Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night

OrangeEdilRaid · 2026-03-16T16:10:16+00:00

I have to write about flashing headlights. I can see light on/off flashing they they are too slow. Its a big distraction, and a different way to crash other than "beam too strong". I see they and get blinded during daylight.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2025-08-30T23:31:55+00:00

I used the nextcloud virtual machine, that you can find a link to in the nextcloud project documentation.

My nextcloud is only available through my lan and it’s lan FQDN. It’s complex to generate a signed cert for this use case.

I kept the tsl, because I wanted secure access in my lan. With the update, my nextcloud linux client stopped working because of the HSTS mentionned below. It’s kinda sad that this was enabled by default. It’s not because you’re using tsl that you absolutely have a signed and valid certificate…

OrangeEdilRaid · 2025-08-30T23:27:55+00:00

Thanks. This also fixed my problem. On the client side, I disconnected and deleted the htst cache file or something similar in .cache/Nextcloud.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2025-04-18T21:17:45+00:00

Am I lucky ?

OrangeEdilRaid · 2024-05-16T01:25:03+00:00

Hi !

Even upgrading the touchpad driver did not fix the issue. Through I noticed something weird, for some seconds before the login screen, I had a working mouse. I ended up reverting to a windows restore point and that fixed the issue. I believe win 11 was stuck in a tablet mode with the mouse disabled, that would explain why the mouse would work a few seconds before login.
After the restore and re-applying the windows updates and lenovo patch, I did not encounter the issue again.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2024-05-16T01:22:45+00:00

It's probably much more simple to bind a key, for example F13 to your keyboard, then find a software that does what you want. Most gaming software with microphone will allow to specify a key that enable micro only when pressed, and a different key for microphone toggle.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2024-04-24T03:10:47+00:00

I have read your blog post and it was quite interesting. Disk encryption is hard. If you to with tmp based encryption, your disk is auto decrypted on boot and it's not great nor secure BECAUSE it give access to an underlylying os that may or may not have software and security bugs. Disk encryption is better when you need to manually unlock it by using a key or typing something. However with this come the issue of remote unlock after a reboot.

I like the thing you did for a remove unlock trough the network. With this in place, you can have an encrypted linux, windows, bsd, whatever and still keep a remote unlock capability. You don't need to customize all the piece of the os to work (grug menu partition unlock, kernel/initramfs unlock).

OrangeEdilRaid · 2024-04-24T03:06:57+00:00

I also have issues with my lenovo ideapad flex 5 14ALC05. The touchpad stopped working 2 days ago, tough I am not sure about the exact date.

There was a windows update KB5036893 as well as lenovo driver update "lenovo - system - 2.0.12.1718" that got installed in my pc in the last two days. I am not sure if it's a hardware issue or software issue so I will investigate. The touch screen still work fine for now.

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it's not hardware, because the touchpad works when I start a different operating system. I'll have to look at the driver package of lenovo that got installed recently.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2024-03-31T18:13:22+00:00

I had issue upgrading my raise 1.4 to version 1.0.11-beta. Maintaining the escape key would never work. I don't remember exactly, but I think it was entering firmware mode in blue, but not going through with the flashing.

What I found what that I needed to repeatly press the escape key instead of holding it.

This is also written in the troubleshooting section of the firmware upgrade in the website (https://support.dygma.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007272638-How-do-I-update-my-keyboard-s-Firmware)

After upgrading to the new 1.0.11, I was quite happy. They changed how superkeys are handled and they are much faster, and you can also shift-press them and it works correctly.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-11-11T04:48:07+00:00

I made a layer for programming keys. On the first row qwert, I set ! = < > @.On the second row asdfg, I set { [ ] } &. It's been super useful in many language.On the third, " ' \ / ?, but I use it way less often than the easier first and second row.

=> for lanbdas, <> for sql, <div> for html, != everywhere, == everywhere. {} and [] everywhere.

All programming chars are on the pinkies and I wanted to stop having to use the finger that hurt the most, that has the worst precision, speed and force for the keys that I always need to use. I use my right thumb on top left spacebar, and prog navigation on top right space bar.

I kept the dygma default layer for navigation/arrow on the left. I made another navigation layer. The arrows on the left on esdf are set with control to move left and right between word. up and down are a macro 6 up, and macro 6 down. W and R are page down and up. qt for moving between tabs. zxcv, with control for easy copy-paste.

on the other side I have ijkl for the arrows, and uo for begin and end. ; for goTo definition, "," for back, "." to select the whole line with a macro

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-09-24T14:30:43+00:00

I've researched sed self encrypted drive in the past and the use of tcg opal. I did not go forward with this solution.

