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- 539 from 13 Dec 2020 to 27 Oct 2026
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2026 63
- Fixing the unavailability of Tasmota devices after HomeAssistant restarts
- LibreOffice Writer, changing text styles, and accepting formatting changes
- Fixing my LocalBytes Tasmota smart bulb which had lost its Tasmota template
- A review of the BigMe B6, an Android colour eInk tablet
- Blurring part of a video using ffmpeg
- Environment and climate risks, technology law, and legal advice in England and Wales
- 'Serious Saturday' at Red Alert Airsoft, Newbury
- AI as the new search engines?
- Mutual aid posts and the fediverse
- Testing the Topdon TS004 thermal monocular for Airsoft
- Replacing our SIP doorbell with a plain, old-fashioned, doorbell
- How does one genuinely identify one's own, non-technical, learning and development needs?
- On Free software project boards and governance
- An increased sense of perspective
- Initial thoughts on the EU KIDS Act
- Initial thoughts on the Social Media Platforms (Ofcom Licensing) Bill
- My views on genAI and F-Droid
- RSS feeds for individual authors of The Register using The Register's new API
- Airsoft and the UK's consultation on changing the rules around fireworks and pyrotechnics
- Migrating my self-hosted UniFi controller from Network Manager to UniFi OS Server
- Automating local backups of UniFi OS Server on Linux with uos-backup
- Time to drop .legal?
- On lawyers, ethics, and integrity
- Driving to London for the first time in years
- Stepping down as a school governor
- Holiday reading, mostly from Standard eBooks
- Being excited still about technology in 2026
- Chatting to a friend who has bought a pair of Meta AI glasses
- Restoring missing Address Book in Thunderbird 140 menu bar
- Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK because of the direction of UK online safety policy
- Dark Division's CQB (close quarters battle) training
- Speeding up static site generation with BSSG
- Why are there no good tablets at the moment?
- Fixing a proxying problem with my HomeAssistantOS installation by replacing nginx proxy manager
- Please consider publishing a full-text RSS feed for your website or blog
- Just let me compute in peace
- Resources to aid understanding someone else's perimenopause / menopause
- Thoughts on increasing ssh security using a hardware security key
- Sex and the Fedi
- Three months of not reading the news
- Implementing the somewhat whimsical human.json protocol on my website
- I am a cis man
- Initial thoughts on the tiny XTEINK X4 ereader
- Moving (for now?) from HomeAssistant in Python venvs to HomeAssistantOS
- Musings on 'digital sovereignty'
- Moving my static site blog generator from hugo to BSSG
- My resolutions for International Women's Day
- I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age
- decoded.legal's .onion site no longer has TLS / https
- Updating my TicWatch to AsteroidOS 2.0
- Moving away from Nextcloud
- Injecting deno into yt-dlp venv via pipx
- Reflections on my first day (ever) at FOSDEM
- Flo Mask Pro thoughts
- I played my first 'battle sim' Airsoft game today, and I loved it
- Testing Radicale, a self-hosted FOSS CalDAV and CardDAV Server
- Enabling a user's processes to continue after the user disconnects their ssh session, using loginctl enable-linger
- My initial thoughts about Immich, a self-hosted photo gallery
- Dealing with apt's warning 'Policy will reject signature within a year, see --audit for details'
- Storing config options for yt-dlp in a config file
- yt-dlp's --download-archive flag
- Removing .m4v files from my media server when an equivalent .mp4 file exists
- From proxmox to Raspberry Pi 4s again
2025 84
- #FreeSoftwareAdvent 2025
- Bringing up a WireGuard tunnel automatically on boot using nmcli
- Calibre, AI, and one size not fitting all
- Adding a button to Home Assistant to run a shell command
- Using gpioset and gpioget to control the gpio pins on a Raspberry Pi with a relay board under Debian Trixie
- Using a2dismod apache2's mod_status which exposed information via a .onion / Tor hidden service
- Perhaps I just stop reading the news?
