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2024-12-31

QSL – NHK Japan Radio December 8 2024

Filed under: Radio — jae @ 03:49
Location: Vantaa, Finland Date and time: 2024/12/08 11:45 (local time UTC+2) – 09:45 (UTC) Frequency: 15290kHz SINPO: 2/5 Equipment: Tecsun PL-680 + wire antenna Content Heard: Unsure, asked a friend and only words they could understand were “Tokyo 23”. Notes: I cannot speak Japanese, sadly. Lots of static and interruptions. Contact: NHK WORLD-JAPAN | Contact […]

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2024-12-29

I tested Horizon Worlds so you don’t have to

Filed under: Reviews — jae @ 03:47
In the middle of the year, I got a Quest Pro, mainly to use with Resonite for face and eye tracking. With this standalone headset made by Facebook, came a small program that (allegedly) cost them billions to make: Horizon Worlds, their own platform. You know, the one without legs. Well, I tested it for […]

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Verkkokauppa.com DNS

Filed under: Networking — jae @ 03:44
Verkkokauppa.com is a chain of web and physical stores originating from (and limited to) Finland, akin of Amazon here if you will. When trying to search for a USB-C computer mouse, IPvfoo told me that the website was accessible over IPv6, which I never noticed before. I then queried the DNS server to see where […]

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2024-12-10

A week of Framework

Filed under: Random — jae @ 03:42
As per my usual tradition when I receive a new cool device, I have to write about it a week later, then either three months or a year later (as I did previously with my Index, or work MacBook Pro M1). As you may know, my previous laptop was a ThinkPad x200.It’s not exactly a […]

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2024-12-08

Deploying your own GitLab instance under 5 minutes

Filed under: DevOps,Tutorials — jae @ 03:31
It’s no secret that I work around GitLab during my day job and that I generally love this software.This blog post is therefore not biased at all in any way or form. (do I need to mark this further as sarcasm, or did everyone get the memo?) For this quick tutorial, you’ll need: For this, […]

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2024-12-01

Setting up WireGuard tunnels from a BGP router

Filed under: DevOps,Networking,Tutorials — jae @ 03:28
I recently re-started my BGP shenanigans, and with that, re-setup some VPNs using WireGuard for my personal machines. I basically use those to whitelist connections to certain applications to only the prefix used by my machines. The host machine runs Debian and BIRD, and the end devices are diverse from standard Linux machines, to Windows […]

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