Reminder to self: remember CFLAGS=-g -Og -rdynamic to allow backtrace_symbols() to actually pretty print function names in stack traces.

For a while now my Wireguard VPN provider has been handing out a bad DNS server. So whenever I do a DNS lookup it takes five (5!) seconds timing out, which is quite annoying.

This blog post is about how you can fix this with openresolv in Ubuntu.

This is a HowTo for setting up Merecat httpd with Let’s Encrypt HTTPS certificates.

The upcoming v2.32 release of Merecat supports HTTPS as well as serving more than one Internet port. This is highly useful for those who want to serve both HTTPS and HTTP content.

Update: now with support for --webroot and HTTP-01 renewal!

Mounting my ReadyNAS from Nautilus stopped working after upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04. Turns out there was a change in behavior in Sambva v4.11 that disabled SMB1 protocol by default. It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out in the rest of the Linux community … fortunately there’s a workaround!

Update: same on Debian 11 (bullseye) and Linux Mint 20 (Ulyana)

The last couple of months have been crazy. The downturn in the economy due to Covid-19, mass layoffs, social distancing and quarantine. Not to mention the unrest in US and Europe in the wake of George Floyd’s uneccessary death.

“My name is Joachim and I’m a sudo su - user.”

Before you read any further, please read A life without sudo.

Recently got my hands on a ThinkPad X200, the last model without the useless touchpad and with the awesome classic keyboard. A fine little machine that can easily be upgraded with an SSD disk and 8 GiB RAM!

I set it up with Linx Mint (LMDE 4), which worked great to begin with, but there was some odd issue with X/Wayland that sometimes caused the screen (only the screen) to freeze up and show random color patterns. Only way to workaround it was to suspend, wait, and resume again. So now I’m running Ubuntu 20.04 on it and everything seems to work a lot better, this far.