Ubuntu Touch? For those who may not remember, in around 2011, Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu GNU/Linux operating system, wanted to expand their market, and among other things started…
Back here again
After spending half the year failing to find (or indeed write) a better solution to having an activitypub enabled blog, I’m back on Wordpress again, probably just as it throws…
Fixing a Contabo Deepseek server
You may have seen that Contabo are offering a one-click Deepseek server based on their VDS offering. These are semi-virtualised servers with dedicated processors and memory but shared storage, which…
Proxy Mailcow behind Nginx Proxy Manager the easy way
A quick one as no-one seems to have written it down properly.Mailcow (https://mailcow.email) is a dockerized mail system. By default it will run on port 80 and port 443 of…
Fixing a frozen screen caused by systemd 256
Systemd version 256 has been rolled out in several distributions recently, including Arch and Debian and variants. It adds a feature where user sessions are frozen when the system enters…
A fix for ‘cert is required but missing for this certificate’ in certbot
Yes, this is probably a bit search spammy (like search actually works any more), but it’s an interesting little fix and a view into how certbot works. Apart from when…
Adventures in BTRFS – Replacing an array
Preamble ramble There aren’t a lot of real world examples of using BTRFS around online. Some of the most useful advice I found was in r/BTRFS on Reddit but it’s…
Closing down an instance
I set up offworld.fedisonic.cloud when it was apparent that Twitter was going to start circling the drain pretty quickly. I had an idea of running a Mastodon instance for anyone…
The Scape of Net
A touch of #anecdotage: I worked at Easynet in the early days of the UK commercial Internet, and we packaged #Netscape browser in our welcome pack as it was initially…
Adding S3-compatible cloud storage to Pixelfed
Pixelfed is a federated photo sharing service that is an alternative to Instagram and uses ActivityPub to share posts across other services such as Mastodon, Pleroma and indeed WordPress. It…