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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>OpenTechFan blog</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/</link><description/><atom:link href="https://opentechfan.eu/feeds/all.rss.xml" rel="self"/><lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:21:00 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title>Makkelijk apps uitrollen met runtipi</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/makkelijk-apps-uitrollen-met-runtipi.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Zoals &lt;a href="https://opentechfan.eu/zelf-hosten-maar-dan-simpeler.html"&gt;eerder opgemerkt&lt;/a&gt; ben ik op zoek naar een manier om een simpeler manier om applicaties zelf te hosten. Nu had ik gekeken naar &lt;a href="https://www.cloudron.io/"&gt;Cloudron&lt;/a&gt; en dat zag er in de basis prima uit. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Alleen een van de apps waarmee ik testte, werkte nog niet helemaal lekker. Best mogelijk dat …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:21:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2026-02-15:/makkelijk-apps-uitrollen-met-runtipi.html</guid><category>2026</category></item><item><title>Zelf hosten maar dan simpeler</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/zelf-hosten-maar-dan-simpeler.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Waar ik aan toe ben is iets simpels. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Een virtuele server vanaf niets uitrollen, veilig configureren en daarna voorzien van applicatie software is heel goed te doen, maar het is niet simpel. Uiteindelijk zijn er veel stukjes technologie die bijgewerkt moeten worden en op zijn tijd wijzigingen vereisen. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Aan de …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:50:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2026-02-14:/zelf-hosten-maar-dan-simpeler.html</guid><category>2026</category></item><item><title>Losweken van Apple</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/losweken-van-apple.html</link><description>&lt;h1&gt;Inleiding&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Loskomen van grote Amerikaanse tech bedrijven is de laatste maanden een stuk meer in de media dan hiervoor. Maar het is niets nieuws. Al jaren ben ik scherp op het gebruik van alternatieven voor Amerikaanse IT diensten. Google, Amazon en Microsoft: ze gaan me niet misssen, want ik was …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:14:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2026-02-09:/losweken-van-apple.html</guid><category>bigtech</category></item><item><title>Taking a more focussed approach</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/taking-a-more-focussed-approach.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So this website and other publications have been all over the place. My interests are broad and my naturel tendency to focus pretty limited. Great fun, but it does appear to come from &lt;code&gt;/dev/random&lt;/code&gt; at times. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This has brought me joy over the years and there is no a …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 06:15:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2026-02-01:/taking-a-more-focussed-approach.html</guid><category>nerdom</category></item><item><title>Tuxedo Infinity Pro 14 met Zorin 18 Pro linux</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/tuxedo-infinity-pro-14-met-zorin-18-pro-linux.html</link><description>&lt;h2&gt;Aanleiding&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Eigenlijk was ik eind vorig jaar nog niet toe aan een nieuwe laptop. De Macbook is pas een paar jaar oud en op zich heb ik voldoende oude devices om eens wat mee te proberen. Maar .... De jaarlijkse MacOS release voelde helaas weer niet als een upgrade maar een …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 06:41:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2026-01-17:/tuxedo-infinity-pro-14-met-zorin-18-pro-linux.html</guid><category>desktop</category></item><item><title>SAML assertion/attribute mappings when using Entra ID as IDP for Keycloak</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/saml-assertionattribute-mappings-when-using-entra-id-as-idp-for-keycloak.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Last week we were working on using Entra ID (Azure active directory) as an Identity Provider (IdP) for a Keycloak instance. 
For reasons we chose to use a SAML based setup. While looking at mapping common Entra ID attributes to Keycloak 
attributes, it took  some effort to find the exact …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:11:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-11-17:/saml-assertionattribute-mappings-when-using-entra-id-as-idp-for-keycloak.html</guid><category>iam</category></item><item><title>Enabling proper mail for runbsd.eu (OpenBSD + Postfix + Dovecot + OpenDKIM)</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/enabling-proper-mail-for-runbsdeu-openbsd-postfix-dovecot-opendkim.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;On the list of things that should work on OpenBSD in my runbsd.eu project, e-mail is somewhere on the top. This is where
the project helps to do stuff on OpenBSD. Because for normal use, I outsourced most of the e-mail server tasks to 
Soverin. And that works fine …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:07:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-11-16:/enabling-proper-mail-for-runbsdeu-openbsd-postfix-dovecot-opendkim.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>libwebkit2gtk-4.0 on Debian 13</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/libwebkit2gtk-40-on-debian-13.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Just as a quick note to future self: To run Ivanti VPN on Debian, you need libwebkit2gtk-4.0, while Debian 13 moved to 
version 4.1. The Ivanti client will install, but fail to start the GUI: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="highlight"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;systeemkabouter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="err"&gt;@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;vm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;~$&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="w"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;opt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;pulsesecure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;bin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;pulseUI&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="o"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;opt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;pulsesecure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;bin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="o"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;pulseUI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="w"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;error&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="w"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;while&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="w"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="n"&gt;loading …&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:11:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-11-11:/libwebkit2gtk-40-on-debian-13.html</guid><category>2025</category></item><item><title>Syncthing on OpenBSD (incomplete notes)</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/syncthing-on-openbsd-incomplete-notes.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Incomplete notes for running syncthing on OpenBSD&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="highlight"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;code&gt;pkg_add syncthing
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;systctl settings&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="highlight"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;code&gt;bash-5.3# echo &amp;quot;kern.maxfiles=80000&amp;quot; &amp;gt;&amp;gt; /etc/sysctl.conf
bash-5.3# sysctl kern.maxfiles=80000
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;login.conf for syncthing daemon &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="highlight"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;code&gt;syncthing:\
        :openfiles-cur=64000:\
        :openfiles-max=64000:\
        :tc=daemon:
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;p&gt;set daemonflags in /etc/rc.d/syncthing: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="highlight"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="nx"&gt;daemon_flags&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;=&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;&amp;quot;-no-browser -gui-address=0.0 …&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-11-09:/syncthing-on-openbsd-incomplete-notes.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>Deploying my first virtual machines on top of OpenBSD vmm</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/deploying-my-first-virtual-machines-on-top-of-openbsd-vmm.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;After installing the MacBook Pro with OpenBSD and enabling the virtualization software on it by enabling 'vmd', it took 
a couple of days to find some time to work on the #RUNBSD project. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today I did get the macbook to do ethernet bridging, so the virtual machines that I will …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-11-06:/deploying-my-first-virtual-machines-on-top-of-openbsd-vmm.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>Dymo Labelwriter PnP silenty failing when using labelle</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/dymo-labelwriter-pnp-silenty-failing-when-using-labelle.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Just a couple of weeks ago I tried using my Dymo Labelwriter PnP with labelle, but it seemed to have stopped working. 
