Just wanted to share a one-liner on how to encrypt a device,partition or volume with cryptsetup (dm-crypt/luks)and options to get you started! The idea is simple: You create a crypto container on a disk/partition/volume/file/whatever, you then unlock that container, and then mount that container to a folder. When you're done [...]
Here's a list of OpenVPN clients I recommend for various platforms. Windows Use the official open source community client. https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/ Mac Use the open source Tunnelblick client which is both OpenVPN and GUI in one app. https://tunnelblick.net/ Linux Use your distribution package or compile OpenVPN from source. https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPNhttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Openvpnhttps://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVPN Android I [...]
I have something to fix that! The reason is, that other systems like Linux and Mac know that your hardware clock is set to UTC, but Windows treats the clock differently... How to solve? Simply tell Windows that your hardware clock is set to UTC by using my simple registry [...]
NetBeans has no proper launcher "app" for Mac, which is why I made one! Just a quick post to share the launcher for NetBeans I made. You can find it here. Why a launcher? Because Apache's NetBeans has no proper launcher for Mac. You can find an .exe for Windows, [...]
Just a quick post. I meant to share this video a few days ago but somehow didn't get around to it. Edward Snowden wrote a book called "Permanent Record". Trevor Noah interviews Edward Snowden about it. As always, with humour. Of course, fitting to the theme, I tried to embed [...]
Just a quick post to let you know iPadOS 13 was finally released and it's straight to 13.1! It can handle mice! Omg! iOS 13.1 is now out too, which fixes bugs from the previously released 13.0. So now is a good time to create a backup in iTunes and [...]
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 [...]