Let's Encrypt will issue you free SSL certificates, but you have to verify you control the domain, before they issue the certificates.

The 2 major ways of proving control over the domain:

1. Create a specific page on your webserver that they can reach.
2. Create a temporary DNS TXT record.

I went with option #2, as my web …

Configuring a Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS) on Ubiquiti's UniFi network manager is easy, if you use on of the configured providers that show up in the drop-down service.

I'd been using No-IP for a number of years, but decided to switch to Cloudflare as it was free, and given Cloudflare's reputation, reliable. …

I've been happy with my Calibre-web install over the past year, but recently, I ditched my web hosting provider, moving pretty much everything over to AWS.

Due to this, I needed to change the email address of my Calibre-web automailer.

I signed up for a GMX account, and configured Calibre-web to use it.

Testing, to my …

Logging into one of my Linux boxes, I noticed I had a zombie process.

Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-88-generic x86_64)

  => There is 1 zombie process.

A zombie process is

Processes marked are dead processes (so-called "zombies") that remain because their parent has not destroyed them …

I've been using Wireguard for a while when away from my house for a couple of reasons:

1. Access to my home network's servers, services, and resources.

2. Security, when accessing the internet via insecure wifi.

3. Ability to use my PiHole (DNS sinkhole).

It's been working great, but as with everything else, I wanted to …

On an OSX system, .DS_STORE (Desktop Services Store), are used to store user settings for a folder, such as the list of files, the location of the icons, the selected background image.

In a mixed-OS environment using network shares, they can be annoying.

Even in a strictly Apple environment, there are security …