The domain name issue
Registering a .blog domain was cheap ($9.99) but renewing it is a lot more ($38.35 back in 2022) and honestly, considering I have one or two people reading h...
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A “classic” problem
My initial problem was fairly simple: I like to listen to the “Radio Classique” radio (it’s a French radio), and with my Google Nest Hub set to accept comman...
Too much Sketchup
I like mapping out my home. I like it a lot, and for the past 5 places I’ve lived, I’ve spend a lot of time arranging furniture with a 3D software. Maybe a l...
The GPS coordinate privacy issue
How to remove some EXIF information, namely the GPS coordinates, from pictures with Go programming?
The DNS privacy issue
Travelling nowadays I’m generally a lot less worried about (online) privacy and security than I was 10 or years ago, because everything is HTTPS. No snooping...
Setting Google Authenticator 2FA for SSH on Debian 11
Following my fresh server install, one of my first things to do was setting up SSH access, with Google Authenticator.
Setting up an OVH “kimsufi” server with encrypted filesystem running Debian 11.
In this post I’ll give an overview of my findings on how to install a Debian 11 on a “Kimsufi” OVH dedicated server. One crucial thing I’ve found out is that...
Shower podcasts Part 2 - testing the module
Now that I have acquired the module, let’s try to make it work with the instructions specified on the Adafruit site.
Shower podcasts Part 1 - proof of concept
The problem I was trying to solve is fairly simple: I’ve had an FM radio in my shower for years, it’s sort-of water proof (more accurately it’s splash resist...
IR-controlled A/C (8/many) - Landing
Here we are, I’m sending a signal that seems perfectly good, it’s modulated, I’m checking with piscope that it’s on time … if it doesn’t work, I’m done with ...
IR-controlled A/C (7/many) - Modulating
To summarize a bit, I’m down to the point where I’m going to use the pigpio library to drive the GPIO directly instead of using lirc.
IR-controlled A/C (5/many) - Where the problems start
This is when it becomes clear that nothing is going to go according to plans.
IR-controlled A/C (4/many) - The UI
One very important realization, pretty early in my geek life, was that I’m not a designer. And by that I mean that most websites I have (tried to) designed h...
IR-controlled A/C (3/many) - System design
Summary of previous episodes: I have reached a point where I can control one unit through lircd, with a USB “IR Toy”.
IR-controlled A/C (2/many) - Don’t mean a thing
… if you ain’t got that swing… (it says so here)
IR-controlled A/C, an Odyssey (1/many)
It all started when we moved to a new apartment in New York. A/C and heat are provided through 3 “slim units” (Daikin brand), each of them controlled by a se...