Category: Sysadmin
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Entities, components, actions and certificates
Saw this article about LetsEncrypt, the service I use to get my HTTPS certificates, accidentally revoking millions of certificates… and then noticed the email from them in my inbox informing me that they’re very sorry, but all of my domains are affected. On Wednesday, March 4, Let’s Encrypt – the free, automated digital certificate authority…
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Scheduled Maintenance
My hosting provider, Linode, will be performing scheduled maintenance next Wednesday, October 23rd: Recently, we identified a commit to the upstream Linux kernel as the cause of an increase in emergency maintenance on our platform. After implementing and gaining confidence in a fix, we are now ready to roll this update out to the remainder…
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What happened to June?
Here we are in the middle of July, and there’s a conspicuous lack of changelog notes for June. So what happened? Most of June was spent in an existential funk as the project floundered a bit and I found it hard to keep working on it. Some of code was getting a bit smelly, particularly…