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Fixing calls not routed to bluetooth headset on iOS

December 05, 2024 — Nico Cartron

yt-dlp as a replacement of youtube-dl

December 05, 2024 — Nico Cartron

My Thinkpad Carbon X1 G6 has a touchscreen!

November 21, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Fixing vdirsyncer no longer working

November 05, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Firefox Pomodoro plugin

October 16, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Using my Wiki to compensate my goldfish memory

September 30, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Notmuch still way better at searching than iOS' stock email app

September 17, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Sieve and Dovecot for sorting emails

September 03, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Backblaze's impressive hard disk numbers

August 23, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Use case insensitive search in Taskwarrior

July 29, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Playing with the cal UNIX utility

July 25, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Taskwarrior: using hour in due date

July 18, 2024 — Nico Cartron

ICQ is shutting down this month after 30 years

July 09, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Fixing notmuch's issue with Xapian exception

July 02, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Excluding a project when searching TaskWarrior

June 18, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Privacy screen filters are still not a thing

May 28, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Wouter Groeneveld on Windows and moving to Linux

May 27, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance

May 24, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Thunderbird link mismatch and fighting scams

May 14, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Making my blog articles' list easier to walk through

May 07, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Synchronising Taskwarrior tasks with a Taskserver

April 23, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Fighting phishing with... Mutt!

March 15, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Troy Hunt on FedEx and phishing - similar to my experience with the French Post

February 23, 2024 — Nico Cartron

iOS Family Sharing (and more generally iOS) complexity

February 22, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Moving my Linux mail server to OpenBSD.Amsterdam

February 19, 2024 — Nico Cartron

The (uncomplicated) story of getting SSH port 22, from its author

February 16, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Tweaking BashBlog to make it easier to read using RSS

February 09, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Using TrueNAS' Cloud sync with rsync.net

February 05, 2024 — Nico Cartron

One less Raspberry Pi, one more FreeBSD Jail for my home automation!

February 02, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Discovering a new compression/uncompression tool: xz

January 26, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Thoughts on "in defense of RAM on Apple Silicon"

January 19, 2024 — Nico Cartron

In love with FreeBSD Jails

January 17, 2024 — Nico Cartron

IDLE support with OfflineIMAP

January 04, 2024 — Nico Cartron

Finally migrated my email to OpenBSD.Amsterdam!

December 27, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Windows the Arch linux way

December 19, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Why I love Firefox: its customisability

December 14, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Assembling my own NAS

December 14, 2023 — Nico Cartron

vdirsyncer and Baikal

December 06, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Adopting a very simple Wiki

December 04, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Fed up with Linux/Debian, moving all the things to FreeBSD!

November 30, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Thunderbird Calendar - Birthday extension - yum!

November 19, 2023 — Nico Cartron

WireGuard on iOS vs. Sailfish OS

November 09, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Remembering which email software I used

November 08, 2023 — Nico Cartron

After web hosting and DNS, let's have a look at the email software I used!

Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD

November 05, 2023 — Nico Cartron

No, fixing a Debian OS update shouldn't require a reinstall!

October 25, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Back on Mutt!

October 24, 2023 — Nico Cartron

List of useful websites to check your security posture

October 23, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Time to move away from Synology

October 10, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Companies with an IT acronym

October 06, 2023 — Nico Cartron

wpa_supplicant and open wifi networks on FreeBSD

October 03, 2023 — Nico Cartron

I struggled a bit to connect to an open wifi on my FreeBSD laptop

Which BSD did you start on

September 29, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Copy to clipboard on FreeBSD

September 25, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Notes: ditching Joplin and back to a simpler solution

September 19, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Implementing Nextcloud News

September 01, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Upgrading Nextcloud after a while

August 18, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Remembering which DNS software I used

August 09, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Follow-up of my article on the web hosting I used, let's focus on DNS this time!

Remembering where my website was hosted

June 24, 2023 — Nico Cartron

A quick and fun one to see what changed in 20+ years of hosting my domain

Hiding the tab bar in Firefox when using TreeStyleTab

June 20, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Mostly for me to find it again in the future, but maybe useful for others!

Keyshorts.com MacBook keyboard decals

June 17, 2023 — Nico Cartron

Or how to make your UK's Macbook QWERTY keyboard look French!

Securing your website thanks to securityheaders.com

May 09, 2023 — Nico Cartron

It literally takes 5 minutes to do, let's see how to do it

Restoring deleted files with Nextcloud

April 25, 2023 — Nico Cartron

I thought I had lost a file and would need to restore a backup, but Nextcloud made my day!

Sharing calendars with Baikal

April 21, 2023 — Nico Cartron

A short how-to more for me, but could be useful to others

Replacing my APC UPS battery

August 19, 2022 — Nico Cartron

Or how to save 100€ and be a bit nicer to our planet :)

Hameçonnage: l'exemple contre-productif de La Poste

December 02, 2021 — Nico Cartron

Dans cet article, j'expose rapidement mon sentiment sur l'hameçonnage, et les bonnes, et surtout mauvaises pratiques de la profession informatique.

IT troubleshooting: always come back to the basics!

July 15, 2020 — Nico Cartron

or how I lost 1/2 day trying to fix something that was obvious.

InfluxDB and Raspberry Pi - frenemies?

June 21, 2020 — Nico Cartron

A quick look at why I moved my InfluxDB data away from one of my Raspberry Pi.

Domoticz and OPNsense (or the other way around)

May 02, 2020 — Nico Cartron

This short article is a follow-up to my previous one on using the OPNsense API.

I'll quickly show how I am using Domoticz to easily change the gateway used by a device (in my case my laptop) from my main ADSL connection to a 4G one, by calling the OPNsense API.

Grafana and Pi-Hole

May 02, 2020 — Nico Cartron

Even though I'm a DNS geek/enthusiast given my past, I love Pi-Hole and use it at home on a Raspberry.
This allows me to block ads in a simple and effective manner.
(Of course it then forwards requests to a PowerDNS Recursor for several reasons).

I wanted to have a nice Grafana dashboard with info coming from Pi-Hole, so here's a quick post as I wasted quite some time because of a simple issue.

OPNsense API

April 29, 2020 — Nico Cartron

I'm a huge fan of FreeBSD and therefore when I contemplated replacing the crappy router/firewall that comes with my ISP with a proper router, I looked at open-source software running it.

I initially started with pfsense, which was a fork of m0n0wall, but then switched to OPNsense whose approach I liked more, and which itself is a fork of pfsense. Reasons for the fork are explained here.

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