Thanks to previous jobs, I’ve had an OpenVPN server running at my house for the past decade. It gives me access to my home network while I’m out in the world, and allows me to securely proxy my web traffic over insecure WiFi so it bounces to the Internet from my house. It’s fast enough, …
Category Archives: Software
Encrypted Tunnel Railroad
I’m super glad that I set up an OpenVPN server in my apartment, especially this weekend. Do you know what national hotel chain offers free WiFi, but that it’s: It’s Comfort Inn. That’s who. And they’re not the only one. First, I hate this. Give me a password with my room key, change it daily, …
Bucking
Today at work I got to enjoy another round of “Operation: Donkey Punch”, a term I picked up from my hacking friends. It’s where, after fighting with a device to make a change through standard means and failing repeatedly because the standard means are absurdly dumb or limited by policy or design, you tear it …
VLC Recent Albums Flow
I use VLC on Android to listen to music because it’s kinda neat. My one annoyance is that it doesn’t have anything like the Recent Albums cover flow like Plex does. Really annoying. I pick up a lot of music and really miss being able to look at my recent CD stack to remind myself …
Only the Hardest Links
At home I use backintime as my backup software (a FOSS clone of Apple’s Time Machine). It works fantastically (and has saved my ass several times). It’s a Python framework around some very clever rsync magic; daily incremental snapshots are light on space because it uses hard links on the backend storage if a file …