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Jun 29, 2025 network local Avahi Raspberry Pi Ansible

Broadcast devices' name on the local network

With years, I accumulated devices on my local network, which in general run on Linux. I meticulously added them to my /etc/hosts/ file, so as not to remember their IP. Something puzzled me, though: my Synology NAS was readily available as nas.local on the network, without doing anything. I have close to zero skills in system administration, so here are my findings. The .local domain We can learn more about .local domain from Wikipedia. The domain name .local is a special-use domain name r

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Mar 10, 2024 Raspberry Pi GitHub Action self-hosted runner

Using my new Raspberry Pi to run an existing GitHub Action

Recently, I mentioned how I refactored the script that kept my GitHub profile up-to-date. Since Geecon Prague, I’m also a happy owner of a Raspberry Pi: Guess what I won @GeeCON Prague? 😎 pic.twitter.com/b9dARUhfMd— Nicolas Frankel 🇺🇦🇬🇪 (@nicolas_frankel) October 20, 2023 Though the current setup works flawlessly - and is free, I wanted to experiment with self-hosted runners. Here are my findings. Context GitHub offers a large free usage of GitHub Actions: GitHub Actions

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