Hull Blogs

Aggregated posts from University of Hull students

Self host your password manager!

tldr: password managers provided by large companies, while convenient and come with some very nice faeatures are very much vulnerable to having data breaches and can have security issues. You don't wa…
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A (short) end of year update

Hello again, it's been... *checks time and laughs nervously* almost 4 months since my last post. Almost as long as the gap between my PVE and first VPS post, so quite some time. When I first started t…
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Adventures in Snail Hydrotherapy

We've been here before. # Actually, scratch that, bit of a shit opener. Assuming you're a normal, functional human being (i.e., not a snail keeper) you probably haven't been here before. And that's ok…
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VPS setup 2, electric boogaloo

Preface Back in July, I wrote a post detailing what I run on my VPS, some things have changed since then so I thought I'd come back with an update. If you haven't read the previous post I suggest you…
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Choosing my Path.

Choosing how to spend your time. This is something I struggle with regularly. In the past, I would spend every free hour of each day playing video games, from Minecraft to Crusader Kings to Heroes o…
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Beginning my Descent.

Hey, I'm Eirika! Welcome to first post of my new blog. I plan to use this blog to record things I've learnt and tried, whether they are successes or failures, as well as maybe litter a few of my pers…
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Santander has broken Nameservers.

I switched to Santander UK’s student account last year, as it provided the best value for me. However I noticed I couldn’t access their Online Banking from my laptop (who’s DNS I sec…
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My current VPS setup

A few months ago I made a post on Proxmox and what I run/ran on my physical home server, and whilst I have now fixed my hardware issues (by geting completely different hardware) I am yet to recreate a…
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Locking sites with Nginx Proxy Manager

I was looking for a way to lock my sites that need some sort of authentication that does not come built in. I had tried Autheila but I could never get it working. So here is a quick tutorial on lockin…
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