As I was using the device with another Linux distribution in the past, I kinda assumed a software problem. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Labelle, previously known as dymoprint, is a very nice …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:10:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-10-26:/dymo-labelwriter-pnp-silenty-failing-when-using-labelle.html</guid><category>2025</category></item><item><title>#RunBSD on a twelve year old Macbook Pro</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/runbsd-on-a-twelve-year-old-macbook-pro.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;To run things in parallel for my RunBSD project, I needed some extra devices. Going onto Marktplaats/Ebay is easy 
enough, but I want to avoid adding more devices to my stock. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../../images/2025/runbsd/20251025_cheetah_openbsd_neofetch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="MBP Cheetah running OpenBSD 7.8" src="../../images/2025/runbsd/20251025_cheetah_openbsd_neofetch_sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To have somewhat of a 'server system' at home in the RunBSD VLAN, I considered using a leftover …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 05:03:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-10-25:/runbsd-on-a-twelve-year-old-macbook-pro.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>Planning to RunBSD</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/planning-to-runbsd.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;After my interest in OpenBSD was renewed a couple of years ago, the idea was to replace existing things with OpenBSD 
things here and there. So in my homelab both the ingress and egress web proxies #RUNBSD. And there is ofcourse virtual 
server Petpuffy, serving a couple of websites using …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:16:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-10-21:/planning-to-runbsd.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>Running home assistant for our scout centre</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/running-home-assistant-for-our-scout-centre.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The scout centre I volunteer for wants to get beter insight in their power usage. As I had a Raspberry Pi 4 in storage 
for a new project, this seemed the perfect way to repurpose it. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Home assistant screenshot" src="../images/2025/homeassistant/home_assistant_2025-10-15%2007-35-53.png"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At home I run the home assistent OS on a Pi and the Pi …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 05:42:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-10-15:/running-home-assistant-for-our-scout-centre.html</guid><category>2025</category></item><item><title>Laptop draait nu Debian13 als Desktop OS</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/laptop-draait-nu-debian13-als-desktop-os.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;De laatste keer dat ik Debian als desktop installeerde, was Debian 12 nog de stable release. Dus bij het opnieuw inrichten van 
mijn Dell XPS 9550 als Debian gebaseerde desktop waren er wat kleine zaken die ik bij moest werken in het ansible playbook
wat ik daar normaliter bij gebruik …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-10-05:/laptop-draait-nu-debian13-als-desktop-os.html</guid><category>2025</category></item><item><title>Wedergeboorte als systeemkabouter.nl</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/wedergeboorte-als-systeemkabouternl.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;(english below)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Hollands&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Deze website maakt een wedergeboorte door als systeemkabouter.nl. De .eu domeinnaam werd opgezegd en is nu in het bezit van een DomeinKaper&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;English&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This website is currently being reborn as systeemkabouter.nl. The .eu domain was let go and now is DomainSquatted &lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-10-03:/wedergeboorte-als-systeemkabouternl.html</guid><category>2025</category></item><item><title>De slimme verlichting laat het afweten</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/de-slimme-verlichting-laat-het-afweten.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Sinds een aantal maanden heeft onze slimme verlichting regelmatig kuren gehad. De simpele checks zoals updates, aanpassen van kanalen etc. hebben geen soelaas geboden.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Philips Hue bridge" src="../images/2025/Hue-Bridge-929001180601-Bridge.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wel hebben we een keer of 3-4 met lampen gezeten die niet meer aan en/of uit wilden. Dat is heel erg slecht voor de W …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-08-07:/de-slimme-verlichting-laat-het-afweten.html</guid><category>2025</category></item><item><title>OKD wordt toch gewoon OpenShift in mijn thuislab</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/okd-wordt-toch-gewoon-openshift-in-mijn-thuislab.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Na een poging om OKD geïnstalleerd te krijgen, was ik nog even goed door gaan zoeken op diverse websites naar opties om een representatieve Openshift omgeving te krijgen. Daar stuitte ik onder andere op een verhaal dat OKD inderdaad het upstream project is, maar dat het een hoop van de …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-07-25:/okd-wordt-toch-gewoon-openshift-in-mijn-thuislab.html</guid><category>2025</category></item><item><title>Stapje naar 10Gbe</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/stapje-naar-10gbe.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;De firewall die ik vorig jaar kocht, is geschikt voor 10 Gbit verbindingen. Maar het apparaat heeft ook een aantal 2.5 Gbit poorten en tot nu toe was dat prima.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="10 GBE koper interface" src="../images/2025/Scherm_afbeelding-2025-07-25-om-09.47.25.png"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dat is het eigenlijk nog steeds, maar ik zou als ik echt mijn best zou doen tot 4 Gbit …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-07-25:/stapje-naar-10gbe.html</guid><category>compute</category></item><item><title>Podman en ZFS is nog geen gelukkig huwelijk</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/podman-en-zfs-is-nog-geen-gelukkig-huwelijk.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Sinds ik een tijd geleden wat met ZFS had zitten doen en vervolgens had ontdekt dat Zorin ZFS ondersteund in de installer, pleeg ik mijn laptops bij herinstallatie te voorzien van ZFS.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Schermafbeelding Zorin installatie diskindeling" src="../images/2025/podman-zfs-scaled.jpeg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tot vandaag dan. Want kennelijk is Podman er nog niet aan toe om bovenop ZFS te werken met …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-07-20:/podman-en-zfs-is-nog-geen-gelukkig-huwelijk.html</guid><category>compute</category></item><item><title>Thuislab nieuws</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/thuislab-nieuws.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Niet heel lang geleden had ik nog een poging gedaan om iets met Openshift Single Node te doen. Dit was niet echt een geweldig succes, door de gehanteerde licentie. Verder is het al wat langer wat rustig wat mij betreft.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dat komt natuurlijk ook nog een hoop andere dingen leuk …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-07-19:/thuislab-nieuws.html</guid><category>compute</category></item><item><title>Welkom nieuwe Glasvezel Overheersers!</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/welkom-nieuwe-glasvezel-overheersers.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Zoals &lt;a href="https://systeemkabouter.nl/voorlopig-weer-dubbel-internet-thuis.html"&gt;vorig jaar al aangekondigd&lt;/a&gt; zou KPN toch ook een glasvezelnetwerk aan gaan leggen in ons dorp. Dus gelijk besteld en ….. nog heel lang gewacht … en nog eens besteld … en nog langer gewacht.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maarrrrr vorige week lag er ineens een pakket voor de deur, met daarin een KPN modem en …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-07-18:/welkom-nieuwe-glasvezel-overheersers.html</guid><category>compute</category></item><item><title>Poging tot het installeren van RedHat Openshift Single Node</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/poging-tot-het-installeren-van-redhat-openshift-single-node.