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

Like most people, I don't go to in-person meetings much at the moment, so what follows is a bit of a white elephant. The gist is that I saw a colleague (Rachel Roche, of the eponymous Roche Legal; Read more

Another niche one. I have some webservers for which I want a valid, not self-signed, TLS certificate. Simple, thanks to Let's Encrypt. But I do not want to expose the web server to the world most of Read more

A regular refrain of Internet governance is something akin to: If you regulate online services as if they are all Facebook, all you will end up with is Facebook. The message is a simple one. If you Read more

I've already written about installing Mobian, with full disk encryption, on a PinePhone, and some initial software notes. This is a bit of an update. I was pleased by what "just works" And, no, I'm Read more

Warning: this is a bit of a long one. Skip to the end if you just want to see what I think I will do. I use Free / open source software a lot. Directly, it powers pretty much every system we use for Read more

As part of moving from an iPhone to something else (currently a OnePlus 6T running /e/), I needed to move my on-iPhone Bitcoin wallet somewhere. So I thought it was a good opportunity to try a Read more

Someone asked me today for recommendations of people to follow on Twitter if you're interested in sex/sex work and Internet and online platform regulation / governance and the law. Here's the list I Read more

I was dreading this bit of the transition from one platform to another: moving banking apps from my iPhone to my OnePlus 6T running /e/. And, you know what? It was fine. Mostly. I know it will make Read more