six demon bag

Wind, fire, all that kind of thing!

2023-09-01

Beeg Hololive-EN Replica Update

Never thought I'd actually build this, but here it is: Sana's tower in all its glory (as far as I could piece it together, that is). Also added the nether ice road to the sakura village Kiara found, Ame's Nuko statue, Pekora's o-bake and a couple other structures.

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2023-07-01

Hololive-EN Minecraft Replica Map

While preparing v5 of my EN-Server replica I also made a map to give people a better idea of where the various locations actually are on the server:

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Posted 14:05 [permalink]

Hololive-EN Minecraft Replica Summer 2023 Update

The new version fixes a number of mistakes and inaccurracies, the largest of which was with Ame's house. It's been bothering me for a while now that the trees on the house in my replica were quite different from the ones in the original (because at the time I didn't know how to encourage trees to grow in particular shapes). And when I discovered that I also had placed the house 5 blocks too far north, I decided to tear it all down and rebuild it from scratch.

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2022-12-13

Hololive-EN Minecraft Replica Christmas Update

Time for another update of my little Hololive-EN Minecraft world replica. This time I traced some of Kiara's adventures, expanded Spawn Plaza, expanded Ina's and Fauna's basements, and added a couple more farms and member houses. There could be easter eggs too.

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2022-08-24

A Walk in the Hololive-EN Park

Smol update to my Hololive-EN Minecraft world replica. This time I added the HQ park made by Ollie and Ame, the end portal, Pekora's house and the skyway to Phoenixton. Some other structures too.

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2022-07-12

Hololive-EN Minecraft World Replica Next

For this update I traced Ame and Gura's journey to the coral island and added the structures they built on that trip. The dinky spawnhouse got replaced with the fancy new spawn area station. I also added a couple more farms, Ina's shooting range, Fauna's and Mumei's houses, the isekai well, and the Hyperloop. Bunkeronii received some updates too (new entrance, enchantment room, new farm rooms).

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2022-05-21

A Convenience Wrapper for the Puppet Agent

At work we're doing config management with Puppet, and although using the Puppet agent is mostly fine, I have some workflows where it becomes rather unwieldy. For example, when debugging something or developing a new role I usually want to keep the agent disabled, but still do manual (dry-)runs every now and then to check what Puppet would change in the config or apply changes selectively. Which tends to look somewhat like this:

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2022-05-08

Hololive-EN Minecraft World Replica Update

The new version of my little replica of the Hololive-EN Minecraft server fixes some inaccuracies that were in the first version and expands several mines in the tunnel that had been only stubs before (Kiara Shaft, Mines of Mori, Big Mine, Creeper Shaft, Deep Lava Mine, Long Mine, ...). I also added more structures, including ... well, see for yourself:

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2021-12-01

Explore the Hololive-EN Minecraft World?

If you like Minecraft and Hololive-EN you've probably wanted to explore their server on your own at some point. However, for us mere mortals that just isn't going to happen. Not with the original server, that is. But what about a replica of their world?

Minecraft has a feature that allows spawning worlds from seeds, and using the same seed with the same Minecraft version basically produces the same world. After installing Minecraft Java Edition v1.16.3 (their starting version) and launching a new world from the Hololive-EN seed (you can find it by searching the web for "hololive minecraft seed") I got indeed spawned in the starting area indicated in this fan-made map. Walking north and east got me to the HQ area. Without any of their buildings, of course. So I went ahead and fixed that.

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2021-04-24

Registration Blocker 1.6.0 released

There are some recurring patterns spammers use for their e-mail addresses, so I added a regular expression filter to the Registration Blocker plugin for Question2Answer.

Download: Version 1.6.0

Posted 13:53 [permalink]

2021-01-22

Generate a Solr Password Hash With a Shell Script

In 2017 I published a small Java utility for generating Solr password hashes, because I didn't like launching Solr with well-known credentials. I would've preferred doing it with just a shell script, but found myself unable to replicate the hash creation process with sha256sum.

A couple days ago user rmalchow contacted me on Github with a solution for that, which I want to share here.

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Posted 15:28 [permalink]

2020-12-06

Registration Blocker 1.5.0 released

Due to popular demand I added an option to whitelist domains instead of the default blacklist mode to the Registration Blocker plugin for Question2Answer. Enjoy.

Download: Version 1.5.0

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2020-10-05

Registration Blocker 1.4.0 released

A short while ago I forked the Registration Blocker plugin for Question2Answer, since it apparently has been abandoned by the original developer, and I needed some additional features.

Today I'm releasing my updated version of the plugin, which adds the following features:

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2020-06-27

How SJWs affected Stack Overflow

Earlier this year user AnonyMousse did an analysis of how the answer rate on Stack Overflow developed over time. This was prompted by the exodus of many high profile users after the social justice influenced changes to their Code of Conduct in late 2019.

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2020-06-25

Barracuda Backup Agent for Linux Unattended Installation (Update)

This is a brief update to my previous post Barracuda Backup Agent for Linux Unattended Installation. In recent versions the name of the actual installer binary has changed to UiConsole. The problem and solution remain the same, though.

Download and unpack the archive, then run

echo '/opt/barracuda' | ./lin/$(uname -m)/UiConsole

to install the agent to a different directory. To uninstall run

echo 'u' | ./lin/$(uname -m)/UiConsole

Note that uninstallation leaves an auto-generated SSL certificate in the directory <installdir>/config, so you need to clean up manually afterwards. Also, the public download location for the agents has apparently been removed. Now you need to download the agent from the Cloud Control web UI (System → Software-Downloads).

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2020-06-11

Installing Discourse on Devuan

Before deciding on setting up my Q&A site with Question2Answer I evaluated several programs, one of them being Discourse. And even though I ultimately decided against Discourse (because the setup was too complex and it doesn't have all the features I wanted) I don't want my experiences go to waste, so I'll publish them here.

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Posted 19:57 [permalink]

2020-06-07

Content Security Policy for Question2Answer

The trickiest part of setting up my Q&A site (running on Question2Answer) was getting the content security policy right. I started with this basic policy:

default-src 'self';
script-src 'self';
style-src 'self';
img-src *;
object-src: 'none';
form-action: 'self';
frame-ancestors: 'self';

but quickly realized that it prevented some page elements from showing.

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Posted 13:16 [permalink]

2020-06-05

My Own Q&A Site

At long last I've set up my own Q&A site. If you want to ask a scripting or system administration question, or need support for the stuff I cobbled together, feel free to ask there.

Since the available themes sort of looked like somebody threw random paintballs at them, I made my own. If you're interested you can download it from Github or here.

Posted 12:46 [permalink]

2020-06-03

Disable Firefox 77 Address Bar Popout

*sigh* Another day, another Firefox fuckup. One of the more annoying new "features" in recent Firefox versions is the address bar jumping at you when it gets the focus. In Firefox 75 that misbehavior could be corrected with a couple adjustments in about:config:

browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus false
browser.urlbar.update1 false
browser.urlbar.update1.interventions false
browser.urlbar.update1.searchTips false

However, with Firefox 77 those settings don't work anymore (you can reset/delete them). Because who would ever want to disable what Mozilla developers in their infinite wisdom decided that you must like?

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Posted 12:42 [permalink]

2020-06-02

Privacy-friendly Logging With Nginx

IP addresses are considered personal information, so your web server is not supposed to log them, at least not in a way that would allow tracing the address back to a person. The usual way to comply with this requirement is to mask part of the visitor's IP address, e.g. 192.168.23.42 → 192.168.23.0 (IPv4) or fd22:e03e:f88a:ea84::42 → fd22:e03e:: (IPv6).

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