Two-factor auth’s Achilles heel: switching smartphones
Migrating all of your 2fa codes to a new smartphone is a huge pain. Here’s one way you can make it easier.
Category Archives: Internet
FIXED: GoComics is currently missing many of today’s comics
UPDATE: As of 10:44am Eastern time, GoComics says this should be resolved, and I am seeing GoComics comics in the aggregator. Let me know if you notice any that are still missing. Alas, GoComics.com is missing many of today’s comics. You won’t be able to see them in the aggregator until GoComics publishes them. The… Read More »
How to delete your LiveJournal account
LiveJournal recently changed their Terms of Service. Many people are unwilling to accept the new Terms of Service. Some people even find them so unacceptable that they want to delete their LiveJournal accounts. The only way to delete one’s LiveJournal account is via the Account Status page. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to access that page without… Read More »
Adding malicious IPs in DNSBLs to hosts.deny automatically
[See Adding malicious IPs in DNSBLs to iptables automatically for a new and improved version of this that uses iptables instead of hosts.deny, which is necessary since tcpwrappers is mostly deprecated at this point.] I run my own mail server, which means that there are hackers trying 24×7 to break into the server by connecting to… Read More »
Comics aggregator has a user guide now
I put together a basic user guide for the comics aggregator. Enjoy! Comics Aggregator user guide
Comics aggregator now does Washington Post columns better
The comics aggregator supports several Washington Post columns: Ask Amy, Carolyn Hax, and Miss Manners (let me know if there are any others you want). I just discovered and fixed two issues with this: the aggregator could fail to pick up a column when the RSS feed published by the Post lists articles out of… Read More »
GoComics.com fixed (again)
Good morning everybody! GoComics comics broke again this morning in the comics aggregator due to something I missed when I converted the aggregator over to the new GoComics site. The issue had to do with date formatting and therefore didn’t show up until we entered February and the current day of the month went from… Read More »
GoComics.com comics fixed
GoComics rolled out a new version of their web site last night which broke the comics aggregator. I’ve fixed it.
Let’s Encrypt with Synology NAS when you can’t open port 80
UPDATE [2022-02-06]: I’m fairly certain nothing in this blog posting is needed anymore with the current version of Synology’s NAS software (DSM). My NAS’s SSL certificate has been renewing automatically for quite a while now without my ever needing to use this script. I don’t know what mechanism DSM is now using to renew Let’s… Read More »
Comics aggregator now uses SSL, new URL
The comics aggregator is now accessed over SSL at the new URL https://comics.kamens.us/.