Age verification for social media (a system that requires users to prove their age, usually through government ID, biometric scans, or third-party age-estimation services, before they can create an account) is spreading…
I have run the same experiment on three different Android browsers over the last six months, and the result is always the same. I open a news site, read three articles, get…
I read the recent Brave disclosure about indirect prompt injection attacks on Mozilla Tabstack and Cotypist twice, and the most unsettling line in the paper was the one near the end. The…
I left a local coding agent running on my laptop overnight to see how much battery it would eat. The answer was the entire battery, plus an hour and a half of…
I have run a small consulting business on four different email providers over the last 12 years. Gmail, Outlook, Zoho Mail, and Tuta Mail (formerly Tutanota). Each one looked good at the…
At the I/O conference on May 19th, Google announced the biggest change to Search in over 25 years, and almost nobody outside the SEO industry noticed. The “Intelligent Search Box” pushes AI…
Stop paying per user: self-host your auth with Keycloak I watched a friend’s bill for Auth0 go from $240 per month to $4,100 per month in eighteen months. The growth was organic.…
AI Knows Who You Are Online, Even With a Fake Name I have been running a small experiment on my own browsing for the last six months. I used a different name,…
Why I Self-Hosted My Password Manager and Immediately Regretted It (And What I Did Instead) I have been self-hosting services for about a decade. I run my own email, my own file…
Google’s Android Lockdown Is Still Happening – Don’t Be Fooled by the PR Google told everyone they would back off on locking down Android. They didn’t. That was the message out of…
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