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Voorlopig weer dubbel Internet thuis

Posted on za 19 oktober 2024 in homenetwork

We gingen dit jaar verhuizen naar Nieuwe-Tonge. Met een maand overlap tussen het oude en het nieuwe huis, had ik tijdelijk behoefte aan Internet op twee adressen. Internet providers zijn daar nog niet erg goed in, tijdelijk Internet op twee adressen leveren. Toen ik daar naar vroeg bij Delta, geen …


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I blew the fuse and vendor fixes it for free

Posted on za 21 september 2024 in hardware

While I was away this summer, my wife complained that Internet connection stopped working. I had her switch to 5G, which was fine for a couple of days. On returning, I noticed that my fairly new Deciso Opnsense appliance stopped responding. As I was busy with other things at that …


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In Dublin, Ireland for EuroBSDCon

Posted on za 21 september 2024 in runbsd

Yesterday I arrived in Dublin for EuroBSDCon. Experienced some interesting bits I did nog give a single thought about upfront. Like Ireland is in the EU, but not in Schengen: passport control. And renting a car without even considering that it might be one of those left hand drive countries …


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Letting go of S/MIME on my e-mail accounts

Posted on vr 21 juni 2024 in communication

So I think I've sent mail using S/MIME signatures from both my personal and my business account for about ten years, come to think of it. As much as e-mail is only used in a small percentage of actual personal communications, no-one I communicated with has ever openly appreciated …


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Testing ZFS snapshot database restore for mastodon.nl

Posted on za 15 juni 2024 in fediverse

A couple of weeks ago I started pushing ZFS snapshots of the live database partition for mastodon.nl to my homelab. Testing that this is actually usable as a restore point for a postgres database was still on my todo list.

Today I found the time to setup an postgres …


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