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Some time ago, I saw news that “Proton Mail now supports post-quantum encryption”. Post-quantum protection is now available in Proton Mail, on all plans including free. Once enabled, Proton Mail will generate and use post-quantum-ready keys for new encrypted emails to protect your personal messages and business communications against today’s threats and a future where current public-key cryptography may no longer be enough. I use GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG), which implements the OpenPGP standard1, to encrypt my data. Even though the standard aims to provide email encryption, which I think is still useful to me, I use it more as a way to encrypt personal data that would be uploaded to cloud providers I do not fully trust. ...

This is part of series Building a homelab, where I document my journey to build my own homelab with Kubernetes. Creating a Kubernetes cluster with Talos Linux Setting up Argo CD Introduction I have previously stated at the end of my post about Talos Linux that the next step was to migrate existing services to my Kubernetes cluster. I currently have two of them in operation, which are Ente Photos and PeerTube. ...

If anyone is wondering, I started my writing journey with Listed blogging platform by Standard Notes. I think it had served me well, but for reasons I will soon mention, I ultimately decided to find a new home. Why the switch? Just about three and a half months ago, I wrote the following while working on improving my code snippets’ legibility on the blogging platform: ...

This is part of series Building a homelab, where I document my journey to build my own homelab with Kubernetes. Creating a Kubernetes cluster with Talos Linux Setting up Argo CD Up until now, I have had some experiences with self-hosting services. However, as I learned more, I could see ways to make my setup better. While learning about Kubernetes, I thought it could be used to host everything that I have self-hosted so far. If I could get it right, it would allow me to manage all the services while also reducing costs. ...

Sometimes, I like to record music and videos that will be left as pieces of memory to reminisce about. I am neither a professional music producer nor a content creator, but I have managed to learn just enough to do what I wanted. As I worked on another one before finishing this year, I wanted to try a new tool. As one could guess from the title, I gave Zrythm a shot. ...

It has been some time since I started writing on Listed. Although the development around the blogging platform seems to be slow-paced (which I feel is an understatement) and some note-taking services like Anytype also offer publication of notes, I have yet to find a compelling reason nor devote my time for migration. That said, there is one thing I do want to see an improvement to. ...

This is a part of series Building a project, where I try to make something using OpenStack. Learning about OpenStack Preparing a server Attempting to run Kubernetes and OpenStack With my server ready, I was excited to get Kubernetes running. Following a guide I came across online, I added a few lines of configuration and applied it right away. ...

This is a part of series Building a project, where I try to make something using OpenStack. Learning about OpenStack Preparing a server Attempting to run Kubernetes and OpenStack Introduction After a long, long hiatus, I decided give this project a push. Although I stopped after introducing myself to a very basic overview of OpenStack, I still heard about it from time to time. ...

It is understandable that not every software on the internet is available on any given Linux distribution, but it is sometimes disappointing when something I have been looking for is missing. Introduction When Arch Linux was my daily driver, Flatpak (with Flathub) and Arch User Repository (AUR) provided enough packages to satisfy my needs. However, I have since switched to NixOS and almost ditched Flatpak from my system. Even still, there were two things I could try: ...

Ente is a platform to host photos that uses end-to-end encryption to store its data. I have more than a decade of photos saved with Google Photos, but I wanted to keep them in a place that is designed to be private. The problem, however, was that the collection grew to a few terabytes over the years, and putting them on a privacy-respecting image platform was either very expensive or outright impossible. To work around the problem, I decided to self-host Ente. ...