Paco Hope

Scripts and instructions for migrating a VBulletin5 system to Discourse

In The Guardian opinion pages Schneier, who otherwise is a cybersecurity luminary and visionary, co-authors a staggeringly bad article suggesting that there’s some reason to nationalise major AI labs if, as they are very likely to do, they catastrophically

I post my own blog about shitty Verizon service, because let’s face it: they don’t care.

Someone who works with me has started ‘coding’ for the first time.

If you start your Mattermost Team Edition using email and password for users, but then you change your mind and switch to GitLab authentication, it’s not at all obvious or easy how to convert the existing users.

Wheres the AI Beef?

A poem I wrote about AI

Ask an LLM for any information on how to do security in Amazon S3, and you’ll get a bunch of crap.

First Ai Coding Impression

2024 was the year that I shifted my support toward individual creators and causes.

These are my notes from migrating my iRedMail server from a MySQL-based installation to an LDAP-based installation.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have really obvious limitations.

I bought prescription sunglasses from Frames Direct.

I get a lot of people at work proposing various apps built on generative AI and large language models.

Apparently, Meta deems climate change too controversial for discussion on their platforms.

I did a bit of research into the reason why we all think pirates say ‘Arrr!’.

I kinda wish people would raise awareness of how wasteful AI is and how much completely pointless garbage is going into AI training.

I noticed that the NVidia device drivers were making tons of blocked DNS requests.

I got an AppleTV recently, and suddenly my pihole ad blocker was seeing literally 500 DNS requests every 10 minutes from this thing.

I figured out how to get an Inky Frame displaying a daily set of activities, including a calendar, the weather, and the state of various home automation things.

I hereby confirm my request to remove my name permanently from the lists that the Consumer Credit Reporting Companies, Equifax, Experian, Innovis and TransUnion, provide to businesses that send firm (preapproved / prescreened) offers of credit or insuranc…

Ripping Blu-ray Discs is easy.

These are English rules to a game called «Kolejka» from the Polish Institute of National Remembrance

My implementation of Luke Plausin’s clever solution.

This is a way to install macOS catalina, sierra, high sierra, big sur, monterey, or mojave directly from Apple.

My favourite chilli chutney recipe, inspired by Jamie Oliver

I tried to get a company to delete an account.

I got a ceiling fan connected to Home Assistant using Tasmota firmware on an iFan03.

A classic, funny poem set to The Night Before Christmas that has been floating around the internet anonymously for 30+ years.

I’m doing what I can to support communities of colour.

I do a lot of meetings online and I’ve been doing it a long time.

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Waiving Rights With a Click

What does it mean to tip in the gig economy?

I’m playing a bit of Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition lately.

I made a Google Doodle Johann Sebastian Bach line and then pulled it in to Logic Pro to see what I could do with it.

I’m loading CloudTrail events from S3 into Elasticsearch so that I can search them and visualise them.

This is my first ever fictional short story called Terms and Conditions.

In working on the new blog, I discovered even more old MP3 recordings of my college bands.

This should tell you absolutely everything you need to know to create and host a static web site that is HTTPS, modern, and serverless.

After many years running WordPress, I have finally given up.

I’ve been thinking about how to make social media practical and usable by kids.

I was working on my bash prompt recently.

In 2003 a Belgian election anomaly investigation shrugged.

There has been a lot of noise lately about Bill Gates statements around taxing robots.

Is it possible to cross an international border and not give up all your data to law enforcement?

System-wide Unique Passwords (SWUP) Here’s a possible security control, prompted by @westmaaan’s Tweet.

Because I work in information security, I deal with passwords a lot.

I saw a really great article called “Blue Feed, Red Feed, See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side” on the Wall Street Journal.

Game developers generally ignore parental controls when they develop games.