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;UPDATE 26 Mei: Technisch is dit dus prima gelukt. De VM zoemt en is bruikbaar. Maar voor zover ik vast kan stellen, valt Openshift niet onder de developer license die RedHat heeft. Dus het product stopt na 60 dagen met werken of er moet een echte licentie voor worden aangeschaft …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-05-24:/poging-tot-het-installeren-van-redhat-openshift-single-node.html</guid><category>compute</category></item><item><title>Tijd om afstand te nemen van mastodon.nl</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/tijd-om-afstand-te-nemen-van-mastodonnl.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Eind 2023 heeft Maarten afscheid genomen als hoeder van mastodon.nl. Sindsdien is er geprobeerd om mastodon.nl een grotere zelfstandigheid te geven. Er is in de loop van 2024 vaker gevraagd om donaties en er is natuurlijk een officiele stichting opgericht om alles in onder te brengen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dat was …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-05-24:/tijd-om-afstand-te-nemen-van-mastodonnl.html</guid><category>compute</category></item><item><title>Open brief aan Scouting Nederland</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/open-brief-aan-scouting-nederland.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Deze Open Brief aan Scouting Nederland, die oproept om te stoppen om het ledenadministratiesysteem (SOL) naar de Amerikaanse Cloud (Salesforce) te migreren, wil ik graag onder jullie aandacht brengen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Met de huidige ontwikkelingen aan de overkant van de plas, is het tijd voor actie!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Teken je mee?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://bryg.nl/OpenBriefScoutingNederland"&gt;https://bryg.nl …&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2025-03-30:/open-brief-aan-scouting-nederland.html</guid><category>2025</category></item><item><title>Verhuisbericht: Deze website wordt gearchiveerd (This website will be archived)</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/verhuisbericht-deze-website-wordt-gearchiveerd-this-website-will-be-archived.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;(english below)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Hollands&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Na wat zoeken en proberen heb ik geen fijne / handige / betaalbare manier gevonden om mijn pelican gebaseerde website 
om te zetten naar Hugo of Wordpress. Niet voor het door mij beschikbaar gestelde budget in tijd of geld in ieder geval, 
alles kan natuurlijk. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Daarom heb ik besloten …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 04:19:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-12-29:/verhuisbericht-deze-website-wordt-gearchiveerd-this-website-will-be-archived.html</guid><category>2024</category></item><item><title>I don't need rodents for network outages</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/i-dont-need-rodents-for-network-outages.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;This morning Zabbix notified me that the zabbix agent on the system responsible for ZFS based backups had become unavailable. Upon checking system later today, the complete system was unreachable on the local network. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Soon enough the problem was identified: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../images/2024/networkcable_with_blocking_feature.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Network cable with special blocking feature" src="../images/2024/networkcable_with_blocking_feature_sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of our cats has had a keen interest in …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-12-28:/i-dont-need-rodents-for-network-outages.html</guid><category>2024</category></item><item><title>Home computing goals for 2025</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/home-computing-goals-for-2025.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Looking at my list I wrote last January, things did not turn out quite as planned. Apple TV is still king, the nas was not replaced and home assistant use has increased somewhat, but nothing spectacular. Never mind, we did buy another house and moved in. That ofcourse, took quite …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 19:34:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-12-27:/home-computing-goals-for-2025.html</guid><category>desktop</category></item><item><title>'New' Casual Gaming Setup</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/new-casual-gaming-setup.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Once in a blue moon I feel the urge for computer gaming. It is just running old titles to relax and kill some time. I game so rarely that the complete setup to game on mostly disappears between sessions. Parts get reused for other projects, disks get wiped, etc.
Gaming …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 07:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-12-15:/new-casual-gaming-setup.html</guid><category>homelab</category></item><item><title>Mastodon.nl upgrade to 4.3.x - progress update</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/mastodonnl-upgrade-to-43x-progress-update.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So the plan was to set up a mostly proper kubernetes cluster, move mastodon.nl onto it and then migrate to mastodon 4.3.2&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But tests showed there were performance issues to address and right now I've already spent the amount of time that I can 
on working on …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 07:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-12-15:/mastodonnl-upgrade-to-43x-progress-update.html</guid><category>mastodonnl</category></item><item><title>Reconsidering website setup</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/reconsidering-website-setup.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I've had a tech blog website on and off over the last twenty years or so. I enjoy this very much. So this will stay. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A couple of years ago I moved to a static generated website. This is the part I am reconsidering. I've been using 
wordpress (again) on …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:25:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-12-03:/reconsidering-website-setup.html</guid><category>website</category></item><item><title>Forgejo Forever</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/forgejo-forever.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;About a year ago I started using Forgejo als an alternative to Gitlab for git hosting. It has really worked out wel for 
me. Feature wise I'm very happy, the product never gives me issues and support seems to be very well organised. With 
LTS and more progressive release schedules …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 10:34:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-12-01:/forgejo-forever.html</guid><category>software</category></item><item><title>Kubernetes migration for mastodon.nl progress report</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/kubernetes-migration-for-mastodonnl-progress-report.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Progress was made to get mastodon running in kubernetes next to the virtual machines in my mastodon.nl test environment. There was more fiddling involved than anticipated, but things are moving forward.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The container based mastodon services are now using the same NFS storage, postgres database, redis and elasticsearch as …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2024 20:49:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-11-23:/kubernetes-migration-for-mastodonnl-progress-report.html</guid><category>mastodonnl</category></item><item><title>Getting started with GrapheneOS</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/getting-started-with-grapheneos.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Google Pixel 8a just booting up" src="../images/2024/grapheneos/20241120_grapheneos_0592.JPG"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some time back I bought a Fairphone 3 and I installed /e/OS on it. While it was very usable for most part, there were 
things lacking too. I found it difficult to get updates at some point and I also missed the lack of Android Auto / 
Apple Carplay functionality …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:41:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-11-20:/getting-started-with-grapheneos.html</guid><category>smartphone</category></item><item><title>OpenBSD laptop running XFCE and Syncthing now</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/openbsd-laptop-running-xfce-and-syncthing-now.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So there were some surprises in getting it to work, but with some digging in manuals and community support, my laptop is