- Downgrading Debian from testing to stable (trixie)
- Migrating Mastodon (glitch-soc fork) to another Intel NUC
- Upgrading our time recording system from Kimai v1 to Kimai v2
- Using LibreOffice and other Free software for documents as a lawyer
- Stopping a kernel module from loading on boot in Debian Trixie using /etc/modules-load.d/
- Using vimwiki as a personal, portable, knowledge base
- What goes on at a meeting of the Silicon Corridor Linux User Group in 2025
- Is now the best time ever for Linux laptops?
- Librephone and the need for more Freedom for mobile computing
- Installing and using Linux (AsteroidOS) on a TicWatch Pro 2020
- How I interact with PDFs using Free software and Linux in 2025
- Notes on running postmarketOS on a OnePlus 6
- What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the entire world?
- I am getting better at turning off unneeded self-hosted services
- I am not notable enough for Wikipedia. Thank goodness
- Sustainable Free and open source software... but not like that
- Thoughts on running my own forgejo (hosted git with web stuff) server
- Ofcom's perhaps inadvertent list of porn sites allegedly without age assurance made me smile
- Fixing high CPU usage of localsearch-3 by resetting it
- My third Airsoft game day and perhaps I am finally getting the hang of it
- Fixing a fatal git error when upgrading LiberaForms to v4.2.0 by changing my git config origin from Gitlab to Codeberg
- The term 'NSFW' is problematic and overdue for retirement
- Fixing my Pixel 6's USB port issue with a trimmed down cocktail stick
- 'Here's what I do' versus 'You should'
- Thoughts on edent's 'We've got to stop sending files to each other'
- My first Airsoft game day (Red Alert, Newbury)
- Fixing out-of-sync audio when using VLC on Android with Bluetooth headphones
- Signing sieve vacation auto-reply messages with dkim using postfix for deliverability
- Getting back into Airsoft (or at least thinking about it) via laser tag
- FOSS projects, free lawyers, and reality
- Turning off desktop mode on Firefox etc on tablets
- Some thoughts on mastodon.social's updated terms
- I didn't pay attention and ended up on an all-male panel
- Setting up ActivityPub server snac in under 15 minutes
- The Online Safety Act, freedom of expression, and providers of small services (in particular)
- I'm experimenting with no longer converting Markdown-formatted toots to html, for more consistent rendering
- Running vdirsyncer automatically using a systemd timer
- Initial thoughts on a £18 Colmi R09 smart ring and Gadgetbridge
- More tinkering with tmux
- Preparatory notes for upcoming Online Safety Act workshops
- GrapheneOS on a Pixel Tablet
- Do I put my hand up too much?
- Fixing tolino ereaders which are stuck in a firmware update loop
- Upgrading my video conferencing setup (and it all works with Linux with no fiddling)
- Removing noise from my web browsing
- Four weeks without meat, and with increased exercise
- Installing postmarketOS with full disk encryption on a OnePlus 6
- Turning off Pi-hole's rate limiting to solve my DNS woes
- A toot travelled to fediverse users in 77 countries in 12 hours
- Updating my nginx config for Pi-hole 6.x
- It's okay not to watch popular programmes, listen to popular music etc.
- Freedom is circular
- Installing Stirling-PDF for a suite of useful self-hosted, PDF-related tools
- Installing Lineage OS on an Amazon Fire Stick 4K
- Reading Museum’s DIGITAL Revolution Exhibition
- The National Museum of Computing
- DRM: Digital Restrictions Management Damages Reading Magic
- Trialling a move from a NUC to a container
- Eating less meat
- Replacing the battery in a Dyson V8 vacuum cleaner
- Too long for a toot: What media server should I use?
