People who have known me for longer then ten years may remember me wearing a pirate bay t-shirt. Pirating movies has since become mostly irrelevant for me when it comes to getting access to content. Al lot of paid services have popped up providing different types of ways to access vast commercial libraries. So nowadays […]
Yesterday my Windows 10 VM I run on my Macbook took forever to install updates. Then at some point my macbook (yes the complete macbook) went blank / off without any warning. As the laptop usually warns of low battery charge, I suspect I hit some kinda bug. This morning when trying to recover, the […]
There has always been some testing going on at home, but with the introduction of an extra firewall, there will be a separate network for tinkering and trials at home. First I decided to buy an APU2 board from PC Engines. Although the APU first generation I had got fried quickly, their new version had […]
The install took 50 minutes and two reboots two days ago. All seems fine. Also, did a clean install on another laptop and apparently enabling disk encryption during initial setup has been the default for some time. It was a new one for me. But then I rarely do clean MacOS installs. Mostly upgrades or […]
Looking for alternate or additional protection for my Keepass databases, I stumbled upon a fork of KeepassX that actually has some nice new features. One of those is the ability to use a yubikey as the key or as an additional key to the password database. The fork KeepassXC released a version with yubikey support […]
Some time ago I bought a couple of Yubikeys, but actually start using them ended up on the todo list. But now I can easily unlock and lock my apple laptop with my yubi key. Unlocking is just done using the standard pam module and the configuration described at the yubikey website. But getting my […]
Once every blue moon I try some sort of Linux as the native operating system on my laptop. As I tend to have a recent laptop, this usually ends as a short experiment where I find out one or two devices just will not work. As my wife moved to my previous laptop when I […]
For a recent client I was asked to provide a puppet development setup on the windows platform. The toolchain included Git for windows / Git bash / Turtoise GIT / Atom and some others. It also includes the windows adaption of my git pre-commit hook. To use this hook, you need to install the puppet […]
When a leased server has bandwidth to spare, I try to give it to the tor network. Project servers come and go, but I am happy to report that my relay node is back in business. Aug 5 14:45:48 droid Tor[8966]: Bootstrapped 0%: Starting Aug 5 14:45:48 droid Tor[8966]: Starting with guard context “default” Aug […]
Just need to get a new powerbrick for my old laptop somewhere and then I'll be off the witness the event first hand #sha2017 😄💻