now running a desktop environment on top of OpenBSD 7.6.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During setup I ran into issues with errors concerning the number of open files. The annoying thing …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-11-03:/openbsd-laptop-running-xfce-and-syncthing-now.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>'Nieuwe' OpenBSD laptop</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/nieuwe-openbsd-laptop.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Op de wensenlijst stond nog een apart device om OpenBSD op de desktop te kunnen draaien. Dual booten kan technisch, maar ik heb al te vaak bootloaders in de knel gebracht. Dus liever niet. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Via Marktplaats had ik vrij snel een betaaldbare Lenovo T470 gevonden. De vorige eigenaar had er …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:43:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-11-01:/nieuwe-openbsd-laptop.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>Mijn privacy online beter beschermen, poging #666</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/mijn-privacy-online-beter-beschermen-poging-666.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Je privacy online beschermen met alleen techniek is veel werk. En als je het goed doet, gaat het ook nog aardig ten koste van je gebruiksgemak. Je moet namelijk allerlei dingen laten, omdat ze ronduit niet te verenigen zijn met een werkelijke wens om enige vorm van privacy/discretie te …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:21:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-10-31:/mijn-privacy-online-beter-beschermen-poging-666.html</guid><category>homenetwork</category></item><item><title>Nieuwe desktop virtual machines</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/nieuwe-desktop-virtual-machines.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Screenshot Zorin Pro install bovenop Proxmox" src="../images/2024/desktop-vms/2024-10-28_screenshot_zorin.png"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Met de aanschaf van een Tuxedo computer als homelab machine vorig jaar, was ook het doel om lokale virtual machines op mijn laptop te vervangen met op Proxmox gehoste virtual machines. Die machine staat toch al te pruttelen in de meterkast, dus dan kan daar zonder dat ik er verder …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 05:24:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-10-28:/nieuwe-desktop-virtual-machines.html</guid><category>homenetwork</category></item><item><title>Voorlopig weer dubbel Internet thuis</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/voorlopig-weer-dubbel-internet-thuis.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;We gingen dit jaar verhuizen naar Nieuwe-Tonge. Met een maand overlap tussen het oude en het nieuwe huis, had ik tijdelijk behoefte aan Internet op twee adressen. Internet providers zijn daar nog niet erg goed in, tijdelijk Internet op twee adressen leveren. Toen ik daar naar vroeg bij Delta, geen …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-10-19:/voorlopig-weer-dubbel-internet-thuis.html</guid><category>homenetwork</category></item><item><title>I blew the fuse and vendor fixes it for free</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/i-blew-the-fuse-and-vendor-fixes-it-for-free.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;While I was away this summer, my wife complained that Internet connection stopped working. I had her switch to 5G, which was fine for a couple of days. On returning, I noticed that my fairly new &lt;a href="https://www.deciso.com/hardware/dec740-opnsense-desktop-security-appliance/"&gt;Deciso Opnsense appliance&lt;/a&gt; stopped responding. As I was busy with other things at that …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2024 06:18:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-09-21:/i-blew-the-fuse-and-vendor-fixes-it-for-free.html</guid><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>In Dublin, Ireland for EuroBSDCon</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/in-dublin-ireland-for-eurobsdcon.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I arrived in Dublin for &lt;a href="https://2024.eurobsdcon.org"&gt;EuroBSDCon&lt;/a&gt;. Experienced some interesting bits I did nog give a single thought about upfront. Like Ireland is in the EU, but not in Schengen: passport control. And renting a car without even considering that it might be one of those left hand drive countries …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2024 06:06:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-09-21:/in-dublin-ireland-for-eurobsdcon.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>Letting go of S/MIME on my e-mail accounts</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/letting-go-of-smime-on-my-e-mail-accounts.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So I think I've sent mail using S/MIME signatures from both my personal and my business account for about ten years, 
come to think of it. As much as e-mail is only used in a small percentage of actual personal communications, no-one I 
communicated with has ever openly appreciated …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:32:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-06-21:/letting-go-of-smime-on-my-e-mail-accounts.html</guid><category>communication</category></item><item><title>Testing ZFS snapshot database restore for mastodon.nl</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/testing-zfs-snapshot-database-restore-for-mastodonnl.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;A couple of weeks ago I started pushing ZFS snapshots of the live database partition for mastodon.nl to my homelab. 
Testing that this is actually usable as a restore point for a postgres database was still on my todo list. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today I found the time to setup an postgres …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2024 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-06-15:/testing-zfs-snapshot-database-restore-for-mastodonnl.html</guid><category>mastodonnl</category></item><item><title>Database backups for mastodon.nl now use ZFS snapshots too</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/database-backups-for-mastodonnl-now-use-zfs-snapshots-too.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;As I detailed a couple of months back, the mastodon media store is ZFS based and snapshots are pushed offsite multiple 
times a day. For the database servers, we used a daily SQL dump that was sent offsite. Good enough, but could be better. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Recently we had a small incident …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 07:03:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-06-02:/database-backups-for-mastodonnl-now-use-zfs-snapshots-too.html</guid><category>mastodonnl</category></item><item><title>Nieuwe printer met verrassing</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/nieuwe-printer-met-verrassing.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Hoe vaak heb je hem nou echt nodig anno 2024? De Printer. Dus we hebben al een tijd geleden geaccepteerd dat de kwaliteit 
van de prints onder de maat was. Leuk voor eigen gebruik en de kleurplaten, maar daar kun je niet mee naar buiten. Sinds 
het begin van de …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 10:53:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-05-26:/nieuwe-printer-met-verrassing.html</guid><category>desktop</category></item><item><title>NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie 2024 - creating the social social web</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/nluug-voorjaarsconferentie-2024-creating-the-social-social-web.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Afgelopen dinsdag was de voorjaarsconferentie van de NLUUG. Volgens mijn ben ik al sinds 2013 lid van deze vereniging, 
maar het was er om diverse redenen nog niet eerder van gekomen ook daadwerkelijk op een van de conferenties te komen. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dit keer dus wel en ik heb een paar interessante …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 09:41:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-05-26:/nluug-voorjaarsconferentie-2024-creating-the-social-social-web.html</guid><category>mastodonnl</category></item><item><title>Home network update - 2 Gbs FTW</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/home-network-update-2-gbs-ftw.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Het heeft wat langer geduurd dan verwacht, maar het huisnetwerk heeft deze week een upgrade gekregen.
