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 …
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 …
Posted on za 15 juni 2024 in mastodon
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 …
Posted on zo 02 juni 2024 in mastodon
As I detailed a couple of months back, the mastodon media store is ZFS based and snapshots are pushed offsite multiple times a day. For the database servers, we used a daily SQL dump that was sent offsite. Good enough, but could be better.
Recently we had a small incident …
Posted on zo 26 mei 2024 in desktop
Hoe vaak heb je hem nou echt nodig anno 2024? De Printer. Dus we hebben al een tijd geleden geaccepteerd dat de kwaliteit van de prints onder de maat was. Leuk voor eigen gebruik en de kleurplaten, maar daar kun je niet mee naar buiten. Sinds het begin van de …