Wildcard certificates are really useful, especially in cases where you are using a load balancer like HAProxy that targets multiple backends serving separate subdomains.
VLC has always been a great piece of software, but one place where is really shines is on iOS/tvOS since it allows you to play pretty much any video file, and you can send that file over curl.
Maybe you’re at a hotel, an airport, a conference, or somewhere else where whoever set up the Wi-Fi thought it was a good idea to use so-called captive portals.
Ubuntu makes it very easy to set up full disk encryption, but it requires you to wipe the entire disk if you want the wizard to do it for you, so this is how you can set it up manually.
While Linux Unified Key Setup — LUKS — is mostly used to encrypt entire disks under Linux, it can also be used to easily create an encrypted file container.