- I thought that we (men) were better than this, but I was wrong
- Upgrading LiberaForms to use end-to-end encryption
- What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox
- Sometimes I would love not to be me online
- Blocking searches and removing other people's toots: my Mastodon server and the Online Safety Act
- A replacement ThinkPad battery from lenovobatteryshop.co.uk
- Review: HIENA USB-C beard trimmer
- A self-hosted Wikipedia (and other bits) clone, using kiwix on a Raspberry Pi 4
- NetworkManager: automatically switch between Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and WWAN
- Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM card with Android and Linux
- Editing directories and their contents with vidir from moreutils
- Meanderings about music in 2025
- Using pandoc and typst to convert markdown into custom-formatted PDFs, with a sample template
- Adding The Indie Beat Radio FM to Lyrion Music Server, mpd, and Jellyfin
- Wrapping a ThinkPad X1 Yoga and fitting a screen protector
- Solving VirtualBox's 'Cannot operate in vmx boot mode' error by changing grub config with Linux kernel 6.12 (Debian)
2024 123
- Review of RevK's latest ESP32 voice recorder board
- Backing up the photos on an iPhone to a computer running Debian Linux using rsync
- Replacing `nautilus-image-converter` with a nautilus bash script
- Self-hosting single user services as a regulatory shield
- Setting GNOME's font scaling factor using a bash script
- Brief notes on installing Mobian on a PinePhone Pro
- Initial thoughts on Debian (testing) Linux on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6
- (Fixed!) I can't get the Bluetooth module of an Intel AX201 card to discover nearby devices using Debian / Linux 6.11.10, and it is bugging me
- I think fedizens should be able to disable replies to some or all of their posts
- Using khal and khard to access appointments and contacts synced from a Nextcloud caldav/cardav server using vdirsyncer
- 'Neil, your blogpost sucks': assumed knowledge and my blogposts
- Tasmota auto-discovery for Home Assistant using 'SetOption19 0'
- Using a 20 year old foldable Bluetooth keyboard with a modern day Android phone
- Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024
- Notes from learning git
- In which Neil is surprised by the lack of an HDMI cable
- A visit to Swindon's Museum of Computing
- Tech-related bits and pieces which brought me joy today
- Lowering WireGuard's MTU to 1300 to work with a Three data SIM
- Backing up LiberaForms using pg_dump and restic
- Reflections on RadioFreeFedi
- wallabag: a FOSS, self-hosted, read-it-later application
- Setting up my federated fleamarket with flohmarkt
- 'It is fine not to like a piece of Free software' and other oft-unstated FOSS-related freedoms
- The small web: scalability and building for realistic loads
- Tweaking GNOME extensions GSConnect and WinTile-Beyond's metadata to make them work with GNOME 47
- 10 things I find joyful about computers and the Internet in 2024
- Configuring dovecot as a separate mail server for encrypted email storage, and fighting with Thunderbird to accept it
- Setting up a Squeezebox Radio with the Lyrion Music Server, and other LMS bits
- Running presentations from a standalone Linux installation on a bootable USB memory stick
- Squeezebox: a self-hosted music streaming project which didn't turn out as I had expected
- Using ffmpeg for stop motion animation
- Could I cope with a terminal-only computer?
- tmux: my notes so far
- LiberaForms: a FOSS, self-hosted web form manager
- Adding Open Graph meta tags to my mkdocs' static site theme for nicer fedi link previews
- Removing unused CSS from a website
- Lightening my work bag by 2.4kg / ~38% to 4kg
- No, you can't have my attention for free
- I don't use public Wi-Fi but not for security reasons
- Is the most stable fedi instance your own fedi instance?
- What do you mean 'You don't use Spotify'?
- WinTile-Beyond: a GNOME 45/46 extension for quarter window tiling
- Am I (still?) in Mozilla's target audience?
- Thunderbird, Nextcloud, calendar invitations, and unwanted html email with non-working 'confirm acceptance' links
- I am being sextorted! (Badly, and I know it is a scam.)
- Newsboat, a TUI RSS reader
- Frustrations with rwgmobile
- Book review: Michael W Lucas's 'git sync murder'
- decoded.legal is now free of JavaScript
- World Blog Day: I'm grumpy about harassment in the fediverse
- Switching back to self-signed certs for freeradius Wi-Fi authentication
- systemctl reboot --firmware-setup
- Book review: Michael W Lucas's 'git commit murder'
- Am I addicted to being online?
