January 30, 2024 I had a security breach. Learn from it. A couple of weeks back, at least one of my passwords was hacked. Luckily, I was saved by 2FA. What does that mean? Ok,…
December 30, 2023 Google notches up the war on adblockers Some months back, I noticed more and more people I follow on Mastodon were commenting, or forwarding posts of others, on how they’ve noticed…
October 19, 2023 A new era of ethics I recently wrote about one aspect of the advent of technology like ChatGPT, specifically in regard to the blurry legality of how it “learns”…
September 27, 2023 Reviewing one process of reviewing: Zero stars Anyone who knows me and has had occasion to be with me in a location with no fixed address, where we split up and…
September 25, 2023 The dodginess of reward point systems There’s no such thing as a free lunch, as they say. And reward card systems are no exception. I can’t speak to all of…
September 18, 2023 All hail guitar tabs When I was still in public school, my dad — a guitar player for as long as I can remember — offered to teach…
August 31, 2023 Forward momentum I’ve recently mentioned my looking at getting into voiceover work (he says, determined to go with one spelling for “voiceover” and stick with it,…
July 6, 2023 Fair Use vs. Consent enters a whole new realm Bruce Schneier is a long-time digital and technology privacy advocate who’s written some of the most important and influential books on those and related…
July 5, 2023 Data privacy starts with your own choices I was scrolling on Mastodon yesterday — the ad-free, federated social media I went to after finally leaving Twitter and Facebook for good a…
June 22, 2023 Confidence boosts are the best For the sake of expediency, I won’t get into the needless background details about why this came about. But let’s just say that in…