The menace of link rot

I have been writing a blog on financial markets for nearly a dozen years now, and it is distressing to find that when I look up one of my older posts on that blog, many of the links in that post no longer work. This phenomenon is known as link rot. Recently, there was a…

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Predicting human behaviour is legal, predicting machines is not?

I read this Wired story about some hackers being sent to jail for “hacking” slot machines in US casinos. “Hacking” is probably the wrong word to use for this: they made money by predicting what the slot machine would do by observing it carefully, and using their knowledge of the insecure random number generator used…

Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a home file server

Since tastes and needs differ widely within our family, the laptops and devices at my home run Linux, Windows 10, Android and iOS. Sharing data between devices running diverse operating systems is a huge pain. We often end up using email, Dropbox or Google Drive, though it is utterly silly to move a file half…