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Tools The netshoot Docker image is very helpful as it includes all the networking tools you might need to test with.

This is a working document.

Update: I did get this working.

Updated 08/29/26 - A support case I opened with OpenVPN’s engineers confirmed this solution.

Groups / Event Lists SlothWerks Tech Calendar Public calendar maintained by the amazing Sloth.

While I do believe AI (referring to LLMs as that is what everyone means 99% of the time when they say “AI” now) has some use in the world, I consider myself an AI Vegetarian; meaning I do not attempt to use AI in everything I do.

Below is a list of resources I have found helpful for the various nonprofits I interact with.

Maybe License Your SQL Servers If you are reading this, you are a developer who installed SQL Server Evaluation and the 180 day window expired, OR, someone setup SQL Server with Evaluation Edition, used it in production (“we will license it later”), and t…

As I have predicted for years now, the decision to stop native support for SMS/Phone 2FA in Entra has come. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authentication/concept-sms-voice-retirement They market it as security, it is 100% a financial cost

This blog is written as participant follow up material to my BarCampGR 2026 talk1 About Actual Budget Actual Budget2 is a free open source budgeting software that supports all operating systems, including mobile (requires sync server).

Browser Extension Allowlist When attempting to implement browser extension lockdown1 (ie. only allowing authorized browser extensions to be installed), I came across some hidden extensions that needed to be allowed.

I spent a fair amount of time reading articles by both Yubikey and others that attempted to explain this process but I always hit a roadblock.

The Issue Despite read only = no being set on a Samba share in /etc/samba/smb.conf, iOS shows a “Read-Only” flag with a crossed out pencil icon on any folder in the share when I access it from my Apple iPhone.

One of my recent projects was setting up Immich for a local FIRST Robotics team.

Symptoms As of March 2026 (time of writing), a bug has existed in GNOME for a few years that causes the display to go black after 30 seconds of inactivity (not suspended or locked, just goes dark).