OSS and computer stuff from 0xpr03
Contemplations on Cargo and the nature of 3rd party code dependencies. Every time when someone who is used to C's compilation model tries Rust, one inevitable complaint is always that it feels like you're using a lot of untrusted 3rd party code. One recent discussion in Lobsters shows this again . Such argument can be made for any package management that follows this style, including…
Windows has loudness equalization for devices in the enhancements tab. Except when your shiny new device doesn't have that tab. Or does it ? You can enable it for your device by doing some registry magic. This writeup is mainly to preserve the knowledge from this reddit entry and this sourceforge entry . Unfortunately none of the screenshots are made with english language settings. Open…
Sentry is a neat little program to report crashes. And it's the only thing available for flutter. So how do you selfhost this without a nightmare ? First of all: Sentry is ~32 Containers. And it likes to eat a lot of RAM for doing nothing. Because who doesn't need multiple time series databases - especially if all you wanted was crash reports. Anyway I disgress, let's get it…
Netdata is a very powerful node monitoring service, which sadly advertises it's cloud stuff [so much], that people think you can't use it without the cloud. . Cloud advertisements You can actually disable all cloud nags with this simple trick: sudo editor /var/lib/netdata/cloud.d/cloud.conf [ global ] enabled = no Then restart netdata sudo systemctl restart…
Setup for monitoring my BR700ELCD UPS in debian with auto-shutdown. This post shows the config for integrating it into the NUT software . Mintoring software called nut, main Documentation on debian apt install nut /etc/nut/nut.conf MODE=standalone /etc/nut/ups.conf Run lsusb Look for => Cyber Power System, Inc. CP1500 AVR UPS For this UPS it's very close to the…