the bad sleep

Escape from G**gle Photos – selfhosting

If you’re here, you already know why we’re doing this – they capped the “unlimited for free” offer, they can suspend your account for any reason at any time, and probably worst of all, your photos are their product.…

July 7, 2022
Limit your sites to VPN and local clients only

The problem: You have a bunch of sites running behind an nginx proxy, and you want to limit access to some of the more critical ones to your VPN clients only as a second security layer.…

June 29, 2022
Easy, Cheap Digital Life Redundancy

This is a belated response to the “I’ve locked myself out of my digital life” post that was circulating earlier this month.…

June 27, 2022
Openbox scaling for HiDPI displays

I recently switched to a laptop with a 16:10 QHD display (popularized as Retina by a certain shoddy company), and I faced a problem that I had been fearing for a while – scaling on X11/Openbox.…

May 16, 2022
Seen, read 2021

Inspired by Soderbergh’s annual list of “seen, read,” and with the help of almost two full months of journaling (sigh), Goodreads and the Netflix’ viewing history (there will be some misplaced but memorable mentions at the end): All caps, bold: MOVIE, All caps: TV SERIES, Italics: Book, Quotation marks: “Video game” Disclaimer: a lot of the movies are rewatches and a lot of the books are rereads (signified with * when remembered) but worst of all, a lot of the shows are just really crappy dating reality TV.…

January 7, 2021