Category: Software
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Wrangling with tvheadend
For quite some time (read: years) I’ve had a Raspberry Pi TV HAT but haven’t managed to get it working in the house I’m in. The house has an old roof aerial and plug in signal booster and all attempts to get it working with my TV HAT have resulted in not being able to…
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Debian migration to nftables
If you have upgraded to Debian 10 buster you will know (if you have read the release notes) that Debian has now migrated to the nftables filtering framework. See 2.2.6. Network filtering based on nftables framework by default What is not covered is how you do this and what it really means. The release notes say…
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Meetup.com abandons API
Abandoned may be a strong word and I’ll explain why but the changes that were announced on 14th June 2019 and their lack of interest in discussing these changes virtually makes that the case: The first problem with these changes is that although you can create a new OAuth key for free before August 15th…
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letsencrypt hell
I simultaneously both love letsencrypt and also hate it. Maybe hate is the wrong word, the project’s goals are fantastic. What I hate is the official software – certbot. Firstly the way it installs is horrible, under some weird directory structure in your home directory, who in the world generally manages their software like this? …