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My public notes about various information technology topics...Ā 

Take care of your SSH identities

Did you know that your ssh Client sends the server all your public keys, one by one, until the server accepts one, when you try to authenticate via public key? Don't believe me? Try it out yourself: ssh whoami.filippo.io Someone could use this to find…

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Backup OPNsense to Nextcloud

What is OPNsense? OPNsenseĀ® is an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform. OPNsense includes most of the features available in expensive commercial firewalls, and more in many cases. It brings the rich feature set of commercial offerings with the benefits…

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Maven getting started

What is Maven? Declarative build management tool for automated builds Standardized directory structure Declarative dependency management Works with an XML control file (POM - Project Object Model) Open source, written in Java, for Java projects Pure command line tool IDEs offer integration Why Maven? Uniform…

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Threema Safe backup to Nextcloud

Did you know that Threema allows you, to backup your Threema app to a custom Threema Safe server? You can for example use your Nextcloud to keep your Threema backups safe. I recommend to create a new Nextcloud user account only for the purpose of…

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Handling Exceptions in Web UI

The Issue There is nothing worse than presenting a Java Stacktrace in a WebUI, full of technical Details about your Server environment of the Web App itself: So how can we avoid this? You don't want to share this informations with the users, it would…

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