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Apple requires periodic device reactivation?
I own an old iPad 2 from 2011. It still works, though the battery doesn’t last very long anymore and of course the last available OS for this device is iOS 9.3.5 from 2016. Yes, iOS because iPadOS came later.
I use it occasionally to play some (old) games. And to conserve battery and avoid annoying ads and potential security issues I keep it in airplane mode all the time.
Every few weeks a dialog appears, asking me to verify my Apple ID. (This often causes a crash of the running application. Annoying but otherwise harmless.) I click Cancel and go on using the iPad.
Today something different happened: Without any warning I got a black screen with the Apple logo. This looked like a reboot of the OS to me, though I’m not 100% sure1). When it came back up, it required that I activate the iPad in a fullscreen modal dialog! There didn’t seem to be any way around that.
So I turned off airplane mode, entered my Apple ID credentials and pressed continue a few times until the normal home screen was shown. Then I turned airplane mode on again and everything was normal.
DokuWiki 2024-05-14b "Librarian" has been released
Minor security update to DokuWiki 2024-05-14a "Librarian" has been released (Changelog, Download). No issues so far.
DokuWiki 2024-05-14a "Librarian" has been released
Minor update to DokuWiki 2024-05-14 "Librarian" has been released (Changelog, Download). There are only some minor glitches so far.
And there are still some PHP 8.4 related problems in Plugins remaining as well.
DokuWiki 2024-05-14 "Librarian" has been released
Mostly trouble free update (Changelog, Download). There are only some minor glitches so far.
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DW 2025-05-14 "Librarian" Extension Manager complains about write permissions for bundled plugins (#4441)
And there are some PHP 8.4 related problems in Plugins remaining as well.
OpenBSD 7.7 has been released
Not surprising for those who follow the OpenBSD mailing lists, on 2025.04.28 OpenBSD 7.7 was released.
As usual the Upgrade instructions work fine and the first impression is good.
deSEC e.V. — Updating a wildcard subdomain using the IP Update API
It is possible to use the deSEC IP Update API to update a wildcard subdomain.
This works basically the same as updating a normal subdomain. Just use * (asterisk) as the subdomain name in the hostname parameter, e.g.: *.example.com or *.sub.example.com. See Determine Hostname.
Installing Radicale 3.x on OpenBSD 7.6
OpenBSD 7.6 has ports for Radicale 1.x and 2.x but none for the 3.x version.
After some of my own experiments and reading this thread on the misc@openbsd.org mailing list I have decided to publish the results on the GitHub Radicale wiki: Installing on OpenBSD.
Update: These instructions also work on OpenBSD 7.7.
OpenBSD 7.6 has been released
Not surprising for those who follow the OpenBSD mailing lists, on 2024.10.08 OpenBSD 7.6 was released.
As usual the Upgrade instructions work fine and the first impression is good.
OpenBSD 7.5 has been released
Not surprising for those who follow the OpenBSD mailing lists, on 2024.04.05 OpenBSD 7.5 was released.
As usual the Upgrade instructions work fine and the first impression is good.
It is interesting to note that the first patch was available before the release, even though its date is noted as April 8, 2024. So for once running syspatch(8) immediately after upgrading or installing OpenBSD will actually apply a patch.