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  Debian Packaging from First Principles – Part 2 – Dependencies

  All things .deb dependency. Building packages with impossible dependencies, simple dependencies and packages with mutual dependencies.

  2024-09-24

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  Connecting to Serial Ports with Windows Terminal

  Choosing between PuTTY’s plink and SimplySerial’s ss commands for serial port sessions within Windows Terminal.

  2024-08-23

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  Poison the WeLLMs

  It’s a little cheeky, but I’m really quite proud to announce the initial release of “Poison the WeLLMs”; a reverse-proxy that serves disassociated-press style re-imaginings of your upstream pages, poisoning any LLMs that scrape your content.

  2024-08-12

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  aa-sms – Send messages from Rust with Andrews & Arnold’s SMS API

  aa-sms is a Rust crate that provides an async client for sending messages with Andrews & Arnold’s SMS API.

  2024-07-31

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  #NewMusicMonday – Kiasmos & Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

  I spent a day racking network gear, bobbing along to Kiasmos’ & Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan’s latest releases; this week’s #NewMusicMonday recommendations.

  2024-07-29

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  Debian Packaging from First Principles – Part 1 – Simple .deb

  I’ve used Debian as my distro of choice for well over a decade and whilst I’ve become familiar with “using” Debian I’ve never really understood how it worked under the hood. In this post I aim to uncover what exactly is a .deb file, what it contains and how one works.

  2024-07-25

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  Recover a single drive from an abandoned RAID 1 mirrored pair

  How much of the RAID array’s state has been lost by pulling the drive? Can one drive be mounted as if it was always just a single disk? Is there even anything left?

  2024-07-10