Setting up noVNC on mini-pc for my hobby, why not?
Preamble, or few words about hobby:
Not every one knows about my night time hobby, everyone just assumes that people in cybersecurity never sleep. Well let me disappoint you we don’t just sleep, but there is always a time for a hobby, otherwise it’s easy to go crazy. So with that in mind couple years ago I’ve stumbled into a my childhood hobby with a twist.
I loved astronomy back in my high school days and been successful in what in US called UIL competition, however when it was time to graduate I turned down admittance into university on astrophysics and went through an entrance exams into technology university. As you would realize by now my “new” hobby is somehow connected to astronomy, well it’s astrophotography- art of photographing night sky and capturing deep sky objects through a long exposure.
One of my pictures…
Why did I decide to create a news generator for Kindle?
World around us is changing, changing by a lot. So does good journalism. 
Several years ago good journalists were employed by some prominent newspaper. You can just read that paper(web site) and that’s about it as I prefer to read my news stories. Reading gives you flexibility to imagine world author is writing about unlike television where everything is defined for you. Television on the other hand has always been a money making machine, so newspapers decided to follow suit, bringing their corporate interests forward. That’s where our story starts
My solution to Section 230 debates
I have always been vocal about Section 230 as media and politicians are trying to shape public opinion toward wrong direction of stripping Section 230 from intermediaries. Truth is that Internet runs on intermediaries, while there are a log of tech savy people and a lot of tools had lowered entrance bar, not every one is capable of running their own publishing service on the internet. Section 230 in a nutshell protect those intermediaries from actions of their users, so users can still be prosecuted if they post some illegal content, but not companies that provide services to those users.
Across the spectrum of actions culmination thus far has been an introduction of a bill H.R.8922,
Read more...Exploring Jekyll
Today I have decided to try new way of blogging, it’s GitHub pages, that use Jekyll behind the scene to generate content.
After reading some documentation and hacking couple examples together, I’ve decided to move my entire blog to Jekyll for simplicity. It’s way simpler than using whole fledged platforms like Blogspot, all you need is internet and console to write your content.
Additionally I just want to share few lessens learned that are not necessarily clear from documentation:
Read more...Taking control back
What is the purpose of technology? I think it’s purpose to serve us, people, to improve our lives, not the other way around.
Recent decades of technological progress made a lot of things possible, for example connecting us to friends and family regardless of where we are in the world.