How Apple accidentally broke my Spotify client
Journey on how I discovered an obscure flag for the system DNS resolver that ruined my music listening experience.
Roberto Frenna
Roberto Frenna's personal blog - technical thoughts and more.
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Using a custom player with the Cast Receiver Framework
The Cast Receiver Framework does not allow to easily use a third-party player rather than its own. Fortunately, it's possible to circumvent this.
Over-engineering my TV watching - Part 2: automating playback via Chromecast
About my over-engineered system to watch TV at home. This is Part 2, which details about automating playback via my Chromecast.
Over-engineering my TV watching - Part 1: bypassing geo-block with a custom reverse proxy
About my over-engineered system I designed to watch TV at home. This is Part 1, which details about bypassing geo-block.
Rooting a Hikvision Indoor Station to set a static IP address
Recently, I’ve been tinkering with a Hikvision surveillance system which includes an Android Indoor Station aptly named DS-KH9510-WTE1. Whilst this runs Android behind the scenes, it exposes a custom UI made by Hikvision that completely hides the standard Android screens and menus.
NixOS on a Raspberry Pi: creating a custom SD image with OpenSSH out of the box
NixOS has a great out-of-the-box support for ARM64v8 systems, but that comes with a catch: you have to use the prebuilt images to install the system, which are (obviously) not customizable, and come without OpenSSH enabled by default. Unfortunately, this requires to attach a display to the Raspberry Pi to complete an installation – not ideal! This article is the story of my journey to build a…
Why doesn’t `resize2fs` resize my filesystem?
I have spent the past few days working on building a custom image of NixOS for my Raspberry Pi, taking note of all the problems that I encountered along the way to write about it. It has certainly been an interesting experience, as I am building the image emulating AArch64 (or ARM64v8, the architecture of the Pi 3) with QEMU, so I wasn’t expecting a smooth ride at all. There was one particular…