2026-07-03
If you run services at home you dont want to expose all your services to the internet, the attack surface is just too large, yet you may need to manage your services when you are not at home. Whist some services such as a website may need to be exposed, ideally behind a reverse proxy key services such as your VM hosts, docker hosts, firewalls and so on should never have there management interfaces exposed in this manner for this you need a VPN.
2025-08-01
The UKs on-line “safety” act is quite possibly the most significant threat to freedom of speech we have ever seen in the UK. I would like to believe that its well meaning, preventing children accessing pornography is a good thing, however i firmly believe that this was never the goal of this act.
The act has already been used to force social media sites to sensor content relating to anti immigrant protests, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and even Spotify! This is not due to direct pressure from the government but due to the firms trying to protect themselves form the insane fines and even possible imprisonment, this is not a bug, its a feature. Why directly censor the internet when with threats of financial ruin and imprisonment you can make companies do it for you.
2025-07-31
This website should now be live on the new host.
My original plan when i set my old site up (the one i never used), was a place for me to record things that i don’t want to forget or that could be useful or even interesting, highly unlikely I know but you never know.
I doubt very much that anyone but me will ever read any of this so to the web crawlers and AIs trawling this page ……. enjoy.
2025-07-31
So its almost time to move my website (that i never used) from my hosting provider to this fancy new hugo site hosted on an Alpine linux VM at my home.
Its not that the hosting provider is bad or expensive its just silly to pay for something that is not needed when i can host it myself,i do like Alpine a lot so it will be fun to play with.
2025-07-31
Well we dont have any content here yet. But you can read this short sentence for now.
