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Five Posts and Nothing Else: Slimming Down My Front Page on Phones (and the Attribute WordPress Quietly Ate)

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• IT Stuff

Five Posts and Nothing Else: Slimming Down My Front Page on Phones (and the Attribute WordPress Quietly Ate)

raphael 8. October 2026

On phones my blog's front page showed the same five posts four times before the first real...

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A+ on SSL Labs: What My Blog’s TLS Actually Speaks (and Where the Ansible Code Lives)

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• IT Security

A+ on SSL Labs: What My Blog’s TLS Actually Speaks (and Where the Ansible Code Lives)

raphael 6. October 2026

☝️ A quick word for everyone who just wanted to read a blog post: TLS is the...

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Two Things My SSDs Were Missing: TRIM After BitLocker, and a Write Cache My HPE Server Quietly Switched Off

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• Linux

Two Things My SSDs Were Missing: TRIM After BitLocker, and a Write Cache My HPE Server Quietly Switched Off

raphael 6. October 2026

HP3, my HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus v2, is back on Debian 13 with OpenZFS. Why it left...

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Germany Only: Geo-Fencing SSH with nftables and Ansible (and What My Logs Said About Bots and Readers)

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• IT Security

Germany Only: Geo-Fencing SSH with nftables and Ansible (and What My Logs Said About Bots and Readers)

raphael 1. October 2026

SSH on a non-standard port, key-only, fail2ban - and still 16 login attempts per hour from all...

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Two Minutes Forty-Five: My First Nextcloud App Update via Ansible (and the Guard Rail I Added Just Before)

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• Linux

Two Minutes Forty-Five: My First Nextcloud App Update via Ansible (and the Guard Rail I Added Just Before)

raphael 30. September 2026

Confession time: the production Nextcloud from the migration battle log has been running on K3s for a...

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