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My SSL cert is broken

February 10, 2017, 7:21 am

Thanks to everyone who warned me that my SSL certificate is broken. I’ll find a new issuer soon. This happened because Google and Mozilla have distrusted my SSL issuer, StartSSL, for very good reasons....

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SSL fixed (for now)

February 10, 2017, 7:35 pm

I’ve temporarily fixed the SSL cert on tolaris.com by rolling back to an older still-valid cert that lacks some DNS names I don’t really need. In the next few months, I intend to upgrade this server...

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Who do you trust?

October 4, 2017, 7:17 am

The question of “who to trust with my personal/private data” comes up a lot when you work for Google. Caveats: I work for Google; you should consider my bias. I drunk the Kool-aid the day I accepted...

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RetroPie: all your classic video games in one tiny box

October 25, 2017, 3:30 pm

About a year ago, I built my own RetroPie, a Raspberry Pi retro gaming machine that runs just about every video game published more than 10 years ago. Perhaps you’d like to build your own? Here is how...

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Retropie MegaDrive

December 17, 2017, 10:59 am

After creating my own Retropie, I built another one as a surprise gift for my friend Mark. Behold, the MegaPie! The parts list is the same as in my last post, but using a Sega Mega Drive skin.

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Meet Mango, my new travel router

July 11, 2018, 2:33 am

I am about to leave on a business trip, which means I once again have to deal with hotel WiFi. I don’t like WiFi in hotels for two reasons – they almost never provision enough network capacity, and...

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Site back online

January 2, 2019, 7:10 am

Services on tolaris.com are back online after being down since late November 2018. Part of the problem was hardware failure, which I solved by moving to Google Compute Engine. But I also needed to...

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Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2019, 6:33 am

After a few years away, our card is back just in time for 2019! $happy $holidays, everyone! We have a special card just for you: http://www.tolaris.com/xmas/xmas2019.php

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