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I wrote a piece for Linux Voice on how bitcoin works a couple of years ago. It's obviously focused on this particular blockchain, not the principal in general and it's a couple of …

It's usually a bad idea to run email from a home internet connection because it massively increases the chances of your mail being marked as spam. The hardest part of running a mai…

Here in the UK we do have pretty regular problems with the water supply, to the point that hosepipe use is sometimes regulated. There's even a website you can check to see if there…

Warning: Shameless self promotion. LinuxVoice magazine is available for free nine months after publication. The issues can be found here: http://www.linuxvoice.com/creative-commons…

I believe that a common method of insulating mud-built buildings in cooler climates is mixing straw with the mud. There's probably some method of incorporating something similar ei…

I ran a Tor exit node for about nine months and only ever had two complaints sent to me. Both were for people performing some form of hacking through my exit node. I responded to b…

> And when I visit two or more clients in the same day, how many shirts would I end up carrying? Carry two shirts, one for cycling in and one for working. Before getting on your bi…

I cycle commute in a hilly city (Bristol, UK), and I think you're just a little inexperienced at cycling for work. I can cycle hard and sweat, or I can cycle gently and sweat very …

We use Paypal, Stripe, GoCardless (UK only I think), and Bitpay. Although we are obviously aware of Paypal's mood swings, we haven't been the victim of any. So far all of the above…

That's CC-BY-SA by the way. You can reuse it as long as you attribute it to us, and release any of your changes under an open licese.

In the UK you can get a bike for comparable prices (here's an £80 mountain bike). Again, they'll fall apart aftera few months though. The cheapest decent bike? Hmm, personally, I'd…

The first couple of issues were sort of hacked together in such a way that makes conversion to HTML (for ePub) a little awkward. We got our act together by issue 3, so for this one…

one of the mag's founder's here. It's about a year ago that we launched the crowdfunding campaign to create Linux Voice. I know quite a few people from Hacker News supported us. Th…

Basically what happened is that we changed our wordpress theme, and it turns out that the new one puts a bit more pressure on our server than the old one. We used to be able to han…