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OPNsense 24.1 β†’

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OPNsense 24.1 releasedOPNsense 24.1 released Last summer I finally bit the bullet and decided to setup a firewall at home. I went with cheap Mini PC with dual NICs to serve this purpose. My initial choice of the operating system went to pfSense, but with all the drama

How fast is your shell? β†’

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Thorsten Ball: Now you’re thinking: does it matter? 100ms? 200ms? Come on, dude. And I’m telling you: yes it matters. Of course it matters. Those who don’t honor the milliseconds will end up with seconds. 100%, it absolutely matters. Who wants to walk around with clown shoes

PPAs Updates

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Latest versions of BCC (v0.29.1) and libbpf (v1.3.0) are now available from the bpftrace PPA for bionic, focal and jammy. There's also latest bpftrace (0.19.0) available but only for jammy (I found it impossible to build reliably on anything older): sudo add-apt-repository

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OPNsense 24.1 β†’

Asides β€”

OPNsense 24.1 releasedOPNsense 24.1 released Last summer I finally bit the bullet and decided to setup a firewall at home. I went with cheap Mini PC with dual NICs to serve this purpose. My initial choice of the operating system went to pfSense, but with all the drama

How fast is your shell? β†’

Asides β€”

Thorsten Ball: Now you’re thinking: does it matter? 100ms? 200ms? Come on, dude. And I’m telling you: yes it matters. Of course it matters. Those who don’t honor the milliseconds will end up with seconds. 100%, it absolutely matters. Who wants to walk around with clown shoes

Monitor temperature and humidity with Grafana and Raspberry Pi | Grafana LabsWhether you’re in a data center, a greenhouse, or a sea-side apartment, you can use Grafana dashboards to track temperature and humidity levels.Grafana LabsAntonio Calero Merello Very timely post by Grafana Labs blog about temperature and humidity monitoring.

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Project 366 Summary

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I learned about Project 365 from this post by Joe Hribar. By the end of 2019 I decided to give it a shot myself for 2020 – little did I know how difficult of a year it’s going to be. It was also a leap year, so my Project 365

Status (3)

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There I was, wanting to write these every six months... Maybe I will better outline them now that I discovered the absolutely fabulous[1] app named Folding Text. It's been already over a year after last status post and boy, oh boy, a lot has happened during that

Status (2)

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OK, so it’s been a while since the last status update and I was going do these round-about every six months. No big deal, no big deal, but I do feel the need to communicate a thing or two. In slightly particular order: * As was silently announced on the

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After years of using Ghost, last month I got back to WordPress as my blogging platform. Overall, that was the right choice to make, long overdue really. Using something that is pretty much a standard for running blogs these days makes things a lot easier. Additionally, unlike many others, I&

Apple

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OK, let’s start with DoT definition: DNS over TLS (DoT) is a security protocol for encrypting and wrapping Domain Name System (DNS) queries and answers via the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. The goal of the method is to increase user privacy and security by preventing eavesdropping and manipulation

Apple's Convergence

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There’s this craving out there in the industry. Imagine walking around with super powerful device inside your pocket. You can do all sorts of cool things on it like browsing the Internet, taking amazing pictures, listening to the music, downloading apps, documents and what not. Not that hard to

Android

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Revolver: Special Edition β†’

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Revolver: Special Edition - WikipediaWikimedia Foundation, Inc.Contributors to Wikimedia projects After all the hype related to Let It Be: Special Edition, Get Back documentary series, Get Back the companion book and, last but not least, Get Back The Rooftop performance last year and early this year, I really didn&

Beatles after Beatles

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Apparently it’s a thing to create Beatles after Beatles albums. I guess the most famous one must be The Black Album from the Boyhood movie. Recently my brother passed me a link to this video: The Lost Beatles Album of 1971 | Vinyl Rewind. And it’s just wonderful. I