Stuff that was hard to find & fix
Since quite a while I was running a Pi-Hole DNS server in my network to block ad- & tracking requests for all devices in the network (more info about Pi-hole are on Wikipedia).
All was great until at some time our Android devices suddenly couldn’t connect to the WiFi anymore. They reported “Connected, No Internet“. All other devices, connected via LAN or WiFi were just fine: PCs, FireTV Stick, other PIs – no issues. When I disabled the use of PiHole, they were able to connect again.
(more…)Unfortunately Synology has discontinued their support for Videostation starting from DSM version 7.2.2 as can be read in the Release Notes for DSM | Synology Inc.:
#6 Video Station is not available on DSM 7.2.2. Refer to this article for workarounds to stream videos to end devices.
Time to evaluate the alternatives …
(more…)Malware sites are the plague of the century! And it’s so easy to fall for them. Phishing, hacked website content, or malware-ads – one click and you are on a website you shouldn’t be.
One way to deal with the issue is to block malicious domains at DNS resolver level. The advantage is that you do not have to do any modification at the devices!
(more…)Microsoft / Outlook.com have silently removed connected accounts from outlook.com on July 1st, 2024.
TL;DR: Connected accounts are gone and cannot be fixed :-(
I only got aware of it as some people told me that my eMails were marked as “unverified sender” on their side. And indeed, eMails were suddenly sent via the outlook email server. Before I sent the mails through the SMTP server of my hosting provider.
(more…)Recently I realized that there are certain topics in my news / RSS feed that I ALWAYS scroll over. I’m just not interested in them. Like news about certain brands, manufacturer or products. I wondered, if there is no easy way to simply NOT see them in my feed. I mean I filter by only looking at keywords in the title. Really super simple.
(more…)Problem: Recently I faced the issue with my Jabra Elite InEars that while I was using them, the volume started to continually decrease until I had to max out the volume on the phone. Yet the sound was still barely loud enough to hear it. After not using them for a while, sound was okay again (still quiet but better) until volume started to decrease again while using.
The internet is FULL of advice about Bluetooth settings, resetting the phone, entering developer mode etc. Yet it was ways easier.
(more…)In order to tell OpenAI to stop crawling a website and thus not use the content for training GPT, OpenAI now supports to disallow GPTBot from accessing your site.
The Information can be found on the GPTBot – OpenAI API website:
Completely disallow GPTBot:
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /Allow/disallow certain parts of a website:
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /directory-1/
Disallow: /directory-2/For WordPress sites, I can recommend the Virtual Robots.txt – plugin.
I often just use one of the in-ears of my Jabra 75T. Recently I figured out that when I use both in-ears headphones, the right one was significantly louder than the left one. After a quick hearing test, I was convinced that it is not a problem with my hearing but with one of the headphones.
After some back and forth, the easiest solution was:
Simply hard reset the headphones in 2 simple steps.
If resetting does NOT solve the issue permanently: Try cleaning a specific part!
I don’t want to blame the time shift 2x a year. At least as long as I do not forget to change the time on my camera as well! As I am doing most of my photography on hikes and geo tag them afterwards, It makes quite a difference if the file creation time is right or wrong.
This year I forgot to change it on the camera and needed to bulk-change the file time later. Luckily this is pretty easy using Windows Powershell and the Windows PowerShell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment):
$files = Get-ChildItem "C:\Users\[....]\*.arw"
foreach ($f in $files){
$d1 = [System.IO.File]::GetCreationTime($f.FullName)
$d2 = $d1.addHours(1)
[System.IO.File]::SetCreationTime($f.FullName, $d2)
echo $d1
echo $d2
echo ---
}
Just copy it into the ISE, execute, done.