For Ubuntu servers, I use the unattended-upgrades package to automate keeping the system and packages up to date. I recently noticed some of Cogneato’s servers showing packages needing to be updated for multiple days. When I looked in unattended-upgrades.log (in folder /var/log/unattended-upgrades/), I found the message “WARNING Package something has conffile prompt and needs to be upgraded manually”. Basically, there was a change to a configuration file and it didn’t know how to handle it.
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A young man and woman presumably from an energy supplier knocked on my door today and spent like a half hour trying to switch my electric and gas supply to them. It didn’t end up happening.
Continue reading post "#3141"I may have fixed my jacket zipper with a heated nail.
Continue reading post "#3132"As of the start of Prime day yesterday, the Amazon home page seems to completely freeze up my laptop.
Continue reading post "#3070"reCaptcha solved by bots?
Some presumed bots figured out the reCaptcha (version 2) we protect forms with at Cogneato.
Continue reading post "reCaptcha solved by bots?"DreamCompute downtime incident 2020
There was another DreamCompute incident leading to downtime of my site / server.
Continue reading post "DreamCompute downtime incident 2020"It was recently discovered that Cogneato websites’ HTTPS certificates were cross-signed by an expired AddTrust certificate, and were showing security warnings in old versions of Safari.
Continue reading post "#2949"I was confused why an instance of aria-labelledby was not working properly in some accessibility tests of a navigation button I made for Cogneato, until I noticed that the attribute is supposed to have two “l”s.
Today brought another episode in my recent spate of car troubles: The serpentine belt shredded itself and then popped off while I was up in Cleveland.
Continue reading post "#2935"I feel quite relieved having finally detached the rusted on wheel hub and backing plate from my car (Subaru Impreza).
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