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YOU must be the advocate for upgrading the OS at your day job; here’s a...
With multiple exploits of older versions of Windows operating systems in the wild, I finally wrote up a quick primer to get folks up to speed at my day job and to help my superiors make the case that...
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Getting Covers To Show Up From MPD to MPDroid – SOLVED
I use MPD (the music player daemon) for my everyday music playing – both around the house and streaming to my phone. It’s great being able to play whatever music (or playlist) I want without relying...
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Social Engineering – It can happen to you!
Someone just tried to phish security information via social engineering at work. The caller said: “I’m from the Upper Valley Installation Center and we’re trying to install Allscripts down there to...
View ArticleWhole house audio, easily, freely, for Linux and MacOSX using SnapCast
A year and a half ago I wrote about a way to use RTP multicast to provide whole-house audio. Less than a month later, SnapCast was uploaded to GitHub and made that whole guide obsolete. Available for...
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Degrade your pictures in the neatest ways!
As our ability to make better resolution images has increased, the desire to decrease the resolution – but in fun ways – has increased. On your phone there’s probably apps that “posterize” and...
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Screw getting news and updates from Facebook. Get it from the source, easily.
You’re rethinking how you get your news, information, and just general internet. Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash Maybe it’s because of the way Facebook has been pointed at for influencing the...
View ArticleTracking, Advertising, Your Privacy, and this blog
Given the (hopefully temporary) defeat of net neutrality in the United States and my evolving desire to protect your privacy, there’s been a few behind-the-scenes changes here. First, sadly, Project...
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Appreciate Your User Interface Today
I recently sent a picture of some code I was working on to a few friends. All of them responded with some variant of “What is that?” Maybe it’s because I grew up with DOS and have seen user design...
View ArticleMake Your Android Background Match The Time Of Day
It’s been three years since I published a Tasker project, and I’m pretty pleased with this (relatively simple) one. Tasker is a way to automate actions with your Android phone. If you’re not familiar...
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Weekend Project: Whole House and Streaming Audio for Free with MPD
I often see posts on /r/selfhosted asking about self-hosting a streaming music service. Over the years, I’ve put together a pretty comprehensive solution that both provides whole-house audio and...
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If You Understand This, You Missed The Singularity Too
Read more musings about your relevance after the singularity here, how there’s a Marxist idea of a singularity here, a thought about why the hell things are the way they are, our (now probably dashed)...
View ArticleMy First Steps In VR
My son got a new VR headset today, and he let me try it for a little bit before he started loading up his horror games. It was pretty dang cool, and the only time I started to get motion sickness was...
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A Window Manager For Terminals (?!?!)
This is one of those things that’s going to be VERY specific as to who likes it. The Xterm Window Manager (XtermWM) is a DE/WM for the console. You can have tiled and windowed terminal shells (with...
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They’re Filling Google Drive With Spam
Apparently Google Drive spam has been around for at least two years. I’ve managed to avoid it until now. If you’re just finding out (or experiencing) this lovely phenom, I’ll outline the one thing you...
View ArticleFurther Adventures in Whole House Audio
I’ve switched a thing or two around with my whole-house audio setup – as previously detailed here – and I thought I’d update for y’all. First, the CHIP single board computers I had eventually died, so...
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