What goes up, must come down. Ask any system administrator.
Some keep talking about restic being the best personal backup system around, while I had to learn that for others, even experienced Linux and MacOS users, it's an absolute mystery. Here’s a usage scenario I suggest for restic beginners today.
As I was intending to create a nice multi-client configuration for Restic s REST-server, I found that Debian comes with all I needed. Note that this is a configuration that prioritizes automation and availability and at no point relies on interactive entering of passwords or passphrases or an ssh-/putty agent. You MUST however keep note of Continue reading Restic (on Windows) with REST-server (on…
Tja. Weiß man doch. Oder? Fällt bei Stromausfall eigentlich auch das Wasser aus? fragte jemand im Kontext des Stromausfall in Spanien und Portugal im April 2025. Soviel wusste ich schonmal: Das Trinkwasser wird aktiv in die bekannten Hochbehälter gepumpt, und spätestens sobald die leer sind, fällt es aus. Vermutlich ist das auch gut so, denn Continue reading Wo kommt eigentlich das Wasser her?
Today: IPv6 with EUI64, kernel panic evasion, Seahorse CLI interaction. IPv6 with EUI64 (the thing with the hardware address) in NetworkManager Auto-prevent crashy service from starting We have a commercial piece of software here that can cause an irrecoverable kernel panic when starting, by loading a proprietary kernel module. Detect whether the system was previously Continue reading Too Good To…
Ratarmount is an excellent tool for mounting archives as filesystems, and I use it a lot. The ratarmount README suggests to prefer indexed tar.xz archives created using pixz for performance, so let's see what's the best compression to use.
The terrible benchmarks edition. A number of ad-hoc benchmarks I collected over time. They are terrible. Use at your own risk. Not only your hardware may be in danger, but most of all, your reputation. CPU (create high load) Note this is GNU parallel (apt-get install parallel), not the 100% incompatible moreutils parallel. See parallel_alternatives(7); Continue reading Too Good To #015
Will man der neuen Entwicklung folgen, dass Hybride als Elektroautos zählen, waren auf den entsprechenden Decks (nicht nur auf einem) hunderte Hybride mit Verbrennungsmotoren verladen und die These vom Elektroauto-Deck ist in sich nicht schlüssig.
I've been using jq --argfile for a few years, despite the manpage up to jq 1.6 advising against it.
In today's installment: - dmesg from before the machine crashed - Kill process ID from pidfile - Let systemd retry a task - Set MTU on OpenVPN connections in Networkmanager
What I tinkered with in recent days was a headless Linux desktop for OBS, running on a server, in my case to gateway an Icecast stream to Twitch.