Sometimes I want to get a message from my server, e.g. diagnostic stuff from services (SMART daemon, fail2ban), or if someone tries to contact me on my website, and I want it sent to one of my email addresses which is not maintained on that server. I used to use sSMTP for this, but it seems to stop .....

I noticed that my server's (Debian stable) datetime was way off. Years. Strange, because I was sure I had enabled systemd-timesyncd (but apparently never gave it a second thought after that). Looking at systemctl status systemd-timesyncd I found this cryptic message: ● systemd-timesyncd.service - Ne.....

Situation I am using PicoCMS1. It's not installed through the global package management: all its files, content & executables (except PHP itself) are located under a single directory. This is not ideal, but common practice; and it has the advantage that it makes maintenance easier. This article .....

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.....

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