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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I have a newsletter — Venetian Stories about the history of Venice — with a couple of hundred recipients. For some time, I have managed that with a free WordPress plugin. One of those with a PRO version, and every…
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A tablet with Linux
I have bought a Microsoft Surface Go 2 tablet, and I like it very much. With Debian it is the perfect ultra-portable computer for me.
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Spy in your pocket
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.