A personal account of facing organized online harassment from Kiwi Farms, detailing doxing, threats, and bigotry, and the author's strategy to address it calmly.
A tech user abandons smart home devices for simpler 'dumb' alternatives due to privacy, connectivity, and reliability frustrations.
Release of Searcher, a privacy-minded Chromium extension that triggers random searches on Google, Amazon, and other sites to protect user privacy.
Explains how the MacBook Neo's camera indicator light runs in a secure chip enclave, preventing kernel-level exploits from disabling it.
Explores how LLMs and AI challenge traditional definitions of privacy, analyzing the ethical implications of machine vs. human data observation.
A guide to installing Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi and integrating it with Tailscale to enhance network-wide privacy and ad-blocking.
A hands-on review of Hugging Face's Reachy Mini robot, testing its conversational AI features, privacy concerns, and technical setup.
A developer argues that using adblockers is not equivalent to piracy, exploring the implied agreements and user control over web content.
A software developer discovers a data exposure vulnerability in Eversource's EV charger rebate portal, exposing customer PII.
Explores the challenges of maintaining privacy when bridging assets between public and private cryptocurrency blockchains, highlighting metadata risks.
A personal account of reducing dependency on major US tech companies by switching to alternative services like Hetzner, Bunny, and Fastmail.
Introducing PDF Diff, a privacy-focused, client-side tool for comparing PDF documents directly in your browser without uploading files.
Explores a novel, anonymous web login system using secret keys instead of email or social logins, highlighting its trade-offs.
The article argues that widespread ad blocker usage has led to more aggressive advertising, harming the open web's sustainability and user experience.
A developer's personal review and comparison of Ente, an end-to-end encrypted photo backup service, against alternatives like Amazon Photos and self-hosted options.
A macOS menu bar app for displaying multiple world clocks with custom names, emoji, and a time travel slider for planning across time zones.
Menu Drop is a macOS utility that simplifies AirDrop sharing via menu bar drag-and-drop, clipboard sharing, and keyboard shortcuts.
A guide explaining how to export your Google Maps Timeline data from an Android phone to a JSON file, and mentions tools to convert it to GPX.
Vivaldi browser's CEO announces the browser will remain AI-free, criticizing the industry's push of often-useless AI features into every tool.
Advocates for GrapheneOS as a privacy-focused, de-Googled Android alternative, detailing its installation and app compatibility.