- Fixing folders in Thunderbird if messages do not open in conversation view
- Setting up custom site-specific search shortcuts in Firefox
- In praise of restic (the backup tool)
- Shrinking initrd.img to deal with /boot being too small to upgrade the kernel on Debian
- Fixing iOS Home Assistant 403 error by deleting ip_bans.yaml
- Increasing the frequency of mqtt messages on power changes in Tasmota using the PowerDelta command
- Attempting to stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email from me by adding a postfix header
- Fixing a Chromebook which was showing scam notifications about viruses
- Not being bothered by sports
- I am enjoying 'Halt and Catch Fire' but the lack of availability on DVD is annoying
- Adding Open Graph meta tags to my hugo static site's theme for nicer fedi link previews
- Working out why Home Assistant on Android had ceased to get my phone's location
- Six months with the Xreal Air 2 Pro glasses
- I don't have, or want, comments on my blog
- How often do I access my own systems?
- Kobo Mini notes
- The admin burden of keeping friendships alive (and failing?)
- I didn't go to EMF camp
- Reviving a Kobo Aura HD that would not turn on
- Replacing the battery and increasing the storage on a Kobo Clara HD eReader
- Expanding (and sharing) the list of blogs I follow via RSS
- Using CSS selectors in FreshRSS to automatically retrieve the full text of partial text RSS feeds
- What's the best laptop I could get for no more than £50?
- Faffing with fonts to reduce my web page size by two thirds
- The wireless ambidextrous Penguin Posturite mouse and Linux
- VoIP XML config examples for FireBrick
- Would UBI make a difference to me right now?
- Changing the default resize value in nautilus-image-converter
- Geek Code: a piece of web history
- Comparing Lenovo's Active Pen and Active Pen 2 for writing on a ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 2 using Debian Linux
- I have data and documents in too many places
- Thoughts on an old-but-new-to-me Lenovo ThinkPad Professional backpack
- Making other people's websites look how I want them to look
- Neil designs his perfect (Internet) cafe
- A pre-roll for my presentations
- Scanning to Debian 12 with a Fujitsi ix500
- When is a website too simple?
- Creating a partition larger than 2TB on an SSD on Linux
- Saving money via AliExpress v Amazon
- Multiplayer Quake III Arena on Linux (client and server)
- In memoriam: A&A's SIP2SIM service
- EE data SIM expiry
- The fediverse and (small?) businesses
- A working wireless plug-and-play display solution for Linux laptops (and others OSs)
- Switching to Mastodon 'unlisted'
- Replacing the thermal paste on my laptop
- Reflections on six years in the fediverse
- Downloading YouTube subscriptions and channels automatically
- A rant about the pollution which is advertising
- Suppressing posts containing images with no alt text in the Mastodon advanced web UI via uBlock Origin
- How public is 'public'?
- Alternatives to the term 'enshittification'
- Improving my laptop's battery with TLP
- Stopping music in my office automatically when I get a phone call or join an audio/video call
- Will I ever buy a new laptop again? Why would I?
- Adding an Internet radio stream (such as RadioFreeFedi) to mpd
- Getting the Sierra Wireless EM7455 LTE modem working in a ThinkPad with Debian 12 Linux (with GPS)
- Why I don't care about website/blog stats
- Fixing dropbear-initramfs '/scripts/init-premount/dropbear: cat: not found' error
- RevK's privacy-friendly GPS logger
- A week of not using a search engine
- Keeping bash history in sync using atuin and a self-hosted sync server
- Very initial thoughts on the Xreal companion 'Beam' device
- Keyboard shortcut for adding random albums to the playlist in ncmpcpp
- From DuckDuckGo back to DuckDuckGo via Mojeek and Kagi
- Dark mode for the FireBrick network contraption's web UI
- A 'thank you' table for people making deliveries
- This is a test post
2023 80
- Fixing Mastodon 'Error processing thumbnail for uploaded media' video uploading
- Very, very initial thoughts of the Xreal Air 2 Pro glasses and Debian 12
- Upgrading the glitch-soc fork of Mastodon
- Subscriptions mount up quickly!
