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  • TIL systemd userdb got birthDate field (that shouldn’t be) merged

    The merged PR in question: userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records PR description: Stores the user’s birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. Related PR or as in, you know what is coming: — read more

    Mar 19, 2026
  • Creating self-signed CA and certificates

    Create CA secret key openssl genrsa -aes256 -out ca.key 2048 Create CA cert openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -days 365000 -key ca.key -out ca.crt Create secret key and certificate request openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -days 365000 -nodes -keyout server.key -out server.csr To have alternative hostname openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -days 365000 -nodes -keyout server.key -out — read more

    Feb 8, 2026
  • Setting up WireGuard without it being default route (for wg-quick)

    Was configuring a WireGuard interface to be solely for split-tunneling qBittorrent and it took me a day to figure out how to actually set it up 💔 — read more

    Feb 8, 2026
  • maybe I need to poke SCSI commands directly so I have low level read access to the DVD reader — read more

    Jul 21, 2025
  • disable dvd disc polling on linux

    while I was evaluating dvdisaster (along with destroying the disc yes), I wanted to stop the system try to read the label/raise an event when a disc is inserted most of the information on disabling polling are old which all points to udisks –inhibit-polling but udisks (not udisk2) is long gone, the actual way to — read more

    Jul 21, 2025
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