DuckDuckGo Still Has Issues
There are still some issues concerning privacy that need to be fixed. On the 9th of July, in 2019, a user named Tritonio reported a critical privacy...
Mastodon: The Grand Finale
Mastodon has a long way to go, and I'll be there to watch that grow. The episode you've all been waiting for. This is the...
What is the Fediverse?
Interconnected; federated; ActivityPub: what do they mean? The fediverse is gaining attraction from users around the World. Touted as a friendly alternative to mainstream social...
Don’t Crawl GitHub To Spam
Sometimes, time is just better spent elsewhere. Quite a while ago, I changed my name on GitHub to 'Michael (a.k.a. Resynth)'. This was, ultimately, a...
Cloudflare’s Email Protection Does Not Work
This isn't the way to fix email spam. I've recently taken an interest in Cloudflare's wide range of fascinating JavaScript functions. They host scripts...
The Referer Problem
Most people aren't aware their browser opens them up for tracking. Let's fix that. In May 1996, a new HTTP header was added into a RFC...
Uninstall Nano Defender Immediately
On the 3rd of October, 2020, Hugo Xu (a.k.a. "jspenguin2017") announced he had sold Nano to "a team of Turkish developers". No further information was posted. This...
The YouTube-DL Takedown
GitHub has removed the ability to access youtube-dl's source code due to a DMCA. On the 23rd of October, GitHub received a DMCA against the youtube-dl authors,...
Hello, I’m a Fedora user!
Let's go back a few days: it was the 1st of November. I woke up, drank a creamy latte, turned on my workstation, and opened...
GitHub Source Code Leak
The entire source code for the code hosting service used by developers, GitHub.com, has just been leaked to the public. In a suspicious commit to the official GitHub DMCA...
