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Why translation sucks, and TruckersMP don't do them anymore

After 3 years, TruckersMP stops accepting new translations, and once sufficient change has happened, will cease to allow you to change language on the website.

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TruckersMP

Let's Encrypt

At TruckersMP we're running with end-to-end encryption, that is, for all network connections and leave a machine, it's encapsulated in TLS. To achieve this we're using a mix of CloudFlare and Let's Encrypt.

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TruckersMP

Systemd Journal persistency

On TruckersMP we recently had a crash on one of our backend systems, and as a part of the proceadure, we try to identify what caused the issue. To my dismay, there was no logs from pervious boot in the systemd journal, which I found a bit peculiar.

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TruckersMP

About Security

So in February, TruckersMP was pwned, first time a service I've been fully or partially responsible for has been pwned. The pwn was attacking a bad password usage practice used by one of

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ETS2MP

Whats up

What's happened since I last wrote? Quite a lot actually. I've Joined the web developer team over at ETS 2 MP and been working on a few new features over there mostly touching

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OSX

Weechat and remote growl notifications

So I decided to move to WeeChat, but I ran into one issue I've always had with irssi, I like to get a desktop notification that is visual and gives me info if there is something I have to respond to or if it can wait like most other clients does.

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Windows

Windows 8 Storage spaces

So I decided to set up Storage spaces on my windows 8 computer, mainly since I tend to end up with way more storage space than you'd presume.

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Linux

Tmux

I decided to work a bit on my shell and tmux setup on my laptop. I recently switched to zsh instead of fish, and in the process I learned about Tmuxinator. Tmuxinator allows

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Xiaomi

Xiamoi M2 and ADB

I have been using the Xiaomi M2 as my primary phone now for quite some time, and it is probably the best phone I have ever owned, but I've been struggling with one thing... adb.

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Linux

Useful thing to know about with likewise-open5 on Ubuntu 12.10

I spent some time wondering why I couldn't join my webfront to my windows ad... Among others I got Error: DNS_ERROR_BAD_PACKET and lsass error network name not found Turns out

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