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30  janvier     04h20
router archeology: the Soekris net5001
   Roadkiller was a Soekris net router I used as my main gateway between and for réseau and téléphone . It was upgraded to FreeBSD . p and pkgng. It was retired in favor of octavia around . Roughly years later , I found it in a drawer and, to my...
08  janvier     20h58
Last year on this blog
   So this blog is now celebrating its st birthday or if you count from zero, or if you want to be pedantic , and I figured I would do this yearly thing of reviewing how that went. Number of posts was the official th anniversary in any case, and that was one of my best years on...
19  décembre     03h46
Re)introducing screentest
   I have accidentally rewritten screentest, an old X GTK program that I was previously using to, well, test screens. Screentest is dead It was removed from Debian in May but had already missed two releases Debian bullseye and bookworm due to release critical bugs. The stated...
27  septembre     02h23
How big is Debian?
   Now this was quite a tease For those who haven’t seen it, I encourage you to check it out, it has a nice photo of a Debian t shirt I did not know about, to quote the Fine Article: Today, when going through a box of old T shirts, I found the shirt I was looking for to bring to the occasion: ... ...
09  août     18h18
OpenPGP key transition
   This is a short announcement to say that I have changed my main OpenPGP key. A signed statement is available with the cryptographic details but, in short, the reason is that I stopped using my old YubiKey NEO that I have worn on my keyring since . I now have a YubiKey which supports ED ...
10  mars     19h16
how to audit for open services with iproute2
   The computer world has a tendency of reinventing the wheel once in a while. I am not a fan of that process, but sometimes I just have to bite the bullet and adapt to change. This post explains how I adapted to one particular change: the netstat to sockstat transition. I used to do this to show...
08  septembre     14h45
CRTC Complaint about Fido and Canada's phone cartel
   I have just filed a complaint with the CRTC about my phone provider’s outrageous fees. This is a copy of the complaint. I am traveling to Europe, specifically to Ireland, for a days for a work meeting. I thought I could use my phone there. So I looked at my phone provider’s services in Europe,...
07  septembre     01h34
Deleted GitLab forks from my account
   I have just deleted two forks I had of the GitLab project in my gitlab.com account. I did this after receiving a warning that quotas would now start to be enforced. It didn’t say that I was going over quota, so I actually had to go look in the usage quotas page, which stated I was using . GB of...
26  août     16h56
How to nationalize the internet in Canada
   Rogers had a catastrophic failure in July . It affected emergency services as in: people couldn’t call , but also some services themselves failed , hospitals which couldn’t access prescriptions , banks and payment systems as payment terminals stopped working , and regular users as...
25  août     19h28
One dead Purism laptop
   The série noire continues. I ordered my first Purism Librem v laptop in April and it arrived, unsurprisingly, more than three weeks later. But more surprisingly, it did not work at all: a problem eerily similar to this post talking about a bricked Purism laptop. Thankfully, Purism was...