Category Archives: Random

Everything others do not fit in other categories.

Slack: Cannot read property ‘appTeams’ of undefined

23 September 2020
 

 I have Slack desktop running on Arch Linux. It was installed from AUR and usually works fine. But today after rebooting my laptop Slack won’t start again sying it has the ‘appTeams’ property error: [simterm] $ slack Initializing local storage instance at path: /home/setevoy/.config/Slack/local-settings.json Failed to get path for key, this may be expected: /home/setevoy/.config/autostart… Read More »

Calibre Web: home in-browser online-library with Nextcloud storage and Moon+ Reader on Android

7 January 2020
 

 I’m using Calibre for my e-books library management for many years, but until today always used its desktop version. A couple of days ago I found the Calibre Web project – the same library, working with the same database, but accessible via a browser. The idea is to move away from storing books in Google… Read More »

MySQL/MariaDB: like Petya ransomware for MySQL and ‘root’@’%’ access

3 April 2019
 

  This story happened on 10/06/2017, adding this post in English now. The original post (Rus) was written almost right after the well-known Not a Petya attack in Ukraine – that’s why it’s used in the title. I had a new project assigned to me. When I started its existing setup investigation – was just… Read More »

Prometheus: RTFM blog monitoring set up with Ansible – Grafana, Loki, and promtail

10 March 2019
 

 After implementing the Loki system on my job’s project – I decided to add it for myself, so see my RTFM blog server’s logs. Also – want to add the node_exporter and alertmanager, to be notified about high disk usage. In this post, I’ll describe the Prometheus, node_exporter, Grafana, Loki, and promtail set up process… Read More »

Chromium: Youtube error 400

19 February 2019
 

 In the Chromium browser (and not only the one I believe) sometimes the 400 error can happen. There are two solutions: first, most simple – just to clear all data via Settings => Clear browsing data. The second one has googled on Reddit here>>> with a hint that the error appears because of the The Great Suspender plugin… Read More »