This is getting ridiculous... In my previous post I mentioned how I got rid of requests going to PayPal, and in a post before that I briefly mentioned getting rid of Gravatar. I said that Gravatar can easily be turned off for the comment section, which turns out not to [...]
I do care for the privacy and security of my readers, which is why I had to make a change... Remember my previous post about how I'll improve things further by - amongst others - self-host the PayPal donation button? I did that now, so that no request gets made [...]
Just a quick update to let you know that I am awesome!And you are safe! A friend of mine, checked my score on ssllabs.com and congratulated me on an "A"... ...I didn't know I scored an "A", and was upset that it was just an "A"! But I was also [...]
I just wanted to update an iPhone 6 and noticed it will only go up to 12.4.1! Turns out Apple is dropping support for iPhone 6 and it won't get iOS 13. What a pity! I guess that just lowered the value of that old iPhone 6. But to be [...]
What is HSTS and do I want to enable it?If you are a website owner or admin, keep reading to know more! Imagine you are browsing to your online banking page. You are redirected to HTTPS automatically every time, you sign in and do your business privately and all is [...]
Just a quick update. I restructured the site and been cleaning it up and getting the technicalities sorted out. I also improved the looks a little. The contact page is updated and out of maintenance. I also got rid of as much of externally loaded content as possible. Now everything [...]
Less than 24h ago, Pi-hole released an update to the Pi-hole core. The update is version 4.3.2 and it removes support for the adblock style lists. What does this mean for me? If you are using adblock style (format) lists - the lists you'd use in browser extensions like AdBlock [...]
This is a post to see how well I can post from my phone. Why? Because before this post I used Jetpack, a plugin by WordPress.com, or "automattic". Jetpack allowed me to use the WordPress app but it also included tracking and slowed down the website. Which is why I [...]
Useful to use SSH securely using a smart card / hardware token / yubikey / etc. Prerequisites Of course, you need to have GPG installed on your system, and possibly some drivers and applications to support your smart card / hardware token if used. This guide assumes you already have [...]
This is just a quick post to share a hardened gpg.conf Usually stored in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf personal-cipher-preferences AES256 AES192 AES personal-digest-preferences SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 personal-compress-preferences ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 AES256 AES192 AES ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed cert-digest-algo SHA512 s2k-digest-algo SHA512 s2k-cipher-algo AES256 charset utf-8 fixed-list-mode no-comments no-emit-version [...]