Hong Kong A short, picture-heavy summary of my two weeks trip to Hong Kong earlier this summer. To set the mood there's some recommended songs to play if you are interested. They are to be
Essential apps on macOS Someone who just bought his first Mac asked me which essential (GUI) apps I currently use that I could recommend to him. As this will probably happen again I'll just keep this list
Use Google Hangouts via Bitlbee / IRC As someone who hates Google Hangouts with a passion it took me surprisingly long to look into a way to use it via an IRC bridge to get rid of the annoying Chrome
Let's Encrypt with auto-renewal and nginx I recently moved from using a wildcard certificate to using a bunch of certificates from Let's Encrypt. I was a bit hesitant in the beginning because it seemed like a lot of work
Duplicity with PyDrive backend for Google Drive Storing backups in Google Drive with duplicity was broken for a long time now. Luckily someone wrote a new backend that is now able to make use of the new OAuth API requirement
Setting up a Tor hidden service with nginx Quick guide based on @CthulhuSec's tutorial for setting up a Tor hidden service. If you don't know what a hidden service is read this high-level description before continuing. Install Tor Install the Tor
31C3 Just like every year the time between Christmas and New Years is best spent at the Chaos Communication Congress happening at the CCH in Hamburg. Following is a list of all the talks
Push(over) notifications for Gentoo updates This shell script will send you a push notification if there are new Gentoo updates available. It's based on ftf's Ruby script for Prowl. Application Token To get the Application token just create
Automated and encrypted backups with duplicity If you don't like ending up like the plane in the header image (Jeff Sheldon, Unsplash) you should probably make sure you do have a good backup and restore strategy. The goal of
Calculate total filesize of multiple torrent files Quick script which lets you check if you have enough storage space to download all these sweet Linux distributions (nah mean) you already grabbed the .torrent file for. Nested directories (*cough* collages) are
ScreenUpload: Automatically upload screenshots with scp There are a lot of scripts and applications out there acomplishing the same task, most of them are probably more polished than what I came up with, but there was always something missing
Backup ZNC Logs automatically This is a short script to automatically backup the ZNC logs from multiple remote servers to a local directory. If you want to run it on a system which isn't Mac OS you'll
Setting up a new Munin slave node Filing this away for future reference. Install munin from package sources apt-get install munin-node Add master node to allowed IPs vim etc/munin/munin-node.conf Unfortunately it's only allowed to add IPs and
Nginx, Wildcard SSL and Subdomains I just setup SSL on all my *.notmyhostna.me domains and here's how I did it. Buy certificate First you need to buy a wildcard certificate, I bought one from cheapsslsecurity.com. If
Atlas of the Conflict The Atlas of the Conflict is a beautiful book containing over 500 maps and diagrams providing both a great overview and very detailed information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The author of the book
Mass renaming files - now with more Vim! As it happens you sometimes end up with a bunch of files which you would rather rename to something else and it'd be pretty sweet to just rename them like you would search
Recover photos from storage devices Today I got asked if I could recover some photos from an accidentally formatted CompactFlash memory card. I knew about TestDisk already because I used it in the past to recover some files
"Have you ever heard of Austria? - Kangaroo!" Sometimes I interview people on IRC and one of the questions I'm asking is: Have you ever heard of Austria? If you have, what are the first three words that come to your
Overwriting Textual's shortcuts If you are anything like me, you are connected to a large number of IRC networks and the accompanying channels. As it happens, I'm also developing for the web at the same time
Fixing things - the ugly way Because sometimes it's just easier to find a dirty workaround than actually fixing the underlying problem. The problem: For some unknown reason pywhatauto is replacing my working cookie file for BTN with an
VPN with Viscosity In this quick guide I'll explain which steps are necessary to use notmyhostna.me's OpenVPN server. Note: It's very verbose. tl;dr: Decrypt the configuration files and add them to your OpenVPN client.
Pick a random file from a directory AKA. Which movie should I watch today? Unfortunately the version of sort shipped with Mac OS doesn't include the -R / --random-sort option and shuf doesn't come by default. We'll have to install GNU's
Running OpenVPN with OpenVZ Just filing this away for future reference. If you want to run OpenVPN within a OpenVZ container you'll have to setup the iptables rules for the correct network interface (You don't say!). Most
Make calibre updates less annoying If you are dealing with ebooks you are probably aware of Calibre. It's ugly and a pain to use but it's currently the only application to use if you are serious about organizing
Backup your server with Tarsnap Regular and automated backups are hard to get right if you are not on a Mac using TimeMachine. There are multiple ways to keep and maintain backups on a linux box (rsnapshot, rsync,