Posted on Sun 05 June 2022 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux, Clevis, Tang
While in a discussion with my coworkers, a coworker brought up that they wanted to have automatic LUKS disk decryption on their desktop while it was at home. Normally they would use a passphrase to decrypt the LUKS volume but would prefer automatic decryption. There are multiple ways to achieve …
Posted on Thu 26 May 2022 in Kodi, Youtube
As Google announced Gsuite is no longer free and I moved to GrapheneOs to de-google further, the last frequently used Google application I use is Youtube. For a long time Youtube has support for RSS feeds for channels although they are not publicly visible. I usually watch videos in my …
Posted on Wed 01 September 2021 in android • Tagged with carddav, caldav
In looking to moving my phone to LineageOS, I've started thinking about moving my mail, contacts and calendar data to my own server. After researching solutions for a while, I decided to try out xandikos. A simple Python carddav/caldav server intended for a single user with a basic feature …
Posted on Sun 01 August 2021 in arch linux • Tagged with arch linux, reproducible builds
At the end of July, I had some days off and some more time to focus on some unreproducible packages in Arch Linux and get some of the issues resolved. This post goes through the resolved issues by category.
By default if a manpage is compressed with …
Posted on Thu 22 July 2021 in vim • Tagged with vim, programming
Feeling inspired by watching togglebit's Rust/Vim setup and having some spare time due to my summer vacation I started re-investigating my Vim setup. For my setup I was looking for the following features/areas to improve:
Posted on Mon 29 March 2021 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux, Prometheus, Monitoring
For monitoring the Arch Linux infrastructure we've moved on from Zabbix to Prometheus as it fits more into our infrastructure is code goal. This required some research into how we could achieve the same monitoring with Prometheus. Our Zabbix setup monitored Host, MySQL, Borg and Arch Linux related metrics. For …
Posted on Tue 05 January 2021 in Arch Linux, Reproducible Builds • Tagged with Arch Linux
A lot has happened since the last reproducible builds summit in Marrakesh 2019, this blog post is a summary of the progress made in 2020 of everything related to getting reproducible builds in Arch Linux.
Also known as repro this tool allows one to rebuild a package and check …
Posted on Tue 18 February 2020 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux, Loki, Grafana
Grafana's has started a new project called loki as a prometheus for logs solution. For Arch Linux's infrastructure we where thinking about introducing logging altering for our services. Which sparked my curiosity into Loki as it looked like a simple, easy solution after watching the …
Posted on Mon 22 July 2019 in E-ink Raspberry Pi • Tagged with eink, rpi
I've always wanted an e-ink status display in my living room to view the weather forecast, news and public transport information. Previously I've used a SHA2017 Badge with the following app which showed a weather forecast for the following four days. So I've decided to scale up to a nice …
Posted on Thu 27 June 2019 in Reproducible Builds, Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux, Reproducible
As Arch Linux we are working on reproducible builds for a while and have a continuous test framework rebuilding package updated in our repositories. This test does an asp checkout of a package and builds it twice in a schroot, we do not try to reproduce actual repository packages yet …