Cybrkyd
Cybrkyd
Cybrkyd
I’m cybrkyd and this is where I blog. I’m not really a kid by age; more of a perpetual kid at heart! This blog is a collection of tips and tricks and guides that have helped me and will hopefully help someone else. I will also offer my own random thoughts and opinions. A proud script kiddie, I enjoy having fun finding cool and efficient ways of doing stuff. I use Linux, love FOSS, and have a lot of play dates with Python, SQL, CSS, HTML, PHP, bash.
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Back in the day, we had more freedom to do what we wanted with TV signals coming into the home. We could simply plug the antenna into the VCR, and run another cable from the VCR through to the back of the TV and record whatever we...
I’ve recently subscribed to Sky Stream Ultimate. The “puck” arrived yesterday and I’ve spent just under 24 hours with it. My verdict is in: I do not like this. The channel offerings are good and so are the bundled apps which come along...
Working in finance, I am subject to re-vetting every three years. 2026 is here, my turn is now, and lo and behold, my firm has switched to a new vetting agent. They have a shiny, bright website with lots of “LinkedIn speak”; you know:...
Apple is rolling out age verification for iPhone and iPad in the UK. The idea is to get the device “owner” to verify their age so that they can access “certain services”. Apple has already removed encryption for UK users in 2025: Apple...
The minute my Linux distro of choice introduces age verification, we part company. There is no way – no way on Earth – that I will ever be undergoing any sort of age verification for the privilege of using something I own. Or, for the...
I fell asleep! To be fair, it was scheduled for around 23:30 BST on a school night and I was dog tired. My eyelids won the battle. I managed to watch the lift-off replays this morning, however. I missed the stop-clock event and slept...
We are back onto BST today and longer days are here. Rejoice! It’s that time of year again when tax returns become due and must be paid. No rejoice. On my first day of BST (bullsh*t summer time), I notice a lot of complaints again about...
I finally knuckled down and started playing again with Vim. It has always been a huge turn-off, what with all those weird key combinations to learn and remember. The famous one is the noob cross-posting in a gazillion forums: HELP! How...
I’m up today at the crack of dawn. Nice and fresh. I made coffee and threw my hands to head, like a football striker who should have scored in the wide-open goal but instead, kicked it over the bar. Milk. There was enough for me, enough...
I have man flu. This is a semi-fatal disease which affects males only. If you’re not male, there is no chance of understanding the disease, and it is quite common for non-males to poke fun at those who contract the man flu. Semi-fatal?...
My Tor Browser installation is unusual. Rather than install it from my distribution’s repos, I grab the tar.xz file from torproject.org/download/, extract it and run it directly from there. I do the same with Firefox and Thunderbird, but...
Something interesting – and perhaps concerning – when comparing my current ISP to my previous provider is how many websites Virgin Media blocks by default. The blocks appear to be over and above court-mandated blocks in the UK. I...
Foggy days are here. For a few days over the past week or so, we have had some thick fog in the early mornings. It’s the sort of miserable fog which takes hours to lift. It dampens the mood, as the sun is not yet strong enough to burn...
The new internet provider has connected me up, and boy is it fast. I ordered 1GB and am currently getting ~800 Mbps down. I cannot complain too much about that, especially when our ISPs in the UK have a disclaimer in their small print...
What a blur. We moved house to get closer to schools. We lasted exactly 13 months in the previous place. It was in an out-of-the-way village which was a bit too far out of the way. A real one-horse village, quite literally. I could hear...