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  Make Cisco Catalyst 2960-X switches run almost silently

  Cisco Catalyst 2960-X 48-port PoE switches can be had on eBay for under £100. This seems like a great deal until you power them up. They have a single blower fan and it screams; during normal operation they're unreasonably loud for most homes.

  2024-12-05

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  Leaving WordPress for Zola

  I've used WordPress to run this website for the last 4 years. Recent actions by its stewards leave me feeling that I have to move off their platform.

  2024-12-03

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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