Performing my mundane periodic software package upgrade on a laptop I did
not expect anything spectacular to happen. The
Informant did not stopped the upgrade
due to some breaking news. There was no problem with mirrors, key
signatures, cyclic dependencies or incompatible package…
There is a feature in Gitea that got me a little puzzled recently.
At first, I thought it is related to Project Milestones (a Kanban Board in
Gitea). After clicking around at everything I have found, and even removing
all the boards and milestones, the icon with a progress bar p…
By corrupting a bootloader on my router's motherboard I managed to
soft-brick it. Bootloader is usually the first batch of software
instructions, the motherboard executes when powered up. Soft-bricking means
that the device won't boot up, but can be resurrected to life, or
de-bri…
Part of the Arch Linux system maintenance is to actively read
latest news. Mostly anyone who uses Arch has
come across this piece of advice: read the news before updating! In other
words, before running the dreaded sudo pacman -Syu command, one should be
prepared to act upon any …
The
OpenWRT page
about download integrity verification describes three steps for a
successful verification of downloaded files:
Download the sha256sum and sha256sum.asc files
Check the signature with
gpg --with-fingerprint --verify sha256sum.asc sha256sum, ensure that
the GnuPG …
After installing ansible package I start with listing all the available
roles:
ansible-galaxy list
I am immediately greeted with two warnings:
# /home/peterbabic/.ansible/roles
[WARNING]: - the configured path /usr/share/ansible/roles does not exist.
[WARNING]: - the configured …
Feeling little overwhelmed lately. There are many projects and activities I
have started and none seem to get even near finishing. I have pushed myself
to finish the triangles.fun
so I have one less thing to worry about, but too many people experienced
the top row cutoff. This is…