Reαd carefully: how to spot – and avoid – a homoglyph attack: URLs that contain characters that look like letters that they’re not.
Computing
2026-09-30: Micah Lee's guide to analysing leaked, hacked and otherwise acquired data
2026-09-20
2026-09-19: The Monevator blog summarises the darkly hilarious offer our big tech AI overlords incessantly …
2026-09-19: Rescue iTunes music from your iPhone by connecting it to Linux as thought it was a disk drive
2026-08-29
Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day: ‘In many ways - no, actually, in every way - Hardcore IndieWeb mirrors the very same web publishing practices that were used in the 90s when the web was brand new.’
2026-08-27: Geeqie is a handy little open-source app for Linux systems that helps you view, sort and organise …
2026-08-27
Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn: ‘…changes included time limits, stopping notifications during school, a block on the app during critical overnight hours, bans on plastic surgery filters and more.’
2026-08-15: Setting up Yubikeys in Linux
2026-07-30
Building Bluesky Comments for My Blog: This is clever, especially if most of your audience uses Bluesky.
2026-07-28: Most Internet traffic is now 'non-human'
2026-07-19: Yet another 'you can't trust cloud services with your data' example, Microsoft edition.
2026-07-18: Buy a new monitor, get some adware for free
2026-07-07: Converting between music file formats with ffmpeg
2026-07-05: Cryptomator is on a half price sale should anyone want a copy, or to support a worthy project on the …
2026-06-25
Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns: Funnily enough its employees were not fans of ‘a tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and content displayed on computer screens in order to collect data for training its AI models’.
2026-06-17
France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider: A wise move that needs to happen elsewhere too.
2026-06-14: Unsurprisingly the Online Safety Act hasn't stopped social media companies pushing dangerous content
2026-06-07: DocFetcher is a great multi-OS application for searching through vast tranches of your files
2026-06-06: On the grimmer side of Wikipedia entries I see there’s now an official page for ‘Deaths …
2026-06-03: The economic benefits of Open Source software
2026-05-30: Instagram quietly disables end-to-end encryption on your DMs
2026-05-27: Government department saves £ millions by replacing its Palantir IT system with an in-house one
2026-05-25: WhatsApp is being repeatedly sued alleging that it's lying about its end-to-end encryption
2026-05-17: The Open Rights Group's very comprehensive report on the importance of Digital Sovereignty