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Aug. 16, 2026Your Credit Is Wide OpenMost of the security advice people get is small. Use a better password. Don’t click the link. Turn on two-factor. All fine, all worth doing, and none of it stops the thing …
Jul. 26, 2026Your RAM Is Supposed to Be FullI switched back to a MacBook Air recently — the 15-inch M5, 24GB — and within a day I’d opened a resource monitor out of habit. Memory usage was sitting high with barely …
Jul. 25, 2026Your DNS Is ShowingI’ve worked in IT for about 11 years, and I was pulling networks apart for fun long before anyone paid me to. The thing that still surprises people isn’t some exotic …
Jul. 11, 2026The Dashboards You've Never OpenedI mentioned this in passing in an earlier post : sign into a Google account and it keeps a running log of what you do — searches, YouTube history, location, if you let it — sitting …
Jun. 27, 2026Your Passcode Isn't Doing Most of the WorkAsk someone if their phone is locked down and they’ll usually point to the passcode. Fair enough — a passcode is real security, and you should have one. But it’s …
Jun. 13, 2026Stop Paying for AntivirusAntivirus used to be non-negotiable — you bought a license, renewed it every year, and didn’t think too hard about why. That reflex has outlived its reason. The built-in …
May. 23, 2026Your Email Is the Master KeyAsk most people to rank their accounts by how much they’d protect them, and email lands somewhere in the middle — behind banking, behind whatever social account they actually …
May. 16, 2026Deleting Yourself From Data BrokersMost of the spam you get isn’t random. Your name, address, phone number, and a list of your relatives are sitting on dozens of people-search sites, assembled from public …
May. 9, 2026Your Password Manager Has No Backup PlanMost of the password advice you get stops at “use a password manager.” That’s good advice, as far as it goes — it just doesn’t go nearly far enough. Having …
Apr. 25, 2026Why I Left GrapheneOS for an iPhoneLet me say this up front: GrapheneOS is a top-tier project. It’s the most private, most hardened phone OS you can run, the team behind it is excellent, and I agree with just …
May. 18, 2025Software I Love and UseA running list of what’s actually installed on my machines and my phone — not a roundup, just my daily drivers. The through-line is the same as the rest of this site: private …
Mar. 2, 2024Decoding VPNsVPNs are everywhere these days — ads, YouTubers, even non-tech-savvy folks asking if they need one. Here’s the honest version: a VPN is a tool, not a magic shield. It helps …
Feb. 24, 2024The Normalization of SpywarePrivacy keeps losing ground, and most of it happens quietly. Data collection has become a default feature of the software we use every day — buried in terms and conditions almost …
Jul. 9, 2022Search Engines with Privacy!What you search reveals a lot about you — health worries, finances, whatever crosses your mind — and most of it gets logged by someone. Search is a data business: your queries get …
Sep. 8, 2018Free Open Source Desktop Capture Tool - OBS Studio (How-To) OBS Studio↗ is free and open source — no watermarks, no trial periods, and it will never ask you for money. It records your screen and streams to just about any platform, on …
Aug. 25, 2018Free and open-source software that you should be using!
Free and open-source software often beats the paid, pre-installed defaults — not just on price, but on quality and on how much it respects you. The big players win by being …