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Quick steps to install apps from non-Google-Play sources in Android Private Space (introduced with Android 15)

Why Recently, my fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) connection changed from a slighly easier DHCP based setup to an additional required authentication step using PPPoE to connect to the Internet. The advantage is that, for IPv4, I no longer have to use double-NAT, as my own OPNsense firewall can directly get the (dynamically assigned through PPPoE, but statically allocated at the ISP end) IPv4 WAN address instead of the previous ISP router in between that then handed out transfer net non-routable IPv4 addresses via DHCP.

Use a password manager. But which one?

Running Linux on a Lenovo Yoga 6 Gen 8 (2023 version, specifically 13ABR8, but probably applies to others as well) works reasonably well with most hardware being supported out-of-the-box with all Linux distributions from around 2022 or later that I have tried.

A short rant on the current “AI” hype and the damage it will probably cause.

ChatGPT and other large language models are currently getting better at generating correct syntax for (human and programming) languages. But they don’t have a proper world model and therefore lack significantly in higher-level semantic concepts. That seems to be a fundamental problem, and I fear they will remain limited to smarter auto-complete tools, but won’t live up to their current hype.

Space man managed to make Twitter a site completely devoid both of interesting content and proper governmance in a surprisingly short timeframe. I decided to no longer burden the site with my content after having moved over to Mastodon a few weeks before. This blog post documents the (relatively simple) process of taking my tweets with me and keeping the archive public on this personal website.

Getting OPNsense to perform well on a low-powered CPU, e.g. the APU4d4 board, can be tricky. One particular problem has been DNS resolution latency with unbound. I measured Unbound in various configuration variants with dnsperf and am presenting my results here.

The academic peer review process can often be frustrating — not only for junior members of the research community. In this blog post, in the name of full transparency, I walk through a particular example of a process that took nearly 3 years from start to final publication. The main lessons are that iterations help the quality of a paper, and that persistence can pay off (but no guarantees).

Getting OPNsense to perform well on a low-powered CPU, e.g. the APU4d4 board, can be tricky. As there are some open questions, this post summarizes some measurements taken in a home lab setup.