I am no longer using Twitter. For me, the final straw was the combination of recent announcements of the intention to ruin the Block function, and the terms of service change to assert a right to use my data there for training their AI crap. I have downloaded my Archive and started the account delete … Continue reading No longer on Twitter (“X”)
Making EE run IPv4 only so that VPNs work
Apparently, EE (the UK mobile phone network) did "something" to their network at some time in between when I last used my VPNs with them and now-ish, apparently involving adding IPv6 which sometimes does not do IPv4 properly. I don't know the background of that, what the underlying situation is, or why it seems to … Continue reading Making EE run IPv4 only so that VPNs work
Template blank of “stay alert, control the virus, save lives”
(Download link for Zip of PNG, SVG and .afdesign files) The transition of the UK / English government's coronavirus messaging from the pretty clear "Stay Home" line (red and yellow branding) to the uselessly vague and aspirational "Stay Alert" with its green-and-yellow colour scheme is a terrible idea. It's already being widely mocked with hot … Continue reading Template blank of “stay alert, control the virus, save lives”
When NextCloudPi is very badly out of date
I run an instance of the excellent NextCloud software locally on a Raspberry Pi, thanks to the equally excellent NextCloudPi distribution - which bundles all the fiddly bits together and provides an additional set of admin tools (collectively "NCP", and with each of its sub-tools prefixed "nc-") to assist with stuff like moving the data-storage … Continue reading When NextCloudPi is very badly out of date
Adding in other icons to the Social menu
This WordPress theme came with the Jetpack plugin and uses Jetpack's cute social-media menu feature - when you add links to your Twitter, Youtube, Github, etc. pages to the Social menu, they magically get turned in to pretty little icons which automatically match the site. But if you add a service that isn't supported by … Continue reading Adding in other icons to the Social menu
Tweaking colours in this WP theme
This blog is using a slightly customised version of the stock "Penscratch 2" theme provided by the Jetpack plugin - it's pretty much exactly what I wanted, but made just slightly annoying by the choice of color for hyperlinks being hard-set (rather than accessible in the conveniently modern theme Customizer). Rather than going back to … Continue reading Tweaking colours in this WP theme