I’m a big fan of Home Assistant, and until now I only had it accessible from inside my own network. Outside access was only possible through a WireGuard VPN. This works, but isn’t very practical - ...

I frequently listen to Off The Hook, a hacker radio show which airs on WBAI in the greater New York region. As I’m in a different continent, listening live is not practical ;) Luckely they have a ...

So a while ago (four months) I migrated from Hetzner to Jotta - it’s been smooth sailing until last month, when I got a bunch of errors thrown at me. Initial checking led me to believe something h...

A friend of mine gave me a Dell Perc H310 HBA nearly half a year ago which was flashed to IT-mode, which basically removes all the fancy RAID functionality from the card and turns it into a dumb HB...

A year ago I migrated from Backblaze B2 to Hetzner Storageboxes. That worked fine, but passing over the 5TB border made my offsite storage rather expensive (again). So another round of investigatio...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rootless Container While I’ve been running docker in a VM now for ± two years (and ± two years before that native on my Proxmox host), I’ve never been s...

I’ve been using nginx-proxy as a reverse proxy for my docker containers for a few years, where I manually generate and inject the necessary SSL certificates to make stuff work. The certificates wer...

Upgrade to 4.2.0 Mastodon recently reached version v4.2.0, which comes with a bunch of interesting new features! Upgrading from v4.1.9 was fairly painless, and it comes down to following the inst...

Some additional powertweaks - courtesey of syrjala on Phoronix - for my Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen3 (AMD): Add this to eg. /etc/udev/rules.d/99-custom-powersaving.rules ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYS...

Connecting to Unifi equipment (Switch 8/AP AC Pro) from Fedora37 fails out of the box with a very useful error Bad server host key: Invalid key length. This is because the dropbear used on these de...