fighting the lack of good ideas
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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I have started a Tech News channel on Telegram. Follow it at @datente.
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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Roads are empty something like 90% of the time. 8% of the time, they’re rightly-sized. 1.5% of time, they’re a little tight. But that .5%? Holy CRAP are they ever too small when they’re too small! Imagine if the “*-as-a-Service” model could be applied to roads: expand their capacity on-demand as use requires. It works…
continue “raas – the failure of “-as-a-service” in the physical world” »
They had flying cars. That would fold-up into a briefcase. They had magic bubbles that’d pop out from their fingers to shroud themselves on their floaty-seats that delivered them to school or the mall. But they used cash. Really? With all the crazy futuristic stuff they tried to wedge into that program, the creators thought we’d…
But the HomePod is an interesting take on my suggestion of making the Apple TV better.
I think, closer to the lines of thought that Ben Thompson of Stratechery has laid-out, that news publishing is about to undergo a major nichification – the days of everyone trying to report everything is over. “Local” (whether by geography, interest, or some other grouping mechanism) publishing in narrowly-defined niches is basically going to finish gobbling…