My Conundrum With Cloud Drives
There are different kinds of cloud drives, with different levels of reliability, maintenance, cost and privacy... and the state of things is not pleasing.
Dear Thunderbird: An Update on the State of PGP
See? I learned since my last post, I'm not referring to Mozilla this time. :D Introduction Some time ago, I wrote [a popular article] about Thunderbird version 78.x, and how built-in PGP was generally a good idea, but the implementation was subpar for advanced users. I had stopped using Thunderbird [...]
Real world Log4j hacks (Minecraft)
You probably heard of the Log4j vulnerability by now, and you probably know that (the original) Minecraft is written in Java, and so is the server, and it uses Log4j. So, Minecraft servers are affected by this. I do run a small Minecraft server network (https://www.bitloco.org) but I haven't had [...]
YouTube is deleting your comments
Comments not found You might have heard by now that YouTube is deleting user comments, perhaps you commented on one of my videos and your comment disappeared unexectedly... Let me assure you, I have not deleted any comments at all so far. Background I started my YouTube channel about two [...]
Windows 11 Special Product Keys
So, Windows 11 is out! Time to share some special product keys. But please note: These are not normal product keys, if you think you can just use them to activate Windows, you're very wrong! These are product keys that are either temporary (for up- or down-grades) or keys that [...]
Apple released … Mac OS X Lion? In 2021? Huh.
I had to update someone's Mac today, from 11.5.x to 11.6... the download kept failing inside the built-in updater, so I figured I'd go check if Apple still releases update packages on their website, for manual updates... and it seems they still offer those (but not for macOS Big Sur?). [...]
Google’s Advanced Protection Program is a joke
Today, I wanted to sign in to one of my old Google accounts. And like all my Google accounts, this one also uses Google's Advanced Protection Program. If you don't know, Google's Advanced Protection Program is a thing you can enable for your Google account which enforces the use of [...]
ProtonMail dots, hyphens and underscores
I just found an undocumented feature in ProtonMail... which I thought you might find useful to know. Backstory I use ProtonMail as my primary email hosting provider nowadays, as it gives me convenient PGP encryption across my devices, and all incoming emails that are not already PGP encrypted will be [...]
Linux and the magic of pcspkr
Background If you grew up in the 90s you might remember "PC Speakers", not to be confused with "computer speakers", the ones that you plug into a 3.5mm jack and use to listen to things, and instead I mean those small built-in speakers that could play basic sounds, and with [...]
How I got Minecraft DDoS protection at home
Background Some time ago, at the end of last year or so, I did set up a Minecraft server at home. It's public, in the sense that anyone can join, but it's not listed anywhere other than on its small website. So, for now it's used by friends only. But [...]