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I now seem to have a need for sub-subdomain DDNS because I want to start using Immich to potentially replace the photo sync part of Proton Drive.

Last year’s amount and quality of blog posts I published satisfied me.

Table of contents: Getting back in control Why would you want that?

Getting hands dirty setting up things on AWS with OpenTofu.

Table of contents: Should you (self)-host your Git instance?

As often, a caveat: This is not a step-by-step tutorial, but merely loose thoughts I considered contextually useful while setting all this up.

Early this year, everybody was hyped about the release of Ghostty.

A short post about switching from a legacy LSP config to the native experience which is available since Neovim 0.11.

Getting hands dirty setting up things on AWS with OpenTofu.

summary of the build planned in part two of this series.

lugh.ch had the same Pelican theme of the Nairobi Linux Users Group for a long time.

What's SFF?

Getting hands dirty setting up things on AWS with OpenTofu.

Useful software often doesn’t get the recognition it deserves.

This is neither a full guide nor to be considered best practice.

This is a summary of my experience using Neovim for some time.

As you could learn from the “sunsetting” blog post, I am exploring the depths of email as a service (a whole new concept to me) in the form of ProtonMail.

Notice# The lugh.ch email service is being discontinued by the end of 2023.

Table of contents: Requirements Avoiding censorship As privacy-protecting as possible Technology refresh High level overview of DNS request and response flow Pi-hole installation pfSense and Pi-hole configuration pfSense Pi-hole Conclusion Requirements# W…

Disclaimer: those are first steps, take them with a grain of salt.

Table of contents: Generic sysadmin tasks Nice and ionice together dd, write ISO to disk Count log entries per second Send tar file via SSH Highlight changing network information (rx,tx etc.)

Due to several vulnerabilities in STARTTLS implementations, resp. generic design flaws, we took the opportunity to update the email compartement here.

Bear with me, I’m not the mechanical keyboard wizard you should blindly listen to, not in the least.

A change long overdue, but at last, it’s here: Any contacts created in either webmail or Nextcloud are accessible in the other one too.

The security protocol TLS 1.1 has been disabled on every service provided at lugh.ch.

This is my second mechanical keyboard build.

The security protocol TLS 1.0 has been disabled on every service provided at lugh.ch.

This is my first mechanical keyboard build.

We started to use Let’s Encrypt.

foobar2000 stuff# Enable current song display in your Jabber status message (Psi)# Download the foobar2000 plugin foo_tunefile Install it, then set the filename to C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\PsiData\tune Enable “Publish tune” in Psi (it’s in t…

SSL protocol optimizations have been set in place.

I re-added this ancient blog post because I think it's a nice trip down recent computer hardware memory lane Every few years, there’s that feeling making me nervous: you need to get new computer hardware!