fighting the lack of good ideas
After close to a decade, my old Keurig brewer finally bit the dust last week đ Given we can’t go long without needing hot water or got beverages in the family…it became âurgentâ to replace it We had been looking for a while, knowing a replacement was going to be necessary âsoonâ – so we…
After a friend of mine told me he wanted to deploy Jitsi on my main webserver, and me saying “sure”, I decided I wanted to get it up and running on a new server both so I knew how to do it, and to avoid the latency issues of videoconferencing from central North America to…
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It would seem I have configured OpenVPN, Squid proxy, and, to a lesser extent, Pi-hole well – none of the major sites that report IP, DNS, and other connection-related security issues find anything out of the ordinary when I’m either running “just” proxied, or VPN, or VPN+proxy. You should check yourself hereon: https://ipleak.net http://ip-check.info/?lang=en (ironic…
Manning Publishers has a liveBook offering. And it allows for the type of mini transactions (through their self-hosted “token” system) that I proposed when writing about how I’d dumped Pi-hole last year. Quoting from their recent announcement email Book publishers follow a simple rule: put your content behind a solid paywall. At Manning, we believe…
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I’ve published another super-simple tool. A la whatismyip.com, but with no extra cruft (and no queer formatting of the IP address under the hood), welcome IPv4.cf to the world with me!
Today, I am formally announcing a brand-new service / website for secure password generation. Go visit password.cf Get yourself random passwords of commonly-required lengths and complexities*. Password Varieties: 4 of 4 upper & lower alphanumeric lower alphanumeric Lengths generated: 12, 16, & 24 characters Visit the GitHub project page .. .. if you want to…
Who wants to go into business with me? I’ve got a super-cool storage company idea. Load up a metric buttload of cubesats with radiation-hardened SSD storage, solar power, and [relatively] simple communicaton stacks (secured by SSH or SSL, of course), and launch them into orbit. You think cloud storage is cool? What aboutĂÂ above-the-cloud storage? Pros:…