Monday, May 4, 2026
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On the 27th December 2015 I ditched Windows for Linux - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (“Trusty Tahr”). I acted on impulse. I wrote a short post at the time to mark the occasion - Smashing Windows. The release of each new LTS is a natural opportunity to take stock and consider whether Ubuntu…
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Culture
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tl;dr: ArgotWhatsapp, Messenger, Signal, Discord, Teams, SlackSome better than others, some truly encrypted and some not. What they all have in common is that…
Life
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As I have mentioned before, I do quite some reading. And as I'm about to move house, I have packed up a lot of my books. But I wanted to highlight some that…
Nature
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Yesterday, we drove to the north of Belgium, right at the border with the Netherlands, to hike in the Lommelse Sahara. It was incredibly pretty and the hike…
Tech
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handy if you're running a site with pictures but you want everything to maintain a consistent aesthetic and colour scheme. might be better to just process the…
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Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs [T]he controversial law establishes that a user is considered to be…
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In addition to moving off streaming last week, I also moved our not so old family PC to Linux. Apple Music was the last remaining indispensable proprietary…
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