This is a quick notes post about the recent Chaos Computer Congress . It was nice to participate again after two years. Talks All Sorted by Machines of Loving Grace? "AI", Cybernetics, and Fascism and how to Intervene The talk explores the roots of today's tech fascism and its love for tech. Full of nice rants. A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet A very condensed talk, in the…
This is a travel post to document the recent road trip to Italy and Switzerland (29.05-14.06.2025). Day 1 Drove to Igoumenitsa to get the ferry. A 18 hours trip through Ionian and Adriatic seas. Day 2 Arrived at Ancona . Made a stop at Campo Del Sole, Lake Trasimeno . Then drove all the way up to Cortona . Day 3 Still in the Tuscan region. Visited San Gimignano , Monteriggioni and Siena . Day 4…
This is a travel post to document the recent road trip to Evritania . Day 1 That involved just traveling from Athens to Karpenisi (290km) and settling in. Day 2 Drove towards Prousos , passing through a nice spot where the road is completely covered by the mountain. Stopped at the Monastery . Sat for a coffee for the rain to ease down and then took the footpath to Black cave springs . Continued…
This is a typical documentation post on how to set up a stack of open source tools to create a media center at home. That involves not just the frontend, that you can use on your TV or other devices, but also the tools needed for monitoring the release of certain movies and tv shows. By the time you reach the end of the post and look at the code you will be wondering "is it worth the time?" . I…
] It’s been a few years since the last Chaos Computer Congress . Same as many other people I highly enjoyed being there. Meeting with people, participating in discussions and a bit of hacking. Most of the things taking place in a congress are quite difficult to describe them in writing and most of happening outside of the presentation rooms. But stil, I thought I should share at least some…
Υπάρχει μια μεγάλη στρέβλωση στην ελληνική κοινωνία. Είναι αρκετά έντονη αυτήν την περίοδο, με την παρούσα κυβέρνηση, αλλά δεν είναι καινούρια. Παρακολουθώντας την κυρίαρχη αφήγηση, τον δημόσιο λόγο αρκετών πολιτικών και δημοσιογράφων, αλλά και τις αντιδράσεις ανθρώπων που ανήκουν με κάποιον τρόπο στον πολιτικό χώρο που ξεκινάει απ’ το κέντρο και πάει προς τα δεξιά, δεν μπορώ να μην παρατηρήσω τις…
This is a brief travel diary post, for the recent trip to Japan (01-16.01.2020). Day 1 Flew to Tokyo (through Moscow). Day 2 Arrived at Narita airport (NRT). Took the train to Kyoto . Day 3 Kyoto: Walk to temples, shrines, Zen gardens. Day 4 Kyoto: Castle/Palace, Gold temple, Shin market Day 5 Kyoto > Osaka . Namba station. Day 6 Osaka > Hiroshima . Peace Memorial Museum. First tast of…
For fun and security (and a bit of paranoia ), I thought I should whitelist my trusted USB devices and block everything else. USBGuard We have a couple of tools that can help us with that. USBGuard is the one I found to be the most configurable and well documented. NOTICE : All commands here require certain privileges. To make commands easier to read, I omitted adding sudo in the beginning. But…
This is a brief travel diary post, for the recent road trip at Portugal and Spain (13-28.07.2019) At the end of the post, there a slideshow of photos , just a glimpse from the various places, an aproximation of the drive route and a map with all the places mentioned here. day 1 Flew from Athens to Porto. day 2 Stayed at Porto . Walked through the old town, took a boat taxi across the river, a…
Η κανονικότητα είναι μια στρέβλωση τόσο παλιά, τόσο εδραιωμένη, που θέλει αρκετό κόπο για να την πετάξεις από πάνω σου. Αντικανονικότητα (ή έστω αντίδραση στην κανονικότητα) δεν σημαίνει απαραίτητα να πράττεις και να συμπεριφέρεσαι διαφορετικά από το αναμενόμενο. Σημαίνει να μην αποδέχεσαι τίποτα ως αναμενόμενο, ή μάλλον να αναμένεις τα πάντα. Να μην περιμένεις, να μην δικαιολογείς, να μην…