Archive
The greatest hits (and failures) of ParanoidPenguin.net in descending chronological order. Popcorn not included.
Editor’s pick
- Slackware Linux trivia, history, and things you didn’t know
- Plausible Analytics review – Browser fingerprinting and CNAME cloaking
- Self-hosting email in 2020 – Joe Nobody vs. World
- Self-hosting security challenge
- Migrating from LastPass to KeePassXC
- How to back up your 2FA secret keys with KeePassXC
- How to remove Facebook’s fbclid parameter using mod_rewrite on Apache 2.4
- Validating HTTP requests using Apache’s THE_REQUEST variable
2023
- Jun - Should you get an Ubuntu Pro free personal subscription?
- Apr - Proxmox VE - TASK ERROR: CT is locked (snapshot-delete)
- Apr - The official Slackware Linux website is hosted on Ubuntu
- Mar - Dell XPS 15 9570 is missing BIOS updates
2022
- Dec - IPFS error: Resource limits were exceeded
- Dec - Joe Nobody declares victory
- Nov - Joe Nobody tries to take down a crypto scammer
- Sep - Does Instagram have a sense of humor?
- Aug - Microsoft SmartScreen reports my Office 365 OneDrive as unsafe
- Aug - Switching up cloud providers and deploying Arch Linux
- May - Bluetooth connection issues on Slackware 15.0
- May - Proxmox VE and the case of an unresponsive GUI
- Mar - Unable to update device firmware: fwupdx64.efi cannot be found
2021
- Nov - The Mozilla Observatory has become an embarrassment
- Nov - How did a subdomain on cancer.org end up serving porn?
- Nov - Onionsite has disconnected
- Oct - Installing Windows 11 in VirtualBox on a Linux host with unsupported hardware
- Oct - How does my IPFS hosted website stack up against my static site
- Mar - Fedora implements precognitive technology
- Feb - .BUZZ TLD - How to swat a spammer
- Feb - Systemd journal corruption on Fedora
- Feb - Njalla goes TITSUP and paranoidpenguin.net gets wiped off the clearnet
- Feb - Why can't I change the default output sound device on Ubuntu 20.10?
2020
- Dec - Sex, drugs and no-reply@sharepointonline.com
- Dec - ParanoidPenguin.net goes decentralized with IPFS
- Nov - Slackware Linux trivia, history, and things you didn't know
- Nov - KDE Plasma 5.20 arrives in Slackware-current
- Oct - A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack from Facebook?
- Oct - .CYOU TLD - We See You Too Spammer
- Aug - Your fortune awaits on Slackware Linux
- Aug - Did Microsoft just roll out MTA-STS and TLS-RPT?
- Aug - Outlook.com is no longer blocking my mail server
- Jul - Plausible Analytics review – Browser fingerprinting and CNAME cloaking
- Jul - Self-hosting security challenge
- Jul - Outlook.com is blocking my mail server
- Jun - In Buenos Aires, Homer Simpson runs your ISP
- May - How to back up your 2FA secret keys with KeePassXC
- May - Outlook.com phishing campaign hosted on Google's Firebase platform
- May - Why doesn't www.bing.com redirect from HTTP to HTTPS?
- Apr - Do we need SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS)?
- Apr - The best dark, gory and violent anime series of 2019
- Mar - The Brave Browser – And BAT's all she wrote
- Mar - Microsoft Teams for Linux won't open on Ubuntu 18.04
- Feb - Self-hosting email in 2020 – Joe Nobody vs. World
- Feb - How to configure Hugo as a Tor hidden service
- Jan - Kerberos added to Slackware-current
- Jan - A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid
- Jan - .ICU TLD spammers move to the .XYZ TLD
2019
- Dec - Dead Onions Rising
- Dec - The service providers behind the .best and .icu domain spam campaigns
- Nov - .BEST TLD - Spam Like the Best
- Oct - The Brave Browser - A lion in sheep's clothing?
- Sep - Enterprise support for Slackware
- Sep - The joys of cloud computing
- Sep - Blogger.com powered cryptocurrency scam
- Aug - .ICU TLD - I See You Spammer
- Aug - The Slackware Linux Patreon page is officially confirmed
- Jul - Migrating from WordPress to Hugo
- Apr - Everything's bigger in Texas
- Mar - A digital ocean of bots
- Mar - Njalla adds DNSSEC support
- Mar - How to enable TLS 1.3 on Gentoo Linux
- Feb - Email service providers should kill off the bitcoin extortion scam
- Jan - An insignificant WordPress brute-force attack
2018
- Dec - How to remove Facebook's fbclid parameter using mod_rewrite on Apache 2.4
- Dec - Installing the Android 8.0 Oreo update on Huawei Honor 8
- Dec - How to subscribe to a Slackware Linux mailing list
- Dec - Abandoning the Gutenberg ship
- Dec - Migrating from LastPass to KeePassXC
- Nov - I transferred my domain to Njalla
- Nov - Gentoo - Tor 0.3.4.9 stable on amd64
- Nov - Another year of hosting an onion site
- Nov - Dictionary attacks against IMAP servers are great again
- Oct - Oh my God, they killed HPKP!
