

My mirror at kiwix.marcusadams.me has been updated.
A screenshot of the email I received from Github informing me Kiwix 3.8.0 has been released.
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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#Jellyfin has released 10.11.1 with some bug fixes. If you're using the #Debian repo like I am, it should be available to install.

Link: github.com/jellyfin/jel...

#SelfHosting
A screenshot of the terminal window on my server showing that new versions of the following packages are available to install: - jellyfin-server - jellyfin-web - jellyfin
October 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
gerowen.bsky.social
#Nextcloud 32.0.1 is available according to my server. The changelog hasn't been posted yet, but the update is available, at least if you're using the manual tarball version with your own database/webserver setup like I am. I'm not sure about the availability of the snap or docker versions.
A screenshot of an email from my Nextcloud server informing me version 32.0.1 is available.
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Brainstorming ways to minimize manual work keeping my custom systemd services inside their chroot jails even thru package upgrades that might overwrite the systemd service file. Turns out #Jellyfin has a config file that allows you to modify the default systemd service file directives.

#Linux
A partial screenshot of my /etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d/jellyfin.service.conf file, showing that I've added a "RootDirectory = /mnt/jellyfinchroot" directive.
October 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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I installed #Comet browser in a VM to see if it could be easily identified, so that admins who are so inclined could block it to prevent its integrated #AI from potentially scraping their pages despite using tools like Anubis. Its user agent contains no unique identifying information...
A screenshot of my desktop. The left half is log entries from my webserver showing connections made by the Comet browser. The right half is my VM showing that not only did I load a page, but I asked the AI assistant to read the page and tell me what was on it.
October 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
gerowen.bsky.social
My wife said the Walmart brand, "Pure Balance Pro" also has meat as the first ingredient.

#CatsOfBluesky #Cats #Pets
October 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Just got this email. The next point release for #Debian Trixie is scheduled for 15 November.
A screenshot of the email that reads: Hi, The next point release for trixie is scheduled for Saturday, 15th November 2025. Uploads to proposed-updates will be frozen the preceding weekend. -- Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw
October 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Kinda cool to see my personal server using a hybrid post #quantum key exchange for its https connections when even US government sites aren't yet.

#Privacy #Security
A screenshot of the https connection information for my Jellyfin service. The last bit reveals it's using X25519MLKEM768 as the key exchange mechanism.
October 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The #Bluesky app needs work. It regularly signs me out about once a week. I literally got a notification, clicked it and got this. Guess I'll just stick to using it in my browser.
The login screen in the Bluesky app.
October 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Turned the #Minecraft Java edition creative server back on because my nephew and kids have really gotten back into building in Minecraft and they wanted a shared space they could access from anywhere regardless of where they'e at.

#Gaming #PCGaming
A screenshot from our creative server. A Pikachu status is in the middle. The game is being rendered with a shader pack that makes things look "much" nicer, especially the lights and shadows.
October 16, 2025 at 5:26 AM
gerowen.bsky.social
Playing some #WormsWMD with my wife and discovered a new weapon.

Gonna bring some freedom to Wormistan!

#Gaming #Worms
October 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
gerowen.bsky.social
There seems to be a pretty healthy mix of PC and consoles playing #SonicRacingCrossworlds.

#Gaming
October 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
gerowen.bsky.social
There's a #Minecraft event going on in #SonicRacingCrossworlds right now with special characters and tracks, 🙂

Link: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

#Gaming #SonicTheHedgehog
The overworld portion of the track. The nether portion of the track. A ghast is in the distance about to throw fire at us. The End portion of the track.
October 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
gerowen.bsky.social
Adding another one of my random little personal #Python projects to Gitlab. I haven't updated it in a while so I'm looking over a few things, putting it up on Gitlab, making sure the build script works properly, etc. I'll post links to everything later.
A screenshot of my desktop. A text editor with a build script is open in the foreground. Gitlab is open in the background.
October 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Floyd Central High School in Floyd County, Kentucky. Taken from the football field behind the school.

#Photography
A shot of the setting sun. Camera is aimed down a hill with a winding road. At the bottom of the hill a school building can be seen in the distance.
October 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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The portal mechanic I mentioned in #SonicRacingCrossworlds. I don't "think" it's keeping multiple maps in memory because there's a slight frame drop (from 60 to 55 or so then back) for just a split second when a track is chosen. So yeah, don't install this game to an SD card or HDD.

#Gaming
September 27, 2025 at 5:53 AM
gerowen.bsky.social
Some of the unique dialog I was talking about. There's definitely some background somewhere between these two.
September 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM