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 opened Activity Monitor on my MacBook last Tuesday and noticed Chrome was using 8 GB of disk space for something I had not downloaded on purpose. The file was sitting in…
Incognito windows are a false sense of security. Your ISP can still see what you am doing, and the websites you visit still fingerprint your browser. Incognito clears your local history. That…
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 had a stack of old iPads collecting dust. Some had cracked screens, some were too old to install modern apps, and none of them were useful enough to sell. The hardware…
Your Linux server’s network is maxed out and you have no idea what is eating it. The standard reflex is to look at top or htop, and when those do not help…
I run a small WordPress site from a Linux box under my desk. The box cost me about the same as a year of managed hosting from a major provider, and it…
I used to write cron entries for things that should have been one-shot jobs. A temporary firewall rule for a vendor. A service restart at 2 AM. A reminder to pull a…
I was running ImageOptim for images, HandBrake for video, and a paid PDF tool for shrinking documents. That is three apps to install, three menus in my dock, and three different mental…
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