I’m a long-term mutt/thunderbird user, but aerc is really fast: https://aerc-mail.org/
New discovery on htop
If you press ‘l’ you’ll see all the files the highlighted process has open (presuming you have permissions).
Fitting the Geekworm Orange Pi 4 case
Previously I just had one heatsink. After fitting the case:
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
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:
# disable for 600 seconds
http://YOUR.PIHOLE.IP/admin/api.php?disable=600&auth=YOUR_AUTH_CODE
# enable
http://YOUR.PIHOLE.IP/admin/api.php?enable&auth=YOUR_AUTH_CODE
# get status
http://YOUR.PIHOLE.IP/admin/api.php?status&auth=YOUR_AUTH_CODEGet YOUR_AUTH_CODE from the WEBPASSWORD= line in /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf
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 – this works like a fake local VPN and your local hosts will resolve.
Nice wallpaper
Emacs: package signature check failure
To paraphrase:
- set
package-check-signaturetonil, e.g.M-: (setq package-check-signature nil) RET - download the package
gnu-elpa-keyring-updateand run the function with the same name, e.g.M-x package-install RET gnu-elpa-keyring-update RET. - Restart emacs