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Skip to content NEIL BROWN A space for Neil's occasional notes and musings Menu * Home TINKERING WITH REVEAL.JS: A SLICK, JAVASCRIPT-BASED, FOSS PRESENTATION FRAMEWORK I have wanted to play with reveal.js for a while, as a way of improving the look of my presentation slides, and I've finally got round to doing so. I am impressed. Very impressed. Impress Read more Author neil Posted on 5 May 2022 Category Tech Tags reveal.js markdown javascript FOSS presentations BRAVE: SHARING URLS VIA QR CODES Although I only intended to use Brave to make Microsoft Teams work well on Debian Linux (and I do still use it for that), I've started to use Brave more broadly, and I'm increasingly impressed. In Read more Author neil Posted on 3 May 2022 Category Tech Tags qr brave YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE TWITTER TO USE MASTODON, AND OTHER STORIES This isn't about using Mastodon. I use Mastodon, and have done for a few years now. Want to find me there? Please do! I'm @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk. Anyone can follow me and, if you have a bio Read more Author neil Posted on 27 April 2022 Category Tech Tags Mastodon Free software Twitter open protocol ActivityPub #ONLINESAFETYBILL BINGO Today sees the second reading of the UK's Online Safety Bill, before the House of Commons. Here's my bingo card: Neil's Online Safety Bill bingo lawful but awful wild west big tech flick of a switch Read more Author neil Posted on 19 April 2022 Category Tech Tags online safety bill censorship end to end encryption Internet regulation A GLOBAL "SCALE-TO-FIT" FOR THE PINEPHONE PRO One of the challenges of running Linux on a phone is finding apps which are suited to the small, typically portrait, screen. Mobian has a scale-to-fit system, which can be enabled on an app-by-app Read more Author neil Posted on 18 April 2022 Category Tech Tags PinePhone Pro PinePhone FIXING MY 3D PRINTER: A NEW LCD, AND ANGLING MY MODELS I fixed my Elegoo Mars 2 3D printer. Finally. Fixing it was a series of trials and tribulations, compounded by my own ignorance / stupidity. But it is fixed. I diagnosed - correctly - that the LCD Read more Author neil Posted on 17 April 2022 Category Tech Tags 3d printing Necromunda RESOLVING A CERTBOT APACHE PLUGIN SYNTAX ERROR I got an email yesterday showing that one of my TLS certificates had failed to renew. Looking in the log - /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log - I saw: 2022-04-12 Read more Author neil Posted on 12 April 2022 Category Tech Tags certbot tls https apache webserver encryption Let's Encrypt TRANSFER YOUR COMPUTER'S CLIPBOARD TO A CAMERA-ENABLE MOBILE DEVICE VIA QR CODE A useful tip showed up for me today on Twitter: Transfer your PC clipboard to a nearby mobile device: xclip -o -s c | qrencode -o - | feh --force-aliasing -ZF - I didn't have feh installed, but that Read more Author neil Posted on 1 April 2022 Category Tech Tags Linux qr camera A SIMPLE WAY TO CONVERT LOTS OF .DOCX/.DOCX FILES TO .PDF FILES ON DEBIAN 11 USING LIBREOFFICE, AND FIXING THE INITIAL ERROR I was sent a whole load of .docx files. Not a problem, because LibreOffice opens them. But I want them as .pdf files, so I can scribble on them as I read them, using Xournal++. How to convert a whole Read more Author neil Posted on 31 March 2022 Category Tech Tags Linux Debian 11 bullseye libreoffice docx PDF AN INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT OF THE UK'S SAFETY TECH CHALLENGE FUND WITHOUT ASSESSING LEGAL OR DATA PROTECTION COMPLIANCE Regular readers may recall the UK government's "Safety Tech Challenge Fund". Background to the Safety Tech Challenge Fund (You can ignore this bit if you are familiar with the Safety Tech Challenge Read more Author neil Posted on 28 March 2022 Category Tech Tags safetytech public safety online safety online safety bill data protection law Page 1 of 17 » ABOUT Neil Brown's personal blog, on tech (mostly Linux and networking stuff), food, cycling, Necromunda, and other hobbies, rants, and musings. Search for: Search RECENT POSTS * Tinkering with reveal.js: a slick, JavaScript-based, FOSS presentation framework * Brave: sharing URLs via QR codes * You don't have to leave Twitter to use Mastodon, and other stories * #OnlineSafetyBill bingo * A global "scale-to-fit" for the PinePhone Pro POPULAR POSTS * Tinkering with reveal.js: a slick, JavaScript-based, FOSS presentation framework * Age verification: an Epic mess * Installing vanilla Debian 11 on a Raspberry Pi 4 * Book review: "The Warehouse" * Moving from iOS to /e/: software ARCHIVES * ▼ 2022 (57) * May (2) * April (6) * March (9) * February (15) * January (25) * ► 2021 (95) * December (9) * November (22) * October (10) * September (8) * August (10) * July (11) * June (8) * May (2) * April (4) * March (5) * February (3) * January (3) * ► 2020 (9) * December (9) CATEGORIES * Bookmarks * Books * Cycling * Food * Legal * Necromunda * Networking * Software * Taxi * Tech * Uncategorized TAGS 3d printing age verification android Brompton bullseye child protection data protection Debian Debian 11 DNS /e/ email encryption end to end encryption GNOME hacker https Internet Internet regulation ios iPhone law Linux luks Mobian online harms online safety online safety bill PinePhone PineTime policy making privacy Raspberry Pi science fiction scifi surface pro 6 surveillance vpn web wireguard * Home * Twitter Neil Brown Unless I say otherwise, I license anything of mine here other than source code under CC BY-NC, and source code under GNU GPL 3.0 or any later version. 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