PancakesCon 2 takes place Sunday, March 21, 2021. A cursory search for an ics calendar file of the talks came up empty, so I created one myself.

PancakesCon2.ics

I recently upgraded a Linode VPS from Xen to KVM to take advantage of touted performance boosts as well as the ability to boot directly from a disk partition of my choosing, with my preferred kernel and bootloader. I've standardized on using Syslinux on my home Arch Linux machines, so …

pump.io is selfish. It's intended to run on a standard web port, but it doesn't want to share that port with other services. This poses a problem to people who, like me, want to host their own pump.io server, but don't want to dedicate an entire host to …

cryptsetup can be invoked with the -d switch to read the passphrase from a file on disk rather than from stdin. However, if you want to migrate an existing passphrase to a file, you'll probably have to take an additional step to make it actually work.

When reading input from …

Had I been publishing articles in prior years, I undoubtedly would have mentioned my ongoing quest for a better way of enjoying my rockin' tunes. A couple of years ago, I finally replaced my over-a-decade-old Cambridge Soundworks FPS2000 Digital Speakers with a pair of Yamaha HS50M studio monitors fed from …

SkyDogCon 2013 is quickly approaching. This year, as in the previous two years, the organizers are making electronic badges available to attendees. And once again, badge hacking is featured as one of the conference competitions. While the focus of this competition is modifying the SDC 2013 Propeller-based badge, the …

This was my favorite of all the ShmooCon IX puzzles. It reminds me of the logic grid puzzles I used to do in elementary school. Bobby has brown hair. The person who likes green has blue eyes, etc.

        Collected Deckard ( )[ ][ ][ ]
           EX-TERM-IN-ATE [ ][ ]( )( )[ ][ ]
            Ripley's Ship [ ][ ][ ]( )[ ][ ][ ][ ]
Became self-aware in 1997 [ ][ ]( )[ ][ ]( )
            Directed 2001 [ ][ ][ ]( )( )[ ][ ]
        Brown's Capacitor [ ][ ]( )[ ]
     Father of the clones ( )[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]

It's been a busy night fixing various bugs on the thisshitistemp.com server. Here's a collection of useful information for future reference.

smtpd_tls_security_level = may # allow incoming encryption

smtpd_tls_security_level …