Category Tech

Is Manjaro Done? Stick a Fork in It

I ran Manjaro for a while as one of my first Arch based distributions, and it was very good. They hold back Arch updates a bit with the intention to prevent breakage, but sometimes packages get out of sync with…

How Wallet Fingerprints Damage PayJoin Privacy

A technical write up on how Payjoin transaction wallets can leak information to identify who paid and who received, breaking the purpose of Payjoin transactions meant to conceal that information in Bitcoin transactions. Though in fairness to both Bull Bitcoin…

Privacy Search Proxy SearXNG

I’ve previously wrote articles on SearXNG with how to run them with Docker, and I’ve setup a Docker server with a SearXNG instance with SSL certificate via NgingxProxyManager using Let’s Encrypt (same server as this blog). Feel free to use…

Ring Divorced Flock… Now they Spy with Axon

This is hilarious. So the backlash caused Amazon and Ring to drop the Flock team up, but still have a deal with Axon which does the same thing. The other interesting part is stolen police logins making it to the…