Today I learned…

Managing my personal knowledgbase with zettlr and git

How I use zettlr and git to manage my personal knowledgebase and journal

Fixing idle-inhibitor behaviour in Firefox with Wayland

Whenever Firefox played videos or - actually more relevant - I watched the shared screen of a colleague, after some time the screenlock would start. This is especially annoying, since I have to enter my password to unlock again.

In my status way waybar there is an idle inhibit switch which I could then use to prevent the lock from activating. That this switch worked led to the conclusion that there is something with Firefox that prevented this from working. Behind the scenes, there are two components that have mixed responsibility when it comes to locking / suspending / sleeping - responsibilities which overlap, and are not completely clear in the end.


Current state of IPv6 on AWS

A rant(?) on the current state of IPv6

TLS Certificate Fingerprints

TLS fingerprints are used to identify certificates with a (short) string, but it seems it is not so well documented how they are actually calculated.

New Year's Resolution 2024

With 2023 coming to an end - there is something for a new year’s resolution…