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Password Managers

pass Shilling

This one is gonna be short but I’ve come shill password manager that:

  • Allows for simple generation of passwords
  • Allows for easy backups to be made
  • Is compatible with basically any password access workflow you can think of
  • Is completely foss
  • Allows for both single and multiline passwords
  • Allows for optional opt-in versioning using git ( as a subcommand )
    • Can also be used with other VCS’s

It’s called pass –> https://www.passwordstore.org/

Fixing a windows EFI boot directory

Context

After making my usual Debian drive unusable ( thanks Nvidia ) from an apt upgrade I found myself re-installing Debian all over again. Luckily I keep my /home and / mounted on separate partitions so this was pretty easy. When it came time to pick a drive to boot off of however I comletely forgot that I had a Windows drive that I had been using to jankily boot off of.

DIY Detergent

Making detergent at home.

Recipe and instructions are followed by some interesting things I found regarding cost and availability.

Recipe

  • 1 Part Borax
  • 1 Part Baking Soda ( Sodium Bi-Carbonate )
  • 1 Washing soda Semi-Optional ( Sodium Carbonate )
    • NOTE: Can be made from baking soda if you can’t find it in stores
    • NOTE: While not required does greatly improve the quality of the detergent

Optional additions

Building SlimeVR Trackers for Full Body Tracking

Goal

To build a Full body set of trackers:

  • 7 trackers
  • 3 extensions

Parts List & Prices

NOTE: Some extra components were purchased in case of defects

⚠️ Huge caveats about the purchase list below ⚠️

  1. Buy more parts than I did, ( especially BMI’s ) because some of these have a horrible failure rate. 15+

  2. Maybe throw in an extra D1 ( 11 total ) because these can fail too.

    Hosting websites with Fargate ECS

    Context - How my Websites have been Hosted in the Past

    A very straight forward setup that lent itself well so keeping costs low and which may inspire you to also use a similar setup should you want to host your own website with a Fargate cluster:

    Infrastructure Maintained with Terraform

    • Single EC2 machine
    • A security group for SSH and web ingress, as well as HTTPS egress
    • Elastic IP attached
    • A record’s in route53 pointing to the Elastic IP

    Software Required for this Setup

    • Nginx as a reverse proxy which pointed to all the HTML/CSS/JS required for each website

    The config for this was usually hand written then deployed with Ansible. Configuration for TLS was then deployed afterwards with Ansible as well. Worked well enough and it meant I had a decent solution to TLS cert renewals.

    Making Alfajores

    Ingredients

    • Flour - 1 Cup

      • Don’t worry about packing this down when measuring
    • Corn Starch - 1 Cup

      • Don’t worry about packing this down when measuring
    • Powered Sugar - 6 Tbsp.

    • Unsalted butter - 200 g. ➡ 220 g.

      • Make sure the butter is soft and cut into chunks for when you mix it

    Steps

    1. Sift together all the dry ingredients into a large bowl.
    1. Adding butter chunks to dry in bowl.

    Mixing technique: Use only your fingers, no palms. Basically just grab a bunch of the mix with the fingers like a spider then pull it together then sprinkle it back in.

    Making Cola

    Taste

    I’m ignoring carbonation since everyone is going to probably use something different. However, I used a Soda Stream set to 2 which gave me a very fine carbonation and a very nice head when poured over ice.

    Taste wise this is going to be very flowery, cinnamon-y, cola.

    Ingredients

    Makes 4 cups of syrup total.

    Amount Item
    1 tsp Cinnamon
    1 tsp Nutmeg
    1 tsp Coriander
    1 tbsp Brown Sugar
    1/2 tsp Anise
    1/2 tsp Citric Acid
    2 Oranges worth of zest
    1 Lemon worth of zest
    2 Cups Water
    2 Cups Sugar

    Process

    Mix the following together:

    Nvidia Drivers on Debian Sid

    Packages you need

    To detect the right type of driver to install apt repositories have a package called nvidia-detect which I recommend running first. In my case running a GTX 2060 I had to install the generic nvidia-driver package

    Before you install the driver package!

    Grab the apt package nvidia-xconfig. If you’re like me and never bothered to an /etc/X11/xorg.conf this will write out a config for you that should, just werk.

    NY Egg Cream and DragonFruit Soda

    Preface

    I’m aware of how these two have nothing to do with each other but here’s my ramblings on how this went and what I learned making them anyway.

    Dragon Fruit Syrup - Used for the Soda

    Heads up this is a very mild flavored soda and thus I recommend using using the syrup more as a dye since basically anything/everything will overpower its flavor.

    Ingredients