Dual Screen DIY CyberDeck
A cyberdeck is a custom-built, portable computer, often with a cyberpunk aesthetic, designed for accessing and interacting with cyberspace. In science fiction, they are used by hackers to connect to digital worlds, often for activities like hacking, data theft, or controlling machines. Real-world cyberdecks are typically built around single-board computers and designed to evoke this cyberpunk style…
Cheap DIY 8 Port IP KVM on a budget
Building a cheap IP KVM using open source software and Raspberry Pi We recently had a small server outage in work. Nothing mission critical, it was over a weekend and coming up to Christmas holidays. It could wait, but that little itch in my brain couldn’t let it sit. I tried several remote remedies to…
Dithering Digest 25 – Weekly Tech News Roundup
Welcome to issue #25 of the Dithering Digest Weekly Tech News Roundup. Some good news this week. Samsung may be on the brink of some exciting new battery tech that will revolutionise EVs. The UK government actually came up with a sensible tech law and Microsoft have released the source code to MS-DOS 4.0 for…
Dithering Digest 24 – Weekly Tech News Roundup
Welcome to issue #24 of the Dithering Digest Weekly Tech News Roundup. Microsoft show off a frightening AI video generator, the disruption from the Leicester council cyber incident continues, US government pass their TikTok bill and Apple announce event for iPads. Plus Home Assistant are aiming for mass market consumers with their latest moves. Enjoy…
Dithering Digest 23 – Weekly Tech News Roundup
Welcome to issue #23 of the Dithering Digest Weekly Tech News Roundup. Yet more antitrust trouble for Apple, the first 3rd-party App Stores are starting to appear in the EU, more scary AI developments courtesy of the US Air Force and Boston Dynamics. To balance out the misery and doom, a delightful web tool to…
Dithering Digest 22 – Weekly Tech News Roundup
Welcome to issue #22 of the Dithering Digest Weekly Tech News Roundup. This week see Apple continuing to make changes in the vain hope of avoiding more litigation (too little too late I think), more cybersecurity nastiness, countries teaming up to tackle the problem that AI may pose and a totally shocking story about floppy…
Dithering Digest 21 – Weekly Tech News Roundup
Welcome to issue #21 of the Dithering Digest Weekly Tech News Roundup. Microsoft announce Extended Support pricing for Windows 10 as German state announce they are moving away from Windows entirely. Enjoy the links! Apple announces WWDC 2024 for 10th June Apple’s annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) will take place the week beginning the…
Dithering Digest 20 – Weekly Tech News Roundup
Welcome to issue #20 of the Dithering Digest Weekly Tech News Roundup. It has been a pretty terrible week or so for Apple. EU rulings, major companies ganging up to support Epic against Apple, the US DoJ starting an anti-trust case against them and password reset attacks against Apple ID users. And plenty more scary…
DIY Whole Home Energy Monitoring with Home Assistant
Why energy monitoring? I recently decided I wanted more data on our home energy usage. Unfortunately our meter box is over 20 years old and our energy supplier wont replace it until it is 30 years old. It is an old spinning disk style meter with analog display. I had considered using a camera and…
TLS Inspector: essential free iOS app for webmasters
TLS Inspector is a great free app from developer Ian Spence that I use quite regularly at home and especially in work. It is great for quickly checking for expiry dates on certificates, or why a certificate is not working as expected. You can also delve into the certificate chain to check for any inconsistencies.…
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