on Today I undocked Google Chrome from my program bar. Yes I didn’t uninstall it, but it’s a step further. A step further towards more privacy. Today I am using Brave for all private purposes. I am also already using Brave for all my freelancing purposes and maybe it will soon find its way into the… Continue Reading From now on i’ll be brave
on Just a repost to remember: How to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on a GUI-less Ubuntu server host
on HSTS is for security, I get it. But it can be so fucking annoying. Here is how to clear it for specific domains: superuser: How to stop an automatic redirect from “http://” to “https://” in Chrome
on If you’re equally annoyed by Confluence’s search, I might have some help. Documentation says about (leading) wildcards: Lucene doesn’t allow wildcards at the beginning of your search, but you can format your search as a regular expression as a workaround. For example, you can’t search for hum or ?hum, as they begin with a wildcard,… Continue Reading Confluence fulltext search / using regex search in confluence
on Today I ran into this a broken swarm. I have not figured out why it would report itself as “reachability: active, status: down”. The manager But fixing the manager was somewhat easy. It would not leave the swarm, it would not respond with “up” to “systemctl restart docker” calls. The “down” status would also survive… Continue Reading Swarm manager active but down and Dockerd start: no space left on device
on Trying out Asana I found this website: Turn Asana into a Windows desktop app I wonder if this works for any website. I will play around with it a bit. *edit: This hints to a Windows way to do the same thing: Run Google Keep on the desktop in its own window
on This is just a quick repost of RUN A SHELL FROM JENKINS USING SUDO (UBUNTU) Disclaimer: This is UNSAFE and you should NEVER do it unless in a protected, shielded and non-public-accessible dev environment. This is not even safe enough for a permanent testing environment.
on Google has HSTS and some domains fall under it automatically. This makes Chrome automatically use HTTPS instead of HTTP. As I often work on local/development/testing environments in internal, protected networks HTTPS is not necessary. Yet Chrome forces me to HTTPS everytime anywas. This thread to the rescue: How to stop an automatic redirect from “http://”… Continue Reading Disabling HSTS for any domain
on This is a nifty script I found to manually test SMTP servers: Script for testing SMTP with Telnet
on To sign and encrypt emails on Thunderbird one can use PGP keys. To understand the cryptography behind it and read more about PGP, please use Google. This post will just describe the setup on Mac OSX. #1 Install Thunderbird I will let you figure out that one by yourself. Get it here. #2 Install Enigmail… Continue Reading GNUPG – Email encryption and signing – full setup on Mac OSX