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TouchDesigner on Linux using Bottles and Wine

I will be using TouchDesigner for an upcoming course, but it’s only officially supported on Windows and MacOS. Can we run this on Linux? Let’s try it!

Screenshot of a Linux Desktop with two windows side by side. The left window shows bottles. The right window shows TouchDesigner with the default example.
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Spotify CarThing Internet Access

The Spotify CarThing was discontinued late 2022 and subsequently heavily discounted. I got a friend of mine to send one to me, because at that time it was pretty apparent that there was a good chance of this being very hackable. First order of business for me was: internet access.

Here, we’re setting up a Raspberry Pi with a Socks-Proxy, a local webserver and the relevant settings on the CarThing itself.

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tcpdump docker traffic

Tiny howto, so don’t need to look this up as often. In order to tcpdump your own docker traffic, you will need to identify the appropriate interface first:

# docker network ls
NETWORK ID      NAME                      DRIVER              SCOPE
15a300de        bridge                    bridge              local
88d8d7d1        nextcloud_default         bridge              local

From that, we get the network ID. This will be included (at least partly) in the interface name, so we’ll just take the first few characters and grep:

# ip addr | grep 88d8b
9: br-88d8d7d1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default

this gives us the full interface name (ok, basically this is just “br-” followed by the network ID).

We can then just use tcpdump any way we like:

tcpdump -i br-88d8d7d1

OAuth2 with Nextcloud (Provider) and GitLab (Client)

I recently configured GitLab as a OAuth2 client to a Nextcloud Instance. I wanted OAuth2 to be the only way of logging in, and Nextcloud to provide the information needed for one-click user signup (actually, three clicks). This process was not entirely straightforward, especially since I don’t want my buttons to read “OAuth2-Generic”. Changing the name after setting everything up, means changing URLs and in combination with Nextcloud this means recreating your tokens. Long story short: I wrote down how I did it.

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DIY Lowboard

Ich habe ein neues Wort gelernt. Während meiner Recherche zu Wohnzimmermöbeln wurde ich darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass eins einen Fernseher heutzutage auf ein “Lowboard” stellt. Essenziell ist es, dass ein Lowboard entweder winzig, hässlich oder teuer ist. Das legte die eingehende Recherche zumindest nahe. Lowboards sind darüber hinaus Rudeltiere und verbünden sich mit Regalen und Ablagen zu sogenannten Wohnwänden. Gruselig.

So einen Kasten kriege ich zum Glück gerade noch selbst hin. Wenn ihr das zu Hause nachmachen wollt, erfahrt ihr hier, was ihr dafür braucht.

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