Experiencing Technology

There are times when video recordings are not shown as expected.

Hardware security keys are not only used for web authentication.

While sticking to the mantra of “One Container, One Process” where possible, it is not always possible to have only one process running per container.

While using the hardware security keys from Token2 on a Framework Laptop, one thing became clear: the Token2 T2F2 perfectly fits the Framework laptop design.

Modern email servers use a number of modern techniques to reduce the amount of spam.

FIDO2 provides a secure and modern way of performing authentication.

Security keys advertised everywhere as the solution for modern security and password problems and many open source projects welcome the new technology, but what about the security keys themselves?

Many stories begin with “In the good old days …” but were the old days always so good?

FIDO2 Security keys are starting to take off.

So many discussions are everywhere about FIDO, so what is all that fuss about?

For decades, users have authenticated on systems with usernames and passwords.

Git is the de-facto standard version control system nowadays.

DNS might not be the oldest, but is for sure one of the oldest and still very important services building the core of the Internet.

A long long time ago before git was the dominant version control system (VCS) I used Subversion for quite some time.

Back in the early 2000’s Bluetooth was the huge new thing to replace infrared as the wireless connection protocol.

It might be over-complicated in some cases to fire up a huge video editing suite just to cut a section out of a video.

Sometimes it can be helpful to inspect videos or sections of a video frame by frame.

Installing packages via rpm usually provides a lot of comfort.

WireGuard provides a modern VPN and is advertised as being much easier to install and configure than many other VPN services.

With many services running in their own container or with their own daemon, the use of reverse proxies is getting more common, and at the same time, the use of SSL/TLS has become a standard.

In some rare cases you might run into the need to download a complete website onto your local machine for offline usage.

Unifi access points from Ubiquiti cannot be configured like normal, standalone access points.

Changing the certificate of a webserver sometimes means also changing the intermediate certificate(s).

Sometimes mails queue up in the postfix mail queue for some reason, maybe the destination mailserver does not exist or some emails have a recipient address that is incorrect.

Keeping your Mac clean and free of unwanted files is essential if you want to keep it running like new.

The handy utility Dash – Offline access to documentation is sadly only available for MacOS, but there are compatible alternatives available to let you browse documentation offline on Linux.

A mailbox can get flooded with many emails, some are automatically generated, others are related to orders.

Modern server hardware offers a lot of possibilities for administration.

There are different ways to lock a user into his home directory.

In Managing shell commands and processes a utility called screen was introduced, but screen is not the only utility to manage multiple sessions.