Dear Mozilla: Why Thunderbird 78.x is both great and awful (PGP)
I am writing this post because Thunderbird 78.x has issues for advanced PGP users
Is the new macOS Big Sur spying on your application usage?
Not really, or at least that's not the goal. Let me explain. So, people have been posting about the new macOS update being evil and sending an application hash to Apple before allowing you to open the application (unless you're offline, then it will just open the application). This sounded [...]
New iOS 14 features from Apple’s WWDC
Here are some awesome "new" features Apple is introducing with iOS 14... I'm being a bit cynical for jokes, although I'm actually excited for some of those features. Home screen Widgets like Android had for yearsSorting of apps into categories like some Android launchers already can iMessages Pinning of iMessage [...]
Apple will move Macs to their own silicon (ARM)!
There have been speculations about Macs moving to ARM but now it's official! Apple just announced it today at their WWDC! But don't worry, Apple still has Intel-based Macs in the pipeline, so they're not going away overnight! Apple expects the transition to take about 2 years. Rosetta 2 Back [...]
Let’s Encrypt 2020.02.29 CAA Rechecking Bug
Revoking certain certificates on March 4th - 5th, 2020 UTC Due to a bug related to CAA checking in Let's Encrypt, millions of certificates will be revoked "today". To quickly check if your domains are affected, use this tool: https://checkhost.unboundtest.com/ If your domain is affected, you have to renew your [...]
I just submitted sindastra.de to the HSTS Preload List!
Status: sindastra.de is currently preloaded. What this means is that once it is included, your browser will know to access sindastra.de through HTTPS with valid certificate only! No exceptions! This is for your security. This also means there will be no HTTP to HTTPS redirect that could get manipulated in [...]
Quickly harden Apache 2 by disabling insecure SSL/TLS and only allowing strong ciphers
Just a quick one to improve things! Beginning January 2020, SSLLabs.com will give you a grade B if you still have TLS 1.0 or 1.1 enabled, as it's considered insecure. The following is an example warning you might see: Screenshot of warning on ssllabs.com So let's disable that weak stuff, [...]
NetBeans Launcher Mac
NetBeans has no proper launcher "app" for Mac, which is why I made one! Just a quick post to share the launcher for NetBeans I made. You can find it here. Why a launcher? Because Apache's NetBeans has no proper launcher for Mac. You can find an .exe for Windows, [...]
iPadOS 13 is here!
Just a quick post to let you know iPadOS 13 was finally released and it's straight to 13.1! It can handle mice! Omg! iOS 13.1 is now out too, which fixes bugs from the previously released 13.0. So now is a good time to create a backup in iTunes and [...]
Apple’s iOS 13 not coming to the iPhone 6
I just wanted to update an iPhone 6 and noticed it will only go up to 12.4.1! Turns out Apple is dropping support for iPhone 6 and it won't get iOS 13. What a pity! I guess that just lowered the value of that old iPhone 6. But to be [...]