Disclaimer: As always, my blogs are not supposed to be a well-written piece of technical literature but instead a better-than-crap version of a messy notepad. I hope it’s clear enough to help someone other than myself but I always check them to make sure at least I can understand it, ha. It seems that there is a nice blog written…
Category: Freedom and Privacy
How to set up Gitlab with Ubuntu Touch 2FA Manager App
I had been using Ubuntu Touch Authenticator app, but I wanted to try out the 2FA Manager app to see how that worked for me. The only problem was that I had never reset my 2FA stuff that I originally set up so this was my first time switching devices. It was easy, but it was also not documented. I…
Starting a Company Right with LibreOffice Docs
If you are at a company at the startup phase, and you want to make sure that the company isn’t plagued by proprietary office documents, and to make sure that everyone knows the reason *why* this matters, I have created the attached documents. I will also paste the raw text into this post so you can know what’s in the…
How to use this Bmap Tool Thing…
So someone said ‘use bmap tools instead of dd because it’s faster and better’.It sounded good but as usual when I went searching for documentaion on how to simply use this tool I was left in another command line dizziness. You can check their read me file on the git repository here for yourself if you’d like. This blog here…
THE NEED FOR A NEW QR CODE WORLD – OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT…
The Background – The Feelings The background to this one is that I was really amazed by the technology and functionality of QR codes. QR codes brought the convenience of UPC retail bar codes to the average person without the crazy costs associated. So, even from a business perspective you could have your own scanning system if you wanted. On…
INSTALLING ROUNDCUBE 1.4 VERSION ON YUNOHOST
Thanks to the work of Brian we can now install the newest version of Roundcube on Yunohost. Why is this so exciting? Newer, fresher UI PGP encryption Functionality with the enigma plugin Mobile friendly skin In short, it makes your self-hosted email awesome on a mobile too, regardless of whether you have an email app that works or not with…
HOW TO INSTALL NEW ROUNDCUBE VERSION ON SHARED HOST CPANEL WITH PGP KEYS WORKING
So, you want to not wait for RoundCube to release 1.4 to cpanel, or, you have Roundcube on your cpanel setup and for whatever reason the Enigma plugin that makes the PGP stuff work – isn’t working. Whatever your reason is, the solution is not insanely hard, but it took me about a week and a lot of hours to…
HOW TO MAKE A NEXTCLOUD PI BOX WORK AS REVERSE PROXY TO YUNOHOST
Background The situation was that I wanted to test out the very cool project Yunohost but I already had Nextcloudpi (another awesome project!) running on my local network. I already had a DDNS service (No-ip) running which was pointing to my Nextcloudpi (“NCP” moving forward) box, and a second DNS service that I set up which pointed to my router…
SETTING UP EMAIL WITH YUNOHOST AND CLOUDFLARE
In a previous blog post I set up a Yunohost (“YH” moving forward) box with a script so that it would report it’s location back to Cloudflare (“CF” moving forward) automatically using a cron job entry on the box and a cool piece of free software called ddns-cloudflare. That blog was to make sure the website stuff (ie. WordPress blog,…
HOW TO SET UP YUNOHOST WITH YOUR OWN DOMAIN (USING CLOUDFLARE)
EDIT 19/06/12 – made some tweaks to this after realizing a few small errors. Sorry if you followed before June 12 🙁 I really wanted to self-host a kind of ‘family box’ which would allow me to have self-hosted email, Nextcloud, websites, and a few other basic things and not have it running on someone else’s server. During the process…