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Better crypto initiative
It's not common for me to put just one link here as the content of the article. Today, however, is one of these days. The bettercrypto folks came up with really excellent practical guide to securing your servers. A draft for now, but already sporting ... read more →
Adding voltage and current measurements to the sunpowered Pi
Remember my sunpowered Pi installation on the balcony ? The only indication I had, since recently, on how well the system is doing was an LED blinking red when battery was low. Not really helpful in making predictions or making measurements over the ... read more →
Changing Terminal preferences in Gnome 3 from the commandline
It turns out this was not that obvious, at least for me, how to change various profile preferences for Gnome Terminal under Gnome 3 from the commandline. You can go and fetch the list of profiles this way: ~# dconf list /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/pro ... read more →
PoC or GTFO
Update 2023: I no longer host PoCorGTFO here, it's very much available elsewhere on the internet and I couldn't afford the costs for this server sadly. Hey – to all you curious folks – the new issue of PoC or GTFO is well, out ! The best minds in i ... read more →
WiFi on RaspberryPi
Easiest way I've found to configure wifi on RaspberryPi, not really being mentioned when you search for such. Not using separate wpa_supplicant configuration at all. root@frontend:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface e ... read more →
Sunpowered server setup
Remember my NAS ? It turned out great ! Very reliable storage, I had a disk failure once and haven't noticed for some time because all the files were just there. Hardware enhanced virtualization is another great stuff. I ended up migrating all my of ... read more →
Today we fight back
If you don't have JS disabled you might have noticed the huge black banner on the bottom of this blog. Stop mass surveillance. This is the day we fight back. https://thedaywefightback.org/international/ read more →
Compiling tarsnap on RaspberryPi
Just a quickie for tarsnap 1.0.35. Featuring my new favourite, download software called aria2. aptitude install aria2 libssl-dev zlib1g-dev e2fslibs-dev aria2c https://www.tarsnap.com/download/tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.35.tgz aria2c https://www.tarsnap.co ... read more →
Meetings
come in different shapes and forms. Let's chat about them. Decisions Most of the meetings come from the desire to have a decision made. The problem is in most cases is that these are not decisions to be made now. Software prototyping is cheap. We sh ... read more →
Wordpress and nonstandard ports and protocols
I needed to set up a Wordpress installation where https is on nonstandard port and the admin interface lives in that land, while the site itself is using plain http. In wp-config.php: if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) { define('WP_SITEURL', 'https:/ ... read more →