I created this website to be a personal website that would host information about myself and a small blog.
But I also wanted to learn more about linux server management and security (and apache and drupal) and so I built it from scratch starting from a bare linux server and installing components bit by bit.
And invariably that means the website spends most of the time broken and I’ve restarted it twice already – though I managed to keep the content the second time. And it's sort of working now - but in anticipation of it breaking again I have started a wordpress.com blog as well - you can find it here: https://cycrev.wordpress.com
For now I'll be mirroring the two.
The topics are going to be law, copyright, and cybersecurity focused, though I might throw in some stuff about bicycles, city design and infrastructure, and bike parking.
A few specific topics I plan to write:
- Andy Warhol, Fair Use, and the disappearing copyright
- Fair use protects *uses* of a work that are fair. Andy Warhol (foundation) lost a case that emphasized the importance of the use – displaying a Warhol in a museum, or using it to criticize someone, may be fair use, but using it as a magazine cover about them isn’t. But unauthorized derivative works are free from copyright protection. What happens then to a work that is only authorized in certain uses, but also unauthorized in others?
- DMCA reform
- Some of the issues I see with the DMCA
- Heavily influenced by Cory Doctorow
- Copyright lawsuits and AI
- Many people have written about it. Many will continue. I have some thoughts that aren’t particularly unique but they are mine.
- Creating a privacy focused Home Assistant network
- I like smart homes. I don’t trust apple/google/etc.
- Could be a series that doubles as documentation
- Also involves using a microtik router for network segmentation
- Data Privacy Improvement new year’s resolution
- My experience migrating and securing an enterprise application to a new stack
- Will have to check with my work about if I can actually write/publish this.
- How to install a bike rack in asphalt!
- I manage SOPO Bicycle Cooperative’s bike rack install program. There aren’t ways online of bolting bike racks to asphalt or pavers… but we’ve got a way that, while engineers don’t approve, has securely held bike racks around Atlanta – some going on a decade now, so that’s solid enough!
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