Posts
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A web UI for label creation and printing on a Brother QL-710W on Linux
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Mastodon for Dummies: a book review
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Getting a Brother QL-710W label printer working via CUPS on Debian
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Desktop Linux: the software I'm currently using
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Attempting to prohibit(?) code contributions which might have used an LLM such as Copilot?
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Fixing apt yarn key deprecation warning in Debian 12
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Mounting LUKS-encrypted disks by UUID
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Initial thoughts on storing TOTP seeds on YubiKeys instead of in Bitwarden
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I went to the cinema. It sucked
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Improving our business, with Open Ideas
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Making my ThinkPad LED flash 'decoded.legal' in morse code
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I'm not sure that I can trust Bitwarden with my TOTP codes anymore
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hugo, cron, publishdate, and auto-publishing blogposts
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Moving from htmly to hugo for a static site blog
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Fixing an Intel NUC with unknown supervisor or user BIOS password and a Secure Boot error
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Intel NUC with no display output
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Should I feel bad for buying second hand?
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Switching to the glitch-soc fork of Mastodon
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Setting default View options for folders and sub-folders in Thunderbird
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Triggering a remote lamp automatically when I am on a call
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Disabling my ThinkPad's internal camera on boot
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A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat
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Fixing dropbear ssh Permission denied (publickey) error
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Bodging a web-controlled garage door opener with a Raspberry Pi
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This is a test post
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You know you don't have to reply, right?
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Snikket, a self-contained XMPP distribution
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Unpicking 'The fediverse needs to do [x]' posts
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Removing LinkedIn from DuckDuckGo searches in Firefox
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Can I have a cable... please?
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Barclays is closing its Contactless Mobile payment services on 30 June
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Why I suspended my LinkedIn account
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GSConnect (KDE Connect), WireGuard, and Debian 12 Bookworm
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Book review: Cory Doctorow's 'Red Team Blues'
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A reminder of useful Thunderbird keyboard bindings and add-ons
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Unlocking a LUKS-encrypted partition via ssh on Debian 12 Bookworm
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NetworkManager: automatically switch between Ethernet and Wi-Fi
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Fixing sogo's 'incorrect string value' error
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Updating the LUKS key derivation function on Debian
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Backing up to a USB stick automatically via udev
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Fixing espanso incomplete text replacement
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Flatpak Firefox 112 not showing (some? bitmap?) fonts in Debian
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Automating actions in Nautilus (GNOME's file manager) with scripts
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Giving up Twitter, and the impact on my business
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Jabra Evolve2 40 and Debian Linux
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Debian on a £190 Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 2
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Enabling Webauthn in Firefox via snap
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Decrapifying (mostly) an Amazon Fire 8 HD Kids tablet via Linux
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Solved: LibreOffice Writer PDF exports have the template name
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Microsoft SurfaceBook 2 running Debian Linux working with two 4K screens
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Internet Time, in a watch!
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Back to Firefox again!
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Turning a Raspberry Pi Zero W into a travel media centre
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Firefox, flatpak, reveal.js, and local file system permissions
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'How Sex Changed the Internet, and the Internet Changed Sex': a review of Sam Lee Cole's new book
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I taught the law and the law won
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My cellular data usage and ponderings
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Removing the password from a PDF file
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Using a Garmin Edge 705 with OpenStreetMap for a cheap bike computer
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£15 for an Amazon review?
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Anatomy of some annoying, persistent spam
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Home Assistant Core, Raspberry Pi OS, and python 3.10
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Fixing rkhunter's 'Update failed' error
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What happened to the netbook?
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Online Safety Bill and individuals, volunteers, and community groups
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Learnings from a recent conference call for papers
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ffmpeg incantation for converting .webm to .mp3
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Rotating all pages in a PDF document (pdftk)
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Automated banana cleaners: an honest appraisal
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Being a good neighbour, people pleasing, and puns in the Fediverse
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PINE64's PineBuds Pro: my first impressions
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#FreeSoftwareAdvent: all my Free software suggestion posts in one place
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Wireless printing and scanning with a Brother MFC L2750DW on Debian
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Adding image resizing options to nautilus right-click menu
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Syncing signatures in Evolution
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Unwanted spam on Ubuntu ssh login (and how to stop it)
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WireGuard not routing IPv4 traffic: GNOME 3 / Network Manager
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Scheduling posts on Mastodon, the hack-y way
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Early impressions of CryptPad on a Raspberry Pi
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The fediverse, harassment, and moderation
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Using a YubiKey (or other security key) for sudo via pam
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Fixing a UniFi controller where the admin user cannot log in
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My home in the fediverse: Mastodon on a Raspberry Pi
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RSS as my default web browser (for some stuff)
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Removing pages from a PDF with pdftk
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Triggering a Shelly bulb via URL actions from a Shelly Button
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Android 13, GrapheneOS, freeradius, Wi-Fi authentication, and Let's Encrypt
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Fixing 'ERROR: could not insert v4l2loopback: Key was rejected by service' when using linux-surface on Debian 11
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Installing GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel 6
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Unsuspending a £50 120GB EE data SIM after six months of use
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Bypassing captive portal detection on Android 10
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Running the greenbone OpenVAS vulnerability scanner on a Raspberry Pi 4
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@theDPOdaily's question about encryption and pseudonymisation
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Installing SIP client Blink on Debian 11
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Sending post to people: spreading a smile via Royal Mail (or not)?
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SurfaceBook 2 13: keyboard layout for English
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Rotating all the odd pages in a PDF document
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LibreOffice Writer, deleting comments, and tracked changes
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 9.7 and postmarketOS: building a custom image
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 9.7 and postmarketOS: initial impressions
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Microsoft Surface, Debian, and two 4k monitor frustrations
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'Self-host it' is not the answer
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Stepping outside my comfort zone: virtual coffee chats with people I talk with on social media
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Deleting video chat apps from my computer made video calls better
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A year with password manager bitwarden
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Book review: Death Ray
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RWG Mobile APN for non-data SIMs
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Brave incorrectly showing sites have ads and other creepy things when visited via DuckDuckGo?
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Initial impressions of a second hand Brompton Electric H6L
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Fixing Jitsi Java Runtime error from recent update
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Converting Outlook .msg email files for opening on Linux
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Getting back to meeting people in meatspace
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Tinkering with reveal.js: a slick, JavaScript-based, FOSS presentation framework
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Brave: sharing URLs via QR codes
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You don't have to leave Twitter to use Mastodon, and other stories
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#OnlineSafetyBill bingo
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A global scale-to-fit for the PinePhone Pro
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Fixing my 3D printer: a new LCD, and angling my models
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Resolving a certbot apache plugin syntax error
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Transfer your computers clipboard to a camera-enable mobile device via QR code
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An independent assessment of the UK's Safety Tech Challenge Fund without assessing legal or data protection compliance
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eReaders and eBooks: my Kobo Clara HD
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Fixing an array_filter() php error when using PHP 7.4 with dokuwiki's twofactor plugin
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Upgrading my .onion site to https
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Turning a taxi into a conference pod
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How could a website operator identify where in the world a specific user is right now?
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Brave, Tor, and http-only .onion sites
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Auto-connecting a VPN on a Wi-Fi connection from a mobile router on Debian 11
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New plans to protect people from anonymous trolls online: new UK government proposals
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I have a complicated relationship with cryptocurrency
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But it's not unlimited...
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Browsers for people who just want a browser
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Why would any young thing even consider becoming a solicitor nowadays?
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Migrating mastodon to Debian 11 Bullseye: fixing the segfault
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A quick and dirty approach to redacting PDFs on Debian 11 Bullseye
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Age verification, legislation, and the money-making opportunity
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Safer Internet Day 2022. At least we know what were trying to achieve. Right?
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PinePhone (Pro) keyboard case v. Planet Gemini v GPD Pocket 2: a photo comparison
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Cloning a Raspberry Pi installation: slow, but working
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Safety Tech Challenge Fund: Supplier Showcase: some quick thoughts
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Fraudulent actions as personal data of the fraud victim: some ponderings
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The Wild West Web fallacy
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An unplanned business continuity test, and what I learned from it
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Implementing BusKill: shutting down a Debian 11 Bullseye machine when a specific USB device is removed
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Book review: Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
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End to end encryption, and services which let you meet and message people you do not already know
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Fixing 'tee: command not found' on Debian 11 Bullseye
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Installing Twitter client cawbird from the official Debian 11 Bullseye repo
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A prohibition on end to end encryption could leave you with #NoPlaceToHide. And that's not a good thing.
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Age verification: an Epic mess
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The Curious Case of the Spurious CLI
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The end to end encryption debate: 1: the (very) basics of encryption
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Book review: Anne E Currie's Panopticon series, books 1 and 2
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GNOME display fractional scaling
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What happened to Internet radio?
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Open Access publications: address and phone number, please
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Installing Debian 11 on a Microsoft Surface Go: secure boot, mokutil, Wi-Fi, and libinih1
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WireGuard VPN plugin for NetworkManager in GNOME 3 on Debian 11 Bullseye
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Book review: IDENTIFIED
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Book review: The Warehouse
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Near-distant scifi fiction recommendations from Twitter
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Public safety by design: the catchphrase for Internet policy debate in 2022?
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Book review: Hacker: The Outlaw Chronicles
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Book review: The Last Hacker
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Adding music from an ssh-accessible remote server to an Android phone via Debian 11
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Side-loading books to a Kindle from Linux via calibre
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Confession time
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PineTab running Mobian and GNOME: an iPad replacement?
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Temporarily and automatically changing firewall rules to permit Lets Encrypt certificate renewals
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Home server, or homework? Minecraft or mine field? The draft Online Safety Bill would restrict net neutrality to the well-lawyered
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PinePhone: WireGuard, dns-over-https, and other thoughts
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Setting up a Ledger Nano X with Debian 11
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CCTV or IP cameras outside your home, and the (UK) GDPR. Its easier than you think
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Do you still buy or watch DVDs or Blu-Ray discs? Why?
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Introducing elfOS: making The Elf on the Shelf fit for the digital age!
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Quick Image Montages
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Mobian on PinePhone: software notes
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Three problems with the Age Assurance (Minimum Standards) Bill for keeping children safe online
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Installing Mobian with full disk encryption on PinePhone
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Online safety, doing good, and inconvenient fundamental rights
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My initial - and very positive - impressions of the pine64 PineTime smartwatch
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What if you could only speak online if you had a car number plate: quick comments on yet another weird Internet surveillance proposal
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Resurrecting Part 3 Digital Economy Act 2017 is not the answer
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Changing a (known) LUKS passphrase
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We must not let perfect become the enemy of good
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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??
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Brave browser: less privacy-respectful than I was expecting
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Raspberry Pi, pihole, unbound, nginx, doh-server: some quick notes
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YouTube (and other video sites) without the irritations: integrating yt-dlp and jellyfin, with a web interface
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Migrating mastodon to a Raspberry Pi 4
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Email, interception, fraud, and solicitors
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Introducing the Internet policy red team: the underappreciated scrutineers of online regulatory discourse
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Making [vulnerable group] safe online: unpicking those who spin a line to sell their proposal
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freeradius-allocated VLAN on Wi-Fi on an Apple TV via a .mobileconfig profile
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Should tech companies be subject to an obligation to consult?
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There is no i in Teams. And rarely a Neil
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Detecting child sex abuse imagery in end-to-end encrypted communications in a privacy-respectful manner
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Using freeradius to assign VLANs for UniFi Wi-Fi
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A change of plan: why you wont be able to vote for me for the Nominet board
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Adjusting the scroll speed of an Apple Magic Mouse on Debian 11
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Wayland, clipboards and wl-clipboard
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Surface Pro 6, Debian 11 Bullseye, Gnome 3, Wayland, and two 4k@60 external monitors
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I am standing for election as a Nominet non-executive director
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Microsoft Surface Pro with Debian 11 Bullseye: emulating right-click on Type Cover trackpad
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Moving from macOS to Debian 11 Bullseye Linux: applications
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Installing Chitubox (3d printer slicing software) on Debian 11
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3D-printed Microsoft Surface Pro 6 cable strain relief
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RSS feeds for Internet tech, policy, and legal stuff (and some other bits)
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Debian 11 and printing on a Samsung ML-2525W
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Working front and rear cameras on Debian 11 on a Surface Pro 6, SurfaceBook 2, and Surface Go
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Ubuntu on a OnePlus 6T: a good start, but too many compromises
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Time for your compulsory home camera installation
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Virtualising an existing macOS installation for VirtualBox on Debian 11
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This one simple hack solved my Debian 11 Bluetooth audio problems
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Whose liability is it anyway?
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Data protection, privacy, and other bits for personal websites
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Wi-Fi on a 2012 Mac Mini, running Debian 11
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Aztine 15.6 Portable Monitor with Debian 11 on a Surface Pro 6
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Auto-unlocking a LUKS volume on an SD card on boot with Debian 11 Bullseye
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Making a Mac Mini power up when power is restored: Debian 11 version
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Installing Debian Bullseye and VirtualBox on a Mac Mini
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Handwriting, and annotating PDFs: a stylus on Debian 10 on Surface Pro 6 compared with an iPad
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Removing the default games in GNOME 3 on Debian 10
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Installing Debian 10 Linux on a Microsoft Surface Pro 6
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Raspberry Pi 4 with the PoE+ HAT: LUKS and a working fan
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Installing vanilla Debian 11 on a Raspberry Pi 4
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Fixing a font which shows in macOS Font Book but not in macOS LibreOffice
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Unlocking a LUKS-encrypted partition via ssh on Debian 10 and Debian 11
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Internet access via iPhone's personal hotspot on Lubuntu 21.04
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Lubuntu 21.04: forcing natural scrolling on a mouse
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Gemini PDA running Debian: a properly portable computer
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Debian 10 on a Samsung NC10
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I bought a taxi online as a personal car
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Fire Made Flesh: a book review
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Second impressions of the Elegoo Mars 2 3D resin printer
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First impressions of the Elegoo Mars 2 3D resin printer
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Are you intruding on someone’s privacy is you are actively doing OSINT on someone?
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Running Jitsi on a Raspberry Pi 4
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Internet connectivity: how fast is fast enough?
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Online speech-to-text transcription and the ePrivacy directive
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DNS-over-https on macOS and iOS
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wireguard via algo: a simpler, faster(ish) alternative to IPSec
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Supervision is not the same as total surveillance
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Jam: my initial take on a FOSS alternative to Clubhouse
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Playing with html5 video
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Useful books for advancing your business
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Book review: Rehumanize Your Business
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Review: Xiaomi DZN4006GL Mi Pump Air Compressor
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Changing my Brompton's front mudguard
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Healthy eating, my new year's resolution, and body image
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Self-hosted disposable email addresses with AHEM
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The EZ Clamp Spring: keep your clamps in position
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Nice rack!
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Christmas chocolate cheesecake
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My first ride through a Tier 4 Newbury
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Fixing a very noisy Brompton
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I finally cycled in London!
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Getting started
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I (finally) bought a Brompton