How to stop Google from invading your privacy and others’ when you share links
“share.google” links are evil. Here’s how to get Google to stop spitting them at you.
Category Archives: Computers
Can’t log into Costco website, their technical support is useless
I spent nearly four hours of my time proving this isn’t my fault. I’m still doubtful that Costco will do anything to resolve the problem.
Another credit reporting agency breach, another terrible breach notification letter
TransUnion is bad at security and bad at handling security breaches and none of this is going to get better until we have a real federal data privacy law with meaningful penalties for companies which leak people’s data.
Thoughts on the proposed Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, S.2608
The proposed law is a good start but it has problems that should be fixed before it is enacted. Here are some of them.
Using Tasker on Android to toggle Blokada+ / private DNS / WiFi
Creating an Android quick setting tile that performs three different tasks automatically so I don’t have to do them all by hand on a regular basis.
Suspicious email from “pulse <root@overlinux.com>”: malicious or just dumb?
The person who sent this email is either extremely clueless or up to no good. It’s hard to say for certain which.
Some Comics Aggregator internals changed, let me know if you run into issues
I’ve had to rewrite a bit of the Comics Aggregator code to be able to add Alexandra Petri to it. Because this involved switching from one third-party library to another in code that doesn’t just impact Alexandra Petri, I may have broken something. I did some testing and everything seems to be working, but I… Read More: Some Comics Aggregator internals changed, let me know if you… »
Alexandra Petri added to comics aggregator
I’ve added the humor columnist Alexandra Petri, who previously wrote for The Washington Post and now writes for The Atlantic, to the comics aggregator. If you don’t feel the need to read her stuff Right Away When It Comes Out, then I would encourage you to use the “1-day delay” variant of her entry in… Read More: Alexandra Petri added to comics aggregator »
How I lost my family’s email, recovered most of it, and made sure it wouldn’t happen again
I made some mistakes, it cost me some time and a bit of lost data, and I’ve taken steps to make sure if it happens again I’ll lose less time and less data.
Today’s example of “everything is shit and there’s nothing we can do about it”
We encounter bits and pieces of micro-shittiness all day, every day, because people don’t care about the quality of their work, people don’t take responsibility for fixing things that are broken, and people don’t think any of it matters, even though it does, very much, actually.