Climate science runs on data. A single weather station records temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind speed every minute. A satellite records dozens of channels across the electromagnetic spectrum, every few seconds, for…
My credit card statement got embarrassing in a quiet way. Not the obvious SaaS (software as a service, meaning paid subscriptions you reach over the internet) tools. The small ones, stacked up…
A few months ago I caught myself doing something embarrassing. I had a 60GB self-hosted music collection running on a quiet little home server, and I kept falling back on the same…
Owning the relay you connect through changes what remote access feels like. For years I let a third-party server sit in the middle of every remote session to my home lab, billed…
Most of the intercontinental internet runs through cables that are about the thickness of a garden hose. I went looking for an explanation of how that actually works, and came away with…
Most of the public web is hostile to the idea of paying attention on purpose. The big video site in particular has spent a decade making the act of “watch one video…
Every Steam owner’s library looks the same after a few years. Hundreds of titles, a handful of completed ones, and a long list of “I will play it later” purchases that keep…
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…
YouTube’s recommendation engine has one job: keep you watching past the video you actually came for. The home feed is a slot machine wearing a TV guide costume. Most people have cracked…
I paid for Plex Pass for about six years before the math stopped working. Hardware transcoding (using your server’s graphics card to convert video formats on the fly) was the feature that…
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