Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificates without DNS API
A short tutorial on how to obtain Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificates using a tool called Agnos
Continue reading →How to bulk migrate from Google Authenticator to Aegis
Using 2FA certainly adds a good layer of security, and the Google Authenticator app is probably one of the most commonly used apps for that. It just has a big disadvantage: If your phone gets lost or stolen, you’re out of luck and you should hope you have saved recovery codes or can recover…
Continue reading →Why I root my Android phone
Every now and then, when there’s a conversation about the pros and cons of rooting, I ask myself “hmm, why did I root again? Do I really still need it?” So I decided to make a list of things I use my root access for, mainly for myself, but who knows, maybe someone cares Titanium…
Continue reading →How to hide your own joins in Textual
If you’re using Textual with ZNC, you’ll notice that even with general event messages turned off, your own joins are still being displayed, most notably when you start Textual and connect to your ZNC. The reason for that is that ZNC sends JOIN events to your client for all channels you are in – otherwise…
Continue reading →How to configure an alert in Textual when someone joins a channel
Suppose you’re staff in a support channel which isn’t very frequented by other users, and you want Textual to make a sound and show a notification (i.e. trigger a highlight) whenever someone joins that support channel. The chat filter can trigger some actions when certain things happen, like user joins channel #foo, and we are…
Continue reading →How to make mIRC compatible with ZNC’s znc.in/self-message CAP
I use three IRC clients with my ZNC bouncer: Textual on Mac, The Lounge for quick IRC access from any web browser including my phone and mIRC on my Windows PC. I am also using the clientbuffer znc module so backlog is saved for every client individually, so I get the whole backlog on each…
Continue reading →How to configure ZNC backlog for multiple clients
The znc IRC bouncer is a great piece of software. In this post, I’ll explain how to get individual backlog/buffer playback for each client. The problem The Auto Clear Chan Buffer and Auto Clear Query Buffer options, if checked, make sure that you receive backlog playback only once (instead of every time you connect). This…
Continue reading →This site now via https – powered by Let’s Encrypt
Do you run a website or -service and have you ever considered adding an SSL certificate to encrypt the traffic from and to your server/host? Many people would probably like to do this but don’t because they do not want to pay the price of SSL certificates, or maybe they think configuring their services to…
Continue reading →Mac: automatically uploading screenshots
Dropbox has a nice feature: It can automatically upload your screenshots and copy the share URL to your clipboard, ready to paste somewhere. However being a non-paying user, free space in my dropbox slowly decreases. I was also annoyed by the fact that the upload and/or generation of the sharing-URL took quite a few seconds….
Continue reading →How to solve not being able to sign in into Hangouts using the Chrome extension
So all of a sudden, my Hangouts window was prompting me to sign in. I clicked the button, it opened a browser window asking for my password. I logged in, said window closed, the Hangouts window refreshed… and asked me to sign in again. I was stuck with this, and it happened on all three…
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