Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
11/01/2019
My Raspberry Pi Python Twitter bot stopped posting last night. After I had strong words with it, and told it to pick up its game I deleted the cache database file and let it rebuild the history. This is something that I really need to fix, as my PiHole shows that my bot has made approx 191,383 calls to the twitter api in the last 24 hours… touch wood I’m…
10/11/2019
After our trip back to the UK and finding Amazon Echo’s and Google Home devices ubiquitous my wife felt a need to have one, and darling that I am I bought her an Amazon Echo for her birthday… it has been bugging me ever since. I’ve set up a Pi-Hole on our home network to prevent most adverts being shown… but I still know it’s listening :p So I was…
09/17/2016
In a moment of weakness I ordered a Raspberry Pi 3 last week, on the basis that my current original Raspberry Pi is a little too slow. I pretty much stopped playing with it after the USB stick / drive I was using bricked, so this weekend I’ve powered it up again and I’m quite impressed. I’ve overclocked the Raspberry Pi to Pi2 settings, although not sure what this means…
01/12/2016
Easy to follow guide from www.modmypi.com Tutorial – How to give your Raspberry Pi a Static IP Address
10/14/2014
With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world. But for guarding anything other than Web browsing, Tor has required a mixture of finicky technical setup and software tweaks. Now routing all your traffic through Tor may be as simple…
07/02/2014
Good, bad, and great news 🙂 Good news; my Onion Raspberry Pi kit arrived from Adafruit Bad news; I fried the board plugging in the USB connectors wrong in error Great news; I picked up another Pi, I’ve installed tor successfully, and can wirelessly access the Onion network. thttpd is installed, now working on building an Onion server 🙂 Here’s a great guide I used to install thttpd on the…