&lt;img alt="speedtest result on homelab server" src="/images/2024/20240323_download_speed.png"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Aanvankelijk was het plan om met een eigen firewall direct met fiber te koppelen aan het Delta Fiber netwerk. Met de door de overheid opgelegde vrije modem keuze dacht ik "dat gaat vast werken …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 06:48:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-03-23:/home-network-update-2-gbs-ftw.html</guid><category>homelab</category></item><item><title>Hello Inoreader my old friend</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/hello-inoreader-my-old-friend.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Inoreader_screenshot.png" src="/images/2024/20240228_inoreader_screenshot.png"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So in the last quarter of 2023 I successfully moved from Inoreader to Nextcloud News for my news aggregation. This has worked very well for me for quite some time. But when I report self-hosting successes, I want to be honest and report the not so great experiences too. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:43:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-02-28:/hello-inoreader-my-old-friend.html</guid><category>selfhosting</category></item><item><title>Getting started with Woodpecker CI</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/getting-started-with-woodpecker-ci.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Having moved my personal projects from my selfhosted Gitlab instance to my selfhosted Forgejo instance, there was still the issue of replacing Gitlab-CI. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During this weekend I briefly went back to Jenkins, but I came to the conclusion that it is too involved for what I need. The boilerplate code …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 09:14:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-02-18:/getting-started-with-woodpecker-ci.html</guid><category>devops</category></item><item><title>How I do offsite backups for mastodon.nl</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/how-i-do-offsite-backups-for-mastodonnl.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;As part of the &lt;a href="https://joinmastodon.org/covenant"&gt;Mastodon Servers Convenant&lt;/a&gt; that we apply for mastodon.nl, we need backups. Of-course we need backups. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Rsync at first&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So we have backups. Since June 2023 we've had offsite backups. This means the backup data is stored at another physical location and even with a different …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 06:35:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-01-26:/how-i-do-offsite-backups-for-mastodonnl.html</guid><category>mastodonnl</category></item><item><title>Using my Dymo label printers running Linux</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/using-my-dymo-label-printers-running-linux.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;According to the receipts I've owned my Labelwriter 450 since 2015 and my Labelmanager PnP since 2018. Both are very good
at producing labels for all sorts of uses. The only thing that has always annoyed me is the official Dymo software and 
its updates. It would change the interface …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-01-21:/using-my-dymo-label-printers-running-linux.html</guid><category>desktop</category></item><item><title>Home computing goals for 2024</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/home-computing-goals-for-2024.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;As I was not as satisfied with proprietary solutions as I used to be, it was time to reconsider some past choices. Some of the choices have suited me very will for quite some time, but circumstances have changed so I'm open to other options. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Switching to more open solutions …&lt;/h2&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2024 20:18:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2024-01-12:/home-computing-goals-for-2024.html</guid><category>desktop</category></item><item><title>Introductie hub.mastodon.nl</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/introductie-hubmastodonnl.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Screenshot hub.mastodon.nl website" src="../images/2023/2023-12-28_hub_mastodon_nl.png"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Vandaag heb ik de eerste echte post geplaatst op &lt;a href="https://hub.mastodon.nl/"&gt;de mastodon.nl hub&lt;/a&gt;. Mastodon.nl specifieke informatie zal hier worden verzameld, maar het start nu met een blogpost over de 
begroting voor 2024. Het idee is om hier gebruikerstips, -handleidingen en bijvoorbeeld informatie over donaties en bestedingen een plek te …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:09:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-12-28:/introductie-hubmastodonnl.html</guid><category>mastodonnl</category></item><item><title>Hello Forgejo, goodbye Gitlab</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/hello-forgejo-goodbye-gitlab.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;While Gitlab continues to be free to use, the bloat is real and the disabled enterprise features are somewhat annoying. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gitea was on my radar for some time, but I never felt the real urge to try it out. The recent fork to &lt;a href="https://forgejo.org/"&gt;forgejo&lt;/a&gt; caught 
my attention. Also, the party …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:17:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-12-27:/hello-forgejo-goodbye-gitlab.html</guid><category>software</category></item><item><title>Creating custom desktop launchers on the linux desktop</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/creating-custom-desktop-launchers-on-the-linux-desktop.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Right now I'm switching out some flatpak installed apps in favor of manually downloaded and installed apps on my
Debian12 desktop.  Main reasons are inconsistent window decoration, some bug when switching external displays where 
some flatpak based windows are borked and performance. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This adds the 'burden' of having to manually …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:28:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-12-24:/creating-custom-desktop-launchers-on-the-linux-desktop.html</guid><category>desktop</category></item><item><title>Homelab webproxy using Squid on OpenBSD</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/homelab-webproxy-using-squid-on-openbsd.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Right now I'm building my new homelab environment. On top of Proxmox I deployed an OpenBSD virtual machine that 
will act as an http egress for all homelab vlans. This is just a quick writeup of my recipe. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The virtual machine has two cores assigned and 2 GB of RAM …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2023 09:40:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-12-22:/homelab-webproxy-using-squid-on-openbsd.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>FreeBSD with jails</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/freebsd-with-jails.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Last week I installed FreeBSD on an old and disregarded laptop I had laying around. I wanted to 
see if FreeBSD BHyve and/or FreeBSD Jails were concepts that would work well for me or at least 
would introduce some cool new feature or idea. Installing the laptop went unexpectedly …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 05:20:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-12-15:/freebsd-with-jails.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>Mastodon.nl: te klein of te groot?</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/mastodonnl-te-klein-of-te-groot.html</link><description>&lt;h2&gt;Voorwoord&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Nu ruim een jaar geleden is het gebruik van de Fediverse, Mastodon en daarmee mastodon.nl enorm gegroeid. Onder invloed 
van veranderingen op traditionele commerciële social media, waren heel veel mensen op zoek naar een alternatief. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mastodon.nl was op dat moment een schattige mastodon/fediverse instance met, ik …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 05:25:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-12-08:/mastodonnl-te-klein-of-te-groot.html</guid><category>mastodonnl</category></item><item><title>Trying Navidrome as alternative to streaming services</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/trying-navidrome-as-alternative-to-streaming-services.html</link><description>&lt;h2&gt;Preface&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trying to ditch centralized services is hard work, in the sense that you need to select some other tool 
that is functionally great, but also doable when it comes to self-hosting. Recently I had worked on getting rid of the 
hosted RSS/News aggregator I was using and it …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 06:57:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-12-03:/trying-navidrome-as-alternative-to-streaming-services.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>Adding a couple of more OpenBSD VMs from OpenBSD.Amsterdam</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/adding-a-couple-of-more-openbsd-vms-from-openbsdamsterdam.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;To do some more OpenBSD fiddling without fiddling with actual hardware, I was looking for some extra virtual machines. 
