How much is your privacy worth?
(Apologies for the prolonged absence. Migraines again/still. I’ll go into that some other time, perhaps.) We have an ever-decreasing amount of privacy left to us.…
Category: Computers
“Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door”
Actually quite a few visitors. In addition to the one in the image, I’ve had visits from the following: and 36 other IP addresses. J.…
How private is your browsing?
(Found on Gab) For a goodly while I’ve been using the Brave web browser and have been quite pleased with its (and its associated search…
@%!$ technology
Saturday night, the thunderstorms started moving through. They weren’t bad here, but there was this one lightning strike somewhere close by… And our Intertubz connection…
WordPress security issue
If you have a WordPress blog, then you need to check this article on a security issue currently being exploited. WordPress security company Wordfence, which disclosed details…
It’s here!
The new keyboard has arrived, and first impression is WHOOPEE! Some small part of that is because it’s anything besides that blasted little POS I’ve…
Going to be a slow week posting
I love my kitties-right up until I want to strangle one. Saturday night, Mrs. Freeholder was off watching something or other on her iDevice, and…
I remember (yet again) why I hate changing computers
Seriously, I had forgotten how much swearing I could do when I have to swap out a computer. And I’ve done two in recent days,…
It’s a dangerous place out there
Monday, I had occasion to be in my firewall. Looking at the system log, I was a little shocked to see the volume of…
Things are looking up
We don’t want to go there. Folks, you don’t want to be That Guy. Like most, I’ve been on a lot of video conferences lately,…
Internet Censorship–Brother, can you spare a mimeo machine?
(Via SurvivalBlog) As you may guess, I”m catching up on reading some of my blogroll. Rawles, it seems, has been on something of a roll…
The de-Googlefication continues
Slowly, step by sometimes painful step, I continue to extract Google from my life. Today it was about the browser. I’ve been using Microsoft’s Edge…
The things ones finds on the Intertubz
Son is something of a gamer, as in computer and console gamer. Enough so that he has purchased a specialized computer set up specifically for…
Time for some tech support
Time for a little pro bono tech support for my readers. In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, Microsoft wants you to upgrade to…
Remember your first BBS?
Because I’m a computer geek by profession, I tend to remember all things silicon quite well. In 1985, I had just went back to college…