BSD Cafe - The Community for BSD Based Systems
The BSD Cafe is a thriving community that goes beyond being just a gathering of BSD enthusiasts; it serves as a comprehensive repository of knowledge and experiences shared by its members. The platform features in-depth reviews of BSD-related software and hardware, providing valuable insights into real-world experiences and hardware compatibility. The community aims to assist individuals in making informed decisions .... [read more] | [2023-11-19]I Just rejoined the NTP Pool Project
Finally, I rejoined the ntppool.org project again. Several years ago, I already contributed with several Stratum 1 systems which were connected to a Stratum 0 (GPS). Nowadays, most ones do not care about NTP and time synchronization anymore but it gets more important than ever when it comes to encryption, authentication and logging. Therefore, I took my old Stratum 0 .... [read more] | [2023-11-17]manpageblog - A Small and Lightweight Blog Engine
manpageblog - a small, lightweight blog engine written in Python and offers several advantages in a look of a man page (Unix like manual page). Firstly, it provides simplicity and ease of use, making it accessible even for users with limited technical knowledge. The lightweight nature ensures quick installation and minimal resource consumption, making it suitable for various hosting environments. .... [read more] | [2023-11-11]Howto install Ansible SemaphoreUI on Debian 12
This mini How-To guide describes how to install Semaphore UI 2.8.75 in addition to Ansible 8.5 on Linux Debian 12 (Bookworm). Semaphore provides a modern and responsive webUI for running Ansible playbooks as an alternative to Ansible AWX (Tower) and the new Automation Platform. Semaphore is an open-source project written in GoLang and easy to use, install & to maintain. .... [read more] | [2023-11-05]Released Changelog Fragments Creator V1.3
Changelog Fragments Creator just got released in V1.3. Changelog Fragments Creator (a changelog generator in Python) may be used in development setups where working on a single CHANGELOG.md file might result in ongoing merge conflicts due to too many changes on the same file. This is where Changelog Fragments Creator steps in to solve this by creating YAML based files .... [read more] | [2023-10-15]Collection of Vagrant Boxes for Apple Silicon on ARM64
This overview offers you an insight into my self-created Vagrant compatible boxes and images of different Linux and BSD operating systems for Apple Silicon based Macs. Apple Silicon's hardware architecture is based on ARM64 (AARCH64) which is incompatible with the AMD64 (x86_64) hardware architecture. The following boxes provide further virtualization support and can run as a virtual machine (VM) on .... [read more] | [2023-10-05]Tech Talk RPM and DEB Packaging with CMake and CPack
Creating packages for Debian (Ubuntu), RedHat (CentOS, Fedora) & FreeBSD can easily be done by CMake’s CPacks feature. This provides great possibilities to create packages from sources but also to ship just configuration files with a single config for one or more distributions. In general, it also supports creating packages from different distributions. My tech talk provides a short examples .... [read more] | [2023-09-22]Digital Detox – An Example Approach
In an era where our lives are increasingly intertwined with technology, the concept of a digital detox has gained significant traction. A digital detox refers to consciously and temporarily disconnecting from digital devices and online platforms in order to find balance, regain focus, and reconnect with the physical world around us. This practice has become an essential remedy for the .... [read more] | [2023-08-26]AI: Different LLMs With Custom Content – Does it work?
AI is on everyone’s mind but what happens when we use our own and custom content like documents on different LLMs (Large Langauge Models)? Let’s have a short look at different LLMs like llama2, falcon and gpt. Within this case we do not just want to use the pre-trained data from the models but also process our own content. Here, .... [read more] | [2023-08-24]Released Changelog Fragments Creator
Changelog Fragments Creator (a changelog generator in Python) may be used in development setups where working on a single CHANGELOG.md file might result in ongoing merge conflicts due to too many changes on the same file. This is where Changelog Fragments Creator steps in to solve this by creating YAML based files for each PR according to its planned release .... [read more] | [2023-07-26][previous] | [next]