today's howtos
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Day 21: conic gradients
It’s time to get me up to speed with modern CSS. There’s so much new in CSS that I know too little about. To change that I’ve started #100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS. Why more or less modern CSS? Because some topics will be about cutting-edge features, while other stuff has been around for quite a while already, but I just have little to no experience with it.
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Creating a High Quality GIF with Transparency
I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out the process to create the gif at the top of my How BSD Authentication Works blog post, so I thought I'd share it.
Here's how to create a small, high quality gif with transparency using a video and an image as source material.
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openvpn: error=CRL has expired
After the former FreshPorts server was retired, its OpenVPN credential were revoked. I maintain those certificates via ssl-admin. I uploaded the new CRL into the System | Certificate Manager | Certificate Revocation page in pfSense.
Today, I was seeing strange errors in Nagios, and figured someone wasn’t connected to the VPN. Checking OpenVPN client logs, I found nothing. On the OpenVPN server, I found this message: [...]
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Why I feel DNS CAA records are a real TLS security improvement in practice
The fundamental Certificate Authority problem is that any CA in the world can issue valid TLS certificates for your domain, regardless of how good or bad their practices are. These days all CAs at least claim to be careful and there is some assurance that they are, but their actual operational practices vary and a specific CA may be vulnerable to issues like BGP based attacks (also).
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How To Install Franz on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS
In this guide, we will show you how to install Franz messaging in Ubuntu systems.
Franz is an application was built in order to make it easier for people to manage and organize their chats. Currently, Franz supports Slack , WhatsApp, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe, and Skype.
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How To Install SFTPGo on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS
SFTPGo is a fully featured and highly configurable SFTP server with optional HTTP/S, FTP/S and WebDAV support. Several storage backends are supported: local filesystem, encrypted local filesystem, S3 (compatible) Object Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, SFTP.
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How To Install Akaunting on Debian 11
Akaunting is a free, open-source self-hostable accounting software that can be used to manage your invoices, quotes, and finances. Akaunting provides an elegant and intuitive UI will all the features and was designed for small businesses and freelancers.