System & Network Admin

In this post we will be moving all our configurations into a very simple flake, setting up Vaultwarden with Fail2Ban and finally modularizing our configuration ready for future self hosted apps.

A baseline of commands and concepts that you need to navigate your command-line shell in a professional environment.

Background Last week I was setting up this RISCv-based HiFive Unmatched board[1] with NixOS. Thanks to zhaofengli this was actually pretty straight forward given that his repository contained a full walk-through, images and a binary cache. So instead of spending the NixOS Munich Meetup hacking on this architecture, I had time to go further. One of the thing that becomes quickly apparent while hacking on the board is that although the board is quite beefy with 16GB of RAM and NVME, it cannot keep up with up-to-date x86 machines.

Learn what Linux services and daemons are, how they work, and how to manage them using systemctl in this simple guide for beginners.

Official documentation for getting things done with Nix.

An unofficial and opinionated book for beginners

A gentle introduction to NixOS and Flakes.

Worried about your Proxmox server overheating? No need to dig through command lines .

The world of custom mechanical keyboards is vibrant, with new designs emerging weekly. However, keyboards are just one way we interact with computers. Ploopy, an open-source hardware company, focus…

What to do when you start a new Mastodon instance and nothing or very little is showing up in your feed

Migrating a Linux install to a new drive can be easy (Clonezilla) or hard. I chose hard. It was a learning experience.

Photo by nazanin mohammadi on Unsplash   Play a little cat and mouse with Malware. Malware will often check for things like a CPU fan before it will run, in this post they go over how to face …

Lazarus is a professional open-source cross platform IDE powered by Free Pascal

I've seen several articles in the past with titles like "Top 10 things you didn't know about bash programming." These articles are disappoin...

When it comes to tidying up your hard drive on Linux, either to free up space or to become more organized, it’s helpful to identify which directories are consuming the most storage space.

When it comes to tidying up your hard drive on Linux, either to free up space or to become more organized, it’s helpful to identify which folders are consuming the most storage space. In this guide…

This article provides a guide for how to host your own Mastodon server on a VPS.

Have you ever finished up a bit of code and thought that typing “git push” in a terminal is just not a satisfying finish? So did [penumbriel], so he built a big red button he could smas…

[Doug Brown] had a problem. He uses a dummy HDMI plug to fool a computer into thinking it has a monitor for when you want to run the computer headless. The dummy plug is a cheap device that fools t…

[Editor’s Note: Updated on 10/21 at 11AM to ensure it is now reflective of the capabilities across both of our next-gen Xbox consoles following the unveil of Xbox Series S.] As we enter a new generation of console gaming with Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, we’ve made a number of technology advancements across […]

DirectStorage is a software API that's pushing Xbox and Windows 11 gaming performance to a new level by accelerating SSDs.

When a wrist mounted keyboard floated past in the Hackaday feed, a mental image surfaced, perhaps something like a Blackberry keyboard mounted on a wrist cuff, maybe with some kind of display. It&#…

WeatherStar 4000+ aims to bring back the feel of the 90’s with a weather forecast that has the look and feel of The Weather Channel at that time but available in a modern way. This is by no m…

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

By Alex Band More than two decades ago, NLnet Labs started the ldns library, with the goal of letting developers easily create RFC compliant DNS software in the C programming language. The library included a number of example programs, many of which have found their way into operator workflows. With