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Music recommendations for April 2025
This month, I bought a bunch of music on Bandcamp, here are some recommendations: That’s all for this month’s recommendations. This might become a more recurring thing, but wait until the next Bandcamp Friday, I’ll have plenty of those after it.
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Interesting links: Open-Source DMR Radio
A friend sent me a link to an interesting blog post talking about making an Open-Source DMR radio using a LimeSDR board and GNU Radio. Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) is a mobile radio standard created by ETSI, which is very popular within the amateur radio community. […]A very basic DMR modem (receiver and transmitter), capable…
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Getting Steam game changelogs in your RSS reader
A little known feature of Steam is that it offers RSS feeds for any app/game/whatever shared using it. The URL is also very simple to use: You can then replace $AppID by the application ID of your game. For instance, if we want to monitor Resonite, app ID 2519830, you will need the following URL:…
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Fixing ffmpeg missing codec issues on Fedora
At some point, I had some issues converting some files with ffmpeg, most particularly videos on my Fedora install. Turns out fixing this is really easy with the help of RPMFusion. If you haven’t enabled it at the system installation, you can do that really easily via a single command which will install the free…
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Starbound, 10 years later
I recently started playing Starbound again after a hiatus of a few years. For the context, I have a pretty big history with the game, buying one of the old supporter tiers (Pixel Tier, in March 2014) and playing though all the first betas up until the final release and subsequent (rare) updates. I also…
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The European vulnerability database
I’ve recently discovered that the EU has their own vulnerability database: EUVD. As noted by the message on top of the page: This website is currently in its beta phase. We appreciate your collaboration in reporting any inaccurate or incomplete information via the link below “Provide feedback”. The site is still in a really early…
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Configuring DNSSEC on systemd-resolved
Enabling DNSSEC on systemd-resolved is quite easy. First, let”s go in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/main.conf and add/modify the file like so: For good measure, you can also enable DoT (DNS Over TLS) in there, which you can use with something like DNS0. Restart systemd-resolved using systemctl restart systemd-resolved and voilà. Now, if you type something like resolvectl query…
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Signals on 14.090.00
On April 13th 2025, I managed to receive some odd signals on 14.090.00 which sounded just like packets of information being sent. What’s weird is that I only heard this one this particular frequency twice, on the 13th and a day prior. Here is a recording of those: Currently, I’m using a Kenwood TS-430S with…
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It’s a long weekend
Here in Finland, it’s the Good Friday, meaning we get this Friday and next Monday off work. That’s plenty of time for me to re-play some of my favourite games, and on the menu this time: Yakuza Kiwami 2. I’ve finished this one months ago, but remains the one with the best music in my…