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Confession time

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 30 December 2021 Category Tech Tags Website web Microsoft Word Internet Southampton

PineTab running Mobian and GNOME: an iPad replacement?

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 28 December 2021 Category Tech Tags PineTab iPad tablet Mobian Debian GNOME

Privacy-friendly NFC-enabled business / contact cards

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 21 December 2021 Category Tech Tags nfc qr android ios privacy

Temporarily and automatically changing firewall rules to permit Let's Encrypt certificate renewals

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 19 December 2021 Category Networking Tags ufw curl Let's Encrypt certbot firewalls tls https

Home server, or homework? Minecraft or mine field? The draft Online Safety Bill would restrict net neutrality to the well-lawyered

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 15 December 2021 Category Tech Tags servers raspberry pi jitsi minecraft email xmpp matrix online safety bill

PinePhone: WireGuard, dns-over-https, and other thoughts

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 14 December 2021 Category Tech Tags PinePhone Mobian Linux PineTime wireguard dns over https Wi-Fi

Funding Free / open source software: what can I, personally, do differently?

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 12 December 2021 Category Software Tags FOSS Free software open source payments sustainability donations Linux

Setting up a Ledger Nano X with Debian 11

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 3 December 2021 Category Tech Tags Ledger Linux Debian surface pro 6 cryptocurrency Bitcoin

Sex/sex work and Internet and online platform regulation / governance and the law

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
neilAuthor neil Posted on 1 December 2021 Category Legal Tags sex sexwork Internet online platforms online safety bill Internet governance porn

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