Static Web on Google Cloud

The needs This post describes how I’ve configured a Cloud Storage bucket to host a static assets (shared) for various websites across my domains. The aim is to have something like https://assets.prokop.dev to offer from single URL all assets, I might ever need to handle my WEB stuff. Using Google Cloud Storage The following is everything what was required to create fully operational, CDN powered, backed by object bucket asset distribution facility....

August 20, 2023 · 3 min · Bart Prokop

Kopia remote backup

I lease Kimsufi dedicated server. It has large enough HDD to use it as offsite backup. https://kopia.io/ is the new backup tool, I want to try out. Prerequisites Remote server I want a new kopia regular user account that will allow SFTP access and will be locked otherwise. The scponly pseudo-shell can be used to achieve that. sudo pacman -S scponly sudo useradd -m -s /usr/bin/scponly kopia sudo mkdir /home/kopia/.ssh sudo chown kopia:kopia /home/kopia/....

December 27, 2022 · 2 min · Bart Prokop

OCI Setup

Oracle provides generous “free-tier” for its CLoud. This article describes the basic setup to maximize OCI “always free” tier. Prerequisites Run Oracle Cloud Shell and generate SSH keypair, that you will use with OCI instances. Here come surprise… My preferred key type is ed25519, it is the most recommended public-key algorithm available today! But if I try to create it, the following error is presented: ED25519 keys are not allowed in FIPS mode Apparently, Oracle is part of FIPS / NIST security theater (or NSA collaborator) and follows non-sense compliance rules by letter and spirit, ignoring this [https://csrc....

December 27, 2022 · 6 min · Bart Prokop

Media Player for Christmas

This Christmas decided to gift to my significant other a Game Of Thrones Blu Ray set (4k, UHD - 33 discs total). This post cover all what I needed to do to get it watched on living room’s TV (which is LG OLED). The first obvious obstacle has ocurred - I do not have the Blu Ray Player (not even mentioning UHD Blue Ray). It is 2022/23 and physical media are slightly a thing of past....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · Bart Prokop

SSHd Server on Android

Description how I transfer files from my Android phone to Linux server. This will use FUSE to mount Android storage as linux directory. Example solution is to backup all photos from Android phone. Android setup Please install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.galexander.sshd from Android Play store. This is port of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbear_(software) to Android. Linux Setup Use ssh from terminal to log-in to your Android phone. # username does not matter, use password shown in Android console for the very first login ssh bart@192....

December 4, 2022 · 2 min · Bart Prokop