Peter van Dijk

No optical drive on this Chromebook. Installing Haiku might pose a challenge.

I was offered a job in asbestos removal. They said they'd pay me in exposure.

In case you missed this before, we still have room for a few more presentations in the FOSDEM DNS developer room!

FOSDEM 2025 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation

After four earlier successful and packed DNS devrooms, we are happy to announce a half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2024.

FOSDEM 2025 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation

FOSDEM 2025 DNS Developer Room Call for Participation

After four earlier successful and packed DNS devrooms, we are happy to announce a half-day DNS devroom at FOSDEM 2024.

OpenPrinting/CUPS project decided to publish my related-but-different finding (in code that is about to all go away)

GitHub

cups-browsed can be made to endlessly spam HTTP requests to a chosen endpoint

**Update: There is now a separate CVE assigned to this advisory.** **The solution (remove CUPS browsing) and quick mitigation (turn off CUPS bro...

sudo systemctl disable --now cups-browsed

In the past, I have recommended Contabo for cheap VMs (but perhaps never here on the Fedi). I need to retract that recommendation. They had a terrible outage earlier this week (this happens! I can accept that!) but never sent one email to customers about it. Their status page is incomplete and they even proactively remove old updates. The bar for outage communication is low, and Contabo went below it.

heise online

Web host Contabo: Server outage due to cooling problems

The web host Contabo had a massive disruption in a Nuremberg data center. Several servers were unavailable for over a day.

Community: if you solder wires to these pins you can enable adb persistently on this Android device. Vendor: ok yes but what if, when our app starts, we flip Developer mode back off. Community: ok but how about we just don't start your app. (context is

GitHub

GitHub - RapierXbox/ShellyElevate: Software needed to run Home Assistant on the Shelly Wall Display while still keeping all the functions.

Software needed to run Home Assistant on the Shelly Wall Display while still keeping all the functions. - RapierXbox/ShellyElevate

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