Misc
[ Feb 16 2024 ]
BSKY, Mastodon and the Modern Internet
Recently my brain spotted a pattern, a correlation of sorts, between what was happening between the rising Bluesky network and the established Mastodon. It’s about consent, and how it’s misunderstood on the modern internet.
Photography
[ Jan 24 2024 ]
Quickie: Fixing Memory Card Corrupted by Balena Etcher
Recently my camera’s memory card was corrupted by Balena Etcher – an oft-recommended Windows app to write images to USB drives. Here’s how I fixed it with diskpart.
Technology
[ Feb 3 2022 ]
NFG’s Guide to NFTs
What is the blockchain? The blockchain is a distributed ledger, a list of transactions that’s made robust by spreading it around on multiple computers. Each transaction is duplicated, stored on many computers, and verified using complicated math. That’s it. It’s great for verifying transactions. A solution looking for a problem As a distributed ledger, the […]
Technology
[ Mar 9 2020 ]
Linux USB Backup
I had the idea to automatically create a backup of my Linux webserver every time I plugged a USB stick into it. Surprisingly it worked!
Technology
[ Jul 10 2018 ]
Multiple Mastodon Instances on a Single Server
Back when I still ran a Mastodon server, I had a brief need to run two of them on one server. With Gargron’s help, I worked out how.
Technology
[ Apr 10 2018 ]
Beautiful Rant: My Life
Gravis rants about stuff that really does suck. It’s good.
Technology
[ Mar 18 2018 ]
Case Insensitive Last Resort 404 Page
I’ve been running my webserver on Windows for a long time, and moving to Linux meant that a whole lot of files were coming up 404 because they had upper or lower case filenames and the page that referenced them didn’t match. This 404 script for nginx fixes that.
Technology
[ Mar 11 2018 ]
The danger of algorithms
Some smart people are scared of artificial intelligence, of machine learning, but not in the sci-fi robots-gonna-eat-us way. The reality is worse.
Technology
[ Mar 11 2018 ]
Adventures in nginx!
Mostly for my own benefit, a log of shit I have to deal with in nginx, and the solutions to same.
Technology
[ Sep 5 2016 ]
A View of Old Akihabara
Akihabara ain’t what it used to be, but what is? Here are some then and now photos.
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