A scratchpad full of useful information, rants and old scriblings
According to bikecitizen App I have done 1077.4km in 2021 and spend 2 days and 19 hours in the saddle.
I track everyday tours when it is not raining. So additional, there are a few recreational tours I tracked with Strava, which unfortunately does not provide any yearly stats in the free tier.
Artists:
Tracks:
Side note: Classical Music is still not tagged consequently on Spotify, so thats why three classical composers are in my Top 10 artists.
After updating some ports suddently nothing worked…
I finally managed to get TLS working again but then struggled with PHP. So in the end I decided to switch to nginx/certbot.
Let’s see how reliable this works. Most likely I broke certificate renewal for dovecot but this is less critical
My BT Headset connects with A2DP profile per default which is fine for listening to music. But for video calls we need a mic.
Of course you can switch the bluetooth profile manually within pavucontrol, but even better is modifying /etc/pulse/default.pa by adding auto_switch=2 to the line
load-module module-bluetooth-policy auto_switch=2Restart pulseaudio with pulseaudio -k
So here are my Last.fm stats for 2020:
Tracks:
Artists:
After a recent KDE upgrade, the taskbar grouping did not work anymore. Instead of e.g. a list of open files in gvim i had to click multiple times on the entry in the taskbar to cycle through the list of windows.
I couldn’t find the solution on google (most likely because I use the wrong terms to describe this feature) so here is a blog post to help people like me.
The solution: Right click -> Task Manager Settings -> Behaviour -> Clicking grouped Task -> Shows textual list.
profanity IM is a nice XMPP client for the console.
Here is a list of commands, I can’t remember:
To answer a “authorization request” use
/sub allow user@jabber.service
This is article will be updated in case I have to lookup for another command….
Don’t believe the Connect-Box that you only get a /64 from UPC. Normal prefix delegation is possible, you just have to guess/experiment how big your prefix is. Here is my dhcp6c.conf
interface vr0 {
send ia-pd 1;
send ia-na 1;
# send rapid-commit;
};
id-assoc na 1 {
};
id-assoc pd 1 {
prefix ::/56 1800;
prefix-interface vr1 {
sla-len 4;
};
};
My rtadvd.conf:
default:\
:prefixlen#64:\
Some excerpts from my rc.conf:
ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES"
ipv6_cpe_wanif="vr0"
ipv6_gateway_enable="YES"
rtadvd_enable="YES"
rtadvd_interfaces="vr1"
I have started with the network migration today. There is now a fritzbox between the UPC ConnectBox and my router. For IPv4 this now means triple NAT \o/.
One of the most important task was to make my FreeBSD routers SSH port accessible from the internet.
What I have tried:
Now what I have to think about: Do I trust the Fritzbox enough as a firewall?
It is been 5 months since I last updated the blog.
So far no ECTS points for last term, due to some family problems. But the term started again, this time course on ottoman Palaeography.
Spent a great but expensive holiday in Greece.
Some payed traveling in September to Ireland, Croatia and Germany, year with the most flight miles since 2010. Due to some unfortunate events will be travel to Germany again next week.
While during summer I did lots of cycling to work. Unfortunately in September I got lazy again.