This is about the Kobo Clara BW 6". Some Issues Some settings are hard to reach (or very hard to reach) without some customization (using Nickelmenu). For example: Dark mode requires: More > Settings > Reading Settings > Dark Mode (compare with Kindle which is Swipe Down > Dark Mode Restarting the device reuqires holding ... Read more
W38/2025: Monday 15 September - Sunday 21 September 2025 Caption: Stop promoting substack Tech Fantastic article on Chinese AI pioneer Tasks (open) Consider Sypht or Roundcube for self-hosting email (and with web interface). A problem with my current email provider is not getting resolved (13 days so far). Deploy more anti-bot measures Enable caching on ... Read more
W37/2025: Monday 08 September - Sunday 14 September 2025 Caption: No Smoking No Vaping (vaping is smoking, folks!) Tech Fantastic article on Chinese AI pioneer Tasks (open) Consider Sypht or Roundcube for self-hosting email (and with web interface). A problem with my current email provider is not getting resolved (13 days so far). Deploy more ... Read more
Updated 21-Sep-2025 I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times ... In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, that you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, In life after life, in age after ... Read more
Updated 09-Sep-2025 W36/2025: Monday 01 September - Sunday 07 September 2025 Caption: Rainbow over the football pitch, Tessabaan Hang Dong Tech Migrating from my *.io domains to *.info which is cheaper and more stable as a generic TLD, and the prices are not becoming ridiculous, as .ios are. Who knows what will happen with the ... Read more
W35/2025: Monday 25 August - Sunday 31 August 2025 No notes this week.
Good morning judges and audience members. My name is Benjamin McNeill. I am a representative 4th grade student from Tessabaan Hangdong Prachkomsangsan. Today I am honored to present briefly on the subject: My learning journey with AI. What is a journey When first informed of this topic, it took a bit of time to understand ... Read more
Updated 26-Sep-2025 A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp), sometimes referred to as a rational expression, is a sequence of characters that specifies a match pattern in text. Usually such patterns are used by string-searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings, or for input validation. See also regex101 for helpful ... Read more
Updated 03-Oct-2025 W39/2025: Monday 22 September - Sunday 28 September 2025 Caption: Bacon on Egg on Toast Tasks (open) Deploy more anti-bot measures on the website Enable caching on Gcore Install and configure Ejabbard server for domain: mcneill.info Migrate users from chat.mcneill.im to mcneill.info XMPP For Slack / Discord replacements, see: Zulip, Mattermost, Rocket Chat, ... Read more
Agrowth: Agrowth ("almost agnostic or atheistic about growth”) is a concept in economic policy according to which it is preferable to be indifferent to the growth of gross domestic product (GDP growth) when devising policies to further economic and societal progress.[1][2] The reasoning behind agrowth is that GDP growth does not correlate closely with such ... Read more
W34/2025: Monday 18 August - Sunday 24 August 2025 Caption: Lovely vinegar Tech Migrating from my *.io domains to *.info which is cheaper and more stable as a generic TLD, and the prices are not becoming ridiculous, as .ios are. Who knows what will happen with the .io tld now that Chagoans (actually, Mauritians) are ... Read more
Updated 23-Aug-2025 This is an ongoing collection of Open Source stuff. Some of this I haven't used but have heard about enough to become interested, and therefore want to keep track of it in some way. Some of this stuff I use daily, and prize highly (some I use daily and prize moderately -- looking ... Read more
Music discovery is kind of an issue. The big streaming companies largely hype the overproduced popular nonsense and don't surface much that is interesting (of course some of that pop music, of whatever genre, is interesting, but it is hard to avoid it and so discovery is not much of an issue for that). Combine ... Read more
W33/2025: Monday 11 August - Sunday 17 August 2025 Caption: Good-sized black scorpion hanging out at night. Tech Heard about Slidev Completed Updated Syncthing to 2.x.x on Debian and Android. Ironed out the installation instructions on Syncthing. Still installing filters on Fail2Ban, and banning more bots Tasks Enable caching on Gcore Install and configure Prosody ... Read more
Updated 19-Aug-2025 Note: v.2.x.x has been released: Syncthing (deb) Syncthing Fork (Android) can use Obtanium for ease of install Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it ... Read more
W32/2025: Monday 04 August - Sunday 10 August 2025 Caption: boys & boba Tech Completed Fail2Ban implemented Next steps: Anubis (and maybe zip bombs) Tasks Syncthing Enable caching on Gcore Install and configure Prosody server for domain: mcneill.io Migrate users from chat.mcneill.im to mcneill.io XMPP Books Wow, lots of interesting books read, they just come ... Read more
Fail2ban is a security service that monitors the logs of common services (usually sshd and nginx). It uses a filter to identify an abnormality, then passes the IP address of the intruder to a firewall program (iptables or ufw, commonly). Files and configuration Install Fail2ban with sudo apt install fail2ban. The context for this configuration ... Read more
W31/2025: Monday 28 July - Sunday 03 August 2025 Caption: Synthetic camera view Tech Completed Cutover to Trixie on five devices (including a server). Cutover to Hetzner (Germany) from Linode (France), this gives me 2x the server resources for the same price. Installed and migrated WordPress installations. Cutover from Cloudflare to Gcore for DNS Tasks ... Read more
W30/2025: Monday 21 July - Sunday 27 July 2025 Caption: boy Tech Tasks Modernize apt sources files. This is the new format. Did this, and updated a bunch of the apt article. Hunt down the annoying bug Warning: https://apt.syncthing.net/dists/syncthing/InRelease: Policy will reject signature within a year, see --audit for details. Fixed this by importing the ... Read more
W29/2025: Monday 14 July - Sunday 20 July 2025 Short note this week. Tech Updated the Kodi article to Nova, as that is what I use at home on Android TV, and on Android mobile devices. Upgraded two servers, one desktop, and one laptop to Debian 13 (Trixie). It will be frozen later this month ... Read more