Yep, niche. After doing a system upgrade from Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 Bullseye, no user can log into the wiki, with the error "Sorry, username or password was wrong.". The actual answer lay in Read more
Tag: web
Upgrading my .onion site to https
Until a couple of weeks ago, I didn't really see the point in giving a .onion site a TLS certificate. Alec Muffett convinced me: HTTP-over-Onion should not be considered as secure as Read more
Brave, Tor, and http-only .onion sites
I set up a .onion hidden service site for our business years ago. Originally, it was a v2 onion - the older, defunct, but shorter, domains - and now it is a v3 domain, Read more
Browsers for people who just want a browser
A week or so ago, Mozilla published a blog post entitled "Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising". It says: For the last few months we have been working with a team from Meta (formerly Read more
The "Wild West Web" fallacy
I tweeted last week about the fallacy of the "Wild West Web" analogy, which is trotted out with depressing regularity. My tweets auto-delete, so this short blogpost reflects the key themes. It is not Read more
Confession time
I have a confession to make. I'm not proud of it. While it seemed appropriate at the time, I have learned a lot since then. I am not the same person I was in 2001. Edit. It looks like it was 2003! Read more