Tag: journal

How not to securely erase a NVME drive

I got a replacement for my Samsung MZVLW256HEHP-000L7 NVMe 256GB M.2 PCI Express X4 SSD, known also simply as Samsung PM961. It is an OEM part. After replacing it with the new one, Samsung 980 1TB, I put the old one on sale. This was my daily driver, so I did not want any meaning…

Bluetooth mouse unresponsive after boot

I consider the trusty Logitech MX Master 3, the computer mouse I use to be a great addition to my toolset. Even though I try to use mouse as little as possible in times when keyboard is the main input source (when I am writing something), the mouse is still very important. Do not…

I have finally configured DMARC today

A time ago I got contacted by a white-hat hacker with an inquiry about the security of one of my emails. Specifically, that my DMARC record was not set up. I immediately contacted my email provider, since I did not know if the whole thing was even legit, but I did not get a very …

Upgrading Gitea to 1.15

The story from yesterday actually started by trying to upgrade Gitea from the 1.14 branch which I was running, precisely 1.14.7 by the time of writing, to the branch 1.15, or more precisely again, to the version 1.15.4. I postponed the upgrade to the 1.15 because even though Gite…

Test the app with real data quickly

Hopefully I got back to writing again. I could not find time for anything else than the project I tried too hard to finish. This day hopefully marks the sweet little feeling described as project is finished that can be tasted for a brief while until engaged in the next project. T…

A short summer writing pause

Past week I've had a few days that I focused solely on work and family and did not reserve any time for the blog. There were multiple reasons for this, but the main was that it is summer and there are almost no restrictions whatsoever. I did some camping by the lake I was driving…

Done spell checking on my blog

I have put a considerable effort today to fix a lot of small errors on the blog that accumulated over time, either by the fact that the blog was converted from Sapper to Zola, which naturally processes some slight details of the Markdown differently or due to me mistyping some wo…