Tarpitting SSH with Endlessh
I had a smug moment when I saw security researcher Rob Ricci and friends' paper empirically analysing brute-force attacks against SSH "in the wild". It turns out that putting all your SSH servers on "weird" port numbers - which I've routinely done for over a decade - trolling, hacking, security, ssh, debian, linux

Foundry is a wonderful virtual tabletop tool well-suited to playing tabletop roleplaying games with your friends, no matter how far away they are. It compares very favourably to the market leader Roll20, once you get past some of the initial set-up challenges and a moderate learning game, games, technology, debian, linux, roleplaying, dungeons and dragons

#post-22013 pre white-space: pre-wrap;

Earlier this year, for reasons of privacy/love of selfhosting, I moved the DanQ.me mailing list from Mailchimp to Listmonk (there's a blog post about how I set it up), relaying outbound messages via an SMTP server provided by my domain registrar, #post, debian, dkim, google mail, email, published on gemini, spf, postfix, linux, smtp

Today I wanted to write a script that I could execute from both *nix (using Bash or a similar shell) and on Windows (from a command prompt, i.e. a batch file). I found Max Norin's solution which works, but has a few limitations, e.g. when run it outputs either the word "off" when run in *nix or

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As you might know if you were paying close attention in Summer 2019, I run a "URL shortener" for my personal use. You may be familiar with public URL shorteners like TinyURL and Bit.ly: my personal URL shortener is basically the same thing, except that only I am able to make short-links with it.

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