I just launched https://ChangeYourStarSign.com, a website that helps people change their #starSigns to any that they like (and provides a #certificate to print and share).

So I've been using my laptop with the wrong date for a while and #certificate errors meant I could only see #websites when the stars aligned.

This was the most productive I've been for a while.

So I decided to make this a #browser extension:

**Block selected websites, 90% of the time**

https://codeberg.org/dcz/webBlocker

No more mindless scrolling! No more constant Wikipedia binges! Just occasional ones. It's fine to have fun once in a while.

Is today #FediHire Friday? Sure looks like it!

What I'm looking for: A senior level, individual contributor role supporting Windows, Active Directory, Certificates, PKI, Azure, and information security in a large environment. Interested in relocating outside of the US. I like to solve weird problems and make computers run smoothly. I want to help others use technology effectively.

My main focus the last few years has been rebuilding and modernizing a struggling certificate management team. That includes growing the team to meet our company needs, migrating our AD-integrated private PKI stack, getting a handle on our web PKI consumption, and making massive improvements to our certificate lifecycle management platform. I supported and advised our CyberSec and Desktop teams as we rolled out multi-factor authentication to 50,000 employees and contractors across the US. My background in understanding deep computer fundamentals, talent for quickly grasping nuances of larger systems, and calmness in a crisis have contributed to quickly resolving major technology outages regardless of root cause.

This role hasn't been exclusively technical. A big part of my current job is building relationships with our developers to help them understand how certificates work, the responsible ways to use them, and what our relevant internal policies are. I've been training and teaching junior and mid-level engineers both practical PKI concepts and our specific enterprise requirements. I've gotten to spend some time with upper management to both explain the immediate challenges we've had and the plans we can implement improve our infrastructure, reducing costs and outages.

While this position has been focused on certs and how to use them, I'm very comfortable considering a technical leadership role for Windows (server and desktop) administration and Active Directory. I also have some good experience with Azure and virtualization platforms, but they haven't been my daily focus for several years.

My current employer is direct retail for general public consumers. I've also worked in banking/finance, manufacturing, and architecture firms. The common thread is I love to help people leverage technology for their goals, to help them be more effective.

In my personnel/volunteer time I've done very similar: working backstage with lights/sounds/projections so live performers can do their best.

Right now I'm in Syracuse, New York (about five hours from NYC), but I'm open to relocation/migration anywhere in the world.

PMs open if you want to talk details. Boosts/reshares appreciated.

Firefox users should check which version they have installed. On Friday, March 14, certain extensions and streaming services may stop working on all Firefox versions older than Firefox 128 (or ESR 115.13).

#firefox #browser #extension #certificate
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2633933/update-firefox-now-extensions-and-streaming-sites-could-break-otherwise.html

Are you currently using #Cockpit with the builtin self-signed #TLS #certificate fallback? We would like to deprecate this, but need your input for that. Thank you in advance!

https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/discussions/21695

CWU Food and Agribusiness Pt 1 https://www.diningandcooking.com/1938713/cwu-food-and-agribusiness-pt-1/ #agribusiness #agriculture #business #central #certificate #classroom #CWU #each #Ellensburg #farming #food #growing #Major #minor #professor #Program) #Rogel #students #University #Washington #year

Firefox finally catches up with...2012? #Certificate #Transparency is #old #news, but let's all pretend it's #groundbreaking because it's now in #Firefox too! Does anyone still use it?
https://blog.transparency.dev/ct-in-firefox #Tech #HackerNews #ngated

More supply chain thoughts.

Let's Encrypt is based in the United States.

Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate expiry warning emails

If you use Let's Encrypt to secure the traffic to your web server, mailserver or other situations where you need a SSL-encrypted data exchange, you are probably using the dehydrated script to manage those certificates to ensure that they will be renewed on time (Let's En

https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/lets-encrypt-ssl-certificate-expiry-warning-emails/

I’m happy to share that I’ve obtained a new certification: #AI Fundamentals #certificate from #DataCamp!

https://www.datacamp.com/skill-verification/AIF0023216875883

Let's #Encrypt Announces New-Certificate-Every-6-Days Offering - Slashdot
@eff #tls #certificate #encryption #letsencrypt #security #privacy

https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/12/15/0059216/lets-encrypt-announces-new-certificate-every-6-days-offering?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Has anyone here done a #paralegal #certificate? I am considering a 10-month program at #QuincyCollege or 4-month program at #BostonUniversity. QC program could be eligible for financial aid, BU might not be. But there is a 10% discount for the BU tuition through my employer's payroll processor. The BU program is completely #remote, while the QC one appears to be #hybrid. I have completed a #Fafsa form for both of them and will see what I'm offered.

Hello #Linux folks, I have a small home server on a #RaspberryPi that has an expired #certificate on it. I do not have any public facing web servers and in fact I only have one other computer that comes into that machine from outside my local network, and that is the only system my firewall allows in.

Anyway a certificate expired on me and I figured why not get one from Let's Encrypt to avoid the hassles of a self-signed certificate, only problem is they want to verify you by having you put a specific file in a web server they can access. But see my first paragraph, I have no such server. But they have a "plan B" which lets you verify by putting a couple of specific items in a TXT record in your DNS records. So I have been using freedns.afraid.org to have a dynamic DNS (remember, home system, not on a static IP). So I followed the instructions in this video, "Create an SSL Certificate Without Ports 80 and 443 (Certbot/LetsEncrypt)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjMRfF7hXIg and it would have worked fine except it turns out that the instructions for adding a TXT record at freedns are totally inscrutable (to me, anyway) or they do not work - you can select that you want to create a TXT record but there are no fields to enter the information that's supposed to go in that record!

So to cut to the chase, are there any other FREE DNS providers that will let you create an account (in other words do not require you to have an account with some other entity in order to log in) and that will let a new user create a TXT record with the details Let's Encrypt want to see? I have to confess that I am incredibly frustrated right now because I have spent about six hours on this, first trying to figure out how to enter a TXT record into freedns and then trying to find a free DNS provider that will actually let you create a TXT record. If I'd had any idea this would be this difficult I would have just created a new self-signed certificate, but I just get tired of software that carps about self-signed certificates.

Learn to automate certificate #enrollment within your #infrastructure using #Samba. This #openSUSE Conference session delves into the configuration of #Certificate Auto Enrollment. #TechTips https://youtu.be/74SpPjciMHE?si=VQ3KF3DcHqWIhafG

If you're curious about the domains affected by Entrust's removal from Google Chrome in October...

https://pastila.nl/?000882d6/bed25fdc842914abbc89e528012a961c

Hunting and Gathering: Chris Binnie looks at passive reconnaissance tools attackers use for preliminary research on network assets and the people who use them https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2024/279/Passive-Reconnaissance #security #tools #attack #privacy #DNS #certificate