Today I received a discarded QNAP device. Unfortunately, I’m not a big fan of QNAP’s software, so I took the time to take a closer look at it. Since the device itself doesn’t have any video ports, I’ll have to find another way to update the firmware if necessary.

Assessment

At first glance, the...

Introduction

Some of you have already noticed that I've changed employers. Thanks to this change, I have a new, big playground where I'm just starting to let loose. Today I discovered the huge storage system out in the field 😉

Today I discovered the big storage system out in the field 💾 Unfortun...

If you rely on TPM 2.0 measurement registers for secure boot, full disk encryption (such as systemd-cryptenroll or clevis), or system integrity monitoring, you know that unexpected changes in Platform Configuration Registers (PCRs) can break unsealing or signal unauthorized firmware/bootloader alter...

In the last few days I have been working with PDF files again. I noticed that the PDF reader I use,...

End of January this year, I wrote a small plugin for Grav1 that makes it possible to display the currently playing song from Spotify on the website see the blogpost. At that time I used a Node-RED flow from awtrix to retrieve the necessary song information. In the meantime I have found the...

I actually use the deepl plugin for ulauncher to quickly translate texts. Unfortunately, the plugin is not really stable and I have not yet been able to find the cause. After a bit of research, I came across various tools and decided to use crow-translate.

crow-translate can be controlled v...