Privacy in Computing
For anyone who has been upgrading their Fedora installs from version to version
there was a surprise event with the upgrade from 38 to 39. At that point the
boot process was changed from using grub to systemd-boot. It's a testament
to the smoothness with which Fedora maintainers execute even …
The series Ungoogling my Computing alluded to the use of Wireguard to help secure networking. It might be useful to look at the general structure of the setup more closely, hence a separate post on the subject.
Wireguard is a relatively new VPN technology which owes its breakthrough in the …
For the past 15 years my "home cinema" setup has been a 55 inch Sony LED TV and an all-in-one Sony 5.1 Surround sound system with integrated Bluray player. Additionally there is a Linux VDR for FTA satellite broadcasts, and a Xiaomi Mibox streaming client.
In May 2023 we finally joined the "renewable revolution" by having photovoltaic panels installed on the roof and purchasing an inverter to feed power into the grid. Of course one of the main fascinations of the system is that one can acquire performance data from the system and graph that …
Digital photography workflows tend to be dominated by a relatively small number of proprietary, commercial software suites that have been optimized over years or even decades. Adobe Lightroom, Capture One, or Affinity Photo are household names, and they're all available for both MacOS as well as Windows. Which also means …
Something I've been meaning to try for a while was using a physical MFA token in conjunction with SSH to secure connections to remote servers. I've been casually reading blogs on the subject, but it seemed to be a bit of faff surrounding the issue.
Then when the OpenSSH project …
I've avoided delving into the calendaring topic for a long while. It seemed a hassle and also I wasn't sure how to best integrate work and private calendars. I don't have very many private appointments anyway, and the ones I do have should ideally also block out the respective times …
Recently in the Fediverse @joel@fosstodon.org announced a blog post he had
written about some niche FOSS mobile apps that he has found
useful and I thought
that is a great idea if everybody did that. So here's my pick.
You can find all of them on F-Droid by …
Phishing, online scams, and identity theft are big problems. All three of them are quite closely related, and to a significant degree revolve around something virtually everyone has these days - an email address. Let's look at the definitions real quick:
Phishing is a type of social engineering where an attacker …
Fans of tiling window managers generally do not have a full-featured desktop environment such as Gnome or KDE installed. One of the more obviously missing UI elements is the search bar for quick access to programs and to search for things.
dmenu is an extremely versatile utility that can best …
Here's a quick pointer to a piece of software that I like a lot. It's called the
Powerful Quick Image Viewer, or pqiv for
short and it is - as the name suggests -
a rather powerful image viewer that can be used from the command line (and thus
in a scripted …
I got my start in system administration in the early 1990s, maintaining a university institute full of Sun Microsystems workstations. Those were the late days of the Unix wars, and the main contenders were Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), and Sun. Sun were well-loved …
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It took me a while to come up with a coherent description of the questions that ultimately led to the solution I'm presenting in this post. Which in itself I think is quite straightforward. Bear with me here while I lay out the ideas:
With the move of this blog to Codeberg I also changed the process of producing content. In fact one of the drivers was to redo this exact part. In this post I'd like to give an overview of the setup of the blog and the process of generating content for …
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I previously wrote about my note taking/information management process here and here. Quite a lot has changed so it's time for a re-revisit.
As noted I found the one-massive-file Wiki approach limiting, especially since it wasn't easily accessible from the command line which is where I spend most of …
Just a short entry to announce that the move of this blog is complete.
As explained in Moving to Gitlab I happily run the awesome Gitlab Community Edition at work. It is a great Git forge to use when you're not comfortable shipping your source code or configurations off to …
Documentation-As-Code is a much better approach than your WYSIWYG editor of old.
The general consensus regarding how to create and maintain documentation has definitely changed over the past few years. People had come to regard WYSIWYG text processors as the gold standard. Effortlessly arrange text and images, see what you …
In July 2020 The Register, our usual source of unbiased news (ahem), ran an interesting piece on a pending court case against Microsoft in California. Within the article the actual complaint document was linked via courtlistener.com, to wit: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.362635/gov.uscourts …
In late July 2021 Amnesty International together with The Citizen Lab published an analysis showing the widespread use of NGO Group's Pegasus software. Pegasus is a type of spyware that is commercially available to anyone willing to pay the asking price, and can be used to spy on the carrier …
Backups and more Network Sniffing
Loading up with Applications
Phone setup and initial impressions
Setting up the environment
Escaping the walled gardens
Google Changes the Rules, and that brings with it the end of the walled gardens.
A short news item on Late Night Linux episode
126 referencing this
Public Security Announcement
in r/privacytoolsIO on Reddit gave me a very rude awakening. It describes
Google forcing application developers to hand over …
Undoing the damage
Recommendations for what to recommend
A new lease on life
When you want to host a small server somewhere
The Easy Way
Sway, the tiling window manager for Wayland
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More than one way to skin the cat
Time for another installment. There's a rundown of some favorite Linux listening and a neat distro I took a look at, Elementary OS.
I like to use my daily commute time to listen to podcasts. Here's a quick rundown of the Linux and Security ones I quite enjoy:
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Make sure you're still getting the goods
Not too shabby at all
More Pixels and Another Update
Think before you travel
Lurking for years, now taking off
The Good and the Bad of indexing software
Xmodmap config to get the extra buttons working
Works fine; nuff said
Abandon ship, arrrrr!
Settings for maximum efficiency
Bringing encrypted mail to your mobile device
A few useful commands of the successor to YUM
Pixels and Updates
Safeguard your data - it's not hard
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How to record what you learn and being able to find it again
On a laptop, it's all about hardware support
How to find a laptop with good Linux support and what I chose
How did we get here?
First post in a new blog.
This blog was hosted on Gitlab and used Hugo. I moved it to Codeberg on 2022-03-30.
Head over to Codeberg Pages to get started yourself.