Fix for slow OnePlus 6 after upgrading to Android 11 (Oxygen OS 11.1.2.2) If you're reading this your phone has started to chugg hard. The fix for me was to go to Settings -> System -> Ram Boost Disable it. Whatever it is, it aggressively attacks the performance of apps and causes the slow down and lagginess
Fix/Workaround - libseccomp2 and Alpine 3.13 - Installing Raspbian Docker 19.04+ on Raspberry Pi 4 Buster If you're reading this you're probably dealing with the hell I've just been through trying to get apps like Nextcloud, Redis and all sorts of other things in Docker to run on a Raspberry Pi4, which suddenly seemed to stop working overnight. The reason?
Can't change Time of Day whilst flying in Flight Sim 2020? Here's a Workaround... It's incredibly irritating and certainly a bug, when you've disabled the multiplayer element but you're still unable to change the time through the quick access bar at the top of the screen. Especially if you're trying to enjoy the scenery. The trick is to
Electric Scooters Every now and then, I'm noticing more and more electric scooters. The other day I saw a ten-ish year old riding one on the pavement, and I'm seeing people use them in the bike lanes in town. It's rare, but the awareness of them
Israel Part 3 - Tips for Israelis Working with UK Businesses This is the third and final post of a three-parter covering UK-Israeli business perspectives. The two previous posts covered the thoughts and feelings Israeli's had when working with UK business.
Israel Understanding the Israeli Perspectives on Trade with the UK - Part 2 Carrying on from my previous post [http://blog.samcater.com/uk-israel-part1/], here is the second part of the breakdown from several interviews with Israeli's who have engaged with business in
Israel Understanding the Israeli Perspectives on Trade with the UK - Part 1 This is a three-part series. Two cover the Israeli perspectives on business with the UK, and the third will cover advice for Israeli businesses trying to get UK leads. Over
Israel Learning from Hysolate, plus my Walking Tour I spent most of the last week with Hysolate [https://www.hysolate.com], another one of the Team8 companies I'm visiting during my stay in Israel. In a nutshell, Hysolate
Israel Getting around Tel Aviv By far the best way to get around Tel Aviv is to use Bird [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.bird.android&hl=en]. It is the
Israel Jerusalem Tour, The Photography Shop and Ben's Dad - Necessity, not Want Click me for Photos [https://www.flickr.com/photos/63603174@N04/albums/72157673214365437] Yesterday I got a tour of Jerusalem which was absolutely fantastic. My tour guide Arava was a
Israel The Ambassador, Scaling Up, and a Reunion Never Formal in Israel Last night was great. I got to my room and had an hour's turnaround to get unpacked, changed and showered before being picked up to go
Israel Tel Aviv, 2018 Why am I here? (Shalom Tel Aviv!) I've just got myself comfortable in my Rothchild apartment. The flight was okay (crying baby). I've unpacked most of my gear and I'm here now for just over the next three weeks. This has been quite a
My Favourites from London TechDay 2018 A couple of Fridays back, I had the pleasure of heading to London's TechDay event at Old Billingsgate. TechDay is an event which I'd previously never heard of, which was
InfoSec and BSides 2018 This week I got to enjoy going to InfoSecurity 2018 and BSidesLondon 2018. Both of these events are something I look forward to every year - they're probably the best
How to Fix Broken Websites Protected by CloudFlare Recently I've come across several websites which have (for some non-obvious reason...) decided to stand Cloudflare's protection services in front of their own website. Maybe for DDoS protection, maybe to filter down requests or raise security somehow, doesn't really matter. The website loads in
raspberrypi Raspberry Pi 3B+ - Why the Link/Active LAN Lights "Don't Work" To help diagnose network problems and/or tell users what speed the network attached to the Pi is running at, the Raspberry Pi devs have used the lights to signify whether 10/100Mb or 1000Mb is being used by the interface.
My Blog Is Used for Malware C&C! (Good?!) I looked on VirusTotal recently and noticed something interesting when I entered my own domain and IP address... Since I run a Tor Relay node, I'm passing approximately 20Mbits of traffic between other Tor nodes at any given time. However, this server is also
Quick thoughts on Bitcoin and the future of International Currency I recently had a student from a local university meet me and ask if I could provide some contributions to their project which asked the question (paraphrased) - "Can Cryptocurrency be the future of Global Currency, and does it encourage illegal online activity?" Of
Mixed Thoughts on Promotional Security A friend of mine recently went on a trip to Amsterdam, as he often does. He tweeted that the airport WiFi promoted the use of VPNs - so I asked for some screenshots, and he kindly provided. I was ready to be pleased to
Capturing Beacons and Probe Requests of Public WiFi Access Points - The Why, How, and Stats Why Bother, Why Should I Care? Most people have a misconception about WiFi and assume that the Access Points are always broadcasting somehow to make themselves visible to devices. When device's see a familiar SSID they join, right? Wrong! Sort of... Most of the
