Google’s new Page Annotation feature for its iOS browser automatically changes your website and adds to Google Search results. These auto-added links are not marked as “added by Google” and thus make the links look like I added them myself.
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Stuff that was hard to find & fix
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How to fix: Jellyfin Library Scan Hangs
Just recently I wrote about How to install Jellyfin on a RaspberryPi. It all started promising until – after adding a couple of movies – the Library Scan suddenly hung. Unfortunately I didn’t dig too deep into all kinds of logs (which I certainly forgot but which might have given a hint).
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How to fix: Android Connected, No Internet with Pi-Hole
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.
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How to replace Synology Video Station with Jellyfin
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 …
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How to get simple DNS Protection
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!
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How to: Migrate from Outlook.com to GMail / Fix connected accounts
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.
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How to filter / hide / ignore News in an RSS feed
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.
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How to fix: Jabra Elite 75T volume too low / decreasing
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.
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How to Exclude OpenAI GPTBot from future crawling a website
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.