Software

Recently I was trying to figure out a way of accessing the “universal search” index available via the Synology UI, in a way that didn’t require logging into the UI itself.

Purpose of this page is to list various Group Policies that I’ve set, to strip out all the useless nonsense from Windows 10. Get rid of search suggestions within Explorer

I use yt-dlp for downloading videos from YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, etc. A full list of all the “extractors” is available here. Here are some of the download strings I use:

I had a bit of bother getting Mastodon up and running on a Fedora box so figured I’d write up the main sticking points. Preamble The scope is to: Put most of this inside Docker Use AWS S3 for object storage Use AWS SES for mail If you’ve got Postfix already running locally, or don’t want to run storage on S3, just ignore these bits.

Even though I’ve literally purchased a couple of the ISO standards, I’m unable to open the files on Linux without access to a Windows VM (within which I can run their stupid PDF de-DRM-er).

This environment: CentOS 7.x WP 5.x PHP 7.x Fail2ban 0.11.x WP/PHP running in Docker In /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/wplogin.conf: [Definition] failregex = .*php7:notice.*\[client (<HOST>).*wp-admin.*Password Mismatch ignoreregex = Then in the WP home, we want to log errors to SYSLOG.

For whatever reason, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe got rid of their mobile app this year - a decision that has not gone down too well with punters and performers alike.

CMake manpages are about the most verbose manpages on the planet. All I wanted to do was import an external project and customise the build options without having to go and add files into the child project / patch them / whatever.

Getting copies of annual returns and company information from Companies House is easy. Searching the data in those returns isn’t quite so easy. CH use a PDF format (PDF/A, akin to fax) that ensures maximum compatability.

I had a small project to display some simple stats for, for some static content sitting in an AWS S3 bucket. I could have forwarded everything to Elastic+Kibana and showed some fancy graphs and charts, but I was only being asked for what I could easily produce via AWStats.