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# [Simon Greenwood](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/)
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Gracefully degrading
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- [About Me](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/about-me.html#about-me)
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- [Contact info](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/contact.html#contact)
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- [My CV](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/curriculum-vitae.html#curriculum-vitae)
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- [CV Part 2](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/cv-part-2.html#cv-part-2)
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- [Social](https://gotosocial.grnwds.uk/@simon)
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[Home](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/) [Technical](/category/technical.html) [Listening Diary](/category/listening-diary.html) [Tags](/tags.html) [Archives](/archives.html) [Atom](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/feeds/all.atom.xml)
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## [On microblogging](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/on-microblogging.html\#on-microblogging)
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Posted on Thu 31 August 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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[culture](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/culture.html), [blogging](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/blogging.html), [anecdotage](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/anecdotage.html), [microblogging](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/microblogging.html)
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On his blog, [Terence Eden](https://mastodon.social/@edent) wrote about the [Time I Invented Twitter](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/that-time-i-accidentally-invented-twitter/) and it's an interesting proposition which would have just been slightly ahead of its time in 2003. Microblogging probably needed Internet enabled phones to take off, like social networking in general.
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Douglas Adams was a very intelligent man …
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[Continue reading](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/on-microblogging.html#on-microblogging)
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## [Disabling a Wacom laptop touchscreen in an Arch Linux based OS](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/disabling-a-laptop-touchscreen-in-a-linux-based-os.html\#disabling-a-laptop-touchscreen-in-a-linux-based-os)
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Posted on Tue 22 August 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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[tech](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/tech.html), [laptop](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/laptop.html), [linux](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/linux.html), [manjaro](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/manjaro.html), [touchscreen](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/touchscreen.html), [hardware](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/hardware.html)
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## (Without disabling everything else)
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My main laptop is a [Lenovo X1 Yoga 2nd Gen](https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx1/x1-yoga-2nd-generation/22tp2txx12y) running [Manjaro KDE Plasma](https://manjaro.org/download/). Lovely machine and does what I want it to do. As a Yoga device, it has a touchscreen, which I don't use a lot and have often thought of disabling.
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The other …
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[Continue reading](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/disabling-a-laptop-touchscreen-in-a-linux-based-os.html#disabling-a-laptop-touchscreen-in-a-linux-based-os)
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## [On defederation](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/on-defederation.html\#on-defederation)
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Posted on Mon 07 August 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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[tech](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/tech.html), [fediverse](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/fediverse.html), [fediblock](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/fediblock.html)
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The Apple TV series Mythic Quest had an episode in which the game found it had an extreme right wing problem. Their solution was to corral the right wingers in a server where they could shout at each other and fight as much as they wanted without bothering other players …
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[Continue reading](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/on-defederation.html#on-defederation)
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## [What does this button do?](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/what-does-this-button-do.html\#what-does-this-button-do)
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Posted on Sun 06 August 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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[android](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/android.html), [culture](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/culture.html), [Internet](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/internet.html)
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I got my first Android phone, a [Moto Droid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid), in 2010. It's wasn't my first smartphone as that had been a quest with varying degrees of success for years (I still miss the Nokia E series keyboard phones a bit).
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Among the things installed on it was Facebook. Even then …
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[Continue reading](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/what-does-this-button-do.html#what-does-this-button-do)
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## [A touch of email scam forensics](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/a-touch-of-email-scam-forensics.html\#a-touch-of-email-scam-forensics)
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Posted on Wed 26 July 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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[email](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/email.html), [spam](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/spam.html)
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I deal with a number of clients in the legal profession, and this morning one of them forwarded me an email which he thought was suspicious. It appeared to be sent from a Rob Moore at a company called Progressive Property, and the body of the mail was this:
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Good …
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[Continue reading](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/a-touch-of-email-scam-forensics.html#a-touch-of-email-scam-forensics)
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## [One to one NAT on OVH vRack with OPNSense](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/one-to-one-nat-on-ovh-vrack-with-opnsense.html\#one-to-one-nat-on-ovh-vrack-with-opnsense)
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Posted on Sat 28 January 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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[NAT](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/nat.html), [Networking](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/networking.html), [Proxmox](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/proxmox.html), [OPNsense](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/opnsense.html)
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I have a virtual OPNSense router as the gateway to a production network based on Proxmox servers (more about this another day). All VMs and containers get an unrouted IP address in the 10.x.x.x range and I have a couple of IP ranges for public access, generally …
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[Continue reading](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/one-to-one-nat-on-ovh-vrack-with-opnsense.html#one-to-one-nat-on-ovh-vrack-with-opnsense)
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## [HTTPS forwarding in OPNSense](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/https-forwarding-in-opnsense.html\#https-forwarding-in-opnsense)
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Posted on Sat 28 January 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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[tech](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/tech.html), [HTTPS](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/https.html), [NAT](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/nat.html), [OPNsense](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/tag/opnsense.html)
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This took a few days to work out and I finally found it buried in an [Opnsense forum post](https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=6155.0), so here it is in a slightly easier to find way.
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## Objective
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To forward HTTP(S) traffic to a virtual machine running Nginx (or any other HTTP proxy or load balancer …
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[Continue reading](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/https-forwarding-in-opnsense.html#https-forwarding-in-opnsense)
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[Newer Posts](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/index5.html)
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