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Toucher2
This is a Dokuwiki plugin that revived (original: toucher), it having been not updated in twelve years and officially marked as dead.
What toucher2 does is 'touch'1) the dokuwiki configuration file. This has the effect of invalidating the cache.
DLCounter Update
There has been a long-standing issue with dlcounter whereby it doesn't display an admin page. At last that is fixed and the update is now available via the Dokuwiki Extension Manager.
Mechanical Clock
I was looking around at some of the projects people have done with their Raspberry Pi computers, and I must admit I'm pretty impressed with a lot of them. Then I came across one I've seen before: a binary clock. A binary clock usually has a set of LEDs that indicate a number in binary, so for example, 25 seconds would be displayed as 11001.
This is all well and good, and a bit (a lot) nerdy, but there are very few people in this world that can read hours, minutes and seconds off such a clock without working out what each of those digits represents. Another base would be better than base 2.
RPi5 Desktop
The Raspberry Pi model 5 arrived in 2023, and although it has the same form-factor as the 4B (the 'B' indicates it has an ethernet socket), and remains the size of a credit-card, it is a significant improvement.
Well, I say improvement, but that depends on what you are looking for. The RPi4 is a very capable machine, and at 5.1v @ 3amps (15.3 watts) very cheap to run 24/7. The RPi4 CPU runs at 1.5Ghz, the RPi5 at 2.5Ghz (5v@5amps = 25 watts). In addition, there are other improvements that accumulate, giving the RPi5 a 2-3x CPU uplift in performance, the GPU gets a boost and so on. In fact, it sounded so impressive, I thought I'd try making a desktop computer out of one.
Mirroring Repos
I've recently installed Forgejo on one of my intranet servers. If you don't know what this is, a quick explanation:
- Forgejo is a private git repository hosting service very similar to GitHub
- GitHub is a public git repository hosting service
- a 'repository' is a software project storing source code and version control information
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