I asked around for other options, but not many came up, and they were not particularly more interesting than 
OpenBSD.Amsterdam. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So yesterday I asked Mischa to set up two now …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:32:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-11-18:/adding-a-couple-of-more-openbsd-vms-from-openbsdamsterdam.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>Attended first full day #bsdnl meetup</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/attended-first-full-day-bsdnl-meetup.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Today was the first all day meetup for &lt;a href="https://bsdnl.nl"&gt;#bsdnl&lt;/a&gt; in Utrecht. It was really nice to meet a diverse set of *BSD fans! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Apparently the goal is to organize a couple of these events a year. Sounds good to me! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="bsdnl artwork" src="../images/2023/IMG_8221.PNG"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Mischa, Jeroen and others for making this possible …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 19:56:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-11-11:/attended-first-full-day-bsdnl-meetup.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>OpenBSD desktop running on Slimbook</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/openbsd-desktop-running-on-slimbook.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So over the week I spend some time configuring the Desktop on top of OpenBSD 7.4. Installing OpenBSD it self was rather 
pleasant. The X server and drivers for various devices (Wifi etc) just worked without any manual intervention from my side. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That was last week, but to be …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-11-11:/openbsd-desktop-running-on-slimbook.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>Dual booting Zorin/OpenBSD anyway</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/dual-booting-zorinopenbsd-anyway.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So last May my dual boot setup of Linux/Windows on my Slimbook PROX got fscked up. I figured I would give up on dual 
booting. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But that was last May. And the first BSD NL day is coming next week which I plan to attend. And there was no …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 07:21:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-11-03:/dual-booting-zorinopenbsd-anyway.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>Using Nextcloud news instead of Inoreader/Feedly followup</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/using-nextcloud-news-instead-of-inoreaderfeedly-followup.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So after a couple of days there are issues that need resolving: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;One of the feeds keeps coming up with hundreds of old headlines presented as new (nrc.nl)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Nextnews iOS app appears to have it's own administration of read and unread items &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;One of the feeds keeps coming …&lt;/h2&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-10-29:/using-nextcloud-news-instead-of-inoreaderfeedly-followup.html</guid><category>rss</category></item><item><title>Using Nextcloud news instead of Inoreader/Feedly</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/using-nextcloud-news-instead-of-inoreaderfeedly.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I've been using Feedly in the past and Inoreader for the last couple of years. Both are great webbased ways to manage my 
news consumption based on RSS feeds. The functionality is great, and the costs are OK to me. But the idea that someone, 
somewhere, is keeping track of …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-10-24:/using-nextcloud-news-instead-of-inoreaderfeedly.html</guid><category>rss</category></item><item><title>Eerste schets migratie pad mastodon.nl naar kubernetes gebaseerde setup</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/eerste-schets-migratie-pad-mastodonnl-naar-kubernetes-gebaseerde-setup.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;De huidige infra setup van mastodon.nl is gebaseerd op een flink aantal virtual machines met Debian 11 als operating system. Daarboven is deels met de hand en deels met ansible automation de benodigde applicatie en middleware uitgerold. In november 2022 is in een lange nacht de grootste set uitgerold …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2023 10:55:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-10-07:/eerste-schets-migratie-pad-mastodonnl-naar-kubernetes-gebaseerde-setup.html</guid><category>mastodonnl</category></item><item><title>mastodon.nl upgrade naar versie 4.2.0</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/mastodonnl-upgrade-naar-versie-420.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Vanmorgen was het tijd om mastodon.nl ook te voorzien van Mastodon versie 4.2.0, welke o.a. full text search gaat bieden 
in de toots van mensen welke deze opt-in setting zelf aanzetten in hun profiel instellingen. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Met de ervaringen van een aantal mastodon.nl upgrades over de …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2023 07:55:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-10-07:/mastodonnl-upgrade-naar-versie-420.html</guid><category>mastodonnl</category></item><item><title>Minimal hyperconverged kubernetes cluster</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/minimal-hyperconverged-kubernetes-cluster.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;While I've been using kubernetes for years now, I never dived into building my own cluster. I was always focused on delivering value on top of that via the kubernetes API. I just wanted to work with that API and not worry about the underlying infra. For real deployments I …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2023 11:06:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-08-05:/minimal-hyperconverged-kubernetes-cluster.html</guid><category>kubernetes</category></item><item><title>First look at Nixos</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/first-look-at-nixos.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I pulled an unused Proliant ML310 from storage and fitted it with an unused 80 GB SSD (yes it is quite old). I downloaded the nixos iso, wrote and USB stick using balana etcher on my mac and soon enough the installer was running. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The installer look very solid …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 07:02:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-07-16:/first-look-at-nixos.html</guid><category>linux</category></item><item><title>Small website update</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/small-website-update.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I've found a new pelican template that makes older content better accessible through a more compact tag and categories page. Also, this has stork for search integrated. Not sure how useful this will be, but let's find out. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Secondly I'm moving the blog to https://blog.lutra-it.eu/. This nicely …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 06:51:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-07-16:/small-website-update.html</guid><category>website</category></item><item><title>Trying FreeBSD on an Macbook Pro model 2013</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/trying-freebsd-on-an-macbook-pro-model-2013.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So there was still a popular operating system that I had not touched for years. I once tried FreeBSD about twenty years ago. I remember it was fine at the time. But I just could not find a reason to run it over Linux or OpenBSD. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now it is a …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 20:23:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-06-25:/trying-freebsd-on-an-macbook-pro-model-2013.html</guid><category>runbsd</category></item><item><title>There is a Gnome Extension for that</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/there-is-a-gnome-extension-for-that.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;This weekend I managed to fix a bunch of small issues with Debian12 desktop on my Slimbook ProX.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;No wireguard toggles? Gnome extension to fix it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;No systray icons for Synology drive client? Gnome extension to fix it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Easy way to log into remote hosts over ssh? Gnome extension to …&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 20:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-06-25:/there-is-a-gnome-extension-for-that.html</guid><category>desktop</category></item><item><title>Tor hosting reboot</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/tor-hosting-reboot.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I used to run a small collection of Tor nodes, but the project had fallen short of my attention. Over the weekend I've been working on reviving this &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is more work to be done, but the bridges are operational. I hope to work on an exit node again too …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 20:15:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-06-25:/tor-hosting-reboot.html</guid><category>tor</category></item><item><title>Delta Fiber actief in huis</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/delta-fiber-actief-in-huis.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Het is EINDELIJK gelukt om in mijn huis sneller Internet te krijgen dan ik vroeger in mijn studentenkamer aan het Krakeelhof in Delft al had. