Are you using noscript or a similar addon, possibly uMatrix, that blocks javascript, cookies and third party requests? If so (and probably even if you don't) then you have seen web pages become virtually unreadable for all the additional nagging elelments that pop up top, bottom, left and right. Exa.....

An incomplete timeline of what I read - mostly contributions to various forum threads. Read books and stories (audio formats) are included here. April 14 2021 We have talked about Hannu Rajaniemi before. Now I am pleased to announce that he published a post-Covid19-SciFi story (or a bunch of them af.....

Goal A hard drive or a USB stick set up in this way is recognised by common filemanagers (e.g. Thunar, PCManFM) - it shows up as an encrypted device in the side bar, a password dialog pops up, and the twofold decrypt/mount process happens in one click. Device encryption, performance considerations W.....

journalctl -b | grep watchdog; sudo dmesg | grep watchdog Both commands return something like NMI watchdog: Enabled. Permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter. I have no use for this watchdog on a desktop computer. This link already contains all the information required to disable it, but here's the m.....

Previews for Pygments syntax highlighting styles.

The README of the PicoPygments plugin (active in this blog) repository, which uses Python-Pygments and a variety of CSS styles for code block syntax highlighting. README can be ahead of the official repo.

Thanks to this article I became aware of how flexible conky's Lua configuration format is - it is effectively a Lua script. This opens almost endless new possibilities that go far beyond mere modularisation. For example, I could grab values from the system and design my conky accordingly, like I hav.....

This was written & tested on an Archlinux system, but I believe it applies to most Linux/ALSA systems. ALSA loopback device We assume a single run-of-the-mill Intel sound card, mapped as card 0. We will create a virtual loopback card 1. #> modprobe snd-aloop aplay -l The loopback device works.....