endoflife.date

Posted by james on 1 September 2023, 7:32 pm

https://endoflife.date/ – check EOL for software

Get the SAN entries for a cert with openssl

Posted by james on 30 August 2023, 4:19 pm

Set up a home Wireguard server quickly

Posted by james on 9 July 2023, 4:49 pm

Try wg-cmd – it’s great.

Find the name of a network interface matching a pattern

Posted by james on 23 June 2023, 8:43 am

IF=$(basename $(find /sys/class/net -name ‘wlp0s*’))

pfsense with Community Fibre Internet

Posted by james on 19 June 2023, 9:55 am

Use my referral link for £100 Amazon voucher when you join Community Fibre! I recently got set up with Community Fibre Internet. The latency and bandwith are fantastic, however the Linksys Velop routers are bare bones, so I decided to just use it as a wireless bridge and replace the routing / firewall aspect with …

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dnssec-keygen & nsupdate failing?

Posted by james on 11 June 2023, 8:20 pm

Generate your key with tsig-keygen & follow the instructions.

Get emacs to automatically active a virtualenv for a directory & below

Posted by james on 21 February 2023, 8:42 am

create a .dir-locals.el file: ensure that env var WORKON_HOME is set, either in shell or earlier in emacs config as below:

Keyboard laggy on Linux?

Posted by james on 8 February 2023, 9:20 am

If your keyboard seems to take a keystroke to “wake up” on Linux it could be USB power-saving. If the output of cat /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend is not -1, you can disable this by adding the kernel parameter usbcore.autosuspend=-1 and rebooting.