When a leased server has bandwidth to spare, I try to give it to the tor network. Project servers come and go, but I am happy to report that my relay node is back in business.
Aug 5 14:45:48 droid Tor[8966]: Bootstrapped 0%: Starting
Aug 5 14 …
Tor started emitting some daily statistics via syslog some time ago. This is a nice thing because other than looking at the network traffic statistics I really had no clue to how much work it was doing.
Jul 16 00:14:36 tor-exit-node02 Tor[16355]: Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is …
With Debian officially realising Debian 9.0 aka Stretch, it was time to move my native Linux machine to the latest and greatest. In an update to this post I will report how it turned out for me ??
BTW : turned out great!
As of today I run a mastodon instance, targeting Dutch speakers, although everyone could sign up if they want to.
The instance can be found at https://olifantje.net (olifantje is small elephant in Dutch).
Feel free to sign up or to sign up at another mastodon instance and follow …
This is just a short note on my experiences running backups with Duplicity.
Duplicity is an open source package that allows you to do incremental backups, complete with proper indexing, to remote storage. This can be a modern ‘cloud’ storage like S3, but I prefer to run it over a …