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Holocron: The Backup of Last Resort

Posted on October 3, 2026 by hukl

In my previous blog post I talked about how I bought a Blu-ray drive and a couple of M-Discs to use it for long-term archival backups. Shortly after that I had the idea to use these as a last-resort, decentralized backup. The Concept Many people give copies of their house or apartment keys to good […]

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Posted in: digital, diy, english, howto, projects, security | Tagged: backup, bluray, digital, howto

How to burn 100 GB M-Disc Blu-rays on macOS

Posted on September 10, 2026 by hukl

In a recent Youtube video by Rick Beato he showed all computer and audio recording and playback equipment he has accumulated over the many years he worked as an audio professional. He sang the praises of physical formats and owning music and there are many points that I 100% agree with. He also showed a […]

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Posted in: digital, english, howto, Uncategorized | Tagged: backup, blu-ray, macos

Improved ADS-B Toolchain

Posted on January 29, 2026 by hukl

After my recent post I did not stop tinkering and exploring. To my own surprise it didn’t take long to come across significant improvements to my toolchain. Someone contacted me on mastodon shortly after and said that a friend of his had also recently gotten into SDRs and ADS-B and decided to write his on […]

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Posted in: digital, english, howto, projects, sdr | Tagged: ads-b, sdr

My minimal ADS-B Tracking Setup

Posted on January 26, 2026 by hukl

For a while I was somewhat interested in playing around with a Software Defined Radio (SDR). Recently I bought myself an entry level SDR and started exploring. One of the first things I was interested in was receiving and tracking ADS-B data. This is a specific radio transmission used by aircraft to broadcast positional data, […]

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Posted in: english, hacking, howto, projects | Tagged: adsb, radio, sdr

Tuning rspamd

Posted on October 27, 2024 by hukl

For many years I’m running my own mailserver based on postfix and dovecot. To combat spam I’ve used spamassassin like everybody else back in the day but I was never quite satisfied with it. It came from a different era and as the spammers got more sophisticated and billions of people put poorly maintained and […]

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Posted in: digital, english, howto, Uncategorized | Tagged: dovecot, howto, mail, postfix, rspamd, server
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