Another sick day, but I think I’m on the mend. Everything is still concentrated in my sinuses, but the meds make me loopy and groggy. I think the actual “sick” part is over, but am now dealing with tremendous sinus headaches as everything is trying to drain. Except it isn’t draining – it’s in that stage of super-sticky snot that doesn’t want to leave no matter how hard I blow my nose. I’ll likely have to try one of those “upside-down neti” rinses, where I tip my head down to let the salt solution get deeper into my sinuses to clear this gunk out.
Anyhow, enough of this for now – the light irritates my headache and I just want to close my eyes.
Interesting Tidbits
Song of the Day: Sweating Bullets by Megadeth
The 10 most important and interesting Iron Maiden shows ever – “Iron Maiden’s longtime manager Rod Smallwood tells ten stories of ten landmark shows”
Amish Kids Almost Never Get Allergies and Scientists Finally Know Why – “How Amish barns could hold the secret to preventing the onset of allergies.”
‘It’s Called Moving Hostage’: Woman Says She Paid Florida Moving Company $400. Then She Says They Held Her Items ‘Hostage’ Until She Paid $3,000 More – “Companies lure customers with low quotes, load up their belongings, and then refuse to release them without thousands more in payment.”
I built a self-hosted 2FA server so I don’t have to trust Google anymore – “Security aside, it just felt wrong to outsource something so sensitive to a platform I’m trying to move away from. So, instead of jumping to another third-party app, I figured I’d take a different approach. What if I just hosted my own?” Or if you don’t want to host your own….
Proton Releases Free Two-Factor Authentication App – “The open-source app generates time-based one-time passwords as an additional security layer beyond regular login credentials. Unlike competitors such as Google Authenticator and Microsoft Authenticator, Proton Authenticator also offers end-to-end encrypted backup and cross-device sync without ads or tracking, just like Proton’s other products.”
Give Your Self-Hosted Services Local Domain Names With This Pi-hole Trick – “Are you tired of memorizing your self-hosted services IP addresses and ports? I was, so I figured out how to use Pi-hole and Nginx Proxy Manager to give my services local domain names without exposing them to the internet.”