This image pretty much says it all. (Image from Discourse but that might have lifted from this blog which references “Dylan DeLosAngeles” but links to this t-shirt.
SSL/TLS/HTTPS
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Let’s Encrypt – Nginx settings
Ubuntu 14.04 From https://certbot.eff.org/all-instructions/#ubuntu-14-04-trusty-nginx Download and install We’re going to use certbot and install it in /usr/local/bin sudo wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto -O /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto certbot-auto –os-packages-only First cert request sudo service nginx stop ./certbot-auto certonly –standalone -d www.example.com -d example.com sudo service nginx start Test renewal certbot-auto renew –dry-run Actual renewal…
Random things I learned
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Inflatable tanks and hacking Marconi
I’d heard about the inflatable tanks (and other dummy tanks) that they’d used during WWII and I still think they’re pretty cool idea for the time. Today I read a quick snippet about one of the guys, Jasper Maskelyne, that may have either been instrumental or in the creation of them…
Linux
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Linux command line: cal
Huh, there’s a command called cal that’s apparently installed with most Linux distros. # cal March 2017 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26…
Security
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Ticketbleed (CVE-2016-9244)
Ticketbleed is a software vulnerability in the TLS/SSL stack of F5 BIG-IP appliances allowing a remote attacker to extract up to 31 bytes of uninitialized memory at a time.https://filippo.io/Ticketbleed/ SSL Labs is adding tests for this. And I didn’t know that SSL Labs had a development server for people to…
Crappy Google Search Results of the Day
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Crappy Google Search Results of the Day: “TimerCircles leading zero”
TimerCircles leading zero #3 – Penn State University Standup Golf Bag – Golf Stand Bag | Golf … #4 – Shine Big Men’s watch #IB.CH.BSH.B.S.11 Ice – Pinterest • The world’s … #8 – Women’s Rutgers University Sweater. Go Scarlet Knights! – Pinterest
Fun links of the day
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Fun link of the day: Fish on Wheels
By using a camera and computer vision software it is possible to make a fish control a robot car over land. By swimming towards an interesting object, the fish can explore the world beyond the limits of his tank.
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All-in-One Event Calendar by Time.ly Exception/Error problem
We recently ran into a problem with the All-in-One Event Calendar WordPress plugin by Time.ly in regards to PHP 7’s change in exception handling. This is one of those “annoying but probably better in the long run” changes that PHP made in the 7.0 release that broke backwards compatibility. The specific problem can…
Fun links of the day
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Fun link of the day: Can I train monkeys to fight with knives effectively?
Can I train monkeys to fight with knives effectively? If you keep looking you end up on the Museum of American Fencing’s website.
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Google Upspin
Google Upspin The Google Upspin project is an attempt at creating a global namespace for documents. So what the heck is “a global namespace for documents”? A lot of people have images on Facebook, but what if you want to put one of those images on another social account, say…