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, IPvfoo¹ told me that the website was accessible over IPv6, which I never noticed before.

I then queried the DNS server to see where it was hosted and:

Server:		127.0.0.53
Address:	127.0.0.53#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	verkkokauppa.com
Address: 34.95.73.242

Weird, no v6 there, let’s try with the www subdomain now:

Last week, I received my new laptop: a Framework 16.
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 young machine, being around 16 years old now.

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:

• Some machine where the instance will be hosted
• Docker installed on the machine
• Ability to read instructions

For this, we’ll be using docker compose which provides an easy way to bring services up from a configuration file.
This tutorial just provides a bare bones instance that you will need to configure further later.

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 BIRD¹, and the end devices are diverse from standard Linux machines, to Windows desktops, to iOS devices.

First, the BIRD configuration is pretty trivial, just adding a route for the prefix via lo:

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 via apt install socat.

Now, you can use:

echo 'worlds' | socat EXEC:"docker attach $(docker compose ps -q reso-headless)",pty STDIN

In this command, replace: