How does Okta not have systems like support systems like what was breached with the credentials behind a VPN as well? A system like that really ought to be on a secured network. We have so many systems at work that are VPN required and it’s mostly those where sensitive data lives.

I would also second Hugo which I use for my personal site and blog which I haven’t updated for a long time. Nice thing is that it has a minimal footprint of needing to watch out for updates unlike something like Wordpress which was known for being vulnerable stable if left unmaintained. It’s mostly looking out for old themes with vulnerable javascript.

Another popular options is Jekyll and I honestly can’t remember why I picked Hugo over it but if you don’t need dynamic content, why make things more complex?

kitty = kiddie

The fields where you can’t paste a password or any other types of data like credit card info absolutely kill me. It’s doing the exact opposite of adding any level of security and it’s just infuriating.

My favorite recently is my company has TOTP 2FA but you can’t paste the 6 digits. You have to type in one digit at a time, each being its own box. Paste fails in every browser I’ve tried. It’s just a shitty user interface.

If a service you use does not offer TOTP but implements their own 2FA through another method, you have no choice to use it though.

I also used to run into this when flying for work I would have paid for wifi on a plane flight but my mobile device isn’t able to get their text or push notification because I only paid for my laptop to have wifi. Used to drive me crazy and then I just stopped working while on flights because of dumb policies.

I use apt cacher ng. Most of my use case though is for caching of packages related to Docker image builds as I build up to 200+ images daily. In reality, I have aggressive image caching so I don’t actually build anywhere close to that many each day but the stats are impressive. 8.1 GB of data fetched from the internet but 108 GB served from the acng instance as it shows in the stats page of recent history.

I have two internet connections - one is fiber and the other is cable. My cable is the backup connection and is a lower tier offering with a 1.2 TB/month cap while my primary fiber is 1gig symmetrical with no data cap. I use pfsense to handle failover in case of an outage.

I also use acme.sh. It has worked great for me and was dead simple to use. Super flexible on what it can do from just renewing the certs to web server integration. Love the simple to use hooks available too.

Check out Plexamp, the Plex music streaming client.

I uninstall apps from my phone that have ads that prevent the experience from being decent. I understand then need for ads but if you force me to regularly watch 30 second ads? You’re gone.

Containers are such a game changer for how I manage my apps and their dependencies. Love how I can try things out in a container, nuke it and start over, knowing I have a clean environment. I hate installing anything on my native host OS install these days if I can help it.

Minor nit here - “docker containers” or just “containers” because “dockers” are pants.

I’m not aware of a way to lock an entire system to a major.minor version with Debian, only holding individual packages. What exact version is your base-files? The full string matters.

You could check to see if anything is held with apt-mark showhold.

It is possible that the mirror you have in your sources.list file stopped syncing so to your system is looks like it has no updates. What mirror is your system pointed at?

So 12.1 is out but have you upgraded any of your packages yet? The /etc/debian_version file comes from the base-files package. On my up to date system, it’s showing 12.1 in the file and the package version is 12.4+deb12u1 as I can see from dpkg -l base-files.

Make sure to do an apt update and then do an apt upgrade -s to do a dry-run to see what packages would be upgraded. I’m guessing the base-files package hasn’t been updated.

I user homer. Really simple, basic config and it looks nice. The stats are pretty cool for certain integrations and are easy to add - I’ve added a few myself for services that didn’t have them. Only issue is slow PR review.

Sounds like the perfect recipe to become like the next Google+ though