How many people feel like they have a handle on their digital selves? I remember years ago before I embarked on a journey of “digital hygiene” that I knew that I was just leaking information everywhere. Facebook, Snapchat, Google/Gmail.. Data everywhere, under control from big corporations. It was a feeling of being bare and vulnerable but I didn’t quite understand why I should care. Google’s motto was “Do no evil” so they’re trustworthy, right?...
It’s been a while since I’ve posted! Thought I’d give an update on a recent change I made in my home lab I’m calling “The Great VM Migration” but do it as a thinly veiled demonstration of something far cooler, ChatGPT. I asked ChatGPT to write this post through a conversation. It got some things wrong, and I corrected it by saying “Not quite what I meant, …” and explaining where it got it wrong....
Like the title says, how do you decrypt a headless server at boot time that has it’s root partition LUKS encrypted.. while not on site? I’ve been running my server for almost two years and I knew this problem would come up eventually so it’s been at the back of my mind for a while. And you know it had to come up at the most inopportune time… 15 minutes before I leave town for a weekend away....
I learned about Bitcoin in 2013. I watched it for a while before I entered the market in 2014. I dabbled in day-trading (bad idea, just don’t if you like sleep at all…) I even wrote a Python trading bot back in the day that made some decent profits before my 24 year old self got nervous about playing with more money than I’d ever had at once and turned it off....