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Changes in Posti’s data processing
If you live in Finland, you have without a doubt interacted with Posti. Recently, they announced large changes in their user data processing policies, taking into effect on May 20th 2025. Bottom of the line is: To avoid getting caught in this, visit the account settings page (on my.account.posti.fi), then on the left, select “settings”.…
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Fedora 42 and new RSS reader
A few weeks ago, I finally did the final switched and completely nuked my Windows 11 install from my workstation. The last thing that was keeping me on Windows, VR, is now pretty much painless on Linux. All of this thanks to the guides provided by Linux VR Adventures, and most particularly, the software Envision…
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Free spell checking
You probably know about Grammarly and other web browser add-ons that basically act as fancier spell checkers.They’re expensive, a bit opaque, and you can’t really integrate them into whatever you want. Well today, I’ll talk about LanguageTool. Despite offering full-blown plans, what is little known is that you can use it locally and host your…
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Making your own web corner
So, you’ve finally bought yourself a domain (or thinking about it), got a server at home, and now you want to host your own corner of the web? Great! Allow me to be your guide through this journey. Pre-requisites You’ll need a bunch of stuff for this tutorial, including: A domain Your domain will be…
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Resostats outage postmortem
Today, from approximately 16:30 UTC to 17:45 UTC, the Resostats Dashboard which provides various public metrics on Resonite was offline. Background Routine maintenance was being done on the machine hosting Resostats, namely updating the packages, containers, cleaning up some debugging tools.Configuration changes were committed to try and have the TSDB sync faster to the S3…
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My Signal config & switching to it
A few months ago, I started using Signal again. The messenger evolved quite a lot since I last used it, for instance, usernames weren’t even a thing back then, and this is mainly what drove me out of the platform. But now that we have them, I feel a bit safer using it, knowing people…
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Making Bread
I recently got myself a bread maker. While I used to make the bread myself, the bread maker makes it even easier given I can just throw the ingredients in and forget about it. Since I got it, that poor thing has been running at least once a day (yes, I eat a lot of…
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Using the new GitHub ARM runners
Just yesterday at the time of writing, GitHub (finally) released their public ARM runners for Open-Source projects. This means you can now build ARM programs natively on Linux without having to fiddle with weird cross-compilation. One way to achieve that is through a Matrix. Considering the following workflow to build, then upload an artifact (taken…
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Building .NET using GitLab CI/CD
As I often mention, I use .NET a lot in general, as it’s fairly easy to use, has a huge ecosystem, and has evolved really positively in the past years (long gone are the days of Mono :D). Another component of this is that .NET projects are incredibly easy to build and publish using GitLab…