Since CACert still isn't "Browser Trusted", and I still don't want to use letsencrypt, I decided to give this a try. Company-specific (certum.pl) The company resides inside the European Union and is the cheapest I could find. This was the process to get the certificate for anyone who's interested: ...

Goal A hard drive or a USB stick set up in this way is recognised by common filemanagers (e.g. Thunar, PCManFM) - it shows up as an encrypted device in the side bar, a password dialog pops up, and the twofold decrypt/mount process happens in one click. Device encryption, performance considerations W...

I finally manned up to tackle the ghacks (now arkenfox on github) user.js for Firefox. I felt that if I want to continue using Firefox I really have to do this, since it's making more and more unbidden connections. Thankfully it is possible to disable most. It's a lot of work to customise - you can'...

Towards the end (points 4. and 5.) this article has instructions on how to encrypt/decrypt any string. It might come in handy when e.g. checking your Email with curl, because one wouldn't want the password in plain text either on the command line or in some file. Here's a slightly refined version: o...

I sometimes use a shortcut to quickly translate snippets of highlighted text, via google translate. I hate to admit it, but it does this best. It auto-detects the input language and defaults to english for output, which is what I need in most cases. There's a few applications for translating text sn...

Why I've Had Enough Of Android Before I even start, let me clarify one thing: LineageOS is Android, too. Every custom ROM that is based on AOSP is Android, too. For a long time I was trying to make my Android smartphone safer, better, less bloated, more useful... and always struggled with the lack...

I have since changed to µBlock Origin, which provides similar functionality in expert mode. It seems I had to make the switch away from seamonkey. Firefox for now, but I will consider palemoon again. Anyhow, revisiting my browsing & addon habits, I re-discovered this thread and the uMatrix add...

I am not particularly keen on upgrading my phone to 16.0, LineageOS' newest, Android-9-based version. They claim that 15.1 is still supported in general, but upon closer inspection this holds true only for a few devices, and not for mine. Sneaky. This post documents the process of upgrading an And...