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Various Yealink utilities and firmware, archived
A quick blog post to announced that I archived a bunch of Yealink-related software on Archive.org, including firmware, manuals, and configuration tools.This is due to Yealink’s support just removing things after updating their website. You can find the files at: Happy hacking :) Small update: I was curious about the firmware 3CX published on their…
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FreePBX part 1: The initial setup
Happy new year again dear reader, hopefully you had wonderful holidays.Me? I spent my holidays getting increasingly frustrated by a small software named FreePBX. FreePBX, as its name suggest, is… a PBX… manager, PBX meaning Private Branch Exchange, or to do simple, your very own VoIP and telephony server.As mentioned, FreePBX is only a front-end…
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Making a Yealink contacts directory
Last post of the year, I hope everybody will have a wonderful 2026, even within those troubled times. I was playing with my Yealink T42s IP phone last night, wanting to make some API endpoint that automatically generates a remote phone book for the phone.The remote phone book uses XML formatted with custom elements that…
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Porting Resonite’s Headless Server Software to ARM
I promised it a few months ago, and here it is: ARM support for the Resonite Headless Server Software is now generally available.So, what took so long in doing the port? FrooxEngine itself runs perfectly on ARM CPUs, the issue arising when trying to hit native libraries.Resonite itself relies on about 250 external dependencies, most…
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Angy paws socks review
To all the non-furry readers of this humble blog, brace yourselves.I”m very tired from the end of the year, and couldn”t get myself writing more technical stuff, so a socks review is what you get. Recently, I was looking to replace my old socks, bought on SocksDreams years ago, those started to really show their…
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Finally, some good news from Finland
For the first time in a really long while, I have good news to report from the frozen wasteland also called Finland. As of today, November 24th 2025, the Finnish Red Cross Blood Donation Service will give the same questionnaire, regardless of the gender of the person wanting to donate blood.The question about gender will…
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PBXes everywhere
I recently got a Yealink T42S IP phone to play around with. To get that question out of the way first, “why”? Because it”s fun to have a proper phone on my desk. Right now, I have a few PBXes configured on it, in two categories.Proper PBXes where I get a proper phone number: Now,…
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Announcing Bellingcat challenges
Over the past half year, I’ve had the pleasure of Collaborating with Bellingcat as a contributor to their OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) challenge platform. For those who aren’t aware, Bellingcat is an independent investigative journalism group based in the Netherlands that publishes investigations using OSINT about war, human rights abuses and the criminal underground (this description…
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Come meet us at Eurofurence 29
Quick blog post to advertise the Resonite panel at Eurofurence 29, which should be next week, on Thursday 4th of September. If you are attending Eurofurence, direct yourself to the room CCH X 5-8 at 13:00 (local time). The panel will last approximately an hour and half, and developers and community members will be present.…