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My views on genAI and F-Droid
https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/09/my-views-on-genai-and-f-droid/
Published: September 5, 2026 17:44
This is just a record of a fediverse post that I made today, and my subsequent (collective) response to the main points raised by various people who replied to me. There is a proposal for F-Droid to adopt an interim AI policy, along the lines of Debian’s…
RSS feeds for individual authors of The Register using The Register's new API
Published: September 3, 2026 08:02
Tech website The Register used to offer author-specific RSS feeds. It has recently changed how it does RSS feeds, to use the new api.theregister.com. Thanks to a kind fedizen for showing how one can still use this new API to get author-specific feeds:…
Airsoft and the UK's consultation on changing the rules around fireworks and pyrotechnics
Published: September 1, 2026 15:35
The UK government is consulting on changing the rules around fireworks and pyrotechnics in the UK. Like many people, I enjoy using P1 pyrotechnics safely and responsibly as part of playing Airsoft. I had fun this weekend with both flashes and smoke…
Automating local backups of UniFi OS Server on Linux with uos-backup
https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/08/automating-local-backups-of-unifi-os-server-on-linux-with-uos-backup/
Published: August 29, 2026 14:51
Earlier today, I migrated my self-hosted UniFi controller from Network Manager to UniFi OS Server. One of the annoyances of the new setup is that it does not allow automated local backups - just automated backups to Ubiquiti’s cloud. Fortunately, one can…
Migrating my self-hosted UniFi controller from Network Manager to UniFi OS Server
Published: August 29, 2026 13:55
One of the jobs that has been on my list for a while is to migrate my UniFi controller installation from the self-hosted network manager tool to the new UniFi OS Server tool. The only reason that it was a job at all is because UniFi has decided to…