- Oct - Gentoo - ModSecurity 2.9.1 lands in stable on amd64
- Oct - How to add and modify POP or IMAP accounts with Outlook Office 365
- Sep - Gentoo - New slot for PHP 7.2 on amd64
- Sep - Welcome to my new v3 onion
- Sep - How long does it take before Google starts de-indexing your pages on server failure
- Sep - DKIM fail – Invalid public key
- Aug - From Google Play to F-Droid
- Aug - Validating HTTP requests using Apache's THE_REQUEST variable
- Aug - Hakaied with love from Telecom Egypt
- Jul - What does the future hold for Slackware Linux?
- Jul - GuixSD review - The herdless GNU
- Jun - Python 3.6 default target reverted on Gentoo
- Jun - Python 3.6 is now the default target on Gentoo
- Jun - Signal backup and restore woes
- Jun - Office 365 multi-factor authentication with Google Authenticator
- May - Transitioning to Let's Encrypt wildcard certificates
- Apr - Zapping crashed services on Gentoo Linux
- Apr - There are still privacy concerns with GNOME Software
- Apr - Rickrolled by Google Search Console
- Apr - macOS Sierra review - Behind enemy lines
- Mar - Arch Linux boot halts on Reached target Multi-User System
- Mar - BlueOnyx 5209R – Issues with importing signed certificates
- Mar - Unexpected VPN bypass attempts on Arch Linux
- Feb - Slackware 15.0 will ship Plasma 5
- Jan - Another significant WordPress brute-force attack in the works
- Jan - How to enable HTTP/2 in Apache 2.4 on Gentoo Linux
- Jan - Gentoo 17.0 profile upgrade is complete
2017
- Dec - Season's greetings from the Chaos Computer Club
- Dec - Gentoo - Protect your running PHP version from emerge depclean
- Dec - Wordfence warns against a massive brute-force attack campaign
- Dec - Deploy different Content Security Policies (CSPs) using Apache conditional statements
- Dec - Malicious bots sending siteru as the HTTP referer
- Dec - I bought a new domain name through Njalla
- Dec - Submitting abuse reports to Microsoft might be a waste of time
- Nov - About Slackware-current
- Nov - Raspberry down and out for the count
- Nov - Opera - Can't open user profile directory
- Nov - A year of hosting an onion site
- Oct - Botnet traffic is on the rise
- Oct - How to install Gnome Web (Epiphany) on Red Hat Linux
- Oct - Depending on iconv -t ascii//translit on Red Hat was a mistake
- Sep - Downtime due to Apache AH00060
- Sep - How to configure WordPress as a Tor hidden service
- Sep - The art of blocking referrer spam
- Sep - Hard float VS soft float with Slackware ARM on the RPi 3
- Aug - Every single WordPress tag is returning a 404 error
- Aug - Red Hat 7.4 - VirtualBox Guest Additions issues
- Jul - Do we need a Slackware Enterprise Linux?
- Jul - pfSense - How to add a MX record to a local zone
- Jul - The WordPress Attachment Page redirect loop
- Jul - WordPress errors on Apache 2.4.26 with PHP-FPM
- Jun - How to purge all banned IP's from fail2ban 0.9.x
- May - Let's Encrypt goes TITSUP
- May - Important security research from the RWTH Aachen University
- May - DocumentRoot and Private Keys
- Apr - HPKP has been deployed
- Apr - Two years of self-hosting WordPress on the Raspberry Pi
- Apr - Gentoo makes Perl upgrades easy
- Apr - Windows 10 Creators Update - Error 0xc1900200
- Apr - The anonymizeme.pro scam
- Apr - Jorgee goes on a rampage
- Mar - Gentoo Linux review - Romancing the penguin
- Mar - Performing a Slackware release upgrade with slackpkg
- Mar - OTRS 5 – MailAccountFetch does not retrieve new mail
- Feb - gopkg.in/yaml.v2 error in Hugo 0.18.1 from AUR
- Jan - How to keep duplicate WordPress content out of search engines
2016
- Dec - OTRS 5 - Unable to fetch email from external accounts
- Dec - Installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions on Debian 8 (Jessie)
- Dec - This Raspberry Pi 3 server is now running kernel 4.4.38
- Dec - systemd on Slackware! Something, Something, Something, Dlackware
- Nov - Gentoo kernel upgrade checklist
- Nov - Entering the Dark Web
- Nov - The Internet of Things are flooding my website
- Oct - How to build your own kernel on Slackware Linux
- Oct - I’m sick of WordPress so I wrote a new theme to make it worse
- Oct - Dovecot Panic: file mail-transaction-log.c
- Oct - Binary file syslog matches
- Sep - Is Google Analytics tracking you through your favorite open source application
- Sep - Sihost.exe - System Warning: Unknown Hard Error on Windows 10
- Aug - The return of Slackware ARM as a 32-bit hard float port
- Aug - The Windows 10 Anniversary update didn't wipe my Linux partitions
- Aug - A quick update regarding my Slackware ARM on the Raspberry Pi 3 project
- Jul - Configuring ELILO with a generic kernel on Slackware 14.2
- Jul - Zimbra 8 - Invalid Certificate error when installing a commercial wildcard certificate from RapidSSL
- Jul - Slackware 14.2 review - Last of the Unices
- May - Slackware ARM announces EOL for 14.1 and -current
- May - Is CloudFlare Always Online a leech?