- #FreeSoftwareAdvent: all my 2023 Free software suggestion posts in one place
- If I don't apply, I won't get it: my approach to interesting 'bits on the side'
- Using Bitwarden as an AppImage on Debian with GNOME
- Improving the readability of the new design of legislation.gov.uk in Firefox with custom CSS
- Fixing SOGO error NSDataMalloc(instance) does not recognize stringByTrimmingSpaces
- A web UI for label creation and printing on a Brother QL-710W on Linux
- Mastodon for Dummies: a book review
- Getting a Brother QL-710W label printer working via CUPS on Debian
- Desktop Linux: the software I'm currently using
- Attempting to prohibit(?) code contributions which might have used an LLM such as Copilot?
- Fixing apt yarn key deprecation warning in Debian 12
- Mounting LUKS-encrypted disks by UUID
- Initial thoughts on storing TOTP seeds on YubiKeys instead of in Bitwarden
- I went to the cinema. It sucked
- Improving our business, with Open Ideas
- Making my ThinkPad LED flash 'decoded.legal' in morse code
- I'm not sure that I can trust Bitwarden with my TOTP codes anymore
- hugo, cron, lastmod, and auto-publishing blogposts
- Moving from htmly to hugo for a static site blog
- Fixing an Intel NUC with unknown supervisor or user BIOS password and a Secure Boot error
- Intel NUC with no display output
- Should I feel bad for buying second hand?
- Switching to the glitch-soc fork of Mastodon
- Setting default View options for folders and sub-folders in Thunderbird
- Triggering a remote lamp automatically when I am on a call
- Disabling my ThinkPad's internal camera on boot
- A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat
- Fixing dropbear ssh Permission denied (publickey) error
- Bodging a web-controlled garage door opener with a Raspberry Pi
- This is a test post
- You know you don't have to reply, right?
- Snikket, a self-contained XMPP distribution
- Unpicking 'The fediverse needs to do [x]' posts
- Removing LinkedIn from DuckDuckGo searches in Firefox
- Can I have a cable... please?
- Barclays is closing its Contactless Mobile payment services on 30 June
- Why I suspended my LinkedIn account
- GSConnect (KDE Connect), WireGuard, and Debian 12 Bookworm
- Book review: Cory Doctorow's 'Red Team Blues'
- A reminder of useful Thunderbird keyboard bindings and add-ons
- Unlocking a LUKS-encrypted partition via ssh on Debian 12 Bookworm
- NetworkManager: automatically switch between Ethernet and Wi-Fi
- Fixing sogo's 'incorrect string value' error
- Updating the LUKS key derivation function on Debian
- Backing up to a USB stick automatically via udev
- Fixing espanso incomplete text replacement
- Flatpak Firefox 112 not showing (some? bitmap?) fonts in Debian
- Automating actions in Nautilus (GNOME's file manager) with scripts
- Jabra Evolve2 40 and Debian Linux
- Giving up Twitter, and the impact on my business
- Debian on a £190 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 2
- Enabling Webauthn in Firefox via snap
- Decrapifying (mostly) an Amazon Fire 8 HD Kids tablet via Linux
- Solved: LibreOffice Writer PDF exports have the template name
- Microsoft SurfaceBook 2 running Debian Linux working with two 4K screens
- Internet Time, in a watch!
- Back to Firefox again!
- Turning a Raspberry Pi Zero W into a travel media centre
- Firefox, flatpak, reveal.js, and local file system permissions
- 'How Sex Changed the Internet, and the Internet Changed Sex': a review of Sam Lee Cole's new book
- I taught the law and the law won
- My cellular data usage and ponderings
- Removing the password from a PDF file
- Using a Garmin Edge 705 with OpenStreetMap for a cheap bike computer
- £15 for an Amazon review?
