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Ryuichi Sakamoto

Japanese musician, record producer, and actor; an artist for all time

Testing Video Transcoding with Docker

Video transcoding on the fly allows delivery of right sized content

Best music of 2025

Once again, the best part of the year was music

Our attention economy

Joan's comment on our current state of online bliss

Mirror a website locally and covert links

Copy a website and have a fully working copy

Albert Camus on art and work

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Another thrilling live set by the master

Simple, secure nginx configuration

From not losing your data to enabling greater security with immutable Backups, Wasabi Cloud offers a compelling and afforadable solution

Best music of 2024

A(nother) great year for music, and a(nother) great year for live music!

Run a Tor Relay in Docker

Everyone should be able to explore the internet with privacy, help defend human rights and online privacy for all by running a Tor bridge

Backup your files to Wasabi Cloud

From not losing your data to enabling greater security with immutable Backups, Wasabi Cloud offers a compelling and afforadable solution

Graphene OS

Spoiler: everything mostly just works, don't be scared

Fixing SSH issues in Windows

Best music of 2023

Benchmarking SSH ciphers for transfer speed

HOWTO use GitHub's token method

Best music of 2022

My favorite music from 2022

Ansible Speed Tweaks

Speed up your Ansible runs with this modified ansible.cfg

Screen Lock Block

Local Privilege Escalation in polkits pkexec

Best Music of 2021

Recognizing and Exercising Your Basic Rights

Albert Camus

Run a hidden tor website

Secure Linux Servers by Default

Best Music of 2020

My look at the last year in music

Randomize your Twitter avatar from the commandline

Find Raspberry Pi On Your Network

Best Music of 2019

My look at the last year in music

Howto Linux hot corner screen lock

The 3 Best Australian Punk Albums

It's only rock and roll but I like it

Automate Ansible Tower cli

Automate tower-cli with this wrapper script to run repeatable Ansible jobs

Best music of 2018

The year that was

Quickly Setup a Decent Vimrc

On new servers, we need a sane start to our vim setup

Check a webserver's cipher suites

Quickly display a remote webserver's cipher suites

Build a Headless Spotify Connect Server

Setup a Spotify connect server that your stereo will respect

Proxy Nexus-IQ via NGINX with SSL

An SSL enabled NGINX config to proxy Nexus-IQ

Best Music of 2017

Upgrading GitLab from 6x to 10x

Adventures in updating, and migrating, an old GitLab server to the latest version

The Power Trio Behind Superflex

Artists famous for getting audiences involved in artworks, which playfully challenge conventions

Checking and fixing broken RPM packages

Recovering from a disaster when you thought all hope was lost

HOWTO Automate the Lynis auditing tool

Use Systemd to Control VPN Connections

Best music of 2016

Throughout a tumultuous year, music remained a constant source of truth

HOWTO setup a very secure webserver

The most secure way (that I currently know) to serve websites

HOWTO Bias ASL Tube Amps

How to bias an ASL tube amplifier

What About Them?

An unpublished sketch from 2007

Best music of 2015

My annual list of music that moved me the most that year

HOWTO build nginx with HTTP 2 support

Latest nginx builds have expermental support for HTTP 2 here's how to enable it

Bruce on privacy

Bruce Schneir perfectly captures why we all need to be concerned about our only privacy