It’s my birthday!
This is how I celebrated my birthday two years ago, at the height of the pandemic. Yes, in the Sims. Yeah. It was a whole thing. (That’s the Goth family, Summer Holiday from the BFF household, and some of my real life friends, Simified.) This year, I…...Anthology, baby!
I have a slew of stories that I haven’t been sending out. Seriously, one is from 2006 and I sent it various places for over a decade and got a lot of “I like this but it’s not for us” rejections. So I’m gathering up my sold stories and my...Haiku
“If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts.”–Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (A Man Without a Country) [Note: I found this in my drafts folder and decided to publish it.] One of...Password Managers
Password managers. You want one. Let’s do this in Q&A format, shall we? Q: WTF is a password manager and why do I want one? A: Have you ever forgotten a password? Do you use the same password on every site? Is your password...How to route all Opnsense traffic through your private VPN
This is for your home network, yes. I tried several how-tos, and basically had to figure it out for myself. Here’s how I did it. Preface: I have two LANs; one for computers, tablets, and phones, and the other for IOT devices, including my Roku (which cannot...What Happens When You Request a Webpage
Okay, with all the securing all the things posts, it occurs to me that I haven’t actually explained this. (I did, however, explain this in depth for an interview at Large Internet Company, so it’s probably higher-level than I thought.) One of my first jobs...Why Public Wifi is So Insecure
Here’s a short demo of sniffing. They [TM] can possibly do this to you at that nice free public wifi spot you’re using. They need to be on your network. This is geographically limited, by which I mean that if you’re in Kansas and visiting a server in...Email Encryption
I’ve been trying to get people to encrypt their email, and send me encrypted email, since 1995 or so. Here’s why: email is cleartext. What does “cleartext” mean? Well, if your ISP is having you send your email out through port 25, you can do...The Best Thing Windows Users Can Do To Prevent Malware
If you’re a Windows user, you probably want to do your daily web surfing as a non-administrative user. This is because any process you launch (on any operating system) runs with your account’s permissions. That means that if your browser runs into an...Subscribe
