Marcus @gerowen@mastodon.social

Everybody from #Firefox to #Bitdefender have built their own branded frontend to @haveibeenpwned . Kinda weird they wouldn't just direct people to the source material. #HaveIbeenpwned #privacy #cybersecurity

This is your occasional reminder to encrypt everything. Thumb drives? Encrypted. Storage drives? Encrypted. Websites? HTTPS only. Messengers? E2E encrypted only. Encryption is our most powerful tool to force overzealous government agencies to respect our #privacy.

#cybersecurity

One huge mistake I made as a kid was when I joined the Army I thought normal life was basically over so I gave away my OG #Xbox, #PS2, etc. The perfectionist and #OCD in me keeps me from buying new ones because the wear marks and scuffs made by other people would bother me.

#Apple’s App Tracking Transparency is Upending Mobile #Phone Tracking

#privacy #security #cybersecurity

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/apples-apptrackingtransparency-upending-mobile-phone-tracking

After trying again to use Backblaze as my off site #backup, I finally bit the bullet and picked up another 12TB external. It's going to be married to my existing 12TB external, that has been my off site, in an #encrypted RAID 0 group. Self hosting is expensive. #privacy #security

Observation. When under heavy load for an extended period of time, #OpenWRT is more reliable and doesn't cause my #Linksys router to crash like it did with the factory firmware.

Observation. #OpenWRT is far superior to the factory firmware for my #Linksys WRT3200ACM. Not only does it have a ton more options, but it reboots crazy fast as well.

#Cloudflare wants to save 500 years per day of humans trying to solve #CAPTCHA by killing it

https://www.neowin.net/news/cloudflare-wants-to-save-500-years-per-day-of-humans-trying-to-solve-captcha-by-killing-it/

Compressing, encrypting and uploading 12TB of data takes a long time for an initial #backup, especially when it's being read from an already encrypted partition so that it has to be decrypted, compressed, encrypted again and THEN uploaded to the off site backup. #encryption

We're all being hopelessly dragged into the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The long term survival of our species won't be guaranteed by going to the nextdoor planet in our solar system, we need to be looking at younger galaxies altogether. #science #space

Tried to check my social security account since I do that once a year and I forgot about this; the "My SSA" website actually has business hours for some strange reason. I wonder if that means actual people read the server logs.

#socialsecurity #privacy #security

If you host your own #Nextcloud Talk instance and want to ensure as much traffic as possible is #encrypted when routed through your TURN server, here's how you can set up the coturn service to use your TLS certificates.

#cybersecurity #security #privacy

https://serverfault.com/a/984575/664180

And it's that time of the year again where those of us with #allergies have to constantly reassure people we do not have #coronavirus.

You'll never hear about a #cat buying your groceries for you. Once you die of starvation though they'll eat your corpse, 😛 Team #dog ftw. #pets

https://dogbuzzblog.com/an-adopted-dog-took-on-the-role-of-a-personal-shopper-to-help-his-senior-father-during-pandemic/

What if reality is all just a dream and God is the dreamer?

The solution to using my #Pinephone full time might be to get Anbox working so I can run #Android apps on #Mobian.

#Signal subpoenaed yet again for user records that they don't collect in the first place.

#privacy #cybersecurity #security

https://gizmodo.com/confused-feds-subpoena-signal-for-data-it-doesnt-collec-1846780583

Scouting for ogres. To be as old as it is, some of this game's visuals still hold up remarkably well.

#ElderScrolls #Oblivion

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2475308804