July 7, 2026 - https://mwop.net/I use Nextcloud, and have used the Nextcloud News app as my feed reader for a number of years.
Since moving all my hosting to a home lab, I noticed that Nextcloud News was unable to retrieve feeds from my own website, which was weird. Looking at the logs, I saw notes about “host violates local …Read more →about Nextcloud SSRF rules and internal address ranges
May 10, 2026 - https://opello.org/A while back at a SLUG (Siouxland Linux Users Group) meeting, an attendee had some Lenovo ThinkCentre small form factor computers to sell at very reasonable prices. They were surplus that I believe a school used as thin clients. It turned out that one of them would not boot and I thought that …Read more →about Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q UEFI/BIOS Recovery
February 14, 2024 - https://opello.org/I built a new PC a few years ago using the Intel 8086K that I won in the Intel 40th Anniversary Sweepstakes. It’s been a good machine that I’ve only really used for games. Over the last year or so I’ve used it for some more hobby projects and I finally got annoyed with the …Read more →about Windows Downloads Folder Grouping
February 6, 2024 - https://opello.org/Recently there has been news of Google deploying advertisements more invasive than content banners in their Google TV launcher. Upon experiencing this directly it seemed like a good idea to dig into replacing the launcher.
The first step was testing out alternative launchers. I tried Projectivy …Read more →about Chromecast HD Alternate Launcher
November 28, 2023 - https://burgers.ioIn the previous article we learned how to parse numbers from a stream of text using Wasm, in preparation for doing Advent of Code challenges. To solve the challenge, we intermixed the parsing and the solving into a single function; while that may work for some of the easier challenges, eventually …Read more →about A complete novice writes Wasm by hand: Adding an Allocator