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UK and the Online Safety Act
This is an interesting one to say the least … I have children and want them to have some sort of protection when doing stuff online (browsing, gaming, etc) so the act itself in principle or something like it is needed but how it is implemented is the part I have mixed feelings with. If…
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I’m ready to get started with some side-gigs
As the title suggests, I’m in progress of putting together some side-gigs. I figured it was about time to put all my knowledge and experience to work. I have a gazillion ideas, thousands of notes, quite a few projects in progress and the drive and energy to make them happen. One of them is GentOS…
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End of a journey, beginning of a new one – take 3
And it happened again 🙂 only this time it was triggered by my previous employer who decided they no longer needed my services. After 5 months of soul searching and job hunting (what can I say … tough market) I found myself working in a new field – Video Conferencing – obviously doing what I…
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Mitigating my first recorded DDOS on my home LAB
For a couple of days me and the family have noticed weird slowness when accessing the Internet and the various media platforms we use (Netflix, Youtube, etc) but paid it no mind given that it happened at weird hours (though it was the ISP doing some works or having issues). Today, this evening, I was…
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Audley End House and Gardens
As we’re heading home from the campsite me and the mrs figured we might as well find something along the way to use as a pit stop / picnic area. This time we landed at Audley End House (an English Heritage site) and it was amazing. The house was so cool I forgot to take…
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Mersea Island – 2025 camping session #1
Me and the family have resumed our camping activities recently and chose Mersea Island as our next destination. The campsite: https://www.fenfarm.co.uk/ Not much to say really other than it was exactly what we needed. If you’re looking for a place to camp where you can enjoy your sunrise with a cup of warm coffee then…
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Naze Tower
If you haven’t been you’ll want to have been 🙂https://www.nazetower.co.uk/
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Live resizing a luks encrypted partition inside a VM
I recently found myself in a situation where a couple of VMs I run in my lab ran low on space. Normally this would not be an issue as one can always add extra capacity live and extend partitions and / or logical volumes and resize the filesystem on top but what does one need…
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GentOS – coming soon
A few years back (when I was working for GoDaddy) me and a few of my colleagues were talking about various Linux distributions and how each is special in its own way. One of the names I brought up was Gentoo and to my surprise the majority of my colleagues were not familiar with it…
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Sinaia 2024
This year me and the family decided to spend our summer holiday in Romania. While there we went to Sinaia for a few days. The pics speak for themselves …