I have some websites running with mysql as the database backend. When I initially set the databases up, I didn’t bother setting up a root password and instead instructed mysql to use a random root password (MYSQL_RANDOM_PASSWORD=yes). I also didn’t bother to write down the generated password. Now I ran into a situation where I …
Suppose you have the need to rip a DVD in 2024 on Linux – not too common I guess, but sometimes it can happen. Purely out of curiosity, I did some research and testing – I’d never never break copyright laws, obviously. I knew that you could use Handbrake for that kind of task – …
After using Tuxedo OS (a kubuntu variant provided by the manufacturer Tuxedo) for a year or so, I decided to give Fedora another try – no special reason, just out of curiosity. I’ve been happy so far, everything works as you’d expect. However, I noticed that every day in the morning, if I didn’t put …
My last project ended a few weeks ago and I have the opportunity to spend some time on learning new stuff. In recent years I mostly worked within the Java and Kotlin ecosystem, so I figured why not look at something completely new for a change? I decided to have a look at Go and …
After installing Nextcloud a couple of days ago, I was left with a warning in the management ui about misconfigured service discovery urls. Some URLs starting with .well-known have not been correctly configured.
Some years back I had a selfhosted Nextcloud instance running on a Raspberry Pi. At some point I decided that managing it and keeping it up to date was too much of a hastle, so I moved to a managed instance. That worked very well for some years now – the only real limitation was …
For some time now, AVM’s various FritzBox models support Wireguard for VPN connections but until now I used tradidional IPSec tunnels. After reinstalling my notebook I couldn’t make the IPSec connection work again, so I thought I might as well switch to the supposedly more performant Wireguard method. Setup in the FritzBox is very easy, …
My current project uses the reactive programming paradigm. I don’t have much experience with it, but over the past months I found my way around it. One service that I’m currently working on needs to retrieve different data from other services to generate an excel export. Every call that the service makes returns a Mono …
My current project relies on the use of the AWS VPN Client as it supports SAML based federated authentication. When I started on the project I was still using a Mac, but a few months in I got a new Tuxedo notebook and had to migrate everything to Linux. Unfortunately Amazon officially only supports Ubuntu …
A few days ago I received an email from my domain registrar Fritz Managed IT, a small local IT company. They were going to raise domain prices. My domain has always been fairly expensive compared to a standard tld domain, but I wasn’t very concerned about the fact. When I read the mail, however, I …
