I had to compare multiple stream dumps I’ve collected from different places. Each file had a timestamp from when it was generated (i.e. downloaded) in it. So, even the exact same dump would have different timestamps if downloaded twice. Also, some files had embedded cover art and tags while others didn’t have any tags. To… Read More: Comparing Audio Streams »
Back in June 2020, The Outer Worlds was released for the Nintendo Switch. In September 2021, I’ve bought it and played it every once in a while until I finished it sometime in the middle of 2022. Despite also owning the Expansion Pass, I’ve never completed the additional quests. Since March 2025, I’m the proud… Read More: The Outer Worlds from Switch to Deck »
Here are some FediVerse-compatible alternatives to the current big player monoliths: Monolith Federated Blogger Plume, WordPress with ActivityPub plugin, WriteFreely Discourse, phpBB, Vanilla, etc. NodeBB eBay, Gumtree, Kijiji, etc. flohmarkt Facebook Friendica (with optional Bookface theme), Hubzilla Instagram Pixelfed Reddit Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin Snapchat Pixelfed TikTok Loops Trakt.tv NeoDB Tumblr Misskey, wafrn 𝕏 (Twitter) Mastodon,… Read More: FediVerse Replacements »
I’ve got an old HP Revolve 810 G3 that I use for all those weird firmware updaters and other tools that require an actual Windows with actual USB ports. Nothing else. This model was introduced during the Windows 7 to Windows 10 shift, so it is OEM-licensed for both. And I had it running on… Read More: Windows 7 via native UEFI (without CSM) »
I’ve got Pi-hole running in a Docker container on my Synology DS415+ for several years now. No issues at all. However, after the recent 7.1.1 Update 9, suddenly, my local DNS entries in Pi-hole stopped getting resolved. It always resorted to external DNSes for those. As I host a few services at home, I’m using… Read More: Pi-hole not resolving local DNS entries »
My Journey Back in the mid noughties, I’ve acquired my very first GPS receiver and discovered GeoCaching. And it was a great hobby to have. There were various elaborate Multi-Caches and even the bog-standard “Traditional” Caches often were properly sized Tupperware boxes and contained exciting gewgaws. One memory I cherish was a box buried between… Read More: Alternatives to GeoCaching »
While Windows comes with the UK Extended keyboard layout and only needs a very simple adjustment to add the German ß letter, macOS doesn’t seem to have the layout at all. Sure, there are Apple’s ideas of the “perfect” British keyboard layout, namely “British” and “British – PC”. But neither one matches the actual UK… Read More: UK Extended keyboard layout in macOS »
In the Traefik static configuration (usually traefik.yml), add this to load the CrowdSec plugin: (The name for the plugin is defined here as crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin.) Then, in your dynamic configuration, add this (I’ve used a separate file dynamic_conf/050-plugin-crowdsec-bouncer.yml): (The name for this new middleware defined here is crowdsec-bouncer. It uses the crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin defined in the previous step. Make sure these names match.)… Read More: Traefik with CrowdSec »
The audiobooks and radio dramas I’ve collected over the years mostly come as a bunch of MP3 files, often accompanied by some JPG with cover art and sometimes a TXT file with a teaser text and some background information like the names of the voice actors. However, nowadays, there’s a much better format: M4B. This… Read More: Audiobook authoring on macOS »
If you want your Docker container to use data from a network share, people tend to mount the share to a directory outside of Docker and then point the Docker volume to that mounted path. However, Docker-Compose also supports mounting volumes and brings some advantages. E.g. for a SMB/CIFS share, the relevant parts in your… Read More: Docker-Compose and automatic mounts »