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[ 2023-09-30 ] Simple PONG game using the Phaser framework Creating a simple PONG game using the Phaser 3 framework...

[ 2023-09-27 ] Radioactive CRT TV dust Radioactive CRT TV dust

[ 2023-09-22 ] Computer recreations: random numbers and properties This new video of the “Computer recreations” playlist talks about...

[ 2023-09-09 ] Transform GIT repository to mirror in Gitea Mirroring huge GIT repositories with Gitea is not always straight...

[ 2023-09-05 ] Collabora online in Nextcloud Collabora is a cloud office suite that can be integrated...

[ 2023-08-29 ] Invert letter cases of a string in C Here’s a new video about programming in C. You’ll see...

[ 2023-08-23 ] RAID with Btrfs: a practical introduction In this video I show you an overview of how...

[ 2023-08-16 ] Redis cache in Nextcloud In this video I show you how to setup Redis...

[ 2023-08-07 ] Markdown table of contents In this video I present you a software called md-toc,...

[ 2023-07-29 ] Nextcloud's Recognize app In this video I show you how to setup the...

[ 2023-07-27 ] Disable IPv6 on Linux and OpenWRT Disable IPv6 on Linux and OpenWRT Let’s see how and...

[ 2023-07-24 ] Full text search in Nextcloud This video shows you how to set up full text...

[ 2023-07-22 ] Sandboxed Firefox profiles Let’s see how to use sandboxed and isolated Firefox profiles...

[ 2023-07-22 ] Disable IT-alert notifications The IT-alert public warning system is uses the cell broadcasr...

[ 2023-07-18 ] Learn Python unit tests in 5 minutes In this video you will learn about unit tests in...

[ 2023-02-02 ] Simplest bread making Here is a simple recipe to make bread...

2022 #

[ 2022-11-01 ] Hacking on the CSS of the Sphinx RTD's theme Read The Docs’ Sphinx theme (RTD) is quite good but there are some ways...

[ 2022-10-23 ] A simple way to fix audio on GNU/Linux I wanted to set HDMI as default output and the...

[ 2022-10-08 ] Apache subpath rewrites To have a more linear structure in my blog I...

[ 2022-10-04 ] Cloudpasta a Nextcloud instance you can try Nextcloud is a set of client-server programs for file hosting and collaboration...

[ 2022-06-11 ] A simple method to play self-hosted music on Android Here is simple way to listen to self-hosted music on Android without installing specific streaming software...

[ 2022-04-21 ] Sorting downloaded files from youtube_dl.py by year-month I had to change the configuration used by my youtube_dl.py script...

2021 #

[ 2021-12-29 ] New services an HTTP Debian GNU/Linux mirror is available...

[ 2021-12-19 ] Sorting files after recovery with Photorec Here is a trivial, non efficient Python script that you can run after a Photorec recovery...

[ 2021-09-13 ] Problems and solutions with Gitea 1.15 My Gitea instance at software.franco.net.eu.org has been on SQLite since its inception in October 2018...

[ 2021-09-02 ] Quitting GitHub Mass censorship, privacy violations and trackings are surging everywhere right now...

[ 2021-03-21 ] Tiny Tiny RSS over TOR install and configure TOR, Privoxy and TT-RSS...

[ 2021-03-08 ] The repositories are available on TOR The Gitea instance containing my repositories is now available on...

[ 2021-03-06 ] This website is also available on TOR This website is also available on tor: usggwz6vwth276fdyccskoba5u2jis5ugv2ew2fy2blowgf2dv73axad.onion Remember that...

[ 2021-03-01 ] Changing domain of a Gitea instance Here I am assuming that you are using Apache as webserver and Let’s Encrypt as...

[ 2021-02-21 ] An alternative to GitHub Pages Following what I have written in a previous post I present you a DIY alternative to GitHub and GitLab pages...

[ 2021-02-19 ] Apache from Arch to Debian Here are some simple steps to migrate Apache’s configuration from an Arch GNU/Linux-based distro to a Debian GNU/Linux-based distro...

[ 2021-02-17 ] A new hosting for this blog Migrating from GitLab Pages (or put any name here) to a private webserver has one main advantage: to be in control of all its data...

2020 #

[ 2020-10-07 ] Fail2ban This is a list of custom filters, rules and settings I use for Fail2ban...

[ 2020-07-14 ] Python 3 cheatsheet This is a list of instructions I use frequently in: automated-tasks fattura-elettronica-reader fpyutils md-toc...

[ 2020-06-16 ] A solution to I/O errors on some external USB 3 HDD enclosures I bought several Inatek fe 3001 USB HDD enclosures for my backups...

[ 2020-02-08 ] My new backup system Last year I wrote a post about my backup system...

[ 2020-02-06 ] What happened to the CSS? Yes, I practically removed all the CSS file from this...

2019 #

[ 2019-11-10 ] Running python scripts using different package versions Installing Python packages from pacman as well as pip, using the root user, is not a good idea because pacman cannot keep track of files...

[ 2019-07-08 ] RAID data scrubbing While I was reading an Arch Wiki page, I found an AUR package that claims to run periodic RAID scrubbings...

[ 2019-07-04 ] From crontabs to Systemd timers Since I started my own server at home I have always use crontabs to handle recurring tasks such as backups...

[ 2019-02-23 ] My backup system Rsync is a very useful and flexible tool to do incremental backups and I have been using it for years...

2018 #

[ 2018-11-18 ] My bash template for option parsing Hello again, in the past years I have written a...

[ 2018-11-06 ] A stupid smart doorbell system A smart doorbell is useful when you are not at...

[ 2018-10-18 ] Fixing the /dev/md127 problem A quick how to today. /dev/md127. It happened again while...

[ 2018-10-02 ] Automatic synchronization of media files from SD cards Continuing to talk about backups I want to share a script I have written for...

[ 2018-08-04 ] Syncing files from Android to GNU/Linux Backups of mobile phone content have been a problem I wanted to solve for years but unfortunately the tools to do a clean job have...

[ 2018-04-19 ] OpenWrt on the DG834Gv4 modem router The DG834Gv4 is an old Netgear WiFi modem/router and has been my first wireless access...

[ 2018-04-16 ] My Python release workflow This is a personal reminder for the operations to do...

[ 2018-04-03 ] Repairing my first PC This was my first PC back in ~ 2001 2002....

[ 2018-03-05 ] Add a remote shared printer with a couple of shell commands If you happen to have a USB printer without WiFi...

[ 2018-03-02 ] An O(n) Python 3 algorithm that halves the number of characters to be removed It’s been a while. Some days ago I thought to...

2017 #

[ 2017-10-22 ] How to enable hibernation in three simple steps Greetings to all, It has been some time since I...

[ 2017-09-03 ] Kalliope, a voice-controlled personal assistant (running on qemu) Hello again, It’s been some time I wanted to try...

[ 2017-04-25 ] A new fan for the processor Hello again, Some time ago I upgraded the CPU fan...

[ 2017-04-24 ] Qemu SSH tunnel Hello readers, I was in need to run a virtual...

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