Author: Yeri Tiete
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Mastodon server: email
Always a hassle to get mail delivery to work. Had a similar problem with a VoIP (Nexmo SMS/call forwarding) tool that just refused to work using local mail servers without a valid cert. Gave up and started using Mailgun. Long story short: use something like Mailgun or another provider. Using localhost SMTP server support seems…
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Feed2Toot
Started looking into a service to auto-post from this blog onto my Mastodon feed. Feed2Toot fit the bill perfectly. I wanted to run the whole thing from a Docker container, though, so I’ll quickly write a how-to. This whole thing runs from a Raspberry Pi, as root. No k8s or k3s for me. The path…
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Ikea Tradfri with Philips Hue
Recently visited Ikea and had to get a Christmas star-light like I used to have during my childhood. Most of my (non-track) light at home is smart using either a TP-Link Kasa smartplug or Philips Hue (and I want to avoid adding more brands, more apps, and more shit). However, Philips Hue is quite $$$…
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Why Don’t We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space?
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Fishing slavery
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Biking in (snowy) winter
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The pandemic is over: kill the QR menu
The QR-code menu—which you access by scanning a black-and-white square with your smartphone—has taken off ever since. It may dominate going forward. But I hope not, because I detest those digital menus. Never mind dying peacefully in my sleep; I want to go out while sitting in a restaurant on my 100th birthday, an aperitif…
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Fable of the Dragon Tyrant
Fitting for Global Warming (and likely plenty of other weird stuff humans got accustomed to), but apparently the story is about death.
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Volcanoes
