Useless Software: kanidm

Kanidm claims to be an identity management solution, only there isn’t much management going on.
Everything works via cli and it doesn’t have multiple realms.

While the inital setup is relatively easy, documentation needs a lot of improvement.

They use a self-baked LDAP database, which no one can tell if it’s reliable or not.
It has NO management UI.

You can’t even configure SMTP.

gitea log configuration for fail2ban

Gitea since 1.21 has a different logging configuration format.
TL;DR If you want to configure fail2ban to ban those failed ssh login attempts,
use this log section in app.ini

Sadly you can’t turn off all logging except the SSH log. You have to wear your SSD.
The actual fail2ban configuration is described on their website under Administration / Fail2Ban Setup

Recompile VLC on Archlinux

For various reasons you’ll want to do that.
For me it was VLC locking up when watching IPTV from a DVB>IP hardware with v3.0.21.
And with v3.0.20 it would have extremely high CPU usage which went away when recompiling.
Only on Archlinux.

Something in their process is funky.

Anyhow let’s go.
First, enable optimizations for your CPU, in /etc/makepkg.conf

clone the repo and build

uninstalling ffmpeg and lua52 is required, else there are build errors.
after building, reinstall them again
optionally, if you get missing keys,