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I’d always wanted to visit the Galapagos islands. I’m not sure why, I think the idea of it being one of the few places left on earth unspoiled by humans, combined with it being the place that inspired Darwin to discover evolution by natural selection… I think the islands are a very important place in the world, and I wanted to see them myself.
Learning to use technology and preventing it from using me. Hello, I’m Ash. I like data. I used to be an Open Data Specialist for a university IT department and, before that, a Computer Science researcher.
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. Also, if you’re like me, your organisation automatically subscribes you to a bunch of email lists that you can’t leave, and other people on those mailing lists love to send outlook meeting invites to as many people as possible.
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. The more the technology industry goes down the path of treating device owners as a product rather than a customer, the more I long for the good old days when computers, phones, etc did exactly what you tell them to, and nothing else.