Open Data Anti-Hero

I’d always wanted to visit the Galapagos islands.

Learning to use technology and preventing it from using me.

It’s come to my attention that recent versions of Raspberry Pi OS now ask for a password when using sudo as the main user, while earlier versions did not ...

In my continuing quest to make spinning up a new Raspberry Pi as simple as spinning up a new VM, I have constructed several horrible hacks, as documented previously The latest thing ...

If you use Thunderbird for email, specifically its filtering capabilities, there is a file, msgfilterrules.dat, in each of the the mail subdirectories within your profile ...

Previously… Time has marched on, and all of the services on which I rely that support 2FA use offline time-based one-time passcodes (TOTP) rather than easily-spoofable SMS text messages ...

I recently changed my web host to Mythic Beasts, mainly because they have a service allowing you to provision a Raspberry Pi and have them host it 24/7 for you ...

If you’re like me, you’re forced to use Outlook by your place of work.

I’m aware that some places now have QR codes containing the wifi SSID and password, which is clearly far more convenient than having to enter them manually ...

It’s no secret I’m a fan of old hardware.