Ejabberd certificates
I know that jabber/XMPP protocol has been out of fashion for some time, at least in the sense that most users wouldn’t be using a direct XMPP client these days. Of course, the protocol is not dead, there are a …
Turn off screen on a headless machine
While playing with my homelab Forgejo instance, I needed a place where actions could be run. I was considering a virtual machine on my NAS but in the end, I dug up an old laptop that I haven’t been using …
RRD migration to different architecture
I have this old machine with an Atom CPU where I installed Debian in 2011 and it’s been running ever since (I just upgrade it to the next major version every two years). One time, I had to replace failing …
Llama.cpp on Fedora 40 with cuda support
Not long ago, I bought a laptop with Nvidia card. Partially because I wanted to check out some newer, fancy games (but in reality, when I do have some free time finally, I usually end up playing DOS games anyway). …
Baikal as calendar server
Calendar and Tasks Like a lot of people, I’ve been more or less stuck with some parts of the Google ecosystem ever since the Gmail Beta times (an era when Gmail was truly an exciting turn of events as opposed …
Doom 2
About once in a year, usually during the Xmas break, there comes this time to dust off an old classic – Doom 2. To me, this is the paragon of all FPS games, mostly because by the time my parents …
Dovecot backups with doveadm
As everything is a file in the linux world, migrating or backing up email boxes can be as simple as moving those files around in one way or another. But if you’re using the Dovecot/Postfix combination to handle your email, …
Apache and GeoIP2 module
Often, the Internet can seem like the wild wild west (or the wild wild east, depends on where you are located), and you can be fairly certain that any public facing service will draw some amount of brute force attacks …
Observium alerts not working
I’ve been running an instance of Observium for a couple of years now. I had set it up for the VPS which I’m running this blog on or for my home NAS, it’s really nice to be able to see …
Early RHEL 9/CentOS 9 Stream
Even if it’s still in pre-Beta, it has been publicly known that RHEL 9.0 development is well under way for some time now. But that’s not all there is to it – not only is this information public, the development …