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Was ik toen heel content met 100Mbit up/100Mbit down, in al die jaren tot vandaag heb ik qua upload altijd moeten schipperen. Zeker met …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:43:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-06-12:/delta-fiber-actief-in-huis.html</guid><category>internet</category></item><item><title>homekit deurslot en deurbel: ervaring is tot nu toe MEH</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/homekit-deurslot-en-deurbel-ervaring-is-tot-nu-toe-meh.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Het was inmiddels 2023 en ik moest nog steeds mijn voordeur open maken met een sleutel, als een Neanderthaler. Een situatie die zeker aangepakt moest worden. Ook kregen we steeds vaker briefjes in de bus dat we niet thuis waren, terwijl er zeker niet aangebeld was. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dus ik dacht volkomen …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 21:11:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-06-11:/homekit-deurslot-en-deurbel-ervaring-is-tot-nu-toe-meh.html</guid><category>iot</category></item><item><title>Hosting setup voor klant komt goed door externe security audit</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/hosting-setup-voor-klant-komt-goed-door-externe-security-audit.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Met enige regelmaat heb ik kleine projecten. Daarbij rol ik naar eigen inzicht servers/infrastructuur uit die ik dan ook voorzie van mijn eigen standaard inrichting als het gaat om firewalling, ssh access etc. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Natuurlijk heb ik veel ervaring en weet ik wat ik doe, maar als zich de gelegenheid …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2023 20:28:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-06-11:/hosting-setup-voor-klant-komt-goed-door-externe-security-audit.html</guid><category>hosting</category></item><item><title>Note to self: do not try to set up dual boot machines</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/note-to-self-do-not-try-to-set-up-dual-boot-machines.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So dual booting a machine with two different operating systems is a cheap way to run multiple setups on real hardware when you don't need either of time full time. So of course I've been using this solution since forever to able to tweak with more operating systems releases than …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 09:39:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-05-14:/note-to-self-do-not-try-to-set-up-dual-boot-machines.html</guid><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>Ordered a Macbook Air</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/ordered-a-macbook-air.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;With the dependance for workflows on X86 virtual machines diminished, it was the right time to lifecycle my Macbook Pro. As I am quite unsure what I need now in terms of performance, I went for a more portable and affordable option than the last time around. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Aegir neofetch output" src="../images/about/2023-05-04_neofetch_aegir.png"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So I went …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 07:20:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-05-05:/ordered-a-macbook-air.html</guid><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>dansende-banaan.nl migreert naar multi node kubernetes cluster</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/dansende-banaannl-migreert-naar-multi-node-kubernetes-cluster.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;dansende-banaan.nl is mijn persoonlijk mastodon instance welke ik sinds december 2022 heb draaien. Het is vooral bedoeld als oefenterrein en ik heb er in eerste instantie vooral mee geconstateerd hoe goed of hoe slecht de meegeleverde helm chart werkt. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;De hele setup heeft dus sinds december prima staan zoemen …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 20:36:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-04-30:/dansende-banaannl-migreert-naar-multi-node-kubernetes-cluster.html</guid><category>kubernetes</category></item><item><title>Sinds vorige week Certified Kubernetes Application Developer</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/sinds-vorige-week-certified-kubernetes-application-developer.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Het boek lag al een tijd lang in de kast te wachten op mijn aandacht. Maar afgelopen maand is het toch gelukt om een examen te plannen en voldoende voor te bereiden. Zodoende haalde ik het examen en mag ik me nu 'Certified Kubernetes Application Developer' noemen. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Het examen was …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 20:28:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-04-30:/sinds-vorige-week-certified-kubernetes-application-developer.html</guid><category>education</category></item><item><title>Eindelijk wat gedaan aan de 'meterkast' situatie</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/eindelijk-wat-gedaan-aan-de-meterkast-situatie.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Na 7 jaar woongenot in dit huis eindelijk iets gedaan aan de 'meterkast' situatie. Het kan nog strakker en completer, maar ik ben zeer tevreden met deze uitbreiding/aanpassing. De rack mount voor de raspberry pi was minder mooi dan ik had verwacht, maar het is alsnog een stuk beter …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 22:36:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-03-31:/eindelijk-wat-gedaan-aan-de-meterkast-situatie.html</guid><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>Op weg naar de oprichting van een stichting voor onder andere mastodon.nl</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/op-weg-naar-de-oprichting-van-een-stichting-voor-onder-andere-mastodonnl.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Afgelopen maandag samen met Ton Zijlstra en Maarten den Braber afgesproken in Utrecht. Daar hebben we diverse thema's rondom governance en projecten besproken welke we zien rondom mastodon.nl. Binnenkort zullen we hier een apart blog voor starten welke je dan bij interesse kan volgen. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hopenlijk kunnen we vlot de …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:03:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-03-16:/op-weg-naar-de-oprichting-van-een-stichting-voor-onder-andere-mastodonnl.html</guid><category>mastodonnl</category></item><item><title>Not ready to give up desktop linux yet</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/not-ready-to-give-up-desktop-linux-yet.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So another day, another way of looking at my setup. Eurolinux was on one of my other machines for some time, hoping to get a stable ground for vmware workstation. That exploded in my face, so it was a short lived thing. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But by now I've already gotten rid of …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 06:45:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-03-11:/not-ready-to-give-up-desktop-linux-yet.html</guid><category>desktop</category></item><item><title>Linux on the desktop remains usable but with surprises</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/linux-on-the-desktop-remains-usable-but-with-surprises.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So lets get this straight, were the only option for me to use Linux, I could totally make it work proper enough. But comparing my general experience to my experience with Macos, it remains a more involved way to get work done. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So last week I had everything properly setup …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-03-10:/linux-on-the-desktop-remains-usable-but-with-surprises.html</guid><category>desktop</category></item><item><title>Personal nextcloud instance moved to Raspberry PI4</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/personal-nextcloud-instance-moved-to-raspberry-pi4.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Last year I set up a Nextcloud instance for personal/family use. This was running as a VM on my HP Proliant server/Proxmox setup. An archive of about 80 GB of pictures and movies was quickly accumulated there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With energy prices what they were at the time, I shut …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2023 12:07:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-03-05:/personal-nextcloud-instance-moved-to-raspberry-pi4.html</guid><category>hosting</category></item><item><title>Slimbook ProX does support USB-C power delivery after all :-)</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/slimbook-prox-does-support-usb-c-power-delivery-after-all-.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Ok so when I got my laptop it came with a leaflet stating that charging over USB-C was not possibly and should not be tried. So that was kind of a bummer, but I figured it would not cause me too much trouble. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today I was browsing the Slimbook website …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2023 19:45:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-03-03:/slimbook-prox-does-support-usb-c-power-delivery-after-all-.html</guid><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>Improving microphone input by using noisetorch</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/improving-microphone-input-by-using-noisetorch.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So the audio quality I get from the internal microphone on my new Slimbook PROX is underwhelming when compared to the 
