The Guardian vs. UK GDPR

TL;DR The Guardian were caught collecting user data without consent in LocalStorage (similar to cookies). The Guardian repeatedly denied there was a problem. They’ve now fixed their website. Naughty Guardian. Don’t be like the Guardian.

GMC FOI re MAPs regulation

Request, dated 26 October 2023: In your news article “More information on PAs and AAs” [link], “Our work to introduce regulation of PAs and AAs is wholly funded by direct grant from the DHSC and closely managed to ensure no cross-subsidisation from doctor fees.

Getting up and running: Mastodon on Fedora Server

I had a bit of bother getting Mastodon up and running on a Fedora box so figured I’d write up the main sticking points. Preamble The scope is to: Put most of this inside Docker Use AWS S3 for object storage Use AWS SES for mail If you’ve got Postfix already running locally, or don’t want to run storage on S3, just ignore these bits.

fail2ban config for Wordpress running in Docker

This environment: CentOS 7.x WP 5.x PHP 7.x Fail2ban 0.11.x WP/PHP running in Docker In /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/wplogin.conf: [Definition] failregex = .*php7:notice.*\[client (<HOST>).*wp-admin.*Password Mismatch ignoreregex = Then in the WP home, we want to log errors to SYSLOG.