Install F-Droid on Arch via Anbox

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS applications for the Android platform. Apps I like: FairEmail as feature-packed email client Syncthing for file synchronization KeePassDX as a password manager GitNex as a Gitea client Tusky as Pleroma client Sometimes I like to docum…

Solution to tracepath no reply

Consider tracepath as a network diagnostic tool: tracepath peterbabic.dev The output might be surprising: 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway 0.748ms 1: _gateway 0.676ms 2: 192.168.66.1 …

Restoring Nginx configuration on Arch

Trying to learn Ansible on Arch node I made a decision to purge Nginx configuration: sudo systemctl stop nginx.servie sudo pacman -Rnc nginx sudo rm -rf /etc/nginx Hoping that reinstalling nginx (or maybe nginx-mainline) would restore all files: sudo pacman -S nginx sudo systemc…

Using pacman with Ansible

To use ansible on the Arch based system, either for a local provision or on the VPS such as Linode or Contabo to name the ones that I have tested, these steps are required: Install Community General Collection: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general Optionally che…

Release: Gitea 1.14.0

Today marks the release date of the Gitea 1.14.0, only a few days after the release of the patch version 1.13.7. Although 1.14.0 is a minor release from the semver's perspective, it contains a lot of changes. I decided to add comments on the Features I am the most excited about. …

Hate speech in the Fediverse?

Fediverse is still an unknown for a lot of people. It is also unregulated by no central entity and everyone can impose their own rules. Critics say that such environment attracts actors that are thrown out of other communities and that these actors are actually bad actors. Why wo…

SSH prompting KeePassXC unlock

Most servers I connect to have the option PasswordAuthentication set to no, meaning I do more often than not see an error: Permission denied (publickey). The reasons for this are multiple, but in my scenario, this happens because there are no identities (keys) present in the SSH…