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Keep background applications such as SSH tunnels alive with this sh script. autossh is great, but doesn’t always survive challenges of my environment.

Read more on Gitlab project page.

Automate PulseAudio-Bluetooth chores with this Python script. Resolve and select device profile automatically, and provide a single tool to fix commonly occuring issues.

Good old katei.fi, or in particular, ayame.katei.fi, is finally gone. It was difficult to let go, but my ISP offered a deal I couldn’t refuse.

This entry was written mostly on 25 Sep 2019, but released with the date of the actual event.

tl;dr: I lost my “yes scam” virginity.

In 19 July 2017 I received an unexpected phone call. My phone displayed not only the number (+442079460873) but by means unknown to me, also the word “London”. Because of reasons, I typically answer these calls. I made no exception here.

As it turned out, I never released the sources for the second generation of my Commodore 64 version of Conway’s Game of Life. Unlike the earlier version, this second attempt packs four cells per byte. While it adds to the complexity, it also reduces time spent in data retrieval by a lot. This version uses lookup tables to count live cells by using a lookup table on zero-page.

Get the sources. You may also read an earlier entry and/or see the earlier version(s).

Extremely minimal set of photographs from Stockholm, Sweden. If it weren’t for Vasa, I suppose there photos could be from anywhere. You have been warned. See the few photos here.

Grab a minimal-dependency iodine client start up script from here.

Long story short: I’ve rewritten iodine-client-start to have minimal dependencies and to run with standard Bourne shell. The only additional packages this script should require are iodine and iproute.

If your copy of GNU/Linux can’t find your SD card in a reader, try running lshal (which can be found in package hal in Debian) and then check again.