Psy-Q's Braindump

Mostly tech- or society-related articles, very rarely updated.

Posts

1 Nov. 2026

I Was Seven Months Pregnant With an Emacs Config

30 Dez. 2024

Superior self-hosted music streaming without Spotify

25 Okt. 2024

Fun with Citrix Escape Sequences

9 Okt. 2024

Jumping the WordPress ship

15 Aug. 2024

A better Google Photos alternative

5 Dez. 2023

Rescuing an old Kobo Aura H2O that keeps bricking itself

6 Dez. 2021

Render emoji in color even if your default font doesn’t want to

26 Juni 2021

Preventing MPD’s HTTP audio stream from turning silent on song change

17 Mai 2021

Google’s monopoly on the APK trust chain

22 Feb. 2021

Fix for keyboard layout resetting to US on every login after installing Zoom

1 Mai 2020

Improving fan noise on AMD GPUs using software only

29 Apr. 2020

Automatically unlock kwallet after KDE/Plasma login on openSUSE Tumbleweed

29 Dez. 2018

Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior, Zen buddhism?

25 Nov. 2018

Making Steam’s magic work when using a Dual Shock 4 controller

4 Sept. 2018

Getting rtl8814au USB sticks like the ASUS USB-AC88 to actually connect

27 Juli 2018

Wanna use a Mayflash DolphinBar with Dolphin on Linux? You’ll need this udev rule

31 Jan. 2018

Game recommendation: JYDGE

24 Jan. 2018

Yet another way to get a tear-free, stutter-free desktop with Plasma/KDE and Nvidia

22 Jan. 2018

Working around broken firmware for Realtek USB WLAN adapters on newer kernels

26 Dez. 2017

Using Xbox 360-compatible controllers properly inside WINE

27 Nov. 2017

Our terrible future of closed protocols and proprietary systems

27 Juni 2017

Google shutting down XMPP interoperability is a sad sign of the age of communication silos

7 Juni 2017

Google is trying to destroy the ad blocker market

10 Mai 2017

I'm pretty sure that Microsoft will buy (at least a stake in) Canonical

4 Mai 2017

How Microsoft and Google are manipulating your children

7 Apr. 2017

Fix crackling audio in some games in WINE

30 März 2017

Bidirectional clipboards in KVM guests are as easy as spice-vdagentd

3 Nov. 2016

My favorite vim color schemes have been ported to Atom

11 Mai 2016

Did your mouse turn all weird in Debian and now you suck at Quake?

26 Nov. 2015

To defend the free web, you must save Mozilla

24 Nov. 2015

Decentraleyes: An additional defense against large companies analyzing you

19 Nov. 2015

Tear-free video on GNU/Linux when using Intel graphics cards

4 Nov. 2015

Handling logspam like "action 'action 20' resumed (module 'builtin:ompipe')" on Debian Jessie

22 Sept. 2015

Backing up email from any IMAP server (plus: syncing and migrating)

20 Sept. 2015

Another way to fix tearing and vsync issues using the Nvidia driver

30 Juni 2015

For news junkies who want to stay organized and happy: NewsBlur and TinyTinyRSS

29 Juni 2015

If you get a lot of logspam from systemd in your /var/log/syslog, this might help

21 Juni 2015

Why I'm switching from Jolla's Sailfish OS back to CyanogenMod for now

28 Feb. 2015

Ebook market still broken

25 Nov. 2014

Presenting the EurKEYboard: A mechanical keyboard for Europeans and coders

24 Juni 2014

Marrying Pulseaudio to KDE’s multimedia settings

16 Apr. 2014

Syncing Sailfish OS's native calendar/contacts with ownCloud

3 März 2014

An input method for Chinese in KDE 4

21 Feb. 2014

A secure, free alternative to WhatsApp that is fully under your control

4 Feb. 2014

Swiss churches pay for pro-church-tax campaign using church tax

3 Jan. 2014

The first week with a Jolla phone and Sailfish OS

13 Nov. 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself, part 7: Deleting your account

10 Nov. 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself, part 6: Browsers and syncing

5 Nov. 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself, part 5: Translation, dictionaries and online video

23 Sept. 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself, part 4: Mobile phone operating systems

17 Juli 2013

You cannot buy an ebook in Switzerland without surrendering to two foreign companies

15 Juli 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself, part 3: Maps

4 Juli 2013

Using joysticks/controllers with keyboard-based games in GNU/Linux

2 Juli 2013

Nvidia Optimus support now built-in on Debian testing

28 Juni 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself part 2

25 Mai 2013

Cracking the DRM on Kindle ebooks

22 Mai 2013

Google no longer supporting XMPP/Jabber

16 Mai 2013

IT archaeology: Virtualizing RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon) with VirtualBox in the year 2013

13 März 2013

Proxying from Apache HTTPS to some backend server that only speaks HTTP

7 Jan. 2013

The slow and painful act of ungoogling yourself

2 Nov. 2012

Creating your own Steam Cloud (or how to reliably sync any two directories)

19 Juli 2012

Building your own Sublime out of free components with vim

27 Mai 2012

Super-legible Heiti-style Chinese font for Debian GNU/Linux

8 Sept. 2011

Avoding "Invalid byte sequence in UTF-8" with Ruby and CSV files

7 Sept. 2011

Watch TV on your PC, no ads, no Flash

20 Mai 2011

Vegan Black Metal Chef, Ep. 1

10 Nov. 2010

Moving from Google Reader to Tiny Tiny RSS

27 Okt. 2010

Why is Switzerland/Norway so rich/expensive/not part of the EU?

16 Aug. 2010

Good quality music from your PC, Mac or NAS: Music Streamer

20 Apr. 2010

Sidegrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to Debian squeeze: It's a breeze

7 März 2010

How to decrypt an Adobe DRM-crippled ePub eBook file

12 Okt. 2009

Nitpicking: KDE vs. Windows 7 window controls

22 Aug. 2009

A week with KDE 4.3

7 Aug. 2009

Checking out KDE 4.3 – it's a winner

2 Juli 2009

How competition in the browser market helped all of us

6 Okt. 2008

More than half of Standard Norge resigns over Microsoft OOXML fiasco

30 Mai 2008

KDE 4's ultra-sexy text editor control

20 Mai 2008

Popcorn Hour A-100: A proper media player box

19 Mai 2008

French court forces dealer to refund Windows price

21 Apr. 2008

Chairman of Norwegian ISO mirror committee reveals whole story

10 Apr. 2008

Norwegians protest against OOXML

2 Apr. 2008

ISO approves broken standard amidst massive irregularities

25 Jan. 2008

Gbarcode Support for Ruby FPDF

24 Sept. 2007

Our OpenVZ Virtualization Experience

13 Apr. 2007

From Zero to Virtualization: Linux-Vserver vs. OpenVZ

26 März 2007

Dell Germany Refunds Vista/Works Price to Swiss Customer

6 Jan. 2007

How to get a refund for the unused copy of Windows that is chained to your new laptop

14 Nov. 2006

Some brainlessness in rsnapshot