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I despise Apple.

Two weeks ago I met someone at a local pub who pitched a visit tour by bike in Chemnitz, titled Secret Chemnitz, scheduled on the next weekend.

Something I’ve been wanting to do for a while: end-to-end testing of my email infrastructure.

My first CTF in years1!

So I’ve built yet another web hosting platform cough prototype cough.

Last week a friend called me to share about their new Windows laptop: ARM-based with some embedded “AI chip”.

While packaging booklore into a FreeBSD jail last weekend, I ran into an issue that forced me to learn about VNET.

Summary You may not need Jupyter notebooks.

Ouch my raspberry Pi Zero became pretty much useless lately.😢 Yet another update to the list of things degrading.

On 2024-12-06 around 18:45 CET my NAS died.

I’m now part of the elite!

Today while writing an artist bio, as I was gazing at the concept of beauty, I searched for “beauty” in DuckDuckGo and Google. 😳 I was truly shocked to find results about cosmetics for pages and pages.

When I wrote in July 2024 about things degrading, I was not in a great mood.

I like to customize and maintain my home lab and work station.

I may be wrong, but in my view, Android is a Linux distribution.

Watching Ruby on Rails: The Documentary, and hearing David Heinemeier Hansson sharing how he sucked at programming reminded me of my own experience.

This summer a friend came over with their 13 years old nephew for a visit.

While testing the name servers for my domain after its transfer, I suddenly realized I wasn’t sure to fully understand DNS delegation anymore1, more specifically how precisely the zone of the TLD registry (say .fr) gets updated2.

Introduction From 2018 to 2021 I had been a happy user of Simple-jails.

Problem ssh remote zfs send zroot/some@snap | zfs receive fails with cannot receive: invalid stream (bad magic number) Solution The solution is to use the real ssh executable instead: /usr/bin/ssh ….

Introduction At high level, domain transfer, the process of moving the management of your domain from one registrar (say Gandi, hereafter SRC) to another (say OVH, hereafter DST), is easy™: Make sure the domain is transferable at the SRC registrar Request…

While many give up on self-hosting their email1, I actually just started self-hosting mine.

After experimenting with Salt’s jails-aware functions for about 2 weeks, I opted for BastilleBSD for jails management and configuration.

Hear ye, hear ye, Salt’s most important functions (aka “states”) are jails/chroot-aware!

Timeline Date Event 2008 Winter ???

According to my IRC client logs, I started self-hosting1 sometime during 2013, probably during the summer.

This post was written on 2023-01-02 and belongs to a series of catch-up articles.

This post was written on 2022-12-18 and belongs to a series of catch-up articles.

Summary This is the story of me migrating from passwordstore to Bitwarden, the rationale, steps taken, and gotchas encountered on the way.

EDIT 2022-12-17: Minor language correction.

I tried recently to launch automatically some user programs with systemd, instead of say .xprofile.

EDIT: emacs-25 is patched accordingly.

I’ve been putting encryption in place for sensitive data in our Salt configuration lately.

Today I had to setup a hastebin instance on a server where etherpad-lite was already running.

I recently followed the functional programming in Scala course on Coursera.

The problem with 36 * * * * pgrep -f 'puppetd' > /dev/null 2>&1 || /etc/init.d/puppet restart is that the pgrep matches /bin/sh -c pgrep -f puppetd… when the whole line is launched by cron.

I couldn’t find any receipt to clone a WordPress blog.

While starting to write a completion function for systemctl, I found out there was already an existing completion script for bash shipped with systemd: systemctl-bash-completion.sh.

Concert au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon avec l’ensemble Origamini