The Apple TV series Mythic Quest had an episode in which the game found it had an extreme right wing problem. Their solution was to corral the right wingers in a server where they could shout at each other and fight as much as they wanted without bothering other players …

I got my first Android phone, a Moto Droid, in 2010. It's wasn't my first smartphone as that had been a quest with varying degrees of success for years (I still miss the Nokia E series keyboard phones a bit).

Among the things installed on it was Facebook. Even then …

I deal with a number of clients in the legal profession, and this morning one of them forwarded me an email which he thought was suspicious. It appeared to be sent from a Rob Moore at a company called Progressive Property, and the body of the mail was this:

Good …

I have a virtual OPNSense router as the gateway to a production network based on Proxmox servers (more about this another day). All VMs and containers get an unrouted IP address in the 10.x.x.x range and I have a couple of IP ranges for public access, generally …

This took a few days to work out and I finally found it buried in an Opnsense forum post, so here it is in a slightly easier to find way.

Objective

To forward HTTP(S) traffic to a virtual machine running Nginx (or any other HTTP proxy or load balancer …