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Part 1 - Installing NixOs

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Init # I heard a lot about NixOS over the last couple of years. For example Why Puppet/Chef/Ansible aren’t good enough (and we can do better) or Binärgewitter Spezial #7: NixOS.

Avoid Small CloudFormation Errors

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INIT # During my last work with AWS CloudFormation I spent hours to debug an Invalid value for the parameter Policy error which I couldn’t explain at all.

Synology Photo Station: Disable face recognition (the right way)

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Init # I activated some time ago face recognition for Photo Station on our Synology DS212+ because I thought it would be a good idea but it wasn’t. It is super slow (at least on the DS212+), unprecise, and caused over days (weeks) high CPU load so I decided to deactivated it. After deactivating the CPU load was still high and I also saw the face recognition process in the process list. After searching around I found some hints in the direction of these file(s) synophoto_face.queue, synophoto_face.queue.tmp.