If you use a Window Manager that switches focus automatically (like dwm) and the Nextcloud client, surely you are annoyed by the Nextcloud window disappearing on focus lost “feature” (and no knob to switch it off). Apparently, the developers decided that This Is The Right Way®.

With the power of The Source Code, we can change that!

Debian in LXC/Proxmox works flawlessly, except for some systemd utility daemons. Instead of disabling those services, we can leverage Linux capabilities to achieve the same results.

Winbox, the MikroTik RouterOS management application, uses a proprietary link-layer protocol to discover and connect to RouterOS appliances. It’s useful when you have a router with a bad/unknown network configuration.

Let’s see how we can use it on Linux and WINE.

Many hobbyists and professionals use common MQTT brokers and libraries, like “Mosquitto”, in their projects. We asked ourselves: are these implementations “safe”? Is there any security issue we can exploit?