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Site updates

By Brendan
g’day, over the last few weeks, there’s been some kinda major updates to the site: new url! we’re now based at brendo.org. new theme! purely cause why the f**k not as an inadvertent result of point 1, i had to make a visit to the database and tell it to fix the image links, as they were still referring back to the old url. as of now, that’s fixed. as for point 2, again – why the fuck not? :p

Day Three

By Brendan
note: unlike the last two posts, this one has been written after we got home, but is based off the notes I wrote Wednesday night. Today, Kieran (my younger brother) and I helped out one of the owners on the farm. Kieran also got a bunch of doggo photos, however I took this sunset photo.

Day Two

By Brendan
Checked out Buchan today. Got lunch and a cake each from the roadhouse, then went across the road to the general store to grab a map, but ended up leaving with just a little more than that. After that we drove out to where the Buchan and Snowy rivers meet and had some lunch. (It’s not a perfect photo. I know. Shut up.) As you probably heard, Buchan and surrounds were affected by the bushfires earlier this year. I managed to get some photos of some of the burnt area: Oh, and on the way back out, I noticed this: […]

Day One

By Brendan
Today we made our way out to Buchan. We’re staying at Stonehenge Farmstay Caravan and Camping Park for the next couple of days, because stuff it, why not™. For dinner, we had fish & chips from the pub. All I can say about that is that looks can be deceiving. Unfortunately there’s no signal so, even if I wanted to upload this post to my Google Drive (the server’s currently offline at the time of writing) I can’t. Apparently the only signal out here is with Telstra, but my brother and I are with Optus, and my mum is with […]

Roadtrip

By Brendan
“I think it’s a roadtrip; we did over 100km” -Brenton We did a liiiiittle bit of travelling today: Firstly, out to Tyers Pumping Station Secondly, out to Erica, and lastly, Yallourn Heights before yeeting back to Morwell. Tyers Pumping Station: Erica: Yallourn Heights Aaaand Bonus Pic of the Week:

Windows 10 Update Breaks Google Chrome Security

By Anton McClure
Originally published at https://antonmcclure.com Microsoft has been making the news a lot for Windows Updates issues. Google has recently revealed that an update to Windows 10 1903 broke an essential security feature in Google Chrome. The update includes a security feature bypass vulnerability, as termed by Microsoft, which means attackers can let an application run code at a different integrity level the application, and escape the sandbox environment that Chrome runs in – the opposite of the sandbox’s purpose. Google’s Project Zero team made a very detailed and technical writeup of the issues it caused, and I suggest you give it a read […]

(Why) Privacy Matters

By Anton McClure
Originally published at https://antonmcclure.com on 12 March 2020.(admin note: seriously, check Anton’s site out! he posts a crap load more than I think I ever will here lol) There’s no doubt to many people that we are living in a highly-connected Internet age full of big data. As the amount of big data goes up, so does the importance of protecting people’s privacy. After the GDPR took effect in May 2018, sites were required to say when they’d use cookies, and what those cookies do. However, for many websites, the cookie consent banners still broke the law by making it hard to reject […]

Something decided to play up

By Brendan
My apologies for the site being down today and yesterday, depending on your timezone. For some odd reason WordPress was unable to connect to the database, yet prior, it was. I’ve managed to fix it by changing the hostname for the database in the wp-config.php to the IP address of the server, so you might find the site will be a bit sluggish to connect for now.

Server Update #1

By Brendan
G’day! Today, and yesterday, I did a few things with the server. WEB server: Finally got https working! 😀 (Sun, Jan 26) Made http traffic be redirected automatically to https (today) the website itself: Changed the theme to “Twenty Seventeen” to hopefully make the site in general look better (and less, uh, Apple-y) the system in general: Ran some system updates to do Figure out how the f**k I’m gonna get Apache to actually work with user directories Figure out a backup plan in case I need to shut the server down at mum’s request