Review of Interesting Things at FOSDEM 2024

FOSDEM 2024 is happening this weekend and I’ve put together a list of interesting topics to review at a more leisurely pace. Alternatives to Confluence: BlueSpice, BookStack, DokuWiki, Foswiki, MediaWiki, OpenKM, Outline, PmWiki, Wiki.js and Xwiki. CICD Obervability CICD Observability 2 DIY Monitoring: Using clickhouse and grafana DIY RUM EVerest: An open source stack that manages all aspects of EV charging FreeIPA and FreeIPA connector for Keycloak Hardware devroom: Too many interesting topics to mention SpiceDB: Open source ReBAC.

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Set up SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) on a Raspberry Pi

Introducing SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) The SANE project lets you easily use a scanner from a Linux host. It supports many different brands and models of scanners and while it is mostly a library and server that provides access to a scanner, several clients are available that you can use to scan documents.

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Building a Hugo Site and Deploying to Linux using Azure DevOps

Summary (tl;dr) Building a Hugo site using Azure DevOps and deploying to a Linux server is done by: Set up an SSH service connection in Azure DevOps Create a pipeline in Azure DevOps. The pipeline will need several steps: Install Hugo Build the site Deploy the built site Setting up an SSH Service Connection in Azure DevOps An SSH service connection is what will allow your hosted Azure DevOps agent to connect to your Linux based server using SSH.

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Accessing the Department of Education Listserv

The DOE runs a listserv server for mailing list management. Here are some notes on how to subscribe to their lists. Specifically the FSATECH mailing list. Send email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ED.GOV with the listserv commands: LIST - Lists (some of the) available lists on the server SUBSCRIBE FSATECH - Subscribe to the Federal Student Aid Tech list

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Setting Up SMTP Forwarding Via PowerShell on Office 365

These are the commands needed to set up SMTP forwarding for an email address in Office 365 using PowerShell. $UserCredential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session -DisableNameChecking Set-Mailbox -ForwardingSmtpAddress "" -Identity "" Remove-PSSession $Session

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Installing Nignx as a Service on Windows

Setting up Nginx on Windows is a straightforward endeavor. Unfortunately the information on how to do it end to end is not exactly in one spot, but actually sprinkled throughout the internet. So here we go, let’s put it all together. Installing Nginx Download the binary from the Nginx website. This is what the website looks like today and the latest version is 1.

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No More Cookies

As of today we no longer use cookies on this site. In the past we used cookies to support some telemetry and visit statistics. As it turns out, I didn’t really look at that data and so I’ve decided to remove both GA and AI tracking scripts.

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Enabling SSH Access on the IX4-300D NAS

The IX4-300D NAS device can be configured for SSH access by following these steps: Log in using the administrator account Navigate to the Diagnostics screen: [http://ix4-300d/manage/diagnostics.html][1] Select Support Access -> Allow remote access for support Enter the root password twice and click apply Now you will be able SSH into the NAS, using the root user, and with the password you entered, prepended by soho.

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