Technology

My Password Managers I’m not going to waste much time debating if you should have a password manager, there’s plenty of sites which have done a much better job than I ever could over the last decade plus. Nope, I’m just going to review my history with these systems, and why I recently made a change. Password managers, then, are a single application or site which requires one master password for itself and then you put all of your passwords and other information in to it....

Current Situation One of my self built boxes is my (currently) Ubuntu Linux based archive server. It’s used essentially as a NAS (though it does do some other things) using an old CPU and motherboard, 6 HDDs and an SSD for OS. The non-drive components are getting old, so I have a plan to swap them out in 2024 and I’m being extra vigilent around them of late. One item which doesn’t generate much alert data for me at the moment is the power supply and lets be honest, power supplies are the kinds of things which we just don’t think about much, are they?...

For a couple of years, some of my in-house functionality was being handled by a couple of Raspberry Pi’s - my old 1B was doing Pi-hole duty, and a 2 was my always-on Syncthing hub. I’d actually had no problem at all with either of these doing these roles, perhaps with the exception that the 1B, whilst fine for DNS sinkhole duties, when doing any work via the web UI, especially searches and analysis and such, was as slow as you’d expect....

For a while I’ve needed to get together a ~10 page website for a charity event I’m involved with – something for those people not on Facebook but with very similar content – dates, guidelines, FAQs in English and Japanese, some galleries of previous events. That kind of thing. Many years ago I’d made a simple hand coded HTML and CSS site for it, and that was fine, but then there were issues with the domain name and hosting (neither of which I controlled) so I needed to find another similar domain name, and sort a site out on my own space....