My Dear Diary

  • SDF inside termux

    Originally posted on my gemini capsule

    SDF comes to your pocket: meet Termux

    Recently, I stumbled across Termux. It is a combination of terminal emulator and apt based package manager which makes it possible to do development related stuff right at your fingertips everywhere you go.

    What you can do …

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  • beastie is up again

    beastie is finally up

    beastie is a new accessible host inside sdf clusters which uses OpenBSD as the OS and same $HOME directory as other sdf's hosts.

    While beastie is great, frequent fsync errors may occur randomly because there are chances that NFS mount shared between sdf clusters is being …

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  • beastie, what happened out there?

    Preface

    On my previous post about beastie, I wrote my experience with OpenBSD on sdf.org. So far my experience is awesome. Everything works as expected, with small glitch about sdf file server.

    The problem(s) encountered on beastie

    When writing text file with vim, at the point when I …

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  • OpenBSD Shell Access on SDF

    Originally posted on my gopher site.

    When I opened my email on some forgotten time, I got an invitation to try a shiny new host with sdf features but built with a different os.

    The hostname is beastie.sdf.org

    It has different ssh public key than tty.sdf.org …

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  • Authenticated Mail with S/MIME for 2022

    Background

    Here at sdf.org, various thing can be done. Securing email communication with either gpg or s/mime is possible. Why bother? Well, because the standard exists and it's fun.

    Obtaining S/MIME certificate

    For this to work, a client certificate is needed. Go ahead to your favorite Certificate …

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