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Hello Forgejo, goodbye Gitlab

Posted on wo 27 december 2023 in software

While Gitlab continues to be free to use, the bloat is real and the disabled enterprise features are somewhat annoying.

Gitea was on my radar for some time, but I never felt the real urge to try it out. The recent fork to forgejo caught my attention. Also, the party …


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Creating custom desktop launchers on the linux desktop

Posted on zo 24 december 2023 in desktop

Right now I'm switching out some flatpak installed apps in favor of manually downloaded and installed apps on my Debian12 desktop. Main reasons are inconsistent window decoration, some bug when switching external displays where some flatpak based windows are borked and performance.

This adds the 'burden' of having to manually …


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Homelab webproxy using Squid on OpenBSD

Posted on vr 22 december 2023 in runbsd

Right now I'm building my new homelab environment. On top of Proxmox I deployed an OpenBSD virtual machine that will act as an http egress for all homelab vlans. This is just a quick writeup of my recipe.

The virtual machine has two cores assigned and 2 GB of RAM …


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FreeBSD with jails

Posted on vr 15 december 2023 in runbsd

Last week I installed FreeBSD on an old and disregarded laptop I had laying around. I wanted to see if FreeBSD BHyve and/or FreeBSD Jails were concepts that would work well for me or at least would introduce some cool new feature or idea. Installing the laptop went unexpectedly …


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Mastodon.nl: te klein of te groot?

Posted on vr 08 december 2023 in fediverse

Voorwoord

Nu ruim een jaar geleden is het gebruik van de Fediverse, Mastodon en daarmee mastodon.nl enorm gegroeid. Onder invloed van veranderingen op traditionele commerciële social media, waren heel veel mensen op zoek naar een alternatief.

Mastodon.nl was op dat moment een schattige mastodon/fediverse instance met, ik …


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