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(Angrily) Tethering WiFi to Ethernet on Debian

Wireless connectivity on Linux is still prone to issues, no matter what the documentation might claim. This post talks about using your working wireless connection to (ultimately) fix your not working wireless connection on a different machine.

I care about security, hence I don't care.

I’d love to see information security actually improve in a meaningful way. Not caring about anything but the bare security facts is a way of achieving that. Probably the only way.

Cyber is effective. Explosions are effective-er.

The publication of documents that allegedly describe the work of a Russian IT company on behalf of Russian intelligence services caused quite a stir in various journalistic publications at the end of March this year.

Debian Unstable is very much not that

I run Debian Unstable on one of my daily drivers - I enjoy that, you should try it as well, so here are some things you should consider.

All metal, no manpower

It occurred to me that there are uncomfortable similarities between some major issues the armed forces of the Russian Federation suffer from and the issues a lot of Blue Teams have to deal with. This is an attempt to come up with a comparison that doesn’t sound entirely insane.

On the perceived foolishness of self-hosting e-mail

There has been some activity within the Fediverse about how running your own mailserver is or isn’t foolish, and how “we” lost the fight against big corporate. This is my take on it.

On the perceived foolishness of self-hosting e-mail

Carlos Fenollosa recently published an article titled “After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.”. I have opinions on that.

git ffs-sign-that-commit-gpg-is-working

Every couple of months I run into an issue with a random combination of PGP, gpg-agent and Git. This post is simply a note for myself because I can’t seem to remember the solution for more than a week.

vmd(8) + autoinstall(8) + dhcpd(8) = <3

As part of redoing my network at home and for hosting stuff I migrated almost everything to OpenBSD, and as it turns out, vmd(8) is a potent hypervisor. I built my setup so I can automatically deploy new virtual machines.

OpenBSD on a Lenovo Thinkpad X220

This is going to be yet another post about installing / running OpenBSD on an old Thinkpad X220. It’s not going to be different than all of the other guides that are already out there, but my motivation and what came of it afterwards might be interesting for some folks.