I wanted to read this (mentioned here) and ended up thinking about subscribing to WIRED which took me to an article about the WIRED paywall The Next 25 Years of WIRED Start Today and their FAQ. I decided to subscribe to the digital edition and am interested to check out the newsletters and the WIRED Guides.
Category Archives: Internet
IPv6
Today while reading this IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ I was referred to Absolute scale corrupts absolutely and the Wikipedia page for SRV record.
My love-hate affair with technology
I feel the same way: My love-hate affair with technology. And my Raspberry Pis (both of them) auto-update too.
Public APIs
This via r/programming today: A collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development.
openssl dhparam -out dh.pem
So I was getting errors like this in syslog:
Jul 6 17:35:53 integrity systemd[1]: Started Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server. Jul 6 17:35:53 integrity dovecot[10775]: doveconf: Fatal: Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-ssl.conf line 79: ssl_dh: Can't open file /etc/dovecot/dh.pem: No such file or directory Jul 6 17:35:53 integrity systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=89/n/a Jul 6 17:35:53 integrity systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
This failure was affecting other parts of my system (i.e. postfix SASL).
The solution was to generate the dh.pem file:
root@integrity:/etc/dovecot # openssl dhparam -out dh.pem 4096
Introduction to End-to-end encryption in Thunderbird
Today I stumbled upon Introduction to End-to-end encryption in Thunderbird. It discusses how OpenPGP and S/MIME encryption works in Thunderbird.
Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
Via HN today: Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work. TL;DR: Misaligned profit motives. Wish I had time to read more than the tl;dr.
You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance
Today via Hacker News: You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance.
How to save up to 500€/year switching from Mailchimp to Open Source Mailtrain and AWS SES
This on lobsters today: How to save up to 500€/year switching from Mailchimp to Open Source Mailtrain and AWS SES.
Email explained from first principles
Here is every last thing you could ever possibly want to know about email: Email explained from first principles.