During the pandemic, I let my previous VPN subscription expire simply because I used it so infrequently with all of my time at home. While there’s something to be said for using a VPN all the time in an attempt to limit your ISP from learning as much about your browsing history, it wasn’t a… Continue reading ProtonVPN on Manjaro Linux
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Brave Search
A coupe of years ago, I had a realization that, as a privacy-focused individual, Google was an absolutely terrible company. As a company that owns an advertising business, they’re heavily incentivized to be as invasive as possible in order to serve targeted advertising. I embarked on a quest to cut all Google services out of… Continue reading Brave Search
Groovy: Stripping HTML With JSoup
As a follow-up to my post on sorting objects in Groovy, in the same script I was working on parsing together comment threads. That was the reason why I needed to sort things by date. The content of each comment was given to me in HTML, though, and the system I needed to import the… Continue reading Groovy: Stripping HTML With JSoup
Sorting Objects By A Specific Property In Groovy
As someone who does a lot of scripting and not a ton of large-scale development work, it’s a bit rare that I make objects in my code. Outside of PowerShell, which basically makes everything an object for you, I typically spend a lot of time working with dictionaries instead. Occasionally, though, objects are far more… Continue reading Sorting Objects By A Specific Property In Groovy
ncdu – Finding Where Disk Space Is Used On Linux
The other day I woke up to a fairly terrifying alert that one of my Linux servers was down to about 5% disk space free. Due to the way that ext-based filesystems work, they typically need some available space to avoid imploding on themselves, thus making this a Bad Situation™. This scenario has lead some… Continue reading ncdu – Finding Where Disk Space Is Used On Linux
The Quest For Microsoft’s Next Default Font
Fonts are something that I assume most people don’t think about too often, myself included. Despite how much time many of us spend staring at screens reading text, we don’t frequently spend many cycles considering how that text is rendered to us. I assume that I do think about them at least a little more… Continue reading The Quest For Microsoft’s Next Default Font
Trying Cloudflare Pages
I’ve spent the majority of my day staring at my computer as I break and subsequently attempt to fix my website. It all started when I was able to gain access to get access to a new design framework — hopefully I’ll be able to show some things from that eventually. I figured it would… Continue reading Trying Cloudflare Pages
Swapping Mirrors On Manjaro Linux
One of my favorite aspects of Linux ever since my first Ubuntu 6.06 installation has been the software repository. Back in 2006, installing the overwhelming majority of the software I might need from a supported repository stood in stark contrast with the Windows XP method of searching the web for the software you wanted, finding… Continue reading Swapping Mirrors On Manjaro Linux
Upgrading Star Labs Firmware On Manjaro Linux
As you may recall, I purchased a new Linux laptop from Star Labs a while back. It’s a solid little device, though I admittedly haven’t been using it as much as I anticipated due to my increased reliance on my iPads. For more information on that, look for the new Same Shade Of Difference podcast… Continue reading Upgrading Star Labs Firmware On Manjaro Linux
Enable Directory Listing On Specific Directory With Nginx
Note: In the sample below, I’m using Ubuntu Linux as the host for my web server. The instructions should be the same for other flavors of Linux, though the path to your Nginx sites configuration files may be different. Generally when you navigate to a website, such as https://unusually.pink/, you don’t actually get to see… Continue reading Enable Directory Listing On Specific Directory With Nginx