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Pareto-optimal compression

02. Mar 2021

Everyone wants good compression. But what exactly is good compression? Time for a closer look.

  • #funwithdata
  • #tooling

Tracking leftover packages with pacman

13. Feb 2021

Package managers take care of resolving dependencies for you, but over time, dependencies that are no longer needed might stay around. Time to change that.

  • #convenience
  • #Linux
  • #tooling

Socket activating arbitrary services

28. Jun 2020

Socket activation can help to reduce resource usage and speed up system boot time. Here’s how, even if the service in question doesn’t support it.

  • #Linux
  • #systemd

Simple networking

22. Mar 2020

Networking on a laptop can be elegant, simple, fast, resilient and minimal, all at the same time. It just comes down to the right choice of tools. A setup based on iwd and systemd.

  • #iwd
  • #Linux
  • #systemd

Mastodon and Twitter Feeds

15. Mar 2020

This blog now has not only RSS-Feeds, but also feeds on Mastodon and Twitter.

  • #housekeeping
  • #note

Preserving data integrity

A ZFS-inspired storage system

07. Mar 2020

We typically assume, storage devices give back the data we once put in. But is that so? A setup proposal for those who value their data’s integrity.

  • #funwithdata
  • #Linux

Reducing SATA power consumption

08. Dec 2019

Who doesn’t like more battery life for free? A brief investigation into how to reduce power consumption of your laptop by a third.

  • #funwithdata
  • #Linux

Hijacking the desktop directory with /tmp

09. Oct 2019

Merging /tmp and the xdg-Desktop-directory make you have a quick file drop in reach from almost every file-dialogue that doesn’t clutter your folders.

  • #convenience
  • #idea
  • #Linux
  • #workflow

Safer shellscripts by default

20. Jun 2019

Just a handful of options to make shellscripts much more failsafe and resilient.

  • #Linux
  • #programming
  • #shell

Random Mac Addresses for Privacy

25. May 2019

Randomized hardware addresses for network devices can help to reduce one’s own trackability and privacy. Here’s how.

  • #Linux
  • #privacy
  • #systemd

simple wifi setup with iwd and networkd

21. Mar 2019

A brief summary of my current network setup on my laptop.

  • #iwd
  • #Linux
  • #systemd

Racefree iwd

12. Mar 2019

There is a new tool in town for wifi so blazingly fast it accidentially creates race-conditions. A little workaround.

  • #iwd
  • #Linux
  • #systemd
  • #workaround

Self-hosting Threema Safe

12. Feb 2019

Self-hosting Threema backup isn’t as difficult as it sounds. This is what is needed.

  • #mobile
  • #selfhosted

Embedded IPython for script development

15. Jul 2017

Everyone hates debugging, but with IPython, we can at least get an interactive debugging-shell at our code-point of choice.

  • #note
  • #programming
  • #Python
  • #workflow

Persistent IRC

24. Jun 2017

IRC is a presence protocol. You disconnect, you don’t get any messages anymore. This, however, doesn’t have to be this way. A little dead-simple setup to get an always-connected IRC-setup.

  • #Linux
  • #tooling

Hardwaretriggered Backups

22. Jun 2017

Manual backups are relying on human interaction and are therefore inherently unreliable. Let’s automate and trigger a backup the moment the backup disk shows up!

  • #Linux
  • #tooling

The beauty of Arch Linux

And why to use it.

19. Feb 2017

A little writeup what makes Archlinux my preferred Linux distribution, primarily to have a linkable text on it.

  • #Linux
  • #walloftext
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