Some software packages on a typical Linux desktop setup are no longer installed by the package manager of the distribution, but instead are managed with Flatpak. This approach has become more popular over the last years and allows for shorter release cycles in which updates reach users. My problem with Flatpak was that I regularly […]
Last year I stumbled across a problem with the execution of a Docker container in a CI environment. The interesting case was that this is a container for a foreign architecture, which is supported by the --platform option and there are even official images on Docker Hub for this. Initially, the problem presented itself like […]
A few weeks ago I decided to replace my profile picture. I use the same picture across almost all the social media sites. Now a part of the new profile picture is also the header image in this blog’s design. Here is this new profile picture: It looks very stylish on the first glance, but […]
All new posts on this blog are now published via ActivityPub to Mastodon and all other compatible decentralized social sites in the Fediverse. With the help of the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress, this was a simple setup. You can now follow the posts of this blog on the account @posts@raimue.blog. The widget below will help […]
Here is a little anecdote about bringing old source code using OpenSSL to recent versions… Hm, okay, ERR_remove_state is deprecated. Let me check the OpenSSL man pages… ERR_remove_state is deprecated and has been replaced by ERR_remove_thread_state. Ah, well, that seems easy to replace with ERR_remove_thread_state! *hackhackhack* (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Everybody knows these modal dialogs when visiting a website for the first time that ask you to accept cookies and consent to being tracked by third-party advertising networks. It actually became a habit for me to always click through these things and reject any kind of tracking or use of my personal information except for […]
I recently started to manage my passwords with the pass(1) password store. I integrated access into Firefox via passff and also found a nice GUI with QtPass. While this works nicely, in places outside the browser, it was still quite cumbersome for me to enter passwords. I was still required to open a terminal window […]
When working with git and especially GitHub, I often have commits on my local branch that were already submitted as a pull request. Sometimes I continue working and later notice that I have commits on the branch that have nothing to do with the next thing I am already working on. Therefore I want to […]
I like to have a working mail setup on all machines as this allows to be notified about cronjobs that failed and also to be able to send other notifications that would otherwise be lost. It is also especially useful for things like git send-email or automatically sending GPG signatures with caff to others. However, […]
Already in September 2017 I migrated away from Sailfish OS and I am now using an Android phone. For me, this is the first time I left the niche market of alternative phone operating systems to go mainstream. Originally I used a Nokia dumb phone and then in 2009 got the Nokia N900 as my […]