my two cents on life – including taxes and duties…
After tinkering a bit with the nvidia drivers I noticed that the software Qubes ships as stable is slightly out of date. To be honest, Fedora 23 is EOL since a year now, so I decided to do some updating and the unbelievable miracle happened: nouveau drivers started to get alive – so removing nvidia…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…