Category: libre software

Umatrix makes the web usable again

As happens with all media, once corporations join in because there is money to be made, things quickly devolve into a flaming heap of shit. The internet is no exception to this rule. With the coming of Javascript and DHTML in the late 90’s, ads soon started appearing on the web. Not long after, pop-ups […]

Ansible-cmdb v1.23: Generate a host overview of Ansible facts.

I’ve just released ansible-cmdb v1.23. Ansible-cmdb takes the output of Ansible’s fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML overview page containing system configuration information. It supports multiple templates (fancy html, txt, markdown, json and sql) and extending information gathered by Ansible with custom data. This release includes the following changes: group_vars are now parsed. Sub directories in […]

sshbg: Change terminal background when SSHing (for Tilix and Xterm)

This is gonna be a short post. I wrote a tool to change the background color of my terminal when I ssh to a machine. It works on Tilix and Xterm, but not most other terminals because they don’t support the ANSI escape sequence for changing the background color. It works by combining SSH’s LocalCommand […]

Criticize grsecurity? Get sued.

Thinking about using the grsecurity linux kernel hardening patches? Better check with your legal team. Not only are they likely violating the GPLv2 with their patch-set, but if you point out that, in your opinion, they are violating the GPLv2, they’ll sue you. And not only you, but anybody that is even remotely involved in […]

Merging two Python dictionaries by deep-updating

Say we have two Python dictionaries: { ‘name’: ‘Ferry’, ‘hobbies’: [‘programming’, ‘sci-fi’] } and { ‘hobbies’: [‘gaming’] } What if we want to merge these two dictionaries such that “gaming” is added to the “hobbies” key of the first dictionary? I couldn’t find anything online that did this already, so I wrote the following function […]

ScriptForm v1.3: Webserver that automatically generates forms to serve as frontends to scripts

I’ve just released v1.3 of Scriptform. ScriptForm is a stand-alone webserver that automatically generates forms from JSON to serve as frontends to scripts. It takes a JSON file which contains form definitions, constructs web forms from this JSON and serves these to users over HTTP. The user can select a form and fill it out. When […]

How to solve RPMs created by Alien having file conflicts

I generate release packages for my software with Alien, which amongst other things converts .deb packages to .rpm. On Fedora 24 however, the generated RPMs cause a small problem when installed with Yum: Transaction check error: file / from install of cfgtrack-1.0-2.noarch conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.2-20.el7.x86_64 file /usr/bin from install of cfgtrack-1.0-2.noarch conflicts […]

Ansible-cmdb v1.20: Generate a host overview of Ansible facts.

I’ve just released ansible-cmdb v1.20. Ansible-cmdb takes the output of Ansible’s fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML overview page containing system configuration information. It supports multiple templates (fancy html, txt, markdown, json and sql) and extending information gathered by Ansible with custom data. This release includes the following changes: Support for installation in a VirtualEnv. New […]

ScriptForm v1.1: Webserver that automatically generates forms to serve as frontends to scripts

ScriptForm is a stand-alone webserver that automatically generates forms from JSON to serve as frontends to scripts. It takes a JSON file which contains form definitions, constructs web forms from this JSON and serves these to users over HTTP. The user can select a form and fill it out. When the user submits the form, it […]

Ansible-cmdb v1.19: Generate a host overview of Ansible facts.

I’ve just released ansible-cmdb v1.19. Ansible-cmdb takes the output of Ansible’s fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML overview page containing system configuration information. It supports multiple templates (fancy html, txt, markdown, json and sql) and extending information gathered by Ansible with custom data. This release includes the following bugfixes;: Always show stack trace on error and […]

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