When I read about paperless-ngx I liked the idea of having all my documents in a central storage so that I could access them from all my devices. Furthermore those documents would be indexed (also using OCR) so that I could search (fulltext) in all of them. Due to the tagging system – if done correctly – exporting all my documents for my yearly tax declaration should just take seconds…
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Setting up Nextcloud
Just a quick guide how I do install Nextcloud. This is Nextcloud 25.0.1 with PHP 8.1 on Debian Bullseye with Redis, APCu and MariaDB.
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Tuning / Improving your security using external online tools would be another possible headline for this article. There are a few pages I regularly use to optimize my configuration. Here’s a small guide.
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What is MTA-STS (MTA Strict Transport Security) about?
MTA-STS basically enforces TLS for your mail communication, similar to HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) for HTTP/HTTPS traffic. By telling the sender that TLS has to be used one can reduce / stop Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks. A probably better explanation is found in the abstract of the RFC:
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