The Ethics of AI (June 2025)

June 24, 2025 scaine 0

This short article outlines the ethics of using AI (mainly generative AI, or large language models), as of June 2025. In short, there exists no truly ethical way to engage with AI currently. This article will outline a few of the ways that support this […]

pfSense install on Ubuntu

April 29, 2020 scaine 0

I’m looking forward to installing pfSense on my soon-to-arrive pico PC device, a little fanless unit with four gigabit interfaces. It’s been a long time since I had a proper stateless firewall to administer, and I’m hoping that the performance of this miniature monster will […]

Issues with LibreOffice and SMB/CIFS shares

February 6, 2018 Admin Spare 0

Are you having issues when opening documents on a shared drive? Both ODF and DocX document types are effectively archived files which need to expand in order to read their contents and this appears to cause issues when opening such documents across CIFS shared drives. […]

Update! Update now!

May 3, 2016 scaine 0

This made me laugh – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/28/windows_10_live_tv. A live broadcast on American TV channel KCCI interrupted by a nag-ware screen to upgrade to Windows 10. Ouch. But this video is probably the main reason I’ll never go back to Windows. Who the hell can be bothered […]

Essential Ubuntu Software

May 20, 2015 scaine 0

A short post to outline the command that I end up issuing to every Ubuntu install I perform. These commands are specific to Ubuntu 16.04, but you can most likely use it on other Debian-based distributions too – just remove any packages that they complain […]