Neil Brown

By default, GNOME 3's VPN configuration tool for NetworkManager supports IPSEC VPNs, but not WireGuard. I want WireGuard support because: I can import settings from a WireGuard config file. I can Read more

I asked on Twitter for some reading recommendations: Do you have personal recommendations for near-ish future, tech-aware /focussed, fiction, please, ideally available as an ebook? Dystopian stuff is Read more

Paxton never thought he’d be working Security for the company that ruined his life, much less that he’d be moving into one of their sprawling live-work facilities. But compared to what’s left Read more

I've heard the term "public safety by design" come up a few times recently, and I think we are going to hear it a lot more in 2022. "Public safety by design" For example, in Wired's "The Wired World Read more

My theme of hacker / hacking-related books continues, and last night I read "Hacker: The Outlaw Chronicles". I read it in one sitting, and it was... fine. Not brilliant, not terrible. Fine. The Read more

Living in the Los Angeles wasteland can be tough – especially when you’re just some dude whose only real skill is computer hacking. So, Artie Gonzalez spends most of his days building drones, Read more

You can bypass a newly-reset Kindle's registration screen by side-loading (DRM-free / DRM-stripped) books via calibre. At least, it worked on my old Kindle. Read more

This might be subtitled "Neil paying the penalty for bad decisions." tl;dr: rsync -rvhP --size-only --temp-dir='/home/neil' -e ssh 'remotemachine://path/to/music/*' Read more

I have a confession to make. I'm not proud of it. While it seemed appropriate at the time, I have learned a lot since then. I am not the same person I was in 2001. Edit. It looks like it was 2003! Read more

I am gradually weaning myself off Apple's products. I've switched from a MacBook Pro to a Microsoft Surface Pro running Debian (which I really like), and I've moved from an iPhone and Apple Watch to Read more