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by Daniel DurisPosted onApril 9, 2024April 10, 2024Internet

Can Not Install QFinder Pro On Linux For QNAP NAS

The official installation DEB package for Ubuntu (Debian-like) Linux systems will fail on distros different than plain Ubuntu. See my simple solution.

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Google Analytics 4 Measurement Protocol Wordpress Plugin settings
by Daniel DurisPosted onMarch 15, 2024March 24, 2024Internet

Google Analytics 4 Measurement Protocol Plugin for WordPress

Google Analytics 4 Measurement Protocol Plugin reports page_view events to GA4 directly from Wordpress backend without Javascript or cookies.

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Railway Steam Locomotive Driver: Full Steam Ahead
by Daniel DurisPosted onFebruary 6, 2024February 6, 2024Musings

Steam Locomotive Driver: Full Steam Ahead (GIF)

I have extracted this GIF image from an old movie about railway construction and heavy load trains in the 1950’s Czechoslovakia called Trať voľná (Full…

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uBlock Origin showing blocked domain requests
by Daniel DurisPosted onJanuary 8, 2024January 8, 2024Internet

Experimenting with Blocking Bloomreach / Exponea Requests from Internet Banking

I have experimented with blocking analytics requests to Exponea servers during my internet banking session using uBlock Origin. What have I found out? Bloomreach (formerly…

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by Daniel DurisPosted onJanuary 4, 2024January 4, 2024Musings

Question of Scruples AY tune from 1987 sounds like Gotye’s Somebody I Used to Know

I just found out very interesting song similarity between an old track from ZX Spectrum computer game and top hit by Gotye. This tune from…

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Pathfinding with Lua and Love 2D engine
by Daniel DurisPosted onJanuary 2, 2024January 3, 2024Musings

Simple Pathfinding Tutorial in Lua / LÖVE

Path finding and navigation in Lua can be tricky. Check this simple tutorial on using Jumper library.

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Follow account on external Mastodon server web UI
by Daniel DurisPosted onDecember 22, 2023December 22, 2023Internet

Is Mastodon ePrivacy / GDPR compliant?

I have identified an interesting non-compliance issue with Mastodon web UI and reported it on Github. Non-compliant data storage If you go to a Mastodon…

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Travian early warning via SMS - code sample
by Daniel DurisPosted onDecember 5, 2023December 5, 2023Internet

Early Warning of Enemies via SMS for Travian

Hacking Travian online game using PHP to deliver an early warning via SMS back in 2000’s.

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by Daniel DurisPosted onNovember 24, 2023November 24, 2023Musings

Quotes From Books: Lathe Of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin: Lathe Of Heaven Artifical Intelligence (or rather stochastic parrot stupidity) is able to do some work, but then programmers will be…

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by Daniel DurisPosted onNovember 14, 2023November 14, 2023Musings

Recommended Ethio-Jazz Tracks (Music from Ethiopia)

This is my non-exhaustive list of Ethiopian songs that can be described as Ethiopian jazz or Ethio-jazz for short. Although headed by Mulatu Astatke, many…

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