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Articles posted on 2021
DVTM
The other day I found dvtm. Looking at it, it looks very nice. It appeals to me because I am particularly fond of text user interfaces. At the end I choose not to use it because: ...
Migration to Pelican
Finally got fedup with github pages and its jekyll static site generator. Essentially things would break without any particular reason and there would be nearly no way to tell what went wrong. I addition, it was not easy to test changes before making them public. So I switched to pelican, essentially because it was ...
Storing secrets in git
So I gave into the temptation to store "secret" data into a git repository. Of course, to keep things safer, I chose to use an encryption tool. So I tested: git-crypt git-secret ...
Enable syslog with void
In void Linux, the default is without logging. Most cases it is OK for desktop use. If you want to enable syslog service in void, you need to install: socklog-void Also to let your user have access to the logs, use: ...
Stupid SSL tricks
Some hints and tips foor doing SSL related things: Netcat for SSL This command lets you connect to a SSL server (a-la netcat): cat request.txt | openssl s_client -connect server:443 Creating self-signed certificates This is a single command to generate a self-signed certificate: ...
Linux Post Install tasks
These tips are for void linux as that is the distro I am using nowadays. mate tricks: change background from cli dconf write /org/mate/desktop/background/picture-filename "'PATH-TO-JPEG'" ...
My tale of IPv6 blues
My ISP provider is KPN. They recently enabled IPv6 in my street. I was using before a IPv6 Tunnel Broker, starting with SixXS and after they went out, with Hurricane Electric. So naturally, I decided to switch to KPN's native IPv6 service. They provide a /64 prefix, which is reasonable. Would be better ...
Replacing emacs...
So after over 30 years of using GNU emacs I have switched to a more modern options. So I am using: Geany: For use in a Window environment (both X11 and MSWIN) micro: For command line use ...
Linux HDMI hotplug
Now in 2024 this is usually no longer needed. A more current solution is: https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr The point of this article is to document I workaround that I came ...
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