I’ve been running the dovecot mail server for many years now without encountering any significant issue. Configure once, run forever. But as with almost every other good project these days, there comes the time when the devs just decide to mess things up. In the case of dovecot, a new minor version 2.4 followed upon 2.3, just as you would…
Category: Linux
zigbee2mqtt external converters on Arch Linux
zigbee2mqtt usually just works fine. However, in its latest version 2.x, the way external converters get loaded has changed fundamentally. To begin with, external converters can now be loaded by sending their code via MQTT, which to me looks like adding some remote eval capability just for the fun of it. In order to accomplish this, zigbee2mqtt creates a new…
What is wrong with Rust packaging on EL9?
Rust’s rich type system and ownership model guarantee memory-safety and thread-safety https://www.rust-lang.org/ Looks like Rust’s rich packaging guarantees anything… but security. Why would one want to have a Linux package for every little library?Who is going to audit this?
CAN bus on Banana Pi M2 Berry
The BPI M2 Berry is based on the Allwinner V40 chip, which includes a CAN controller. Unfortunately, the CAN pins are not exposed on the PCB, but used for connecting LEDs and Ethernet instead. In order to make the CAN bus work on BPI M2B, the following steps are required: Hardware modification Kernel patching Device tree overlay Hardware modification The…