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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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 15 April 2021 Category Necromunda Tags 3d printing

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 04 April 2021 Category Uncategorized Tags privacy osint Twitter

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 02 April 2021 Category Networking Tags jitsi webrtc voip Raspberry Pi RPi ubuntu

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 01 April 2021 Category Networking Tags Internet ethernet fibre fttp fttc vdsl AA

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 29 March 2021 Category Networking Tags law privacy eprivacy

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 20 March 2021 Category Networking Tags doh dns over https privacy encryption dns safetytech

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 14 March 2021 Category Networking Tags vpn IPSec wireguard algo

"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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 12 March 2021 Category Networking Tags online harms child protection surveillance supervision security mitm encryption

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 03 March 2021 Category Software Tags voip clubhouse audio FOSS

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 07 February 2021 Category Networking Tags website html5 video
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