Rik Huijzer 2 days ago

How To Run Services on a Linux Server

I have been running services myself for a few years on Linux servers. It took a while to figure out what works best. Here's what I've learned. First of all, all maintenance is done on headless servers via SSH. Learning this might seem daunting for some at first, but it is truly unbeatable in terms of productivity and speed. To easily log in via SSH, add the SSH keys to the server and then add the server to your `~/.ssh/config`. For example, ``` Host arnold Hostname 123.456.789.012 User rik IdentityFile ~/.ssh/arnold ``` Now you can log in via `ssh arnold` instead of having to ma...

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Rik Huijzer 5 days ago

Setup a Syncthing service on Debian

Install via the APT instructions. Next (source): ``` useradd -u 1010 -c "Syncthing Service" -d /var/syncthing -s /usr/sbin/nologin syncthing mkdir /var/syncthing chown -R syncthing:syncthing /var/syncthing chmod 700 /var/syncthing systemctl enable [email protected] systemctl start [email protected] systemctl status [email protected] ``` Then you should be able to connect to the web GUI at `localhost:8385`. To allow this user to read files outside it's own directories, use ``` getfacl /some/other/dir ``` from `acl` (`apt-get install acl`) to view the permission...

DevOps Programming Open Source

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Rik Huijzer 1 weeks ago

Raspberry Pi as Forgejo Runner

In my instructions on how to setup [Forgejo with a runner](/posts/55), I used a Hetzner server for the runner. This costs roughly 5 euros per month, so 60 euro annually. A full Hetzner server might be a bit overkill for a simple runner. Especially if you are just running Shell scripts or static site generation. The Hetzner server supports things like high bandwidth, low latency, unique IPv4 address, high uptime guarantees. Most of these are not necessary for your own runner. Therefore, in many cases it's probably a good idea to run the Runner on your own hardware. What I have tested and work...

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Rik Huijzer 2 weeks ago

Adam Fannin on Voting

“There is more power in praying than there is in voting.” Source: “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” (Psalm 146:3)

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Rik Huijzer 2 weeks ago

Running `deezer/spleeter`

Here are up-to-date installation instructions for running Deezer's Spleeter on `Ubuntu 24.04`. Minimum requirements are around 16 GB of RAM. (During the processing, it uses around 11 GB at the peak.) I ran this on a temporary Hetzner server because my Apple Silicon system, after lots of fiddling with version, ran into AVX issues. Install Conda. ``` conda create -n spleeter_env python=3.8 -y ``` ``` conda activate spleeter_env ``` ``` conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg libsndfile numpy=1.19 -y ``` ``` pip install spleeter ``` ``` spleeter separate -o audio_output input.mp3 ``` If your a...

Python AI

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Rik Huijzer 2 weeks ago

Jesse Strang in 2019

At a shooting on a high school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, 10 people were shot, as reported at 03:30 in Dutch national media. There are two suspect names going around, however. For example, on Feb 11, 2026, 7:25 PM IST the _Hindustan Times_ reported the name Jesse Strang. A few hours later, however, the name was suddenly reported as Jesse Van Rootselaar without mention of the previous name. For Jesse Strang, there is the following YouTube video posted on the 18th of March 2019. Screensh...

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Rik Huijzer 3 weeks ago

Picture of Epstein Eating Cake

A picture of Jeffrey Epstein eating a cake with what seems to be the Talmud visible behind him. Seems to have been released a few weeks ago. Source. 

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Rik Huijzer 1 months ago

Castopod configuration

I just setup a castopod instance to self-host some audio files, and so far it seems to work. To get it to work, I used tweaked the default configuration a bit as follows. On a server, make a new folder called `castopod` and added a new `docker-compose.yml` file: ```yml services: castopod: image: 'castopod/castopod:1.14.0' container_name: 'castopod' volumes: - './media:/var/www/castopod/public/media' environment: MYSQL_DATABASE: 'castopod' MYSQL_USER: 'castopod' CP_BASEURL: 'https:// ' CP_ANALYTICS_SALT: ' ' CP_REDIS_HOST...

Open Source DevOps

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Rik Huijzer 1 months ago

Peter Ruckman on Professors

After having been in academia for many years and having obtained a PhD, I agree with Dr. Peter Ruckman's opinion (starting 9:52): > [...] > Always correct the Greek with English. > Oh how they hate that. Oh my God how they hate that. > Every professor in America just "Oh oh... Ah! Heresy!" > You say, "Why?" > They want you to come to them, can't you figure that mess out? > > **Now listen, never let scholarship intimidate you no matter how stupid you are.** > If the scholarship says one thing and you read in your Bible that it doesn't say that, don't let them intimidate you. > Say, "Well, I do...

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Rik Huijzer 1 months ago

The 95 Theses of the Reformationsfest (1917)

This is an English translation of the 95 Leitsätze zum Reformationsfest 1917. These theses were meant to bring the church up-to-date to the new ideas of national socialism. Like all man-made doctrines, it is probably best ignored, but it may be useful for research purposes. The translation below is created by feeding the images to Google Gemini. This means the translation is probably far from perfect, but it should still be sufficient to get a rough idea of the main messages of the text. The 95 theses are as follows: ## I 1. The necessity to make clear to the German people what Christiani...

