I’m running my own Matrix homeserver for a number of reasons – one of them is simply economical as ‘disk space’ on a mobile phone is way more expensive than on a server. You can easily slap a few TB into a server without any problems whereas phones still do have a long way to go. Long story […]
Building the kernel with clang: messing around
The Linux kernel is an ingenious piece of software and I’m pretty confident in compiling it by myself since quite a while – so I was trying to step up the game by doing debian packages. But now as the Kernel supports LTO, it’s time for me to give it a spin. But to be honest, useful documentation […]
Working my way to automatic kernel builds
It’s pretty obvious, that me maintaining the debian kernel repository which I announced in this post is a lot of work as I offer up to 4 flavors – which are ‘vanilla’, ‘vm’ and both for the gentoo patchset, I had to improve my setup. First of all, the introduction of ccache did shave off a few seconds […]
Bash files vs configuration
You guys know me, I do script a lot of stuff to make my life easier. Starting from my (smart)home to my server maintenance – it just saves too much time. And today I would like to share some ideas on how (not?) to work with configuration stuff in bash. First of all: Configuration on some scripts may […]
Yubikey for system auth
Linux is a beautiful system that can be customized in very many ways – it amazes me everytime how easy or which features I can add to my system for making life easier for me. Today: Login using the Yubikey. System Authentication is pretty easy on Linux system if we stick to PAM, which allows us to mix […]