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 …

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 …

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 …