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LetsEncrypt change breaks the internet: Quick fix is available for web servers (not obvious, though — cert.pem vs. fullchain.pem)
Something weird happened on the internet on Wednesday afternoon. Millions of people found out that their devices and websites were being affected by security problems. A company called LetsEncrypt seems to be the world’s largest provider of SSL security certificates. And for some reason, they allowed one of their main certificates to expire. I won’t […]
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Review of iRobot i-Series Robot Vacuum: Amazing i6+ (with a few bumps)
Why on Earth would I need a Roomba robot vacuum? ? I’ve never owned a robot. And dare I say that, as of today (Sept. 2020), neither have most human beings. I’ve never seen a Roomba in action before, and I have never even watched a video or read a review of this interesting piece […]
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How to get a Wildcard SSL Security Certificate for you website — for free?
Our publisher wanted to us a service that produces an interactive PDF eMagazine kind of thing. And he asked if we could have a URL forward to the third-party service that he chose to provide these documents. The others he tried were WordPress plugins and they sometimes used huge files hosted on our own webserver […]