Once every blue moon I try some sort of Linux as the native operating system on my laptop. As I tend to have a recent laptop, this usually ends as a short experiment where I find out one or two devices just will not work.

As my wife moved to …

Na een tijd van beproeven en proberen heb ik zowel mijn Friendica instance als mijn Mastodon instance uitgezet.

Friendica heeft echt te weinig gebruikers om er verder iets mee te kunnen. De techniek is verder wel OK.

Mastondon heeft hetzelfde probleem als rap muziek. Teveel berichten op mastodon gaan over …

When a leased server has bandwidth to spare, I try to give it to the tor network. Project servers come and go, but I am happy to report that my relay node is back in business.

Aug 5 14:45:48 droid Tor[8966]: Bootstrapped 0%: Starting
Aug 5 14 …

Tor started emitting some daily statistics via syslog some time ago. This is a nice thing because other than looking at the network traffic statistics I really had no clue to how much work it was doing.

Jul 16 00:14:36 tor-exit-node02 Tor[16355]: Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is …

With Debian officially realising Debian 9.0 aka Stretch, it was time to move my native Linux machine to the latest and greatest. In an update to this post I will report how it turned out for me ??

BTW : turned out great!