René's old blog
Whatever I feel like posting, whenever
This site goes back some twenty-five years, so it is bound to be full of stale links and irrelevant information. It is, at best, updated irregularly.
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Nobody expected the Shining City upon the Hill to cave in to corporate fascism as easy as it did. Fascism is, in the words of Mussolini himself, corporativism — the merger of the state with big business. With state power…
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Fairphone 4 and sensors
A Fairphone4, which has had UBports installed, doesn’t show most sensors to a later installation of Android.
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WordPress drama
The recent drama between Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine has shown clearly what a debacle WordPress governance is.
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StarLite tablet and Debian Testing
I’ve installed Debian testing (Trixie) on a StarLite tablet from Starlaps Systems, and everything just worked.
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Changing owner of a calendar in Nextcloud
How to move a Nextcloud calendar from one user to another.
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A WordPress-Nextcloud writing workflow
My writing workflow is half WordPress, half Nextcloud, half Markdown, half HTML.
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Paste with two-finger tap in Wayland [solved]
Wayland once didn’t have the option to paste using a two-finger tap, but it does now, albeit a bit hidden.
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Post length with ActivityPub
The ActivtyPub plugin is great, but too often sends way too long posts to the Fediverse
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OpenWrt and DMZ
The steps needed to create a basic DMZ on an OpenWrt router.
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synogear install
The command “synogear install” will install a hidden DiagnosticTools package on a Synology NAS.
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Hyphens and dashes in WordPress
One or more hyphens in WordPress can produce a single hyphen (-), an en dash (–) or an em dash (—), but it’s not entirely straightforward.