linux & the mountains

For the next library soname bump of gpsd I needed to rebuild all reverse dependencies. As this is a task I have to do very often, I came up with some code to generate (and keep uptodate) an include for the gitlab CI. Right now it is rather uncommented, undocumented, but works well. If you like it, MRs are very welcome. https://salsa.debian.org/bzed/reverse-dependency-ci/ The generated files are here: https://bzed.pages.debian.net/reverse-dependency-ci/ Usage: include: - https://salsa. »

Don’t forget to vote! echo " - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 7b77e0f2-4ff9-4adb-85e4-af249191f27a [ 1 ] Choice 1: F: Focus on systemd [ 2 ] Choice 2: B: Systemd but we support exploring alternatives [ 5 ] Choice 3: A: Support for multiple init systems is Important [ 6 ] Choice 4: D: Support non-systemd systems, without blocking progress [ 4 ] Choice 5: H: Support portability, without blocking progress [ 7 ] Choice 6: E: Support for multiple init systems is Required [ 8 ] Choice 7: G: Support portability and multiple implementations [ 3 ] Choice 8: Further Discussion - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- " »

Running a 3d printer alone at home is not necessarily the best idea - so I was looking for a way to force it off from remote. As OctoPrint user I stumbled upon a plugin to control TP-Link Smartplugs, so I decided to give them a try. What I found especially nice on the HS110 model was that it is possible to monitor power usage, current and voltage. Of course I wanted to have a long term graph of it. The result is a small collectd plugin, written in Python. It is available on github: https://github.com/bzed/collectd-tplink_hs110.

Recently I joined the group of 3d printer owners and OctoPrint users. After some days I got annoyed by the fact that so far nobody seems to have thought about automatically connecting a printer to OctoPrint after turning the printer on. If you start OctoPrint after your printer, everything works fine. But here OctoPrint runs 24/7 but I turn off the printer when it is done with printing. My solution of the problem is based on udev and systemd and should work on most recent Linux installations. »

With the announcement of the Let’s Encrypt dns-01 challenge support we finally had a way to retrieve certificates for those hosts where http challenges won’t work. Also it allows to centralize the signing procedure to avoid the installation and maintenance of letsencrypt clients on all hosts. For an implementation I had the following requirements in my mind: Handling of key/csr generation and certificate signing by puppet. Private keys don’t leave the host they were generated on. »