Privacy in Computing
With the move of this blog to Codeberg I also changed the process of producing content. In fact one of the drivers was to redo this exact part. In this post I'd like to give an overview of the setup of the blog and the process of generating content for it.
The basis for everything, as is so often the case these days, are text files in one of the low-barrier-of-entry markup languages. Two …
Posted by fedops in InfoManagement
I previously wrote about my note taking/information management process here and here. Quite a lot has changed so it's time for a re-revisit.
As noted I found the one-massive-file Wiki approach limiting, especially since it wasn't easily accessible from the command line which is where I spend most of my time. Then the Joplin file sync approach was better, but still far from perfect.
In the 1990s I had …
Just a short entry to announce that the move of this blog is complete.
As explained in Moving to Gitlab I happily run the awesome Gitlab Community Edition at work. It is a great Git forge to use when you're not comfortable shipping your source code or configurations off to places that will get hacked eventually.
However, I wasn't happy with the non-free nature of hosted Gitlab. This article explains some of the reasons. It …
Documentation-As-Code is a much better approach than your WYSIWYG editor of old.
The general consensus regarding how to create and maintain documentation has definitely changed over the past few years. People had come to regard WYSIWYG text processors as the gold standard. Effortlessly arrange text and images, see what you are getting in real time, and everything is just a click away. Besides the big commercial packages there is also a sprawling landscape of free …
In July 2020 The Register, our usual source of unbiased news (ahem), ran an interesting piece on a pending court case against Microsoft in California. Within the article the actual complaint document was linked via courtlistener.com, to wit: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.362635/gov.uscourts.cand.362635.1.0.pdf.
This thing makes for good, if somewhat dry, reading. It's information straight from the horse's mouth, though; you might be …
In late July 2021 Amnesty International together with The Citizen Lab published an analysis showing the widespread use of NGO Group's Pegasus software. Pegasus is a type of spyware that is commercially available to anyone willing to pay the asking price, and can be used to spy on the carrier of a mobile phone using pretty much any technological feature of the phone. Reading messages and Emails, turning on the camera and microphone, capturing keystrokes …
Backups and more Network Sniffing
Loading up with Applications
Phone setup and initial impressions
Setting up the environment