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How I use AI as an IT security professional — keeping it useful without letting it act unsupervised.

Forgejo runners are powerful and the documentation is complex because of that. I try to simplify it for my very simple requirement.

I really am a Grumpy Old Dude in IT.

I run two small web sites, but I also don't like AI stealing my content.

I both work in and play with IT technology. Computers as a hobby goes back with me all the way to the late 1980s and work in IT goes back to the early 1990s. Yes, I am indeed that bearded, grey haired, grumpy old man in the IT department who forgets that not everybody has 30+ years of practical experience making computers do cool stuff.

So why does this site look so different now?

Getting at your NextCloud server via different routes depending on where you are

Last time we looked at A better way to use dnsmasq on Linux Mint, which turned out to have some annoyances related to it. This time we look at two more little conveniences I've recently implemented.

How I built a VPN with proper User authentication on a tunnelling technology that doesn't understand things like user or even server and client by combining Wireguard with a good firewall and some form of authentication and user management.

Last time we looked at Gaming on Linux Mint, this time we look at a slightly better way of using dnsmasq instead of systemd-resolved for DNS.

Last time we looked at some customisations I did for work, this time we'll have a look at some of the stuff I do to play the games I enjoy.

This time I'd like to dive into some of the stuff I've done to make using my system easier to use for work.

This is post 2 of my planned series about making Linux Mint my daily driver.

In my last post, about using dnsmasq for funky DNS stuff, I mentioned in passing that I'm busy turning Linux Mint into my daily driver.

For most usual uses, the DNS setup in Ubuntu or Mint works just fine and no special configuration is needed. Some of us use Ubuntu or Mint to do work stuff, where you may need to access some internal resources by name instead of trying to remember a whole bunch of IP addresses, this article is for us.

The Internet is a scary place, especially when you work with potentially sensitive information. There are bad guys out there who would love to steal your sensitive information, we need to make it as difficult as possible for them.

Let's improve SSL in Traefik