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Post tagged: linux

by alex
in 2026

tagged encryption, openssl, python, browser, idea, alpine, linux, tools, windows, library, computer, ~remove, directory, database, configuration, address, information, remote, authentication, password, security, application, service, domain

Updated: 2025-05-12

Certificate Authorities

For home users there is not much use for running you own Certificate Authority (CA), and with availability of Letsencrypt and the plethora of ACME libraries setting TLS encryption is quite straight forward. ...

by alex
in 2025

tagged storage, linux, device, drive, security

Updated: 2025-03-16

Filesystem discard

Now with the prevalence of SSD's for storage, it is important to make sure that the DISCARD operation is used. This is specially true as this can increase the lifetime of your flash storage by reducing the need to re-map blocks by simply marking them as freed. ...

by alex
in 2025

tagged alpine, linux, scripts, service

Alpine Boot

This is a quick note. In Alpine linux you can run start-up scripts by enabling the local service: rc-update add local default When this is enabled, it will run all executable scripts that end with .start on start-up and scripts that end with .stop on shutdown. ...

by Alejandro Liu
in 2023

tagged configuration, directory, installation, linux, settings

Updated: 2023-09-05

libnss-db HOWTO

This mini-howto illustrate how to use libnss-db on a Ubuntu Linux system. Other installations should work to after adjusting package names and directory paths. I myself use as a "serverless" lightweight user directory. Essentially, I mount the db directory and the home directory from an NFS server. Package installation ...