Certificate Authorities
For home users there is not much use for running you own Certificate Authority (CA), and with availability of Letsencrypt and the plethora of ACME libraries setting TLS encryption is quite straight forward. ...
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NEW YEAR 2026
Happy New Year! ...
More Python GUI programming
Using threads with Python and Tkinter Impelementation using queue.Queue Key Components Why Use Threads and Queues? ...
Installing source using PIP
Installing from github Installing from ZIP file How It Works: Alternative: Local ZIP File Installation ...
Copper anniversary
Today, this blog reaches the 12.5 year mark (In the Netherlands, copper annyversary). Actually 0ink.net has been running for much longer than that, but as a blog format, it is from 2013-05-15 when it was migrated to Wordpress. You can find the firs post here. ...
Using the Github Container Registry
Initialization Basic env variables Job declaration Steps ...
Using Excel files from Python
Intro XlsxWriter openpyxl xlwings pywin32 ...
Using Podman on Alpine Linux
Introduction What is Podman? Installation on Alpine Linux Rootful vs Rootless ...
AdGuard Home
How does AdGuard Home compare to traditional ad blockers Known limitations Installation Configuration Reverse Proxy ...
Using SSLH on Alpine Linux
Install sslh apk add sslh Configure sslh startup: # /etc/conf.d/sslh # configuration for /etc/init.d/sslh ...
Writting a Geany plugin
Pre-requisites Registering Building Binding keys Callbacks ...
Cinnamon Keyboard shortcuts
To familiarize with the Cinnamon desktop, here is a list of its shortcuts: Function ...
Lookup Ansible vars from the command line
This is a quickie. If you want to look-up the value of an Ansible variable from the command line: ansible localhost -m ansible.builtin.debug -a "var=my_variable" ...
Booting Refind on KVM
This is a quick recipe to boot a refind image on KVM. This is just to test UEFI boot configuration in virtualized environments. First step is to create a refind boot image. For that I use this script: To use this script, you need to download the binary zip file refind image from here. ...
Saving Cinnamon customizations
When I switched Desktop Environments towards Cinnamon, I wanted to save configuration settings so I could restore them later if I moved to a different PC. Pre-requisites: We need the following packages ...
Linux booting Linux
Introduction Backing up Installing Refind Custom Linux ...
Nemo file explorer custom actions
Adding a "Copy File Path" Option to Nemo in Linux Cinnamon Step 1: Create a Nemo Action File Step 2: Define the Action ...
Stretch Cluster notes
Clustering Stretched Clusters Calculating latencies Common storage stretched clusters ...
Rewriting history in git
Coordinate with your team The secret is in the last commit and there is nothing else The secret is in the last commit but there are other changes The secret is beyond the last commit ...
Baremetal backup
Preparation Disabling BitLocker Get Clonezilla ...
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