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kurzgesagt – trust but verify
Back in January Kurzgesat announced that they’re doing a sale because they’ll be moving warehouses (see the announcement on Archive.org). This lead me to ask “is that really happening or is this just a marketing ploy to drive sales”? So, I did a small experiment by purchasing something from the shop back in January and…
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Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide to Science’s Most Puzzling Discovery
I found the “graphic guide” book concept intriguing, yet reading through multiple of them, I felt like they are more directories – pointers for further readings – rather than something I could use – while having little idea about the subject – as an introduction or overview into the subject. This idea was further strengthened…
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Email setup
I have a couple of goals for my email setup: Which leads me to my current setup: use simplelogin.io from Proton with a fallback to Cloudflare Email Routing. Advantages of this setup Details of the setup The description of the setup is probably shorter than the list of advantages, which is probably a good thing…
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Remembering the OG ad/malware blocking hosts file
For the longest time the first thing which I installed on new computers / computers I was asked to “help with” was the MVP hosts file (archive.org link). I credit this file with keeping many, many computers safe and running they way their owners intended to for almost two decades now. Sadly it seems like…
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Oracle cloud
As they say – people don’t use Oracle because the IT department chose it :). This is also probably true for for their cloud offering :). Just of the top of my head: Arcane login procedure that doesn’t support 2FA that prompts you to change your (randomly generated, high entry, kept in a password manager)…
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Useful Cloudflare infos
Trying to set up CloudFlare Access and it seems that some information are hard to find: The tunnel communicates over 7844/udp (important in case you want/have a restrictive firewall and/or your cloud provider requires to configure the node-independent firewall) The authenticated user is specified by the Cf-Access-Authenticated-User-Email header. Other useful headers can be Cf-Connecting-Ip or…