126 posts in Linux
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 to be limited if you don't have working certs. The documentation is also lacking as to what does what. Didn't figure out how to have it ignore SSL.
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 I use is /root/git/feed2toot/, so be sure to modify that to whatever you're using.
I've revamped my Smokeping infra a bit since 2020.
First off, starting to use the smokeping.eu1 domain that Bianco got 10 or so years ago instead of using weird URLs under superuser.one domain.
It's running on four nodes as we speak:
This is achieved using Smokeping in a docker container, Cloudflare tunnel and Cloudflare CDN/DNS.
Shan uses her iPad a lot, but a lot of the more serious (interior design) work needs to happen on AutoCAD or Photoshop. That is just not going to work on an iPad.
When we're travelling (read: holiday) she's carrying an old Lenovo ThinkPad 13 (great device!) just "in case" she needs to open AutoCAD and edit something minor or read the drawings/dimensions. But honestly, most of the time that device is turned off and dead weight.
I rarely use Bluetooth on my RPis. I'm already facing enough issues with my iMac and Mac Mini (it lags, it randomly disconnects in meetings, etc).
My pwnagotchi on the other hand is counting on a BLE network to connect to the internet: for now I am using my iPad, and while that works, it causes my iPad to disconnect from WiFi (because of course, it can only do tethering from a mobile network, not from its WiFi network).
Right. With the pandemic and all none of us are going to travel much but still...
About a year ago I purchased myself an OpenWRT router to use on the plane and in hotels.
And so far I really like both the device and the Hong Kong based brand (launching new and updated products, and releasing relatively regular updates for older products). Pick a device that fits your needs (USB powered? LTE? Small form factor?).
All right. With the release of the new RPi4 with 8Gb of RAM I had to get myself one to see if it was already a viable desktop replacement for surfing and emails.
While a SD card works fine for certain tasks (things that don't require a lot of IO) -- for a desktop that's a no-go... It's just too slow.
I still had an old Macbook Pro 13" (2o15?) SSD lying around that was collecting dust. Why not use that one to use as root for the RPi?
Resilio Sync released an update last week and on Synology these package don't auto update. Time to manually update the packages again.
On my DS1515 (more RAM, more CPU) the manual update goes by fine (stop service, manual update, browse for file, upload, start service) but my DS216j, not so much.
Attempting to upload the file instantly fails with the useful error "Operation Failed".
Noticed that NextDNS was reporting old hostnames in the logs. For example old device names (devices that changed hostnames), devices that were definitely no longer on the network, or IPs that were matched to the wrong hostnames.
The culprit is how EdgeOS deals with its hosts file. Basically it just keeps all the old hosts added and just adds a new line at the end of the file.
This follows the my two other posts about WireGuard.
Most of this can be copied from the amd64 post -- with a minor change for making it work on RPi4. This is the full git repo (including both rpi and amd64).
