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Install Terminator (shell)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-terminator
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install terminator

Terminator should be setup as default now. Restart your terminal (shortcut: "Ctrl+Alt+T").

Install ZSH

Install

# Install dependencies
sudo yum install -y java-1.8.0-openjdk screen

# Create a new unprivileged user for minecraft
useradd -r -m -d /opt/minecraft minecraft

# Create the directory that will house our minecraft instances

sudo su --shell /bin/bash minecraft

Introduction

For a while now, we have been talking how we get our OpenTTD binaries signed, and how we would get published on Steam. There are many aspects to this, and I am trying to put all that in a single place.

Signing binaries

None of the current developers really has experience with this. So most of this information is collected from googling, asking on reddit, asking on twitter, etc. Please, if you have any experience with this and read here things that are wrong or could be done cheaper, let us know!

Enable PCIe 3.0 speeds for NVMe SSDs on Dell OptiPlex 3060

Out of the box, any M.2 NVMe SSDs connected to the Dell OptiPlex 3060 runs at PCIe Gen 2.0 speeds (Max 5 GT/s; 2 GB/s) so the speed tests look like this:

However, after this BIOS mod, the SSD can reach PCIe Gen 3.0 speeds (Max 8 GT/s; 3.9 GB/s) so the speed tests look like this:

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FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Background

On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that

	Ansible playbook to setup HTTPS using Let's encrypt on nginx.

	The Ansible playbook installs everything needed to serve static files from a nginx server over HTTPS.
	The server pass A rating on [SSL Labs](https://www.ssllabs.com/).

	To use:
	1. Install [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/)
	2. Setup an Ubuntu 16.04 server accessible over ssh
	3. Create `/etc/ansible/hosts` according to template below and change example.com to your domain
	4. Copy the rest of the files to an empty directory (`playbook.yml` in the root of that folder and the rest in the `templates` subfolder)