I am having a problem with my web hosting solution. The CMS is wordpress; I installed W3 Total Cache which is too hungry for file descriptors given my disk space is subject to a quota. How can I solve this? If I can. Here some notes and links, …
Read morePython & Arguments
It seems that I have chosen to document Python in a series of articles, and so here is one on arguments.
Read moreHome Wifi again
This post deals with upgrading my BT Hub, from HH5 to a Smart Hub. It also contains notes on Wi-Fi signal strength and coverage.
Read morePython & remote pages
I did some more coding, this time to try and capture my ello feed. I have the string manipulation under control, mostly but in some cases, I wanted to look up data from another remote page. I looked at urllib and requests, but ello prohibit automated scraping; we’ll see if I solve it through browser…
Read moretext to voice
Is this yet consumer ready? I am interested in using this for my blog/wiki. I found a 16 best of … article, how did that go? I made a google query to find more. Otherwise, here are some links and notes …
Read moreDigitising DVD
Right! I want to convert my Babylon 5 collection to digital. Can this be done easily. There are about 40 DVD’s in the collection, so it’ll be a real pain to do. It’ll also take a lot of space, I reckon 188Gb, this is where bittorrent and distributed filesystems would be useful, except that most…
Read moreAdopting the Creativeily theme
I have adopted the Creativeily theme on this wiki. It’s still being maintained and has better comment control and editing, than my previous themes.
Read moreAutostart on Android
I think I’ll have another go, it it surprises me how poorly documented this is. Here are my notes and links …
Read moreSelf Sovereign Identity (SSI)
I came across the words “self sovereign identity”. It seems to be something friends have been working on for a while; here my initial links and notes. I suppose the big question is, what can a self-certifying identity server access?
Read moreBack to XMPP
With the imminent arrival of the state hacking of end-to-end encryption, I decided to have another look at XMPP. Here are my notes.
Read moreTwitter’s Algo
Twitter have published their scoring algo. It has been summarised by Akash Gupta on twitter, which I have gathered into a threadreaderapp page, I’ll make some notes when I get round to it. I have noticed that the ‘for you’ feed has become less interesting and usefully provoking and some shit is leaking in.
Read moreThe Metaverse
So what’s this, a buzzword or a new basic technology. Who knows? Below/overleaf are my notes and links. Enjoy!
Read morePolitical postcodes
How to get an MP name from a post code? I fancy doing this, Obviously “they work for you” have this? Could I write a script or copy their code? I had a look and on first review their database is obfuscated. Can I build my own and how and where to host it? I…
Read moreOne Protocol to Rule them all
I say, can tech vendors meets the coming EU messaging systems interoperability requirements. A white paper “One Protocol to Rule Them All? On Securing Interoperable Messaging” by Jenny Blessing (U. of Cambridge) and Ross Anderson (U. of Cambridge & Edinburgh)
Read moreGNUplot
I have some data series I want to plot on my linux systems and so I am pointed at gnuplot and eplot. Here are my notes, …
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