Wandering Thoughts archives

2020-05-31:	Mail forwarding is slowly dying (probably)
2020-05-30:	How we're likely to DKIM sign some of our email messages
2020-05-29:	What sort of SSH keys our users use or have listed in their authorized keys files
2020-05-28:	The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH
2020-05-27:	What I think OpenSSH 8.2+'s work toward deprecating 'ssh-rsa' means My various settings in X to get programs working on my HiDPI display
2020-05-25:	My failure with Xpra (probably because what I want is almost impossible)
2020-05-24:	A cheatsheet for Python's pip for how I use it Security questions and warnings are effectively confirmation requests
2020-05-22:	Mixed feelings about Firefox Addons' new non-Recommended extensions warning Working out how frequently your ICMP pings fail in Prometheus
2020-05-20:	How I work on Python 2 and Python 3 with the Python Language Server (in GNU Emacs) Switching to the new in-kernel WireGuard module was easy (on Fedora 31)
2020-05-18:	Reading the POSIX standard for Unix functions is not straightforward
2020-05-17:	Syndication feeds (RSS) and social media can be complementary Some views on having your system timezone set to UTC
2020-05-15:	Why we use city names when configuring system timezones
2020-05-14:	Exploring `munmap()` on page zero and on unmapped address space
2020-05-13:	Getting my head around what things aren't comparable in Go The modern HTTPS world has no place for old web servers
2020-05-11:	Why we have several hundred NFS filesystems in our environment
2020-05-10:	How we guarantee there's always some free space in our ZFS pools
2020-05-09:	How big our fileserver environment is (as of May 2020)
2020-05-08:	Revisiting what the ZFS recordsize is and what it does Linux software RAID resync speed limits are too low for SSDs
2020-05-06:	Modern versions of systemd can cause an unmount storm during shutdowns How to set up an Ubuntu 20.04 ISO image to auto-install a server
2020-05-04:	Notes on the autoinstall configuration file format for Ubuntu 20.04 The Go compiler has real improvements in new versions (and why)
2020-05-03:	What OSes we use here (as of May 2020)
2020-05-01:	What problems Snaps and Flatpaks are solving

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