package.json#

For a while now I’ve been using Visual Studio Code for a few JavaScript / TypeScript projects. Most of these projects come with a package.json file, which documents various aspects of the project. A tiny example of such a file:

{ …

Sooner or later when setting up a server you’ll want to create some MySQL databses and users. If you’re not proficient in writing SQL queries or just wanted to use a nice GUI tool for the task, you’d need to connect remotely to your …

Introduction#

Some context#

I have a NAS at home which runs on Debian Jessie. A NAS wouldn’t be a NAS without some storage, so I put in two disks with 4 TB each when I built it. Those two disks have actually been used in a setup with OpenMediaVault …

I recently got myself a small VPS from Hetzner to play around with. Using their ‘rescue’ function you can mount different installer images in the virtual disc drive and install the system via VNC or web console.

They provide an Arch installer …

I dug a little further after my last post and stumbled upon this excellent blog post. It turns out that using the libpam-oath module for two-factor authentication is a lot easier than the challenge-response module and it works rather fabulously.

I will …

First off: this does not work as I wanted it to work .. it has some interesting implications though.

The idea#

I am using a YubiKey NEO for various things. It holds my PGP keys in its secure element and has the YubiKey slots configured to use HMAC-SHA1 …

Freifunk explained#

The vision of Freifunk is the establishment of free networks, the democratization of communication media and the promotion of local social structures.

Basically, if you want to participate in a Freifunk community, you take a router …

Okay, so I set this thing up recently as my new landing page.

Using some scripts and templates from etherpad-lite, which I modified slightly, I now run this as a systemd service under a new user. (You can find the modified files at the end of this post.) …