Useful Nuggets (Pro Edition)

Well that's a loaded question. I would answer, "maybe?" It's easy to let seemingly insignificant details fade into the background of our Internet-connected lives. But those pesky details determine whether your holiday gifts arrive safely, or if you've just given a nice holiday "bonus" to some scam artist anywhere in the world. At a high level, the Internet, just like anything else, is essentially a Client (you) / Service (them) model. Clients request content from a Service provider which can ...

Big Tech has a bad rep but facts don’t lie The fact is, big tech companies are pretty good at securing and protecting the identity of their users. For the purposes of this discussion, we’ll set aside advertising. (Even advertising is not revealing your individual identity—most of the time.) Big tech companies have both resources and internal data handling guidelines for user data. Smaller startups or websites are simply less likely to have the same rules and access controls in place. There ar...

Protect your online identity with two-factor Today's Internet is not the same playground many of us grew to love. Instead, the Internet services are deeply integrated into our daily routine where most of us have come to expect many "tier-1" services to be at our beck and call 24 hours a day. With so much of our lives now online, that playground gives ample opportunity for scammers to make a buck off some unsuspecting individuals. This modern dependence on Internet services reveals the problem...

I like Standard Notes. I really do. It's definitely a step in the right direction. The concept is simple enough, but extremely difficult in practice. I look foward to performance improvements in the near future! In the meantime, I'll be publishing a few randoms. Randoms may include everything from rants, reviews, or notes on various setups. Random Nuggets I post here reflect my own opinions and views. ...