A useful tip showed up for me today on Twitter: Transfer your PC clipboard to a nearby mobile device: xclip -o -s c | qrencode -o - | feh --force-aliasing -ZF - I didn't have feh installed, but that Read more

I was sent a whole load of .docx files. Not a problem, because LibreOffice opens them. But I want them as .pdf files, so I can scribble on them as I read them, using Xournal++. How to convert a whole Read more

Regular readers may recall the UK government's "Safety Tech Challenge Fund". Background to the Safety Tech Challenge Fund (You can ignore this bit if you are familiar with the Safety Tech Challenge Read more

There have been a couple of threads on Twitter recently about eReaders and eBooks, so I thought I'd write up my setup. Kobo Clara HD In a way, my eReader - a Kobo Clara HD - is one of the most Read more

Yep, niche. After doing a system upgrade from Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 Bullseye, no user can log into the wiki, with the error "Sorry, username or password was wrong.". The actual answer lay in Read more

Until a couple of weeks ago, I didn't really see the point in giving a .onion site a TLS certificate. Alec Muffett convinced me: HTTP-over-Onion should not be considered as secure as Read more

How does a website operator know where in the world a user is located right now? Let's say that there's a law which requires a website operator not to provide its service to people in the UK who are Read more

On my OnePlus 6T running /e/, I have been getting an error when trying to connect to the app store: Getting 'Failed to connect to goolag.store/146.59.157.181:1337' error, opening app. I have no idea Read more

I set up a .onion hidden service site for our business years ago. Originally, it was a v2 onion - the older, defunct, but shorter, domains - and now it is a v3 domain, Read more

If you want a Raspberry Pi but don't want it connected to your own Internet connection (e.g. to host a WireGuard server), here's a list of the places that I have found which offer either Raspberry Pi Read more