- Home Assistant Core, Raspberry Pi OS, and python 3.10
- Anatomy of some annoying, persistent spam
- Fixing rkhunter's 'Update failed' error
- What happened to the netbook?
- Online Safety Bill and individuals, volunteers, and community groups
- Learnings from a recent conference call for papers
- ffmpeg incantation for converting .webm to .mp3
- Rotating all pages in a PDF document (pdftk)
- Automated banana cleaners: an honest appraisal
- PINE64's PineBuds Pro: my first impressions
- Being a good neighbour, people pleasing, and puns in the Fediverse
2022 95
- Wireless printing and scanning with a Brother MFC L2750DW on Debian
- #FreeSoftwareAdvent: all my Free software suggestion posts in one place
- Adding image resizing options to nautilus right-click menu
- Syncing signatures in Evolution
- Unwanted spam on Ubuntu ssh login (and how to stop it)
- WireGuard not routing IPv4 traffic: GNOME 3 / Network Manager
- Scheduling posts on Mastodon, the hack-y way
- Early impressions of CryptPad on a Raspberry Pi
- The fediverse, harassment, and moderation
- Using a YubiKey (or other security key) for sudo via pam
- Fixing a UniFi controller where the admin user cannot log in
- My home in the fediverse: Mastodon on a Raspberry Pi
- RSS as my default web browser (for some stuff)
- Removing pages from a PDF with pdftk
- Triggering a Shelly bulb via URL actions from a Shelly Button
- Fixing 'ERROR: could not insert v4l2loopback: Key was rejected by service' when using linux-surface on Debian 11
- Android 13, GrapheneOS, freeradius, Wi-Fi authentication, and Let's Encrypt
- Installing GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel 6
- Unsuspending a £50 120GB EE data SIM after six months of use
- Running the greenbone OpenVAS vulnerability scanner on a Raspberry Pi 4
- Bypassing captive portal detection on Android 10
- @theDPOdaily's question about encryption and pseudonymisation
- Installing SIP client Blink on Debian 11
- Sending post to people: spreading a smile via Royal Mail (or not)?
- SurfaceBook 2 13: keyboard layout for English
- Rotating all the odd pages in a PDF document
- LibreOffice Writer, deleting comments, and tracked changes
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 9.7 and postmarketOS: building a custom image
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 9.7 and postmarketOS: initial impressions
- Microsoft Surface, Debian, and two 4k monitor frustrations
- 'Self-host it' is not the answer
- Stepping outside my comfort zone: virtual coffee chats with people I talk with on social media
- Deleting video chat apps from my computer made video calls better
- A year with password manager bitwarden
- Book review: Death Ray
- RWG Mobile APN for non-data SIMs
- Brave incorrectly showing sites have ads and other creepy things when visited via DuckDuckGo?
- Initial impressions of a second hand Brompton Electric H6L
- Fixing Jitsi Java Runtime error from recent update
- Converting Outlook .msg email files for opening on Linux
- Getting back to meeting people in meatspace
- Tinkering with reveal.js: a slick, JavaScript-based, FOSS presentation framework
- Brave: sharing URLs via QR codes
- You don't have to leave Twitter to use Mastodon, and other stories
- #OnlineSafetyBill bingo
- A global scale-to-fit for the PinePhone Pro
- Fixing my 3D printer: a new LCD, and angling my models
- Resolving a certbot apache plugin syntax error
- Transfer your computers clipboard to a camera-enable mobile device via QR code
- An independent assessment of the UK's Safety Tech Challenge Fund without assessing legal or data protection compliance
- eReaders and eBooks: my Kobo Clara HD
- Fixing an array_filter() php error when using PHP 7.4 with dokuwiki's twofactor plugin
- Upgrading my .onion site to https
- Turning a taxi into a conference pod
- How could a website operator identify where in the world a specific user is right now?