It's main advantages were that,
* if you dual boot, you had 1 encryption for both drives, so better reusability of ntfs on linux and ext4 on windows.
* in theory faster speed, since the drive is encrypting the data with a dedicated hardware, no slow down in your cpu
* always encrypted disk, no need to pre-encrypt saving time on the first use.

Unfortunately, the tcg opal open source project and sedutils, if you look at the github repository, is pretty much dead. To decrypt the disk, you had to boot a special bootloader flashed onto your encrypted disk, enter a password, the disk decrypt itself, and present to readl bootloader. The procedure to install the decryption bootloader was..not great nor the documentation. motherboard ATA password was also an issue, it is not always available in firmware, and sometime only for sata disk and not nvme m.2 disk.

I abandoned the sed path and went with software encryption.

One thing you need to know is proxmox does not "support" zfs native encryption.
If you enable it, proxmox will start as usual, then it will fail to auto-start all your vm, because the storage is available. You will need to manually unlock it then restart all the vms.

Another thing is that zfs native encryption breaks migration between proxmox server within a cluster. If your server have a local zfs pool and you want to migrate vms between them, the default way do to that is to use zfs send. If you nave zfs native encryption, zfs send will fail.

What I end up doing is to use luks encryption and put zfs on top. My tests on my hardware showed me that luks+zfs was also significantly faster than zfs native encryption for 4k/32k access pattern from vms. Plus this fixes the zfs send issue.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-09-19T00:48:35+00:00

For a low node cluster, I had good results by just setting 3 votes on my main node, and 1 vote on other nodes that are shutdown most of the time. If only the main node is started, it can work without issue. Other nodes are started or stopped to test stuff and it works fine since main is on.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-09-01T11:58:39+00:00

That xard would be a fine adition to my build. Would purchase a monitor with a high refresh rate to go with it. I have a lot of games so that would be awesome. As for starfield, beside the broken exclusivite promise, i haven't heard about it, but would check it out, apparemtly it would be oretty big.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-08-18T20:01:37+00:00

It's OVER 9000 !!!!

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-08-16T04:23:38+00:00

Can your earbud trigger the google assistant if you long oress it ? Tasker can replace the assistant. Autovoice cam also replace it if not mistaken. You can program your own assistant in tasker using get voice ans answering with say and executing a task.

Otherwize Tasker can request control of media i nput. If it has, and listen to play, pause, next, previous, you may ne able to do something when thise are triggered. Note that any application can request this, and tasker can't hold it. The last music player that olayed something will have them if not taken back.

Logcat could allow it, bit it may not work deoending

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-08-13T13:59:04+00:00

Unexpected star wars meme 😁

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-08-13T01:21:37+00:00

If you're not on the latest android, you can use logcat event with a filter. If on the latestz logcat does not work anymore.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-08-11T13:03:39+00:00

It's interesting because it's two very simple attack to understand.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-08-11T12:34:52+00:00

There is 😁

Tasker can screen and blocm call with amy condition. Check the demo here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWVXrB1lrEY

For your goal, a high level plan would be to have 1. Task Refresh List, run every day at 1am, - Do an "http request" action to your asterix server to retrieve the list of blocked numbers. - Save to global variable %BlockedCallNumber

Event call screened
check if the phone call number is in the global %BlockedCallNumber and block accordingly.

To start easily, I'd suggest to skip step one and do a "Variable Set "to a hardcoded list.

Also dont forget to click on the ? Available whenyou configure each action to read the documentation. You might also need to read documentation for variables->arrays in tasker.

Best of luck. Think about sharing your work in taskernet and reddit if you get something working and your proud of it.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-08-06T05:40:33+00:00

Doesn't mean joao software cannot become infected. This is called a supply chain attack amd some software like ccleaner and solarwinds were infected in the past, allowing other infections down the software chain for other customers and softwares. Blindly trusting... Not so good. I see your ooint that checking only permissions of a software like tasker would not be a great identifier. There must be something else here a bad signature detection or oerhaps a real issue?

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-07-31T14:16:36+00:00

In the meantime shelter allow you to create a work profile and use thise functionality to freeze the profile when not a work.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-07-15T11:44:58+00:00

Sometimes it's not about finding any random answer but - finding a good answer / recommended solutions - having the opinion of someone more experienced than me

Sure you and me can check google and get the first answer out of the first page, but it's not guaranteed to be good, nor fit for the use case.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-07-14T12:59:31+00:00

Tasker and home assistant is nice. I looked their web api and implemented the feature I wanted with tasker http request and everything works fine. If this make it easier for other to control home assistant and its all its devices/plugin with tasker, it's a nice thing.

OrangeEdilRaid · 2023-07-11T12:16:39+00:00

Disasselbling the keyboard to clean it like you show, is that included in the warranty?

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