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Rebooting a LUKS Encrypted System Without Typing The Passphrase May 26th, 2023
I like to encrypt everything. Since almost all modern processors have hardware support for AES, there's almost no downside to encrypting every storage device you own. One potential downside on a headless system, however, is having to type in a passphrase on boot. Today, we're going to mitigate this without compromising our root partition.
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On the new Wikipedia theme January 19th, 2023
Well, we all knew it was coming. Wikipedia has changed its default skin. Here's my most surprising take of the year: I don't think it's that bad. I know I'm always out moaning whenever something like this changes, but I don't think this change is completely awful. I do have a couple of things to moan about, though.
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Atom vs. RSS November 9th, 2022
Atom is the superior XML standard for syndication on the Internet. Atom is very well thought-out, offering all of the common features of RSS while improving on versatility and extensibility. Conversely, many of the most important features of RSS appear to have been duct-taped to the specification as an afterthought. When starting a new feed today, there is no reason to choose RSS over Atom.
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