- Brave, Tor, and http-only .onion sites
- Auto-connecting a VPN on a Wi-Fi connection from a mobile router on Debian 11
- New plans to protect people from anonymous trolls online: new UK government proposals
- I have a complicated relationship with cryptocurrency
- But it's not unlimited...
- Browsers for people who just want a browser
- Why would any young thing even consider becoming a solicitor nowadays?
- Migrating mastodon to Debian 11 Bullseye: fixing the segfault
- A quick and dirty approach to redacting PDFs on Debian 11 Bullseye
- Age verification, legislation, and the money-making opportunity
- Safer Internet Day 2022. At least we know what were trying to achieve. Right?
- PinePhone (Pro) keyboard case v. Planet Gemini v GPD Pocket 2: a photo comparison
- Cloning a Raspberry Pi installation: slow, but working
- Safety Tech Challenge Fund: Supplier Showcase: some quick thoughts
- Fraudulent actions as personal data of the fraud victim: some ponderings
- The Wild West Web fallacy
- An unplanned business continuity test, and what I learned from it
- Implementing BusKill: shutting down a Debian 11 Bullseye machine when a specific USB device is removed
- Book review: Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
- End to end encryption, and services which let you meet and message people you do not already know
- Installing Twitter client cawbird from the official Debian 11 Bullseye repo
- Fixing 'tee: command not found' on Debian 11 Bullseye
- A prohibition on end to end encryption could leave you with #NoPlaceToHide. And that's not a good thing.
- Age verification: an Epic mess
- The end to end encryption debate: 1: the (very) basics of encryption
- The Curious Case of the Spurious CLI
- GNOME display fractional scaling
- Book review: Anne E Currie's Panopticon series, books 1 and 2
- What happened to Internet radio?
- Open Access publications: address and phone number, please
- Installing Debian 11 on a Microsoft Surface Go: secure boot, mokutil, Wi-Fi, and libinih1
- WireGuard VPN plugin for NetworkManager in GNOME 3 on Debian 11 Bullseye
- Near-distant scifi fiction recommendations from Twitter
- Book review: The Warehouse
- Book review: IDENTIFIED
- Public safety by design: the catchphrase for Internet policy debate in 2022?
- Book review: Hacker: The Outlaw Chronicles
- Book review: The Last Hacker
- Side-loading books to a Kindle from Linux via calibre
- Adding music from an ssh-accessible remote server to an Android phone via Debian 11
2021 85
- Confession time
- PineTab running Mobian and GNOME: an iPad replacement?
- Temporarily and automatically changing firewall rules to permit Lets Encrypt certificate renewals
- Home server, or homework? Minecraft or mine field? The draft Online Safety Bill would restrict net neutrality to the well-lawyered
- PinePhone: WireGuard, dns-over-https, and other thoughts
- Funding Free / open source software: what can I, personally, do differently?
- Setting up a Ledger Nano X with Debian 11
- CCTV or IP cameras outside your home, and the (UK) GDPR. It's easier than you think
- Do you still buy or watch DVDs or Blu-Ray discs? Why?
- Introducing elfOS: making The Elf on the Shelf fit for the digital age!
- Quick Image Montages
- Three problems with the Age Assurance (Minimum Standards) Bill for keeping children safe online
- Mobian on PinePhone: software notes
- Installing Mobian with full disk encryption on PinePhone
- Online safety, doing good, and inconvenient fundamental rights
- My initial - and very positive - impressions of the pine64 PineTime smartwatch
- What if you could only speak online if you had a car number plate: quick comments on yet another weird Internet surveillance proposal
- Resurrecting Part 3 Digital Economy Act 2017 is not the answer
- We must not let perfect become the enemy of good
- Changing a (known) LUKS passphrase
- Might an indie podcast be classified as “user-to-user” content and so subject to the hate speech provisions in the draft Online Safety Bill??
