Author Archives: Varun Priolkar

IPv6 should be working on this blog!

By | 16th October 2016

IPv6 is now enabled on this blog. Getting it to work wasn’t as straight forward as I initially thought since my hosting provider Contabo gives only a single /64 and I use many LXC containers to host different things. Thankfully my friend Anurag helped me out. You can read his blog post about it here.… Read More »

Trying out a new social network! – Gab.ai

By | 12th October 2016

These are my very personal views and may not reflect yours. Please do understand that as you proceed. 🙂 Twitter and Facebook was censoring trends/tweets of right wing people for a long time now and there was expected to be fall out from that. That has resulted in a new social network called Gab.ai ? .… Read More »

Hybrid ECDSA and RSA certificates with Nginx and Let’s Encrypt

By | 3rd October 2016

There are a myriad of resources on the internet on how to get this working but not as well compiled together as I’d like. That is the reason I am writing this post. 🙂 I am not going to explain what Elliptic Curve Cryptography(ECC) is since Cloudflare has a very nice blog post on this.… Read More »

Backup your website to Backblaze B2 with encryption

By | 28th September 2016

This is meant for websites running on a VPS/dedicated servers only. This should work with modifications for static websites but was meant for websites with a database, especially WordPress. I was inspired by the huge number of really expensive and crap plugins for WordPress to handle backups and my guru/buddy Anurag Bhatia to write this… Read More »

Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 on Xiaomi Redmi Note 3

By | 27th September 2016

Please do not use this. On newer kernels it fries the phone’s PSU. Note: This is only applicable for the Snapdragon/Pro version of the Redmi Note 3. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 has a very good battery life. However Qualcomm Quick charge(QC) 2.0 would massively help with the charging times for the huge 4050 mAh… Read More »