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… actually, make that any… backup… Read More »
What is it? Here’s a little pet-project I put together just for fun. It’s called CIPH-R.com (pronounced like “cipher”) It is for when you want to say a certain thing online but you know the word will get flagged and get your comment deleted. The solution is to create a ciph-r for it. Each ciph-r has… Read More »
Allow me to explain…
I’m not too keen on this creepy idea. It’s bad enough that your phone has to “look at you”, but then to tie it to your logins makes it worse. That makes your phone the controlling device of any login, even on your computer. People mistake this for security because there are no more passwords,… Read More »
If you’re hoping to optimize your battery charging on the iPhone and you thought that simply turning on the “Optimized Battery Charging” switch would make that happen, you’re about to be shocked. That’s only the beginning of how you turn it on. And Apple doesn’t tell you that when you switch it on. Once you… Read More »
How could it be? Wi-Fi is showing up as consuming 10% of your Android battery when wifi is turned off! What gives? Android is sneaky, that’s what. The Wi-Fi setting is more like a “use Wi-Fi for internet” setting. In other words, your selection of that setting has nothing to do with the phone actually stopping the use… Read More »
EDIT 2017-07-30: I believe that Youmail has changed their Android interface. The “History” section has been removed, which is a major bummer. It still shows on the Android Market screenshots but it does not really exist. How do block robo calls now? Not sure yet. Ugh, the bane of my existence. Robocalls. They make me… Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday refused to dismiss most of a lawsuit against Google Inc over allegations the company improperly scanned the content of customers’ emails in order to place ads. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California ruled that the proposed class action lawsuit against Google can proceed.… Read More »
Electronic “government”* spying has been occurring for decades. Recently, it has become a hot-topic because of Edward Snowden’s whistle-blowing. The news of this, however, is not a new thing. There has been warrantless wiretapping, NSA spying, and all sorts of communications databasing happening since W. Bush was the ostensible “leader” of the land-of-the-free, and before.