fighting the lack of good ideas
Back in November, I was really up on Pi-hole. But after several more months of running it … I am far less psyched than I had been. I’m sure part of that is having gotten better internet services at my house – so the impact of ads is less noticeable. But a major part of…
Along with becoming more active on Mastodon, Â I’ve been thinking more about concision recently. One of the big selling points for Mastodon is that the character limit per post is 500 instead of Twitter’s 140. And I was thinking, “what if there was a way to force you to write better by writing less /…
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Last year I posted a simple script for keeping your Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates current. In conjunction with my last post sharing the “best” SSL configs you can use with Apache on CentOS, here is the current state of the cron’d renewal script I use. systemctl stop httpd.service systemctl stop postfix ~/letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto -t -n –agree-tos –keep…
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In follow-up to previous posts I’ve had about SSL (specifically with Let’s Encrypt), here is the set of SSL configurations I use with all my sites. These, if used correctly, should score you an “A+” with no warnings from ssllabs.com. Note: I have an improved entropy package installed (twuewand). This is adapted from the Mozilla config…
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Last week, for the better part of 4.5 days, this site was offline. Along with, of course, every other domain hosted hereon . Here’s the timeline of my actions Tuesday, reboot to update kernel revs system did not come back online over the next several days, tried all kinds of diagnostic attempts, including verified host was pingable,…
VW is planning to put cameras and sensors on new cars sold after 2018 to aid self-driving vehicles, create better maps, and more. Ford announced concept vehicles back in 2010 that could Tweet while they drove. Pretty sure I don’t like this move on the part of VW – technologically, it’s super cool. But from…
The slide deck for my recent talk on “Embracing the Change Freeze” – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OaKAYixc1mAH2OFCBaeDbbZRW2w9Q5siDemldNBp7qY/edit?usp=sharing Presented at the January PHPUG / Tech Talks meetup in Lexington KY on 19 Jan.