Home BatteryHome Battery
Prices On the 19th of March I got a home battery system installed. The government has a rebate scheme so it had a list price of about $22k for a[...]
Furilabs FLX1s Finally WorkingFurilabs FLX1s Finally Working
I’ve been using the Furilabs FLX1s phone [1] as my daily driver for 6 weeks, it’s a decent phone, not as good as I hoped but good enough to use[...]
HP Z640 and E5-2696 v4HP Z640 and E5-2696 v4
I recently decided to upgrade the CPU in my workstation, the E5-2696 v3 CPU was OK (passmark 2045 for single thread and 21,380 for multi thread) [1] but I felt[...]
Ebook Readers in DebianEbook Readers in Debian
Laptop For a while I’ve been using Calibre 8.5.0+ds-1+deb13u1 in Debian/Trixie running KDE for reading ebooks on my laptop, it generally works well and has a large font size. The[...]
Communication and Hostile AIsCommunication and Hostile AIs
We seem to be entering an “AI” apocalypse of sorts, they aren’t going to kill us or even take our jobs. What they are doing is destroying the Internet commons[...]
The Death of TwitterThe Death of Twitter
At the end of last year I uninstalled the Twitter app on my phone. In the past Twitter used to be very useful for providing feedback to large organisations. I[...]
The Difference Between Email and Instant MessagingThe Difference Between Email and Instant Messaging
Introduction With various forms of IM becoming so prevalent and a lot of communication that used to be via email happening via IM I’ve been thinking about the differences between[...]
Links March 2026Links March 2026
Krebs has an interesting article about the Kimwolf botnet which uses residential proxy relay services [1]. cory Doctorow wrote an insightful blog post about code being a liability not an[...]
Links February 2026Links February 2026
Charles Stross has a good theory of why “AI” is being pushed on corporations, really we need to just replace CEOs with LLMs [1]. This disturbing and amusing article describes[...]
Furilabs FLX1sFurilabs FLX1s
The Aim I have just got a Furilabs FLX1s [1] which is a phone running a modified version of Debian. I want to have a phone that runs all apps[...]