This Hands-on stuff might be uncommon on here, but it’s just a transcript and my thoughts to toying around with some stuff. This time it’s about qubes, an operating system which is a bunch of VMs on Xen. Not sure yet what to think of those, but honestly, I’ve seen worse. But the problem itself is – as […]
Author: ToeiRei
The net and all traffic was equal – mad(e) in the USA.
Thios Thursday, the government of the United States made it a law. Finally, they managed to shot themselves in the knee again by bringing back censorship and anarchy into the world wide web: Internet service providers may now prioritize traffic (against payment) in both directions. Sites may be speed up against a solid payment, others slowed down. Of […]
Smart Tinkering – Part II
Guess after the echo of that post about smart home stuff, I guess I have to deliver another shot: This time it’s a bit more practical. Speaking of a Raspberry Pi II being used to emitting noises every now and then by playing MP3 files which got some API open to be (ab)used. Last post was about presence […]
Smart tinkering
I’m thinking of some ways to work on my home in terms of making it some kind of smart. But smart in terms of having ‘some’ information instead of being married to information gathering services. Thinking of presence detection I’d vote against geofencing as this system does not need to know my location. Movement sensors lack the possibility […]
Bare debian
I love Linux – usually for being quite slim. But on the other hand, using a really minimalist install on debian 9, I need to add a few packages to get around. openssh-server – provides me ssh access net-tools – contains netstat ca-certificates – without that package I have to download without certificate checks apt-transport-https – allowing repositories […]
My own Etherpad-lite container
Don’t know your stand on outdated and old software on your own system – but in my case, I got a bad feeling about it and it gives me bad sleep. So the following story. We’re talking about an Etherpad image done by unihalle which made me do things on my own. Looking at the dockerfile itself, software […]