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Setting up Vault HA with CockroachDB

2024-08-24
Frankly most of this was pretty easy and not much to write about… auto unseal is a bit tricky to setup freely

Getting akkoma to run

2023-11-23
While trying to deploy akkoma with docker on my rootless docker environment, I have encountered the classical permission denied error:

Migrating my Blog to Hugo

2023-01-01
I love WriteFreely, I really do. And to my surprise it actually under a quite active development. The only complaint I have is that there’s a feature I wanted so badly for a very very long time, …

Moving Writefreely Site to Docker

2021-08-30
Moving WriteFreely site to Docker Though I’m not a big fan of unnecessary containerization, at some point, you’ll want the convenience of the docker, you know, like eliminate the need to …

Docker started using 192.168.0.0/16 subnets all of in sudden

2021-02-03
I was having fun with Jupyter and wanted to move it to my Docker host so it can benefit from the GPU. With effective configs:

Just when you want to use `systemctl --user` with fish

2021-01-28
~ > systemctl --user status Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory ~> systemctl --user status ● $HOSTNAME State: running Jobs: 0 queued Failed: 0 units Since: Wed 2021-01-27 …

Disable Translations in Apt

2021-01-06
Sometimes non-server distros come with a lot of languages, takes a long time to update. So: #/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99translations Acquire::Languages "none";

Less Preferable Releases in Apt

2020-12-25
While trying to install Maltego on a development machine, I’ve added the kali-rolling distribution to my sources.list.d. After an apt update I found myself sat in front of a machine suddenly …

TIL Apt Takes 'Direct' In Proxy Statement

2020-12-25
I was playing around in a contained network where only some of the connections should go through a proxy. From man apt-transport-http: ... The various APT configuration options support the special …

Commit Security

2020-08-03
It’s quite usual that people push their credentials to a public git repo on the internet. What published is published, a push -f does not unpublish, and recovery isn’t that obscure.