About me: My name is Solène Rapenne, pronouns she/her. I like learning and sharing knowledge. Hobbies: '(BSD OpenBSD Qubes OS Lisp cmdline gaming security QubesOS internet-stuff). I love percent and lambda characters. Qubes OS core team member, former OpenBSD developer solene@. No AI is involved in this blog.

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2024

2024-10-04 Asynchronous secure file transfer with nncp

2024-09-12 I moved my emails to Proton Mail

2024-09-10 Self-hosting at home and privacy

2024-08-31 How to use Proton VPN port forwarding

2024-08-14 Emails encryption at rest on OpenBSD using dovecot and GPG

2024-06-08 OpenBSD extreme privacy setup

2024-05-25 OpenBSD mirror over Tor / I2P

2023

2023-11-03 Run your own Syncthing relay server on OpenBSD

2023-10-18 Run your own Syncthing discovery server on OpenBSD

2023-10-04 Port of the Week: Presenting Syncthing

2023-09-24 Firefox hardening with Arkenfox

2023-03-12 Linux $HOME encryption with ecryptfs

2022

2022-09-02 How to host a local front-end for Reddit / YouTube / Twitter on NixOS

2021

2021-12-20 Restrict users to a network interface on Linux

2021-07-25 OpenBSD full Tor setup

2021-06-12 How to use Tor only for onion addresses in a web browser