Control your Sonos speaker with a Griffin Powermate
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Purge DNS cache on Cloudflare nameservers (1.1.1.1)
https://one.one.one.one/purge-cache/ And the same for Google (8.8.8.8): https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/cache
endoflife.date
https://endoflife.date/ – check EOL for software
Get the SAN entries for a cert with openssl
Set up a home Wireguard server quickly
Try wg-cmd – it’s great.
Find the name of a network interface matching a pattern
IF=$(basename $(find /sys/class/net -name ‘wlp0s*’))
pfsense with Community Fibre Internet
Use my referral link for £100 Amazon voucher when you join Community Fibre! I recently got set up with Community Fibre Internet. The latency and bandwith are fantastic, however the Linksys Velop routers are bare bones, so I decided to just use it as a wireless bridge and replace the routing / firewall aspect with …
dnssec-keygen & nsupdate failing?
Generate your key with tsig-keygen & follow the instructions.
Get emacs to automatically active a virtualenv for a directory & below
create a .dir-locals.el file: ensure that env var WORKON_HOME is set, either in shell or earlier in emacs config as below:
Keyboard laggy on Linux?
If your keyboard seems to take a keystroke to “wake up” on Linux it could be USB power-saving. If the output of cat /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend is not -1, you can disable this by adding the kernel parameter usbcore.autosuspend=-1 and rebooting.