Cybrkyd
Cybrkyd
I’m cybrkyd and this is where I blog. I’m not really a kid by age; more of a perpetual kid at heart! This blog is a collection of tips and tricks and guides that have helped me and will hopefully help someone else. I will also offer my own random thoughts and opinions. A proud script kiddie, I enjoy having fun finding cool and efficient ways of doing stuff. I use Linux, love FOSS, and have a lot of play dates with Python, SQL, CSS, HTML, PHP, bash.
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All posts (89)
International English seems to have developed a rule: never, ever use a hyphen, ever, on pain of death. I really want to blame American English here because that is where I find it is most prevalent, but I’m seeing this everywhere now, even in the UK. Hold my tea and crumpets while I have a rant! As an outsider...
Install start time: 15:30 UTC Completed install: 15:40 UTC Then, I spent the next couple of hours re-learning Debian. I have really missed Debian, as it has been a long, long while. The immediate difference when compared to Ubuntu server is that Debian is indeed a true, minimum server install. Whilst the net...
It’s been one of those weeks. I’m feeling the winter blues already and have this nagging pull to hibernate. I feel exhausted and have no motivation to do anything. And… it’s been raining for two days straight, making the short November days even shorter as a result of the dark and gloomy sky. At least the weekend is...
AI is creeping into my beloved Firefox: Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it. Right at the bottom of the announcement is a link to take part in “shaping” how Mozilla integrates AI into Firefox. The feedback received so far is overwhelmingly negative. All that...
I’m going to attempt to write out this entire post in Nano. It has spot-on markdown syntax highlighting and that’s all there is to it. It looks very cool when typing in here; I’m writing in a distraction-free environment (not even an active spell-checker in sight) but hey… you wanna flow on the writing? This rocks....
I’m really into the solitaire card game Accordion. I play it from the Aisleriot card games collection, and I am utterly hooked. It is a very difficult game to complete but I’ve come to understand that the easiest shuffles to win are when all four cards in a rank are on or very close to the bottom row. Funny, it...
On Hacker News “best” for today at #5 is a link to XSLT RIP which leads to Killed by Google, a fantastic case in point for my recent post E-mail as social media. How many social media services has Google sunset? I count at least 12, including services which, whilst not directly social media, offer some sort of...
20 years ago, I might have become very excited by what is proposed herein. Today, not so much. Social media is a mess and even with new systems, protocols and platforms, critical mass is very difficult to achieve for breakthrough alternatives. People now expect a certain level of service from their social media...
This is a very handy tip that I stumbled upon today. With the Jellyfin client for Android TV, I could not delete watched movies and episodes. To do so, I would need to log on to the Admin page in my browser and do it from there. This is not very convenient for situations where, for example, the kids have watched...
After one week of running my home server, the results are in. Things have been going really well so far. The server is Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS on a repurposed Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ITL05 (2021) with Core i5, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage. Electricity usage is very low; here’s a picture of a pretty graph from my Tapo smart plug:...
I discovered Jrnl this past week and had a play. Nice toy. I installed it in my personal Python environment and tested it out. What struck me immediately was how many modules it installed; there were at least 15 in there, each one doing one specific task. I gave up after 10 minutes, wondering why this is so...
I’ve recently noticed that my desktop monitor is not turning off like it used to after 30 minutes of inactivity. It was working perfectly on Linux Mint 21 but after upgrading to LM 22, the monitor stays on, running the screen saver. Today, I noticed the screen turn off then come back on again after about 30-40...
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