I’ve been using computers and technology for a long time. The vast majority of my life in fact. I have early memories of playing games on our Commodore 64, back when I was like 4 or 5 years old. Eventually we had a DOS based system, though it didn’t have a hard drive in it. … [Read more…]
There seems to be an endless stream of stories about how the UK wants to ban the use of encryption on the Internet. It’s hard to say what this says about the UK officials, since banning encryption is essentially impossible without completely breaking the Internet. Well, technically it could be done, but you wouldn’t want … [Read more…]
So, Reddit may not be dead. Hell, it probably isn’t. It’ll go on the way it has, at least for a while. Still, it’s fallen, fallen from favor, fallen from trust. I’ve been trying to use Voat.co more myself, though I still visit Reddit, I find I visit less and comment even less so. A … [Read more…]
I had a short conversation recently over on Reddit that got me thinking a bit about the idea of online identity and, by extension, the ideas behind privacy, and anonymity online. Privacy is a hot button issue in general lately and there has also been a lot of people causing some fuss over the idea … [Read more…]
… but it’s only mildly inconvenient. I’ve recently gone through several steps to ensure better security and privacy of my online services. These are pretty simple steps that anyone can manage. On a security standpoint, I’ve enabled two factor authentication on any service I use that supports it. Two Factor Authentication is essentially a system … [Read more…]
I know, that in the past, I have praised Google. Repeatedly, held them up to some sort of crazy standard of perfection. Somewhere, they seem to have lost their way, and along that way, they lost me. I can’t really say it was a single factor or the turn occurred at a single moment, it … [Read more…]
Well, that was quick. I guess. As I tend to ramble on about here, I am a fickle indecisive mess when it comes to how to best manage all of my digital data. I have been pushing more and more to "The cloud", cloud services, cloud hosting, cloud cloud cloud. I secretly hate the phrase … [Read more…]
NOTE: This got a little rambley and random at times but whatever, I don’t care. So, when a person goes out and buys, say, a desk, they bring it home, maybe they assemble it, they put their computer on it, they sit at it, they use it as a desk. Other people can come over … [Read more…]
The whole internet is abuzz with SOPA and, to a lesser extent, PIPA talk. Basically, these two bills in congress, one for the House, one for the Senate. You can get plenty of information through Google or if you’d like, try the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The gist of this bill, is that it would allow … [Read more…]
So yesterday was “American Censorship Day”. This was to… commemorate really REALLY is not the right word, maybe acknowledge or point out that yesterday Congress had a hearing about SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act”. There are plenty of sites out there talking about this better than I probably can explain but the general gist … [Read more…]