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Gaming Virtual Machine
You may know that I have a custom Secure Boot set-up on my PC. And, as it turns out, Windows doesn't support this whatsoever. If you try and sign their bootloader with your own key, it will refuse to boot. And yet I want to play some VR games, which... Continue Reading
Comments: 0 Category: GamesIn search of religion
I'm not a religious person, at least I wasn't for most of my life. As a rational person who likes logical and scientific approach to finding answers, religion seemed weird to me. "Why did my parents take me to church? Why is this so awkward? I don't... Continue Reading
Comments: 4 Category: Life and philosophyGamifying harm
Recently I found a story of Rainer Winkler or Drachenlord. Sadly, I don't know German, so finding information about what happened, and why, was a bit tricky. I was fascinated by it, I wanted to understand how could a person attract so much bad... Continue Reading
Comments: 1 Category: Life and philosophyBuilding a low-budget NAS
I'm a data hoarder. And I regularly need access to old data. My previous solution - a blu-ray backup storage, was insufficient. It was hard to manage and search through. I even written a tool that stored metadata for all files on the disks, so I could... Continue Reading
Comments: 0 Category: LinuxMy core values
Throughout my life I've been putting on masks just to fit into society and to protect myself. For each group of people a different mask, hiding my true self and keeping him safe. But that is a burden. Over the time the number of different masks... Continue Reading
Comments: 0 Category: Life and philosophySSH Login Notifications
Recently I became aware of how hard it can be to notice that someone has accessed your machine. No one is going to monitor the system journal to find all successful login attempts and then crossreference them to their own memories of logging in. And... Continue Reading
Comments: 0 Category: LinuxBuilding a WiFi mesh network with Yggdrasil
I think it would be cool to build a WiFi mesh network! And there are some standard tools to do so. There is 802.11s mode, which basically lets you create a mesh network (peers connect to each other and forward packets through each other). It's super... Continue Reading
Comments: 2 Category: NetworkingWhats is Yggdrasil network and why I think it's awesome?
For a while, I've been noticing Yggdrasil being mentioned alongside Tor and I2P. That finally caught my attention. From their website: "Yggdrasil was created in order to build a decentralised routing scheme for mesh networks that can potentially... Continue Reading
Comments: 3 Category: NetworkingDecentralized social networks
Ilya, [27/07/2023 17:52] Studying the structure of social networks was interesting. I read about how bluesky, mastodon, and nostr are organized. And honestly, I don't know which approach is better. They all have their issues. Mastodon has problems... Continue Reading
Comments: 1 Category: Social NetworksUsing Kepler Nvidia GPU with Wayland (Sway)
Nvidia dropped support for Kepler GPUs with 470xx series driver. And that driver still doesn't have GBM support, so you can't use modern Wayland compositors without EGL streams support. I still have a couple of Kepler GPUs that are quite a bit more... Continue Reading
Comments: 2 Category: Linux