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Security RSS feeds

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I follow the RSS feeds for the following security sites to keep up to date on what’s going on.

Move to Jekyll

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As discussed on my personal blog, I’ve moved all the more technical posts from there to this site, and also moved both sites from Ghost to Jekyll (link at th...

Azure CLI VM quick commands

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A few quick commands for Azure CLI to do stuff with virtual machines, so I don’t have to try and remember them…

Issue expanding Synology NAS volume

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This week I decided to take advantage of some sales on hard drives to replace a couple of the older drives in my Synology NAS that were out of warranty, movi...

Plex Podcasts feature is amazingly bad

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I recently (re?)discovered that the podcast app I use on Android was using an annual subscription model instead of a one-time fee. I’m OK with paying $10-15 ...

Installing miniflux on FreeBSD

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After trying to figure out why FreshRSS does not update my feeds as frequently as I expect – it’s supposed to do it every 20min, but my cron jobs every 30min...

Netflix and IPv6 blocks and FreeBSD router

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I’ve had issues for several years with mobile devices (particularly iPads) on my home network accessing Netflix. The loading spinner in the Netflix app just ...

Removing Hyper-V from Windows 10

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Hyper-V is pretty cool, and I enjoyed playing with it, especially in conjunction with Ubuntu’s Multipasstool. However, once I finished playing with it – I ha...