Wandering Thoughts archives

2020-12-25: The expiry time of Certificate Authority root certificates can be nominal (or not)
2020-12-09: A probable benefit to enabling screen blanking on LCD displays
2020-12-04: Some thoughts about low power loads and power supply efficiency
2020-11-23: What containers do and don't help you with
2020-11-19: Apple Silicon Macs versus ARM PCs
2020-11-15: I don't expect to have an ARM-based PC any time soon
2020-11-06: It's possible that the real size of different SSDs is now consistent
2020-10-04: Solid state disks in mirrors and other RAID setups, and wear lifetimes
2020-10-03: A thought about the lifetimes of hard disks and solid state disks
2020-09-28: My likely path away from spinning hard drives on my home desktop
2020-09-06: Daniel J. Bernstein's IM2000 email proposal is not a good idea
2020-08-31: Why we won't like it if signing email is the solution to various email problems
2020-08-30: All forms of signing email are generally solving the wrong problem (a thesis)
2020-08-25: My home desktop is still locking up when it gets too cold (and what next)
2020-08-24: I want a type of desktop PC (and motherboard) that's generally skipped
2020-08-21: When I stopped believing in Google's fundamental good nature
2020-08-12: People often have multiple social identities even in the physical realm
2020-07-28: Digital microwaves show an example of good UI doing what you wanted
2020-07-21: Contrasting the two common approaches to where programs start running
2020-07-04: How you get multiple TLS certificate chains from a server certificate
What a TLS self signed certificate is at a mechanical level
2020-06-12: The safety of GMail's POP server TLS certificate verification (or lack of it)
2020-06-10: A dual display setup creates a natural split between things
2020-06-09: The practical people problem with instance diversity in the Fediverse
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
2020-05-24: Security questions and warnings are effectively confirmation requests
2020-05-17: Syndication feeds (RSS) and social media can be complementary
2020-04-24: Accepting TLS certificate hostnames based on IP address checks is not safe
2020-04-19: Verifying the server hostname for a TLS certificate has two purposes
GMail, POP, and TLS server certificate verification
2020-04-05: Why it's very bad for applications to start themselves automatically
2020-03-31: My home DSL link really is fast enough to make remote X acceptable
2020-03-14: The two meanings of 'DNS over HTTPS' today
2020-03-12: TLS increasingly exists in three different worlds
2020-02-22: Will common motherboards ever have very many NVMe drive slots?
2020-02-09: Code dependencies and operational dependencies
2020-01-26: The real world is mutable (and consequences for system design)
2020-01-19: Why a network connection becoming writable when it succeeds makes sense
2020-01-06: How I move files between iOS devices and Unix machines (using SSH)

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