Yes! I bought a taxi online, as a personal car. Well, not strictly a taxi. A car which used to be a taxi. Now it's just a car. But it is the iconic London Taxis International TX4. For ease, I'm going Continue reading
Second impressions of the Elegoo Mars 2 3D resin printer
About six weeks ago, I posted my first (positive) impressions of the Elegoo Mars 2 3D resin printer. What do I think about it six weeks later? I was initially concerned about reliability, but it has Continue reading
"Fire Made Flesh": a book review
I'm a fan of science fiction generally, and I'm a particular fan of books set in the Necromunda part of the Warhammer 40k universe. Over the first two lockdowns, I read all of the Necromunda novels Continue reading
First impressions of the Elegoo Mars 2 3D resin printer
Elegoo had a discount via Amazon on its Mars 2 resin printer last week and having been tempted for a while, I took the plunge. Considering I'm just printing bits for Necromunda, and not saving the Continue reading
Are you intruding on someone’s privacy is you are actively doing OSINT on someone?
Emily Overton — @RMGirl on Twitter; follow her — asked an interesting question: Are you intruding on someone’s privacy is you are actively doing OSINT on someone? I shared some thoughts (which Continue reading
Running Jitsi on a Raspberry Pi 4
This blogpost is about running the server-side components for the jitsi video conferencing system on a Raspberry Pi. It is not about using a Raspberry Pi as a client. If you want to connect to Continue reading
Internet connectivity: how fast is fast enough?
#FirstWorldProblem Yes, I know. Faster, please! For years, I wanted a faster Internet connection than the one we had. This was mainly because we work from home, and because we host nearly all of our Continue reading
Online speech-to-text transcription and the ePrivacy directive
Jennifer's question Jennifer Cobbe asked this question on Twitter: Question for ePrivacy Directive fans: if I was a provider of a cloud AI service and I siphoned off input data originating with Continue reading
DNS-over-https on macOS and iOS
Why bother with DNS-over-https? I have run a DNS-over-https proxy for a while now, to experiment with it. First, like the rest of my browsing acting, my DNS traffic is private. But DNS traffic is Continue reading
wireguard via algo: a simpler, faster(ish) alternative to IPSec
tl;dr: I'm impressed with wireguard, and I'm impressed with algo, but using wireguard with the macOS and iOS clients makes things slower than I had hoped. Wireguard, as an IPSec replacement I've been Continue reading