Writing on software development, cybersecurity, and everything in between.

All of my notes and brain dumps about programming, cybersecurity, and other things I find interesting in tech, collected in chronological order.

Disable 2FA on Self Hosted Gitlab

Last time, I lost login access to my self-hosted GitLab instance where I was the only admin. 2FA kept failing because the server’s date and time were incorrect (which I didn’t realize until after clearing 2FA). I was confused about why 2FA wasn’t working, so the first thing I did was clear the 2FA configuration. Here’s how I did it:

Create A Website on Onion Domain

Lately, I’ve been playing around with ways to keep my online activity more private: onion domains. These are special websites you can access using the Tor network, and they keep both the site owner and visitors anonymous.

Reset root password MySQL/MariaDB

Masalah ini sering sekali saya alami, apalagi setelah lama tidak menggunakan database secara langsung, dan bodohnya saya selalu lupa caranya. Kali ini saya catat di sini agar suatu saat saya lupa lagi, saya tau kemana harus mencari.

Mengembalikan Icon Hijau HTTPS Pada Mozilla Firefox

Setelah sebelumnya saya membuat artikel tentang https, saya jadi menyadari kalau Mozilla Firefox sekarang akan menampilkan icon gembok berwarna abu-abu untuk laman https alih-alih gembok hijau1.

Display of https website in firefox before and after change