Hack of the day: CGI script for temporary download bandwidth throttling
I wrote a self-service way for my family to tell my computer to stop hogging all the download bandwidth so they can do their online meetings or gaming.
Category Archives: Internet
Tampermonkey script: no, Newegg, I don’t freakin’ want to subscribe
Script to prevent Newegg from subscribing me to their spam against my will.
Tampermonkey script to un-Gmail Google Contacts
When you click on a contact’s email address in the Google Contacts web app, instead of opening a new draft in your default email app with the “To” field populated with that email address, which is what it should do, Google Contacts opens a Gmail compose window. I hate this behavior. While I do have… Read More »
New Thunderbird extension: Addy.io / AnonAddy for Thunderbird
Now you can route your outbound emails through Addy.io and even generate new Addy.io aliases for that purpose without ever leaving Thunderbird.
Cutting ties with Google Ads
Ads from Google are too scammy and too intrusive. I should have turned them off long ago. Now I have. If you appreciate that, please consider kicking in a few bucks to make up for the lost revenue.
Yet another night debugging email delivery problems
I’ve run my own mail server for 30+ years. It’s a pain sometimes, but I’m a stubborn old cuss and I think it’s worth it both because I value my privacy and don’t want my emails being stored on somebody else’s servers, and because I’m a sysadmin at heart and I love a good sysadmin… Read More »
Comics aggregator: Washington Post links now go through a page archiving service
I will not send traffic to a newspaper that can’t figure out how to oppose fascism on its editorial page.
Comics aggregator: Damon Young removed, Carolyn Hax & Miss Manners fixed
I’ve removed the Damon Young column in the Washington Post from the comics aggregator because he hasn’t written anything there for two years so I’m pretty sure he’s no longer being published in the Post. Over the past day or so the Post did something to break the other columns from there that the aggregator… Read More »
Case study: anonymizing email addresses for online accounts
Why you might want to anonymize the email addresses for your online accounts, some techniques for how to do that, and the details of how I did it myself, including stats, stories, and scripts.
Comics: Most recent “This Modern World” published early
Please note that the most recent edition of the This Modern World comic was published a few days early and therefore the comics aggregator didn’t pick it up. That bug has been fixed so next time it will be picked up, but for those of you who want to see the early one, here you… Read More »