out the box experience on my Macbook Pro. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But surely I'm not the first one with this experience? Apparently not, because a quick search using 
&lt;a href="https://qwant.com"&gt;Qwant&lt;/a&gt; revealed the &lt;a href="https://github.com/noisetorch/NoiseTorch"&gt;NoiseTorch …&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:03:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-03-03:/improving-microphone-input-by-using-noisetorch.html</guid><category>software</category></item><item><title>Slimbook ProX review after one month of usage</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/slimbook-prox-review-after-one-month-of-usage.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;In my efforts to get the simplest solution to the problems encountered with the Slimbook, 
I switched to Zorin16 after a couple days to get newer libraries and a newer kernel. But soon enough 
I was fiddling with the inner workings of Linux on the Zorin install too. So getting …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2023 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-03-01:/slimbook-prox-review-after-one-month-of-usage.html</guid><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>iCloud got a lot more attractive with Advanded Data Protection</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/icloud-got-a-lot-more-attractive-with-advanded-data-protection.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;It took Apple forever to actually enable this. After trying it some time ago only to get the message 'not available in you region yet', I was able to enable Advanced Data Protection on my iCloud account tonight. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="ADP enabled screenshot" src="../images/2023/2023-02-26_apple_adp_1.png"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To get it to activate, I first assigned my wife as an …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-02-14:/icloud-got-a-lot-more-attractive-with-advanded-data-protection.html</guid><category>security</category></item><item><title>Testdriving dns0 DNS service</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/testdriving-dns0-dns-service.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Right now I'm testdriving the &lt;a href="https://www.dns0.eu/zero"&gt;DNS0&lt;/a&gt; DNS service as an alternative to my previous resolver Quad9 (9.9.9.9). DNS0 also promises to block nasty stuff, all while running the service in a privacy protecting way. All hosting is done within the border of the EU, giving maximum privacy …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-02-14:/testdriving-dns0-dns-service.html</guid><category>internet</category></item><item><title>Using spare M2 storage to create RAID1 set</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/using-spare-m2-storage-to-create-raid1-set.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The slimbook I ordered was ordered with the basic specs. As soon as I was convinced the laptop would be worthwhile, I ordered extra RAM and storage capacity. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So next to the 256 GB NVME storage I installed a 1 TB M2 stick. I reinstalled the operating on the new …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2023 06:56:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-02-12:/using-spare-m2-storage-to-create-raid1-set.html</guid><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>Slimbook ProX arrived today :-)</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/slimbook-prox-arrived-today-.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Last Monday I took the plunge and ordered a &lt;a href="https://slimbook.es/en/pro-x-en"&gt;Slimbook ProX&lt;/a&gt;. First impressions when it comes to looks and build quality it's great. There are some things left to be desired, but overall I think this machine should fit most of my needs. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Slimbook with custom engraving" src="../images/slimbook-tux/sm_IMG_6682.JPG"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As I was unsure what I was …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2023 21:43:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-02-06:/slimbook-prox-arrived-today-.html</guid><category>hardware</category></item><item><title>Adding an OpenBSD/APU2 based ethernet bridge to the home network</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/adding-an-openbsdapu2-based-ethernet-bridge-to-the-home-network.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Seperating traffic with VLANs in the network is great way to improve network security. When I switched to VLAN capable switches and access points, I did exactly that. I created seperate VLAN's for personal use, business use and for IoT like devices. This improved security greatly, but with all the …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2023 20:17:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-01-21:/adding-an-openbsdapu2-based-ethernet-bridge-to-the-home-network.html</guid><category>networking</category></item><item><title>Uit het mailarchief: backup advies in Jip en Janneke taal</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/uit-het-mailarchief-backup-advies-in-jip-en-janneke-taal.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Toen ik net op zoek was naar de factuur van mijn Synology in mijn mail archief, stuitte ik op onderstaande mail in mijn sent items. Ik was het glad vergeten. De context was een vraag van mijn lief of ik voor een collega fotograaf in Jip en Janneke taal advies …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 20:17:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2023-01-09:/uit-het-mailarchief-backup-advies-in-jip-en-janneke-taal.html</guid><category>consultancy</category></item><item><title>Mostly Ready For 2023</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/mostly-ready-for-2023.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So the last quarter was rather busy and intense. It left little room for home computing projects and/or fiddling. But is was fun and most tasks scheduled for 2022 have been executed. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With just a couple of days left, I have just enough time to ponder about plans for …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2022-12-29:/mostly-ready-for-2023.html</guid><category>ramblings</category></item><item><title>FORMAT C:</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/format-c.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So somewhere in October I moved my Dell XPS Desktop from Zorin to RHEL9/Eurolinux9. One of the requirements for my linux desktop needs is VMWare workstation not complaining about vmmon/vmnet kernel level stuff. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fast forward to December and RHEL9.1/Eurolinux9.1 is out! And installed on my …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2022 06:49:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2022-12-11:/format-c.html</guid><category>linux</category></item><item><title>Using VPN to secure NFS between two hosted servers</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/using-vpn-to-secure-nfs-between-two-hosted-servers.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;For a small test setup I wanted to share a disk on a Hetzner VPS with a Hetzner dedicated server. Hetzner has the concept of private networks, but only on their 'Cloud' offering, so that does not extend to dedicated bare metal servers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sharing files over NFS seemed like the …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2022 06:49:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2022-12-11:/using-vpn-to-secure-nfs-between-two-hosted-servers.html</guid><category>linux</category></item><item><title>Fixing issue with Signal donations and Apple Pay</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/fixing-issue-with-signal-donations-and-apple-pay.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;A big while back Signal nudged me into paying a monthly donation to support their US non-profit. I was open for that, but trying to set it up on my iPhone gave me a non-descriptive error when trying to authorize payments using Apple Pay. I soon forgot about the issue …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2022 09:45:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2022-12-04:/fixing-issue-with-signal-donations-and-apple-pay.html</guid><category>apple</category></item><item><title>Ethernetbridging over VPN revisited</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/ethernetbridging-over-vpn-revisited.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Recently I was discussing VPN options over coffee when the subject of ethernet bridging came up. My co-worker had no experience with VPN to move other traffic than IP packets. It was then I remembered using ethernet bridging over openvpn all the time. Like 20-15 years ago. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Would it still …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2022 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2022-12-03:/ethernetbridging-over-vpn-revisited.html</guid><category>networking</category></item><item><title>Mastodon.nl upgraded to latest release 4.0.2 last week</title><link>https://opentechfan.eu/mastodonnl-upgraded-to-latest-release-402-last-week.html</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Last week we upgraded Mastodon.nl to Mastodon release 4.0.2. Because we moved platform the week before, we were running on a platform with some changes and unknowns that would come and let us shoot ourselves in the foot. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So the upgrade was less pleasant than the last …&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">OpenTechFan</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 07:07:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>tag:opentechfan.eu,2022-11-29:/mastodonnl-upgraded-to-latest-release-402-last-week.html</guid><category>mastodonnl</category></item></channel></rss>