Chromium’s built-in proxy dialog is the first thing most people try when they need to route traffic through a SOCKS5 server (a network proxy that relays TCP connections at the session layer,…
Pull requests are loud. Documentation fixes are not. Most of the open source community runs on the quiet half, the people who fix a typo, write a paragraph, file a clean bug,…
If you have ever wished your vacation photos looked like they came back from the dead, there is now a tiny web app for that, and it does not phone home to…
Every time you open a website, your device asks another server for the address. That server is almost always run by your ISP by default, or by Google, or Cloudflare, and the…
Your iPhone has two battery problems, and most advice mixes them together. One problem is getting through today without hunting for a charger. The other is keeping the battery useful after hundreds…
The number that got me was nineteen. That is how many devices on my home network had a reachable port, a cloud account, or a Bluetooth radio at the end of last…
A Fedora workstation dropped me to a GRUB prompt two months ago because a partial DNF upgrade left the kernel updated but the initramfs unregenerated. I rebuilt the initramfs in eight minutes…
The honest answer to whether your ISP can see what you do online is yes, more than most people expect, and the gap between what HTTPS protects and what the ISP still…
I run DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, and the honest answer is that I am not there for the privacy pitch alone. The privacy is real, but the day-to-day reason is…
When people argue about which tools to use, the security-versus-privacy debate usually goes nowhere because both sides are talking past each other. The arguments for privacy-focused tools (“I do not want Google…
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