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Auto authenticate to public wifis or test hotspots

This small Python script will automatically login to public hotspots or development networks. It monitors the iwd wireless lan network daemon and performs an authentication process as soon it is connected and a matching connection profile is present. Do not use this in production or against real public access points, since automatically logging in will […]

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Custom excerpts on the WordPress search page highlighting query keywords

In this post I’ll share a custom function for WordPress, which will tweak the text excerpts in the search result page to always show the part of the text which includes the search query. Usually Wordpess will only display the first words of the site or post in the search results page. This short excerpt […]

Hardware

Hardware fix for Dell “AC power adapter could not be determined”

My old but good Dell Latitude E6410 notebook stopped charging and working with the original Dell AC power adapter some months ago. It was working only sporadic but in most of the cases the blue led of the AC power adapter went off after plugging it in. I tried an other Dell power adapter but […]

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Cups AirPrint server with legacy printer driver support using Qemu

In this guide I’m going to explain how to setup a CUPS network printing server on an ARM-Linux which will still be able to use older or discontinued printer drivers, meant for other architectures, using Docker with Qemu platform emulation. Therefore we could use for example 32bit Linux printer drivers emulated inside the container on […]

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Host your own QuakeJS server on ArchLinux

Recently I discovered a very old project on Github which is somehow still actively maintained. It is a Javascript/WebGL port of the good old game Quake 3 Arena, called QuakeJS. This port in turn is based on the open-source, community game engine ioQuake. Even though there is a nice and working demo instance hosted on […]

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Sodastream für 2 € selber befüllen

Das Sparpotential Ein voller Co2-Zylinder für den Sodastream oder Mitbewerber kostet 5 – 8 €. Da macht sich ein Investment in eine eigene Befüllstation, in meinem Fall 105 € (2017), schnell bezahlt. Die Befüllstation Man benötigt: Eine co2-Mutterflasche aus dem Getränkegroßhandel (z.b. 10 kg) Einen Adapter auf das Sodastream-Gewinde (z.B. von hier) Eine Waage Ein […]

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Phone addiction: Toggle grayscale mode on your iPhone – but fast!

Many struggle with phone addiction these days. I’m not falling short on that either. One hack to solve this, is to put your screen in grayscale mode. The black and white graphics are less tasty for your brain, and prolonged usage of, say, instagram is not as compelling any more. The phone configuration you find […]

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Linux with Wayland is now running on iPhone 7

Since the last post about running postmarketOS Linux on iPhone 7, I was finally able to mount and run larger and persistent system images from the iPhone system memory. Therefore I used the same technique Corellium was using in their Android build for the iPhone 7. Further, ephemeral write support for postmarketOS is achieved by […]