The Ubuntu / Debian unattended-upgrades package has an option to automatically reboot as needed when it upgrades packages. It will do this without user input, at a chosen time. However, it doesn’t allow for any conditions beyond need and time. I found a need for more nuance recently, so I had to disable the built-in functionality and set up my own script on a cron job.
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I have determined that one cannot link a prepaid and postpaid T-Mobile account to have one login ID.
Continue reading post "#3163"Automatically deal with conf changes using unattended-upgrades
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.
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.