Continuing the trend of getting my crap together in terms of online security, I finally enabled 2-factor authentication across all my online email (e.g. Yahoo, Google) and cloud storage providers (e.g. Dropbox, Evernote). Not naive enough to think that I’m perfectly secure now, but at least these type of measures will slow these nefarious SOBs […]
Spent a decent number of hours over the weekend looking at the field of OSS and private Facebook and Twitter alternatives. Initially, the two that leaped out at me were Diaspora* and Mastodon. I decided to take a shot at installing Diaspora, in spite of it’s messed up name, because it is pro-ported to be […]
If you are a techie, you’re probably aware of or have read one or more Robert Paterson books where the central theme revolves around tech gone bad. As we evolve robots and AI, we are guaranteed to experience a fair share thereof. I am not sure we’ll see an AI driven killer robot that can […]
