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Brave incorrectly showing sites have "ads and other creepy things" when visited via DuckDuckGo?

Here's an odd one. I am experimenting with Brave on Android. I wanted to see how to install extensions / add-ons, so that my experience with Brave on mobile can mirror my experience of Brave on my Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 2 June 2022 Category Tech Tags Brave ad blocking decoded.legal browser

Fixing Jitsi Java Runtime error from recent update

I have used Jitsi for years now as a fantastic self-hosted video conferencing bridge. It is excellent. I am currently running it on a Raspberry Pi, and it works really well. After a recent automatic Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 26 May 2022 Category Tech Tags Free software jitsi video Java

Converting Outlook .msg email files for opening on Linux

A quick reminder for me, as much as anything. Occasionally - for example, when I am helping an organisation with a GDPR subject access request - I need to open files in Outlook's .msg format. I Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 18 May 2022 Category Tech Tags Outlook convert msg email

Tinkering with reveal.js: a slick, JavaScript-based, FOSS presentation framework

I have wanted to play with reveal.js for a while, as a way of improving the look of my presentation slides, and I've finally got round to doing so. I am impressed. Very impressed. Impress Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 5 May 2022 Category Tech Tags reveal.js markdown javascript FOSS presentations

Brave: sharing URLs via QR codes

Although I only intended to use Brave to make Microsoft Teams work well on Debian Linux (and I do still use it for that), I've started to use Brave more broadly, and I'm increasingly impressed. In Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 3 May 2022 Category Tech Tags qr brave

You don't have to leave Twitter to use Mastodon, and other stories

This isn't about using Mastodon. I use Mastodon, and have done for a few years now. Want to find me there? Please do! I'm @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk. Anyone can follow me and, if you have a bio Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 27 April 2022 Category Tech Tags Mastodon Free software Twitter open protocol ActivityPub

#OnlineSafetyBill bingo

Today sees the second reading of the UK's Online Safety Bill, before the House of Commons. Here's my bingo card: Neil's Online Safety Bill bingo lawful but awful wild west big tech flick of a switch Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 19 April 2022 Category Tech Tags online safety bill censorship end to end encryption Internet regulation

A global "scale-to-fit" for the PinePhone Pro

One of the challenges of running Linux on a phone is finding apps which are suited to the small, typically portrait, screen. Mobian has a scale-to-fit system, which can be enabled on an app-by-app Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 18 April 2022 Category Tech Tags PinePhone Pro PinePhone

Fixing my 3D printer: a new LCD, and angling my models

I fixed my Elegoo Mars 2 3D printer. Finally. Fixing it was a series of trials and tribulations, compounded by my own ignorance / stupidity. But it is fixed. I diagnosed - correctly - that the LCD Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 17 April 2022 Category Tech Tags 3d printing Necromunda

Resolving a certbot apache plugin syntax error

I got an email yesterday showing that one of my TLS certificates had failed to renew. Looking in the log - /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log - I saw: 2022-04-12 Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 12 April 2022 Category Tech Tags certbot tls https apache webserver encryption Let's Encrypt
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