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  • OK Google Mail!

    Starting around 11 April Gmail started to mess with the TLS. If in the “send as” settings you had anything in the MX hostname, that does not match what’s going on after your @ and your cert, your mail server got a reject, even if his origin matches the certificate. I had ‘mx.andreybondarenko.com’, had to…

  • Another site move

    Aegea is a terrible blog platform, I hate it. No plugins, no security concepts, updating is a pain in the ass. So I need to move my blog yet another time as I’d done it in 2015. Maybe this time the blog would be more alive. I need ensure that all old URLs would be…

  • Windows 10: delete useless keyboard layout

    Sometimes for some strange reason Windows 10 adds extra keyboard layout after reboot. In my case it’s always UK that terribly frustrates me when I need @ or “, some users report that it’s DE. You cannot delete this layout normally from anywhere in the interface. Fortunately, there is a way to fix this with…

  • Про распознавание лиц в школах и не только

    /*старый текст, просто чтобы не потерять его*/ Почему-то меня сильно задел обсуждаемый в ленте ФБ вопрос о внедренной в китайских школах системе распознавания лиц и китайского Social Score. В комментариях пришли люди, которые внедряли похожую систему в каком-то ВУЗе в РФ, пришло много людей, которые хотели бы такую систему в своих школах для собственных детей.…

  • Getting back your privacy on the Internet in one simple step

    tl&dr: you should not put anything about you on the internet about you don’t want to see on the billboard in the city center. The privacy on the internet is treated as one of the greatest concerns last year and it would be treated even more next year. There are lots of articles how to…

  • Get top LDAP leafs

    /usr/bin/ldapsearch -H ldaps://localhost -W -b “dc=example,dc=com” “(objectclass=*)” -LL -W -D “cn=Manager” -s one

  • Search for a package in Fedora Silverblue

    sudo podman run –rm fedora:30 dnf search Okay

  • Extract PEM certificates and keys from a shared NSS DB

    $ certutil -L -d . Certificate Nickname Trust Attributes SSL,S/MIME,JAR/XPI FreeIPA CA CT,C,C $ certutil -L -d . -a -n ‘FreeIPA CA’ > freeipa.crt The PEM certificate should now be stored in free-ipa.crt. To extract the PEM key from key3.db use certutil, pk12util and openssl. $ certutil -K -d . -a $ pk12util -o keys.p12…

  • Схороню текстик

    ВСЯ ПРАВДА О ДЕМОСЕ… ИЗ “ПЕРВЫХ РУК” С КОММЕНТАРИЯМИ УЧАСТНИКОВ СОБЫТИЙ Десятилетию Демоса посвящается Я решил это написать, когда заметил, что жить осталось маловато (все мы под Богом), а информация, которая появляется, совсем далека от действительности… Началось все примерно в 1983 году. “Наши” люди сподобились вытащить Unix v7 прямо с VAXа Калифорнийского университета в Беркли…

  • Linux UX improvements

    Fish as a shell. I like the fact that out of the box it does what it should do and what I configure in Bash. And I like abbreviations. ripgrep which is faster grep Bat which is a way better cat  ??? lolcat!

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