The conflicting messages we get pertaining to online security are confusing to the casual user.
- 2024-03-12
Technology
I am in love with AutoHotKey, in a “man to computer application” sort of way. I use it all the time, perhaps several times per hour while I am on my computer, which is a majority of a typical day. What is AutoHotKey? It’s a customizable Hot Key automation scripting...
- 2024-03-09
Have you noticed they want to take away anything that burns? cigarettes replaced with ecigs gas stoves replaced with electric stoves combustion engines replaced with EV’s with combustion batteries (haha) guns (firepower) replaced with nothing Fire is freedom. It means you can generate your own energy. You control it at...
- 2023-09-23
How the heck did Telegram become the cool way to broadcast info? We have so many solutions to nicely format and organize large amounts of complex data, and along comes this under engineered and overly glorified text messaging app called “Telegram” that offers nothing except a chronological list of barely...
- 2023-09-14
I’m glad I actually read the release notes this time. Simple QR is a good QR code reader on Android. There are no network permissions needed so I sort of trust it to work without wrecking my privacy. The recent update made a switch so that when you scan a...
- 2023-07-09
There are certain design choices that are used often but have no business existing. Sometimes, designers go for some aesthetically pleasing choice at the cost of practicality. Other times, it looks like certain options were added as an afterthought. Many things contribute to a list of irritations that end users...
- 2023-06-24
It’s always irritated me when I talk about retaining my privacy by avoiding spyware, online ads, phone tracking, etc., and people respond by saying they don’t care because they have nothing to hide. I always saw that as a really shortsighted and ignorant way of viewing it but I couldn’t...
- 2023-06-10
For many years I have played around with a home lab server. I tinkered around with self-hosting my own cloud storage, blog, password management, etc., but I have always abandoned the idea for fear that I might end up losing everything. Absent from my solutions has always been a good…...
- 2023-06-03