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How to integrate Alerta alerts with Zulip

Zulip is an open source messaging system that has a unique threaded chat model with topics for threads. Alerta is an open source alert management tool that aggregates alerts from various sources and displays them on an easy to use web interface.

Install fdupes (or other small program) on FreeNAS

FreeNAS (now TrueNAS) does not have access to FreeBSD's ports or packages. Normally extra software needs to be installed in jails. However sometimes you need software on the host itself. It is possible to copy program binaries from the jail to the host if you take care of a few things first.

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Weird dovecot Error: dovecot/doveadm "failed: cache message size"

This one stumped me for a while and I only realized what was wrong after getting ready to submit a bug report to `dovecot`. I am putting it here since it's not a common case and it might help some people. I found no help online when it happened to me.

How to upgrade portainer running as a docker container

I thought it would be kind of cool if `portainer` could upgrade itself using its gui. Alas it falls into a chicken and egg situation and you need to step in and use the console. Here's how to upgrade `portainer` safely without losing configuration data.

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