Fitting the Geekworm Orange Pi 4 case
Previously I just had one heatsink. After fitting the case:
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No stats on dashboard since upgrading to pihole v5?
pihole 5 uses sqlite, you may need to install php support For ubuntu: apt install php7.2-sqlite3
Google temporarily backs out SameSite cookie changes
https://www.chromium.org/updates/same-site
Control your spotify speaker through keyboard shortcuts
With spotcon.sh. You’ll have to configure Spotify in Home Assistant first – and I had to set my redirect URI to http://my.home.ip:port/api/spotify Once this is done you can configure keyboard shortcuts in your window manager to execute spotcon.sh.
Enable or Disable pi-hole from Alexa
The easiest way to enable or disable ad-blocking from your pi-hole using Alexa is to install fauxmo – with which you can create fake Belkin devices that are Alexa-enabled. You then configure fauxmo with URLs like this: Get YOUR_AUTH_CODE from the WEBPASSWORD= line in /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf See example conf at GitHub
Resolving local hosts on Android
Google seem determined to break local name resolution on your home network on your Android phone, redirecting DNS lookups to their servers. Presumably this is partly to prevent solutions like pi-hole making a dent in their ad revenue and tracking. Easiest way round this is to install DNSChanger and specify your local DNS servers – …
Nice wallpaper
https://unsplash.com/photos/74JeU2jfnfk
Emacs: package signature check failure
How to fix it To paraphrase: set package-check-signature to nil, e.g. M-: (setq package-check-signature nil) RET download the package gnu-elpa-keyring-update and run the function with the same name, e.g. M-x package-install RET gnu-elpa-keyring-update RET. Restart emacs
Limit the impact of a security intrusion with systemd security directives
This article gives some great benefits of systemd.
Check a private key & certificate match using openssl on the commandline
With my script check-crt-key.sh