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On microblogging
Posted on Thu 31 August 2023 in Technical
• Tagged with culture, blogging, anecdotage, microblogging
On his blog, Terence Eden wrote about the Time I 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.
Douglas Adams was a very intelligent man …
Disabling a Wacom laptop touchscreen in an Arch Linux based OS
Posted on Tue 22 August 2023 in Technical
• Tagged with tech, laptop, linux, manjaro, touchscreen, hardware
(Without disabling everything else)
My main laptop is a Lenovo X1 Yoga 2nd Gen running Manjaro KDE Plasma. 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.
The other …
On defederation
Posted on Mon 07 August 2023 in Technical
• Tagged with tech, fediverse, fediblock
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 …
What does this button do?
Posted on Sun 06 August 2023 in Technical
• Tagged with android, culture, Internet
I got my first Android phone, a Moto 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).
Among the things installed on it was Facebook. Even then …
A touch of email scam forensics
Posted on Wed 26 July 2023 in Technical
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:
Good …
One to one NAT on OVH vRack with OPNSense
Posted on Sat 28 January 2023 in Technical
• Tagged with NAT, Networking, Proxmox, OPNsense
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 …
HTTPS forwarding in OPNSense
Posted on Sat 28 January 2023 in Technical
• Tagged with tech, HTTPS, NAT, OPNsense
This took a few days to work out and I finally found it buried in an Opnsense forum post, so here it is in a slightly easier to find way.
Objective
To forward HTTP(S) traffic to a virtual machine running Nginx (or any other HTTP proxy or load balancer …
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