Running Snowflake proxy

Snowflake [https://snowflake.torproject.org/] is a technology to allow people from all over the world to access censored applications and websites. > Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as…

How to use Network Time Security on your system

But what is Network Time Security (NTS)? To understand NTS, first we have to get familiar with NTP. NTP, Network Time Protocol is a networking protocol for clock synchronization. In simple terms this protocol helps your system to get correct time. RFC 5905 [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5905]…

Dgplug summer training, 2022

dgplug summer training 2022 [https://foss.training/] will start at 13:00 UTC, 25th July. This is our 15th edition. Following our tradition, we have updated and modified our training based on the feedback from the old participants and community at large. There shall be more experiments for the betterment…

Finding and installing the security updates on Ubuntu

Keeping the system updated is a daily task of sys admins. To find out the available security updates on a Ubuntu machine use the commands here under. I have done this on a virtual machine Ubuntu [https://ubuntu.com/] 21.04. apt update This will update all the package information…

Server migration for blogs.dgplug.org

I have been maintaining dgplug [https://dgplug.org/] infrastructure for sometime now. We have a blogging platform, blogs.dgplug.org [https://blogs.dgplug.org] for our community. We were planning to migrate it to the latest version of Operating System and the blogging software, but my post covid symptoms hindered…