As I upload photos to various services, I generally resize them as required based on portrait or landscape mode. I used to do that for all the photos in a directory and then pick which ones to use. But, I wanted to do it selectively, open the photos in Gnome Nautilus Files application and right...

   Many of you already know about my love of photography. I am taking photos for many years, mostly people photos. Portraits in conferences like PyCon or Fedora events. I regularly post photos to wikipedia too, specially for the people accounts which does not have good quality profile photos. I...

   One of the major reason of using static blogging for me is to less worry about how the site will look like. Instead the focus was to just write which of course I did not do well this year . I did not change my blog’s theme for many many years. But, I noticed Oskar Wickström created a monospace...

   I started writing blog years ago, not on this domain, but this blog still has all the old posts starting from th August . Though I used to write mostly one line blog posts, which is equivalent of Mastodon posts these days. I started writing another blog, but in Swedish. So that I can feel...

   Multi factor authentication is a must have feature in any modern web application. Specially providing support for both TOTP think applications on phone and FIDO say Yubikeys usage. I created a small Django demo mfaforgood which shows how to enable both. I am using django mfa for all the hard...

   At the beginning one goes to the conferences to listen to the talks and make new contacts. You meet a lot of new faces every time. Over time a few of them will become great friends and then all conferences will become about friends. We wait for the conferences so that we can meet our friends. I...

   If you are on the latest Firefox which is there on Fedora , you should uncheck the following preference to disable Privacy Preserving Attribution. Firefox added this experimental feature and turn it on by default for everyone. Which should not be the case. You can find it in the...

   Last night I deployed a https: writefreely.org based blog and secured it with systemd by adding DynamicUser yes. But the service itself could not write to the sqlite database. Feb : : kushaldas.se writefreely : ERROR: : : database.go: : Couldn’t insert into...

   Mullvad VPN now has proper rpm repository for their desktop client. You can use it in the following way on you Fedora system: sudo dnf config manager add repo https: repository.mullvad.net rpm stable mullvad.repo sudo dnf install mullvad vpn Remember to verify the OpenPGP key Fingerprint...

   django ca is a feature rich certificate authority written in Python, using the django framework. The project exists for long, have great documentation and code comments all around. As I was looking around for possible CAs which can be used in multiple projects at work, django ca seems to be a good...