Computers IRL #13
Currently in Slovenia attending a conference and I need an electronics store. Brave offered to translate to English, great, since my Slovene is non-existent. However, I did not expect this.…
The Greatest Invention Since Cats?
A long Reddit review of the Litter Robot 5 Pro has a terse executive summary: They basically shipped an MVP and are in sprint 2. MVP stands for Minimum Viable…
Security Through Stupidity
What problems can you identify? You've announced to the world that: Legacy PIN codes are either 4- or 5-digits long; now they are all 6-digits long; All PIN codes end…
OPNSense as NordVPN Client
In the year or so, OPNSense revamped its VPN configurations, moving from client and server to instance. Most posts and documentation - including OPNSense's - had not caught up with…
Blatant DMCA Violations
When enacted in 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was necessary for the United States to comply with treaties for the protection of copyrighted works in the digital age. Though…
OPNSense VPN Server
I deployed an OPNSense router for my home network about a year ago, running on the exceptional Protectli Vault 1610 and could not be more pleased with how everything functions:…
Bitbucket Using SSH Keys
The announcement that GitHub would train its AI on your code unless you opted out prompted two actions on my part: Immediately change my Github settings to opt-out. Identify a…
Computers IRL #12
[NB: 70 degrees is 70°C or 158°F and not 70°F!] Yes another example of AI misbehaving: PocketOS's company database deleted by AI despite instructions to require confirmation before executing any…
Attribution Done Right
While visiting the Netherlands recently, my wife and I rented a car for a short driving tour: Texel, Groningen, Den Bosch, and, most importantly, Keukenhof. The roads in the Netherlands…
Societas Non Grata
As an outcome of losing its US anti-trust case, Microsoft was forced to allow users to easily choose and install non-Microsoft browsers , the judge ruling that Microsoft had illegally…