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Twittermancy and Open Sourcery

This article was originally published at Witchvox. At times, Technopaganism can seem like an almost invisible niche of Paganism. Mainstream books and online resources nearly always have a very heavy pastoral or rural slant and it can be very difficult to find real examples of everyday Technopagan practices. To help counter this, I am going [...]

Posted 31 October 2009 † John § Ruby § Software § Technology § Technopaganism ‡ Comments (1) °

A quick technopagan tool

Ages ago I registered urbanpaganism.info, and set up a basic wiki for a community I’d set up for people who practice Paganism in urban environments and were fed up the usual hippy clap-trap advice like ‘grow plants in a window box’ and ‘visit the countryside’ when it came to experiencing Paganism in the city. It [...]

Posted 25 April 2009 † John § Ruby § Software § Technology § Technopaganism ‡ Comments (0) °

Secure Passwords.

Everyone knows that security is important. I’ve talked before about DenyHosts, which watches for attempts to brute-force your SSH passwords and blocks them. I could probably live fairly happily without DenyHosts, since my passwords aren’t going to be caught by a brute-force attack based on dictionary words and while every password is vulnerable to a [...]

Posted 12 May 2008 † John § Security § Technopaganism ‡ Comments (0) °