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
"Supervision" is not the same as "total surveillance"
1 I wrote a post on decoded.legal's blog earlier this week, about "Unpicking the "making children as safe as they are offline" fallacy". The gist of the piece, in case you are reading this first, is Continue reading
Jam: my initial take on a FOSS alternative to Clubhouse
I'm interested in all sorts of communications systems, and I was recently looking for a free and open source, self-hosted, alternative to the excellent Jitsi video conference platform, but for Continue reading
Playing with html5 video
I've wanted to use video more on the decoded.legal website for a while, but I've just not got round to it. Until this weekend. It's really quite simple Very, very simple: take some video
convert it Continue reading
Useful books for advancing your business
Having written yesterday about a book I would not recommend, I thought I'd balance it by writing about books and training that I have found valuable in running decoded.legal. (I buy a mix of ebooks Continue reading