- Brave browser: less privacy-respectful than I was expecting
- Raspberry Pi, pihole, unbound, nginx, doh-server: some quick notes
- Migrating mastodon to a Raspberry Pi 4
- Introducing the Internet policy red team: the underappreciated scrutineers of online regulatory discourse
- Email, interception, fraud, and solicitors
- Making [vulnerable group] safe online: unpicking those who spin a line to sell their proposal
- freeradius-allocated VLAN on Wi-Fi on an Apple TV via a .mobileconfig profile
- Should tech companies be subject to an obligation to consult?
- There is no i in Teams. And rarely a Neil
- Detecting child sex abuse imagery in end-to-end encrypted communications in a privacy-respectful manner
- YouTube (and other video sites) without the irritations: integrating yt-dlp and jellyfin, with a web interface
- Using freeradius to assign VLANs for UniFi Wi-Fi
- A change of plan: why you wont be able to vote for me for the Nominet board
- Wayland, clipboards and wl-clipboard
- Adjusting the scroll speed of an Apple Magic Mouse on Debian 11
- Surface Pro 6, Debian 11 Bullseye, Gnome 3, Wayland, and two 4k@60 external monitors
- I am standing for election as a Nominet non-executive director
- Microsoft Surface Pro with Debian 11 Bullseye: emulating right-click on Type Cover trackpad
- Moving from macOS to Debian 11 Bullseye Linux: applications
- Installing Chitubox (3d printer slicing software) on Debian 11
- 3D-printed Microsoft Surface Pro 6 cable strain relief
- RSS feeds for Internet tech, policy, and legal stuff (and some other bits)
- Debian 11 and printing on a Samsung ML-2525W
- Working front and rear cameras on Debian 11 on a Surface Pro 6, SurfaceBook 2, and Surface Go
- Ubuntu on a OnePlus 6T: a good start, but too many compromises
- Virtualising an existing macOS installation for VirtualBox on Debian 11
- Time for your compulsory home camera installation
- This one simple hack solved my Debian 11 Bluetooth audio problems
- Whose liability is it anyway?
- Data protection, privacy, and other bits for personal websites
- Wi-Fi on a 2012 Mac Mini, running Debian 11
- Aztine 15.6 Portable Monitor with Debian 11 on a Surface Pro 6
- Auto-unlocking a LUKS volume on an SD card on boot with Debian 11 Bullseye
- Making a Mac Mini power up when power is restored: Debian 11 version
- Installing Debian Bullseye and VirtualBox on a Mac Mini
- Handwriting, and annotating PDFs: a stylus on Debian 10 on Surface Pro 6 compared with an iPad
- Removing the default games in GNOME 3 on Debian 10
- Installing Debian 10 Linux on a Microsoft Surface Pro 6
- Raspberry Pi 4 with the PoE+ HAT: LUKS and a working fan
- Installing vanilla Debian 11 on a Raspberry Pi 4
- Unlocking a LUKS-encrypted partition via ssh on Debian 10 and Debian 11
- Fixing a font which shows in macOS Font Book but not in macOS LibreOffice
- Internet access via iPhone's personal hotspot on Lubuntu 21.04
- Lubuntu 21.04: forcing natural scrolling on a mouse
- Gemini PDA running Debian: a properly portable computer
- Debian 10 on a Samsung NC10
- I bought a taxi online as a personal car
- Second impressions of the Elegoo Mars 2 3D resin printer
- Fire Made Flesh: a book review
- First impressions of the Elegoo Mars 2 3D resin printer
- Are you intruding on someone’s privacy is you are actively doing OSINT on someone?
- Running Jitsi on a Raspberry Pi 4
- Internet connectivity: how fast is fast enough?
- Online speech-to-text transcription and the ePrivacy directive
- DNS-over-https on macOS and iOS
- wireguard via algo: a simpler, faster(ish) alternative to IPSec
- Supervision is not the same as total surveillance
- Jam: my initial take on a FOSS alternative to Clubhouse
- Playing with html5 video
- Useful books for advancing your business
- Book review: Rehumanize Your Business
- Review: Xiaomi DZN4006GL Mi Pump Air Compressor
- Healthy eating, my new year's resolution, and body image
- Changing my Brompton's front mudguard