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I played Star Citizen so you don’t have to
Star Citizen is a game that has been in development since around 2013.It claims to be a space simulator, MMORPG, FPS and a bunch of other things. More than 10 years later, 750 million USD invested, what have we got? The good The game looks visually good, even if overly generic “space stuff”. Nothing much…
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QSL – NHK Japan Radio December 8 2024
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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I tested Horizon Worlds so you don’t have to
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
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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A week of Framework
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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Deploying your own GitLab instance under 5 minutes
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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Setting up WireGuard tunnels from a BGP router
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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Sending commands to a Docker Compose Resonite headless
After searching for a bit, I found a way to send commands to a Resonite headless within Docker programmatically without having to run docker compose attach <container> and having to manually detach. You will need the software socat installed on the host machine, given most of my machines are running Debian, this can be done…
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Finding music
In this blog post, we’re gonna see some places where I find music. Some of those are paid, some of those are free. First, let’s go over some good players: Most of the music I listen to are modules (or MODs), to get those, I have a few places: Those can generally be found there…
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Liberate your news with RSS
RSS, standing for Really Simple Syndication, is a really good and easy way to get all your news right onto your computer. While the standard is fairly old now, being older than me, it still fills its purpose wonderfully. To have a simple outlook, RSS allows you to get news from feeds made available by…