Maintain your DB backups

Hey all, As the couple of you have noticed that read this site every year or two i’ve lost a couple of years worth of posts that i am slowly trying to recover out of some fragments of SDI files which is about as painful as it sounds. Here is what i’ve learned so far: … Read More

Traefik, pihole, DoH, and some heavy handedness……..

[EDIT] This was recovered due to a massive db crash and losing a couple of years worth of articles. Dates are mismatching. [EDIT] Hey all.. Lately i have converted my Docker Swarm setup to use Traefik as a proxy due to some complex configurations i wanted to test and implement. In this article i will … Read More

Learning morse code from a shell script

[EDIT] This was recovered due to a massive db crash and losing a couple of years worth of articles. Dates are mismatching. [EDIT] Hey all, As i am learning to understand morse i decided to write a shell script that would help you learn also. Why in shell script ? why not. Here is the … Read More

Site refreshed

[EDIT] This was recovered due to a massive db crash and losing a couple of years worth of articles. Dates are mismatching. [EDIT] Whats up all…. It has been a while. life happened. the pandemic happened. and i moved this site from dreamhost to a docker swarm setup… while configuring the compose file i decided … Read More

Gentoo, ALSA, On-board sound card, and a USB DAC

Hey all So recently i bought an amp that could also be used as a dac. This article assumes you have ALSA, a working sound card, and another device (USB DAC, etc) Here is what i did to get it to work with and included script to make life easier. First, i had to ensure … Read More

Plex, media management, and all the other fanciness

Hey all, sorry for the lack of updates in a while but life took over. This article is a combination of a bunch of mini texts i had on my system and after seeing more and more streaming services popping up it was time to combine the all and publish it. At some point i … Read More

xscreensaver, mpv, and drone videos

Sup all. So for a while i’ve had a folder with drone videos that i wanted to use as screensavers. So after a little digging in some xscreensaver and mpv settings i came up with this : mpv \ –shuffle \ –really-quiet \ –no-audio \ –fs \ –no-stop-screensaver \ –wid=$XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW \ $HOME/ss_videos/* as you can … Read More

Hacked e-mail nonsense

Sup everyone. Sorry for the delay in adding another article but life caught up with me and have not really had too much time to line up something to write about until this morning when i received this wonderful email. Here it is for all of you to read (we will dissect it after): H​el​lo​, … Read More

AWS MFA cli script

sup everyone. Been working and managing things so have not had too much time to do a post. Recently though i started having to do a bunch of tasks involving AWS from the CLI and would constantly get irritated at having to copy / paste all the things for the mfa to work so instead … Read More