Permissions Articles
- /dev/null: Permission denied on Alpine Linux One of my Alpine Linux VMs broke during an upgrade and started throwing errors about the permissions on /dev/null. Just fixing the permissions didn’t persist across reboots, but resetting the device manager did.
- Fixing a Blank Article Pane in NewsFlash There’s a bug in WebKit that can prevent articles from displaying in NewsFlash, but there’s a workaround.
- How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT You can use IFTTT’s webhooks target to hook up anything to autopost to a Mastodon account.
- KeePassXC Browser Extension vs. Flatpak (Not Working Yet) Web browsers running through Flatpak have trouble interacting with KeePassXC.
- Minimal User Setup for Debian Cloud The quickest way to set up a sudo-capable user on a Debian cloud (or nocloud) image with useradd, usermod and the sudo group.
- Quick Start: Setting up Gemini on a VPS Without Root Agate is easy to set up, you can use cron to launch it at start, and Gemini doesn’t need root to listen on its port.
- Resolving SELinux audit errors on boot in Fedora Core 4 (Obsolete) Rebuild the initrd so it can label the boot filesystem with the new policy.
- Retroactive Robots Exclusion at the Wayback Machine How the Wayback Machine handles changes to robots.txt exclusions.
- Tell (most) Linux Web Browsers to open Gemini links with your favorite client Most Linux web browsers will open unfamiliar URL schemes with XDG, which will look for .desktop files for the applications that can open it.
- Tell Firefox to open Gemini links with your favorite client You’ll need to click on a Gemini link to get the config options, and then you can choose what to open it in.
- Third-Party App Stores Won’t Install on Android? Check Screen Dimmers Android won’t react to an Install button if the screen image is filtered by an app like Twilight or Lux. Fortunately it’s easy to turn them off temporarily.
- When digiKam Failed to Connect (Obsolete) File permissions. Always check the file permissions.