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Extend Gitlab Access Tokens

Gitlab enforced token expiry limits to 365 days last year, and the time is now upon us.

They don't have an opt-out for this, and haven't provided a way to easily extend tokens in the web interface. They have also gated their credential management interface behind their Ultimate license.

This quickly thrown together script will allow you to add an extra year to all tokens that expire in the next 30 days. It will not reactivate tokens that have already expired.

Requires the python-gitlab module. Edit your self-hosted Gitlab instance details into the script and run it. It will dump out CSVs of all expiring tokens, and then dump out a list of commands you can paste into a gitlab-rails console session to extend the expiry date by another year. If you need them to be active for longer, change 1.year.from_now to the value of your choice, e.g. `10.years.fro

How to install game-porting-toolkit (aka proton for macOS)

You also might wanna just use Whisky which does this automatically

This guide works on macOS 13.4+ using Command Line Tools for XCode 15 Beta!

What is this?

In the recent WWDC, Apple announced and released the "game porting toolkit", which upon further inspection this is just a modified version of CrossOver's fork of wine which is a "compatibility layer" that allows you to run Windows applications on macOS and Linux.

How to automatically start ssh server on boot on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Microsoft partnered with Canonical to create Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, running through a technology called the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Below are instructions on how to set up the ssh server to run automatically at boot.

Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file by running the command sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config and do the following
1. Change Port to 2222 (or any other port above 1000)
2. Change PasswordAuthentication to yes. This can be changed back to no if ssh keys are setup.
Restart the ssh server:
- sudo service ssh --full-restart
With this setup, the ssh server must be turned on every time you run Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, as by default it is off. Use this command to turn it on:

Exporting your 2FA tokens from Authy to transfer them into another 2FA application

IMPORTANT - Update regarding deprecation of Authy desktop apps

Past August 2024, Authy stopped supported the desktop version of their apps:
See Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August for details.

And indeed, after a while, Authy changed something in their backend which now prevents the old desktop app from logging in. If you are already logged in, then you are in luck, and you can follow the instructions below to export your tokens.

If you are not logged in anymore, but can find a backup of the necessary files, then restore those files, and re-install Authy 2.2.3 following the instructions below, and it should work as expected.

Configure postfix as relay for macOS Sierra – Sonoma

1. Edit postfix configuration file

sudo vi /etc/postfix/main.cf
Ensure that the following values are set:

The easiest way to load the Mysql Time Zone tables from your Mac OS time zone fields is via this command:

mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root mysql

However, on many systems like mine that will fail because some of the time zone information is incompatible with the database schema for the time zone tables.

Therefore, you'll want to load the time zone information into a text file and edit it to only include the time zones you need. (Or, attempt to find the data breaking the import.)

mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo > zone_import.sql


	/*
	##Device = Desktops
	##Screen = 1281px to higher resolution desktops
	*/

	@media (min-width: 1281px) {

	/* CSS */

	#!/bin/bash

	mkdir -p ~/.ssh

	# generate new personal ed25519 ssh keys
	ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -C "rob thijssen <rthijssen@gmail.com>"
	ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/id_robtn -C "rob thijssen <rob@rob.tn>"

	# generate new host cert authority (host_ca) ed25519 ssh key
	# used for signing host keys and creating host certs

	#!/bin/bash

	# Setup
	#
	# - Create a new Jenkins Job
	# - Mark "None" for Source Control Management
	# - Select the "Build Periodically" build trigger
	# - configure to run as frequently as you like
	# - Add a new "Execute Shell" build step
	# - Paste the contents of this file as the command