Weekly Notes 07 Sep 2025

Updated 09-Sep-2025

W36/2025: Monday 01 September - Sunday 07 September 2025

Caption: Rainbow over the football pitch, Tessabaan Hang Dong

Contents

Tech

Tasks (open)

Books

Music

Video

Tech

Migrating from my *.io domains to *.info which is cheaper and more stable as a generic TLD, and the prices are not becoming ridiculous, as .ios are. Who knows what will happen with the .io tld now that Chagoans (actually, Mauritians) are going to get their country back (excluding a long-term lease of Diego Garcia).
Problem with monitor / computer going to sleep in Debian 13? Try this in your .bashrc:

xset dpms 0 0 0 && xset s noblank  && xset s off

Trixie backports now available. Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources

Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: trixie-backports
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

and change the update script up to:

sudo apt update -y
sudo apt update -y -t trixie-backports
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt upgrade -t trixie-backports
sudo apt autoremove

Tasks (open)

Deploy more anti-bot measures
Enable caching on Gcore
Install and configure Ejabbard server for domain: mcneill.info
- Migrate users from chat.mcneill.im to mcneill.info XMPP
Add useragent 'montastic-monitor http://www.montastic.com' whitelist

Books

Still reading the D-Genesis books, though a bit bored (I'm on book 6 of so-far-released 9).
Started The Book of Swindles by Zhang Yingyu. The intro is quite informative.

Music

Picked up a bunch of stuff on Bandcamp Friday. I'd had most of it in the shopping basket, and pulled the trigger. Special thanks to Matte Black for adding a full discography discount option. Previously Ari Melody and syn.terra have also responded positively to this request.