Jean Ribes - Blog

Motorola Moto G73 review

I was shopping for a new smartphone, since my previous Moto G5+ had microphone issues (it's a phone, right!). Comparison When I purchased my previous Moto G5+, it was advertised with 3GB of RAM, but the one I received had 4 ! Here is a quick specs comparison. For more info,

QR codes inside the terminal

Want to copy/paste between your phone and laptop ? You can use QR codes right in your terminal !

Oracle Cloud

I switched my hosting to Oracle Cloud, to make use of its ARM processors on the advantageous free tier

PAM authentication with Howdy, fingerprint and password

Authenticate with face recognition AND fingerprint, with password as a fallback

Gemini Ghost backend

Serve your Ghost blog over Gemini

About the theme/design

Explanations about the CSS-only animations of this blog (only on displayed on wide screens)

Gemini reverse proxy using Traefik HostSNI

Using Traefik reverse-proxy for Gemini, based on the TLS SNI, without any SSL termination

Migrating to Azure Cloud

I remembered that with GitHub Education, you can get interesting deals, like credit for *DigitalOcean* and *Microsoft Azure*. You can see where this is going... migrating to the next cloud provider with free credit

RGB Mouse as a battery indicator

I got a new gaming mouse, a logitech G203 LightSync. This mouse has RBG LEDs, and is supported by libratbag [https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag] (also known as its frontend, Piper [https://github.com/libratbag/piper]) Sadly, for the time being, libratbag cannot control the RGB zones individually, nor enable

nip.io alternative

Do you know the tool https://nip.io/, or the defunct xip.io ? Those tools allow you to use a wildcard domain for any IP, notably local and private ones. They work by including the wanted IP destination in the domain, like a.subdomain.192.168.1.2.nip.io,