A tough case of a broken loopback interface in Windows

What is the common issue between the Tor Browser being stuck at establishing a connection, failing to list Android devices with adb, and Inkscape not launching? A big mystery. ChatGPT couldn’t help much. Symptoms It started with weird symptoms. When I wanted to proxy my traffic through an SSH SOCKS proxy (plink -D), this wouldn’tContinue reading “A tough case of a broken loopback interface in Windows”

Reverse proxying FTPS with OpenResty (in Nginx Proxy Manager)

When you run an FTP server in 2025, like a surviving dinosaur, and you have the presence of mind to add a TLS layer, you may find yourself puzzled by the lack of support for certificate renewal in commercial FTP server software. The idea of reverse proxying the FTP server makes sense, but FTP likesContinue reading “Reverse proxying FTPS with OpenResty (in Nginx Proxy Manager)”