Jean Ribes - Blog

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,

Remplacer son mot de passe par un tag NFC

Introduction Le but est de déverouiller son PC en approchant un tag NFC. Il faut pour ceci un ordinateur sous Linux, et un lecteur de tags NFC. J'ai utilisé un ACR122U. PAM_nfc pam_nfc permet d'ouvrir sa session et remplir le mot de passe demandé par sudo ou PolKit.

Accéder à un bureau LXDE via XRDP dans un conteneur LXC

XRDP, contrairement à des produits comme Anydesk ou x11vnc, permet de lancer une sessions à distance sur un ordinateur, sans prendre la main sur l'écran. Le serveur XRDP peut donc tourner sur une machine headless. Évidemment, tout marche toujours dans les tutoriels sur internet. Moi, en me connectant, la session