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Summary It’s about time I get a standard sshd_config file that doesn’t rely on sane defaults. Disabling Password-based Authentication You should disable password-based authentication altogether. Make sure to only do this once you have verified that you can log in with an account that can escalate to root – or that you have an alternate … Read more
If you don’t know already, beets is a command line python program meant to automatically sort music. If you do know already, how have you set up your config file? Here’s mine: Save it in $HOME/.config/beets/config.yaml Obligatory “how much music do you have” dick measuring contest From this Reddit thread: For those of you using … Read more
To get UFW to work well with Docker, you have to add some rules to the bottom of /etc/ufw/after.rules Adding Rules Then you can add rules. Always add rules with comments. Examples below: Show active rules with Reference(s):
Summary Do you work on Linux machines? Do you only have a Windows machine from which to connect? Then you’re probably already using PuTTY. Well, step aside PuTTY, there’s a new terminal client in town. KiTTY is a fork of the original PuTTY software, with loads of new features, including a portable version that saves … Read more
wget multiple files In the above example, -r and -l1 options together enable 1-level deep recursive retrieval, and -A option specifies lists of file name suffixes to accept during recursive download (.mp3 in this case). ways to wget entire webpage This one works so well, I’ve created an alias for it: Other options: Modify User … Read more
Backstory: I’ve been either paying for or using 3rd part apps for Read-It-Later (Pocket), Hosted Bookmarks (Raindrop.io) and an RSS Feedreader (Inoreader) for about a year. In the interest of 1) teaching myself Docker and 2) decoupling from hosted solutions I have finally replaced all three of the above apps with docker containers. I am … Read more
My long, winding path to Markdown notes nirvana For years I’ve been looking for a cross-platform markdown editor. There are several good ones out there, but several are not free or they’ve got built-in workflows that I would need to either adapt or fight against. For the last several years my notes have consisted of … Read more
The year was 1994. I was working apartment maintenance and had a healthy interest in computers. I also had a IBM XT knockoff in my apartment connected to a 56K modem. One of the benefits of apartment maintenance is the lost and found that occurs when people move out quickly. Things of value usually get … Read more
Friday 2020-11-06 Day One YouTube Stream Saturday 2020-11-07 Day Two Youtube Stream
My Schedule 09:00 How Will You Steer Your Open Source Career? Keynote Rikii Endsley 11:00 Delta Ansible: Keeping up With Changes and Deprecations Andrew Cziryak The guy next to me is SNORING! 13:00 Modern Puppet Session Steven Pritchard I walked out of the puppet talk. It was way over my head and things just weren’t … Read more