
Killing the "Internet of shiT" 23 mar 2019
The only IoT device in my LAN is the inverter (ca. 400V DC to 230V@50Hz AC) for my solar panels. I don't like devices that do not/can not update in my network. Now that the website I used to pull the measurement data from is changed (and thus broken) I decided to reverse what the device does and build my own service.
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Improving my mail server setup 27 may 2018 | Last updated: 27 may 2018 00:00
After switching from SpamAssassin to rspamd for spam classification I wasn't completely happy yet with the separation I had achieved. More and more I find myself splitting off functions on my server into jails and I wanted to achieve more separation of unauthenticated content processing with storage of data.
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The simplest LetsEncrypt for Apache 10 sep 2017
mod_md
is by far the simplest way to add LetsEncrypt signed certificates to your Apache httpd server. Just add one line of configuration and you're done!

acme-client 30 dec 2016 | Last updated: 15 dec 2017 00:00
This should be the final and my definitive guide on using Let's Encrypt and acme-client on FreeBSD. I've written multiple posts about this but things have changed again. I believe that the LetsEncrypt service is now stable and the acme-client seems to be stable as well.
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