Internet Protocol Over Avian Carriers (IPoAC), or, as I prefer, Pigeon Over Internet Protocol (PoIP), may sound like a bad joke. And while it is humorous engineering, it is also a formally specifie...

At the start of the year I set up a small server for external web applications and, since it had enough storage available, I moved my Jekyll blog there. I renewed my personal domain, set up a local...

Alien Earth, the first TV show adventure into the Alien universe, came out last summer, but I didn’t give it a try until these Christmas holidays. Unforgivable for a die-hard Alien fan, I know. I w...

After exploring Stoicism and its renewed presence in contemporary culture, it felt necessary to step back and look at one of the thinkers who helped shape the ethical landscape from which Stoicism ...

When deploying a server, especially a public-facing one, one of the things we absolutely cannot forget is backups. Backups are not optional. They are a safeguard against data loss, human error, har...

A entrada em vigor da Diretiva NIS2 (SRI2) em Portugal vai obrigar milhares de organizações a repensar a forma como gerem os seus riscos de cibersegurança. Mais do que um tema puramente legal, trat...

A transposição da Diretiva NIS2 para Portugal, através do Decreto-Lei n.º 125/2025, foi publicada em Diário da República a 4 de dezembro de 2025. O novo regime jurídico entra em vigor 120 dias após...

Soon going into its fourth year since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the Russo-Ukrainian war did not begin in 2022. Its roots lie in 2014, with the Ukrainian Maidan revolution and the illegal Russia...

Basic security on a Debian-based Linux server is not rocket science. Still, over the years I’ve had my fair share of interventions on public servers that completely ignored even the bare minimum of...

Long before fiber optics, satellites, wireless communications, packet switching, and angry gamers complaining about latency and packet loss, nature already solved distributed networking in its simp...