Payphone or Scamware?
As seen in the wild in Venice, Italy: an actual, functioning payphone, apparently with SMS texting capabilities. The screen says Temporaneamente accetta solo carte di credito which translates into English…
Return To Office Insanity Part III
I've blogged my feelings on the inanity of RTO mandates, forwarded innumerable links purporting that people are as/more product remote and definitely happier, shared my feelings with anyone willing to…
Temperatures and Technology
May 25, at gate awaiting boarding for MSP to CDG flight. Monitor at Gate G4 providing helpful information. Yeah, sure. It was not 27°F but 27°C; in fact, Paris broke…
Remembering GMAC/RFC
As seen at the Highland Bridge Lunds & Byerly's: an unexpected GMAC/RFC sighting! Its primary line of business was purchasing mortgages from originators and bundling them into securities for sale…
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:…