You can browse all 46+ million certificates ever issued by Let’s Encrypt here: https://crt.sh/?Identity=%25&iCAID=16418 The %25 in the identity URL parameter is the percent sign and used in a LIKE query so you can do things like this to find specific certs: https://crt.sh/?Identity=microsoft.com%25&iCAID=16418 I don’t have a specific use for…
Month: February 2017
Fun links of the day
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Fun link of the day: When back country camping, how do you avoid being attacked by a cougar in your sleep?
When back country camping, how do you avoid being attacked by a cougar in your sleep?
PHP
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PHP RFC: Make Libsodium a Core Extension
Yes!!!! A unanimous vote to add libsodium as an official PHP extension to the next version of PHP, 7.2.
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Adobe Flash and Google Chrome
Chrome 56, which launched on February 1, will start blocking Adobe Flash under most common conditions: https://blog.chromium.org/2016/12/roll-out-plan-for-html5-by-default.html This block will stop ads, banners and most in-page elements that use Flash. Sites that rely 100% on Flash will (probably) not be blocked in this release but here’s where it gets tricky….
Fun links of the day
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Space fountain
First, take a really long tube that extends into space, bend it around a space station, have it come back to earth and form a circle with the start of the tube. Next, shoot a gun up the tube really fast. The bullet’s momentum will lift the tube and you can…
Drupal
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Adding two-factor authentication to Drupal 8 using Google Authenticator
The instructions are based on Drupal 8.2.6. Parts, such as upgrade random_compat, might not be applicable in later versions. I can’t make any guarantees about running these in earlier versions. Install Christian Riesen’s OTP (One Time Password) From the drupal site root run: composer require christian-riesen/otp Upgrade random compat Drupal…
Drupal
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Drupal 8 Redis Configuration
As of today (February 14, 2017) the Redis plugin on D8 is on beta 1 and appears to be pretty stable, however the documentation appears to be lacking a bit. (I know, I should contribute and maybe I will later this week). There’s a lot of different advice/instructions for setting up…
Fun links of the day
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How to steal a house
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2008/march/housestealing_032508
Ramblings
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Google Search – Has anyone ever accidentally became a majority stakeholder
Stack Exchange often has interesting links that lead me to interesting thoughts which lead to disappointing search results. I don’t remember the full path but this morning I was wondering if anyone ever accidentally become a majority (or maybe even a minority) stakeholder in a company. For instance, maybe they…
