Some light reading for your Monday morning…

Just as a preface, I am not some sort of deprived maniac: I am looking at my referrers, and trying to re-host any old, accessed content that people are linking to. Apparently, at some point, I hosted VacuumInjuries.pdf. And it is pretty consistently requested, and I hate returning 404s.

YOU WILL NOT MAKE AUSTRALIA HOME

Redirect outdated and insecure browsers using Apache

I have absolutely no desire to support old and shitty browsers. And, I want people with modern browsers to view over SSL/TLS.

NO MORE IE

But, when someone with an old and shitty browser views my website they don’t really have a good experience. And, older browsers and operating systems tend to not support TLS SNI, which is a technology used to allow multiple certificates to be presented by a web server, and is utilised by Let’s Encrypt.

I have too much time on my hands

Strongswan with Let’s Encrypt on CentOS and RHEL

I have been trying to set up a VPN on my Linode running RHEL 7. Many of the tutorials for this involve creating self-signed certificates, but why? I already have a perfectly valid Let’s Encrypt certificate available–I want to use that to secure my connection!

This is how I did it.

Every day in the ambulance

No splashing

My semester thus far.

Exiting a tunnel at 300 km/h.