- May - Fake Chrome apps published with Google as the developer name
- Apr - This website is now hosted on a Raspberry Pi 3
- Apr - Raspberry Pi 2 VS Raspberry Pi 3 on Slackware ARM
- Apr - Slackware ARM on the Raspberry Pi 2- The 1 year mark
- Apr - How to use Google Fonts locally with the Twenty Fifteen WordPress theme
- Mar - Drupal 7 sites are still getting hacked and infected with malware
- Mar - SimpleScreenRecorder on Slackware Linux with multimedia codecs
- Feb - The hacking of Linux Mint - And out came the wolves
- Feb - Raspberry down
- Feb - WordPress - Why is WP Super Cache creating suspicious cache folders
- Feb - Deploying 4096-bit HTTPS on the Raspberry Pi 2 was a bad idea
- Jan - HTTPS for WordPress on a Raspberry Pi 2
- Jan - Slackware Linux - Error compiling keymap
- Jan - Is reporting malware just a waste of everybody’s time?
- Jan - Downtime and the perils of Slackware current
- Jan - Void Linux review - A new hope
2015
- Dec - Is Mr. Robot at the Chaos Communication Congress?
- Dec - How to open a magnet link with the Chrome browser on GNU/Linux
- Nov - Slackware Linux is moving to eudev
- Nov - Chrome Web Store – Your new one stop shop for malware and spam
- Oct - WordPress on Raspberry Pi 2, six months down the road
- Oct - How to split a wallpaper for multiple monitors on GNU/Linux
- Oct - What is the latest Skype for Business User-Agent string?
- Sep - How to add failed logins from Logwatch as firewall rules using Iptables
- Sep - How to fix connectivity issues with the Asus USB-N13 Wireless Adapter on Windows 10
- Jul - Arch Linux - A stop job is running for MariaDB database server
- Jun - BlueOnyx 5107R - make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
- Jun - OTRS backup.pl - Error 2020: Got packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet bytes
- Jun - Arch Linux - Failed to start Verify integrity of password and group files
- Jun - How to reverse a shortened URL with a single command on GNU/Linux
- May - Slackware ARM on the Raspberry Pi 2- 38 days later
- Apr - WordPress on Raspberry Pi 2 running Slackware ARM
- Apr - VMware Player - Taking ownership of this virtual machine failed
- Mar - Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - xlive.dll is missing from your computer
- Feb - The OTRS Group axes the Windows installer
- Jan - How to configure KMail with GPG on Slackware Linux 14.1
- Jan - Outlook.com is silently discarding email messages
2014
- Dec - IPredator OpenVPN Slackware Linux 14.1 setup
- Dec - BlueOnyx 5106R - Unresponsive Login Manager
- Sep - How to install Dig on a Windows 8.1 64-bit system
- Sep - Zimbra 8 - Automatically check for new mail on external POP3 and IMAP accounts
- Sep - BioShock – No in-game sound on Windows 8
- Aug - WordPress xmlrpc.php - Brute Force Attacks
- Jun - VMware Player - How to install VMware Tools on a Slackware Linux guest
- Jun - BlueOnyx 5106R - dovecot: Fatal: imap-login: No authentication sockets found
- Mar - Arch Linux 2014 review - Livin' on the edge
- Jan - Lovelinks.us spam adverts on Android devices
2013
- Nov - Slackware 14.1 review - Into Slackness
- Oct - Windows 8.1 update - Sorry we couldn't complete the update to Windows 8.1
- Sep - Slackware Linux 14.0 powering a Dell Dimension 8200
- Jul - How to install the Asus USB-N13 Wireless Adapter on a Linux system
- Jan - Zimbra 8 - provisioning accounts with non English characters using zmprov
2012
- Dec - Salix OS 14.0 Xfce review - Serenity now
- Oct - Slackware 14.0 review - The return of the dinosaur
- Jul - Samsung Galaxy SII: Security update required for syncing with Office 365
- Apr - How to install OTRS 3.1 on CentOS 6.2 - Part 2
- Apr - How to install OTRS 3.1 on CentOS 6.2 - Part 1
- Jan - Converting PCD (Kodak Photo CD) files on a Linux system