Lookat 2.1.0rc2 released

August 3, 2025 less than 1 minute read

Lookat 2.1.0rc2 is the second release candicate of release of Lookat/Bekijk 2.1.0, a user-friendly Unix file browser/viewer that supports colored man pages.

The focus of the 2.1.0 release is to add ANSI Color support.

News

3 Aug 2025 Lookat 2.1.0rc2 Released

Lookat 2.1.0rc2 is the second release candicate of Lookat 2.1.0

ChangeLog

Lookat / Bekijk 2.1.0rc2

• Corrected italic color
• Don’t reset the search offset when cursor mode is enabled
• Renamed strsize to charsize ( ansi_strsize -> ansi_charsize, utf8_strsize -> utf8_charsize) to be less confusing
• Support for multiple ansi streams in ansi_utf8_strlen()
• Update default color theme to green for this release
• Update manpages & documentation
• Reorganized contrib directory
  • Moved ci/cd related file from contrib/* to contrib/cicd
  • Moved debian dir to contrib/dist
  • Moved support script to contrib/scripts

Using OpenTofu/Terraform to create a disposable Tails virtual machine

June 22, 2025 1 minute read

OpenTofu

Terraform or OpenTofu (the open-source fork supported by the Linux Foundation) is a nice tool to setup the infrastructure on different cloud environments. There is also a provider that supports libvirt.

• https://github.com/dmacvicar/terraform-provider-libvirt

If you want to get started with OpenTofu there is a free training available from the Linux foundation:

• https://training.linuxfoundation.org/express-learning/getting-started-with-opentofu-lfel1009/

I also joined the talk about OpenTofu and Infrastructure As Code, in general, this year in the Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure DEV Room at FOSDEM this year:

• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6057-the-iac-tooling-multiverse-and-the-future-of-iac/

Lookat 2.1.0rc1 released

June 8, 2025 less than 1 minute read

Lookat 2.1.0rc1 is the latest development release of Lookat/Bekijk, a user-friendly Unix file browser/viewer that supports colored man pages.

The focus of the 2.1.0 release is to add ANSI Color support.

News

8 Jun 2025 Lookat 2.1.0rc1 Released

Lookat 2.1.0rc1 is the first release candicate of Lookat 2.1.0

ChangeLog

Lookat / Bekijk 2.1.0rc1

• ANSI Color support

#eXit : Goodbye twitter. Hi Mastodon…

May 11, 2025 less than 1 minute read

I decided to leave twitter.
 
Yes, this has something to do with the change of ownership, the name change to x, …
 
There is only 1 X to me, and that’s X.org

Twitter has become a platform that doesn’t value #freedomofspeech anymore.

My account even got flagged as possible spam to “factchecking” #fakenews

The mean reason is that there is a better alternative in the form of the Fediverse #Fediverse is the protocol that Mastodon uses.

It allows for a truly decentralised social media platform.

It allows organizations to set up their own Mastodon instance and take ownership and accountability for their content and accounts.

Mastodon is a nice platform; you probably feel at home there.

People who follow me on twitter can continue to follow me at Mastodon if they want.

https://mastodon.social/@stafwag

I’ll post this message a couple of times to twitter before I close my twitter account, so people can decide if they want to follow me on Mastodon …or not ;-).

Have fun!

docker-stafwag-unbound v2.1.0 released: Use unbound as an DNS-over-TLS resolver and authoritative DNS server

May 4, 2025 4 minute read

Unbound is a popular DNS resolver, that has native DNS-over-TLS support.
 

Unbound and Stubby were among the first resolvers to implement DNS-over-TLS.

I wrote a few blog posts on how to use Stubby on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.

• https://stafwag.github.io/blog/blog/2018/09/09/dns-privacy-with-stubby-part1-gnulinux/
• https://stafwag.github.io/blog/blog/2018/10/07/dns-privacy-with-stubby-part-2-freebsd/

The implementation status of DNS-over-TLS and other DNS privacy options is available at: https://dnsprivacy.org/.

See https://dnsprivacy.org/implementation_status/ for more details.

It’s less known that it can also be used as authoritative DNS server (aka a real DNS server). Since I discovered this feature and Unbound got native DNS-over-TLS support I started to it as my DNS server.

I created a docker container for it a couple of years back to use it as an authoritative DNS server.

I recently updated the container, the latest version (2.1.0) is available at: https://github.com/stafwag/docker-stafwag-unbound

ChangeLog

Version 2.1.0

Upgrade to debian:bookworm

• Updated BASE_IMAGE to debian:bookworm
• Add ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
• Run unbound-control-setup to generate the default certificate
• Documentation updated