As my server was hitting its capacity limits, it was time to rethink the whole webstack and do some improvements. And that’s exactly where I ditched gzip in favor of Brotli. Considering that it’s supported by the major browsers, I checked my Matomo analysis to see if I would run into any problems. As I had almost no […]
The story of a hacked server
It’s not a big secret that I am helping out other people when they have Linux issues – and so I did at this fellows network. In fact, we did a Gentoo server together to give him some chance to learn more about Linux and how things work together. I double-checked all except for the passwords which left […]
traefik 2.0 vs insecure SSL certificates
Guess I should quickly explain why someone would want to mess with bad SSL certificates. I mean, it sounds insecure as hell and you are right if you’re shaking your head. But sadly there are applications unable to deliver good certificates or exchange them. Best example is Ubnt and their controller for their software. They still don’t make […]
Looking at Pi-Hole
Pi-Hole is a nice tool to reduce ads on your network. The way it’s working is pretty simple: The main component doing the magic is a DNS server, which’s job is to give bogus answers for unwanted domains so that the client either asks ‘localhost’ or the pi. What’s being blocked depends on a few lists which are […]
Fighting the Asus ROG G752VSK
I have to admit, Asus did a sweet one here, but to be honest, it can be a pain in the rear end running linux – especially sound and touchpad. But regarding sound I was able to find at least some partial solution which is loading in a pin config as follows: [codec] 0x10ec0668 0x104313f0 0 […]
Looking at Jolla
Due to me having some time and my old OnePlus One Smartphone, I decided to have a look and find (stock) Android alternatives – something that exists without that rather enclosed Google-Environment. I mean, there surely has to be some guys trying to, right? A quick google search showed some old Android 5 ROMs, Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish […]