Neil Brown

A quick reminder for me, as much as anything. Occasionally - for example, when I am helping an organisation with a GDPR subject access request - I need to open files in Outlook's .msg format. I Read more

I spent the last two-and-a-bit days, doing something I haven't done for a long time: meeting people in meatspace. Catching up over a juice in a coffee shop, or stopping by someone's office for a Read more

I have wanted to play with reveal.js for a while, as a way of improving the look of my presentation slides, and I've finally got round to doing so. I am impressed. Very impressed. Impress Read more

Although I only intended to use Brave to make Microsoft Teams work well on Debian Linux (and I do still use it for that), I've started to use Brave more broadly, and I'm increasingly impressed. In Read more

This isn't about using Mastodon. I use Mastodon, and have done for a few years now. Want to find me there? Please do! I'm @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk. Anyone can follow me and, if you have a bio Read more

Today sees the second reading of the UK's Online Safety Bill, before the House of Commons. Here's my bingo card: Neil's Online Safety Bill bingo lawful but awful wild west big tech flick of a switch Read more

One of the challenges of running Linux on a phone is finding apps which are suited to the small, typically portrait, screen. Mobian has a scale-to-fit system, which can be enabled on an app-by-app Read more

I fixed my Elegoo Mars 2 3D printer. Finally. Fixing it was a series of trials and tribulations, compounded by my own ignorance / stupidity. But it is fixed. I diagnosed - correctly - that the LCD Read more

I got an email yesterday showing that one of my TLS certificates had failed to renew. Looking in the log - /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log - I saw: 2022-04-12 Read more

A useful tip showed up for me today on Twitter: Transfer your PC clipboard to a nearby mobile device: xclip -o -s c | qrencode -o - | feh --force-aliasing -ZF - I didn't have feh installed, but that Read more