If I could pick a theme for this blog, it would most likely be “digital independence”. I may spend some time focusing my efforts on hacking, productivity software, command-line ballyhoo, or general philosophy, but in general I focus my efforts on tools and techniques that make me less reliant on others. Why use Gitea if you can use ssh and git? Why use Google Authenticator if you can use GNU pass? ...
So I’ve mentioned quite a few times that I use a program called newsboat as my primary way to access the internet. I use it to: Subscribe to all the blogs I love to read Subscribe to all the Subreddits that I like to see Subscribe to all the podcasts that I like to listen to (although Castero is good for this too) Subscribe to all the Youtube channels I love to view ...
The Old web was better I hear a persistent complaint levied by people who have been using computers since Dial-up was a thing. (psssst… kids… Dial-up was an old technology where you gave your computer a phone and it would scream at another computer over the phone in some weird machine language. If you picked up the phone, you could hear them talking.) You can see this argument on: Reddit ...
Introduction When you first become a hacker, you develop something of a “hacker vision” that follows you when you go about. You tend to notice things like smart meters that control the city’s electricity supply, or kiosks that are running intel compute sticks, or whatever. When you understand how the tech works, you can’t help but ask yourself if you could exploit that. And hospitals will drive you crazy. Hospitals are highly digitized palaces with open ethernet jacks, presumed places of privacy, and computers running Windows 7 because their scanners aren’t compatible with anything else. I wouldn’t be surprised if every hospital is currently hacked. ...