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The post provides a guide on using socat and HTTPS tunnels to bypass firewall restrictions by disguising SSH traffic as HTTPS.
The text discusses the recent outages experienced by the largest internet exchange point in Italy and argues that these incidents demonstrate that internet exchanges do not meet the criteria for critical infrastructure. It also hi...
The text discusses an autopkgtest regression that occurred on the arm64 architecture for the purity-off Debian package. The regression was caused by the paging function of purity(6) becoming enabled only on arm64, leading to an in...
CISPE, a trade association of European cloud providers, has published a press release complaining about the new VMware licensing scheme and asking for regulators and legislators to intervene. The author questions the necessity of ...
The text discusses extending access to the systemd RuntimeDirectory with a POSIX ACL to allow unprivileged users to use the command. It explains how the author solved the issue by extending the inn2.service systemd unit with a dro...
The author reflects on their track record in operating systems development, specifically mentioning their work on the Debian 12 release, distribution of proprietary firmwares, udev, systemd, and merged-/usr. They express pride in ...
The text is about installing Debian 12 on a Banana Pi M5, which uses the Amlogic S905X3 SoC. The author shares their experience and notes about the installation process, including the challenges faced and the workarounds used.
The author replaced grub with systemd-boot to investigate and work on the measured boot features. The installation has been automated since systemd version 252.6-1, so installing the package has the effect of installing sd-boot in...
The author discusses the challenges of using a custom domain as the Mastodon identity. They express concerns about the lack of support for managing multiple domains on the same instance and the inability to migrate an account to a...
The text discusses the successful use of Debian/unstable on a Lenovo T14s Gen3 AMD laptop, with some manual installation of firmware files required. It also provides recommendations for improving energy efficiency and updating the...
The text explains how to run an Ansible playbook in a remote chroot, which is not supported by Ansible, but the author has found a workaround using Mitogen for Ansible. The trick is to make Ansible call a wrapper script instead of...
The author announces their resignation from freenode, citing the network's takeover by a new owner and expressing disappointment in the situation. They reflect on their long involvement with freenode and the importance of the comm...