Culture History

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Rik Huijzer 1 months ago

Noteworthy Bible Quotes

Old Testament quotes from Brenton’s Septuagint and New Testament quotes from KJV. David would today be called a “conspiracy theorist”: “Thou hast sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly;” (Psalm 63) “It is better to hope in the Lord, than to hope in princes.” (Psalm 117:9) “I was peaceful among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.” (Psalm 119:7) “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord; but he that deals faithfully is accepted with him.” (Proverbs 12:22) This re-emphasizes that the Old Testament is al...

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Rik Huijzer 2 months ago

The Bad News

Pastor Adam Fannin of Law of Liberty church had a good description of the news. He calls it the “bad news” because there is nothing good in it. Source: .

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Rik Huijzer 2 months ago

Politieke Identiteit versus Links-Rechts

Op Reddit kwam er een grappige en interessante tekst voorbij over politieke voorkeuren. De tekst is helaas weggehaald door een admin. Ik heb geen idee waarom. Hierbij de tekst: > Ik heb een openbaring gehad na het lezen van de 47e discussie deze week over "is deze uitspraak nou links of rechts?". Het kwartje viel: politiek is een spectrum. En door iedereen in twee vakjes te proppen (links/rechts) pleeg je eigenlijk symbolisch geweld. Ja, echt. Het is polariserend, reducerend en ronduit gewelddadig tegenover de nuance van de menselijke politieke identiteit. > > Denk er eens over na: > > Stel j...

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Rik Huijzer 2 months ago

The Norway Spiral

On December 9, 2009, a spiral appeared into the sky in Norway,   The official explanation is that a Baluva missle test had failed. They say that the missile went into a spin. This theory makes no sense. How would a rocket spin around to create this and especially that blue trail going towards the circles? More likely is that it was created by EISCAT, a powerful High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility located where the blue beam emanates from.

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Rik Huijzer 2 months ago

Toward User Sovereignty

An interesting blog post talks about how system are getting too big and that it could be countered by, - local-level decisions, that is, moving decisions locally instead of centrally, - allow us to have exit rights, that is, to opt-out of a system, - have contestable architecture, that is, to have auditable governance, - simplicity and intuitive, that is, to keep the system as simple as possible.

Design Business Open Source

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Rik Huijzer 2 months ago

Bondi Beach 9⧸11

At Bondi Beach, 12 people have been reported dead due to an alledged terrorist attack. While the BBC at the time of writing are still unsure whether it is a terrorist attack or not: "More than two dozen others were injured in the attack, which police say they are treating as a terrorist incident." (archive). Meanwhile, Wikipedia apparently has better sources than the BBC because they write "On 14 December 2025, a terrorist mass shooting occurred at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, during a large Hanukkah celebration hosted by the Chabad of Bondi." More surprisingly, Wikipedia within less tha...

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Rik Huijzer 2 months ago

Is Frederick T Gates related to Bill Gates?

Given the funny ending, I'll repost a interesting Answers.com answer to the question whether Frederick T. Gates is related to Bill Gates. This was published 11 years ago (2014): > To the unpaid Snopes intern/Gates family PR slave above me : Frederick Taylor Gates just happened to be present in the Greater Seattle area in 1891, THE SAME YEAR Bill Gates Grandfather was born, the supposed furniture store owner. What are the odds of that? Get out your Snopes calculator. Furthermore there are ZERO public explanations as to why Bill Gates has III for a Suffix, and his father II, when there are clea...

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Rik Huijzer 2 months ago

China's CO₂ Emissions Per Capita Has Already Surpassed the...

EU According to Our World in Data, China's CO₂ emissions per capita have already passed those of people in the European Union and the UK, and will surpass those of the US and Canada roughly around 2028: 

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Rik Huijzer 2 months ago

The Dutch Nitrogen Regulation Makes No Sense

The Dutch Raad van State in 2019 has argued that a nitrogen deposition of 5.09 mol per acre per year is damaging De Heide (Heath) too much. This is the same as putting down about one one grain of fertilizer the size of a sugar grain per two square meters per week. How ridiculous this may sound, this verdict has blocked thousands of farmers and builders from expanding their business or homes, and even caused many farms to close down. Furthermore, many farmers in the Netherlands, which have often been farmers for many generations, are not sure whether they will be allowed to continue farming.

Journalism Science Business

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Rik Huijzer 2 months ago

Yuval Noah Harari on Science and Truth

Harari in his own words: > Truth was never the highest priority of human society. > It was the highest priority of some individuals, but never of society as a whole because society as a whole does not function on the basis of truth. > And if you take two of the most powerful institutions of humankind, let's think about science and the scientific community, and let's think about religion and churches and so forth. > I think none of them has truth as their chief value. > As individuals yes, but as institutions know, > I think the chief value of science is power and the chief value of religion i...

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