Most VPNs have their own DNS servers with ad, telemetry, malware and other blocking, but a great thing to do at home is run your own Pi-Hole/Unbound recursive DNS servers where you can add your own blocklists, and none of…
If you hadn’t been ready to migrate services from Google, this is a wake up call. I’ve already moved to my own domain on Proton with Simplelogin as well as switching to Ente with your photos encrypted on their servers…
I’m running XLibre and SonicDE on our computers, and SonicDE has done a nice job with KDE 6.8. And I use my Arch based system for gaming with the Nvidia proprietary drivers, which are working great with XLibre. The sneaky…
I was worried about Proton after it was shown they were trying to pay influencers to promote their services with a weird interaction with the Hated One (who has since jumped the shark). But they’re putting out some informative videos…
Maybe in the surveillance era people don’t want to be surveilled when out using public land. And it could be rival hunters keeping tips to themselves. They could also suspect they might be installed by the government? Whatever the case,…
An interesting post about how Apple is treating customers by locking them out of iMessage and what it takes to get the service restored, if possible. And this is the problem with relying on centrally controlled services, and it seems…
The thing that betrays these kinds of efforts really designed to bring about identifying every internet user, is the fines per incident, usually $7,500, but these political hacks want $50,000. They’re working by state to make such a mess with…
The Linux Foundation is a captured entity, and IBM’s Red Hat isn’t much better, but the numbers seem realistic given Microsoft and Apple had admitted their AI code percentages. And it’s just not getting properly vetted. It’s looking like a…
That’s a staggering sum for controlling what information the public can access. And their treatment of German journalist Huseyin Dogru below is a severe violation of his rights. Worth noting, in the beginning of the war they persecuted Southfront, which…
It boggles my mind how people are playing with agentic AI which is unvetted. And many say the best opensource models you run on your own equipment come from China, not a security concern at all. I wouldn’t even try…
Kratom is a natural herb that can be great for pain relief and helps a lot of people get off opioid addiction. What’s funny about these attempts to demonize Kratom is that actual doctor prescribed opioids are extremely addictive and…
This is a good review of LineageOS 24, Android 17, with the only quibble being that I’d install this on a new phone, though they usually add older phones to the supported models with the exception of the Pixel and…
