The one about the floss

There really is a difference when it comes to dental floss. I’m more of the threaded than the tape type. With threaded they usually infuse it with a strong minty flavour because you can do that sort of thing with thread. With tape it’s kind of impossible because I think with the thread the flavour is inside the wax coating but with the tape (which is plastic) the flavour has nothing to bond onto....

The one about rebuilding my VPS

So I have this VPS which is basically the thing which hosts the website you’re reading this on. The VPS also hosts other applications so security is a concern of mine since access is entirely remote. I do have fail2ban installed though. Although I’m getting better at it I mucked about with my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and configured the daemon to liste on a non-standard port. I then promptly forgot to add an iptables entry to allow traffic on this port, essentially locking myself out of the VPS....