Personal: technophile, oenophile, lexophile, gastronome.
Professional: information, network, and computer #security #infosec #cybersecurity
Interests: #cyberpunk #linux #tech #privacy #hacking #reading #PDX
Music: most non-pop genres. I usually listen to #KEXP,and #KUTX, #SomaFM streaming
I love #food and #wine, you'd probably call me a #foodie
Way too many projects at any given time
Love to write but don't do much of it (see projects) and also #fountainpens and actual notebooks.
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Microsoft Windows has essentially become an ad delivery platform. In this post, I look at some egregious and annoying examples, how even software pirates are addressing this, and point at a tool, WinAeroTracker, that can be used to quickly stifle this behavior.
https://the15thstandard.com/blog/windows-operating-system-or-ad-platform/
But the explosion in newsletters is overwhelming as a reader. Instead of one paper with a dozen writers, you’ve got a dozen newsletters scattered across your inbox.
What if you could curate your own custom newspaper? All your favorite writers, no spam, no surveillance.
Good Morning, News: Massive Earthquake in Russia Triggers Tsunami Warnings and Advisories, Portland NIMBYs Are Out in Full Force, and the US Government Literally Hates the Whole World and Wants To See Us All Suffer
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#PortlandMercury #News VIA #MPAQ #English #PDX #Portland Jul 30, 2025
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Breakfast sandwich using a bagel from #Portland's Fairbanks Bread from this past Monday's pick up. Delicious!
The @internetarchive is now a federal depository, thanks in part to Senator Padilla from California. Hopefully this helps with the legal challenges.
In a similar spirit, you might want to go poke at this, it came across my TL in other places today. https://www.viberank.app/
BREAKING
Senator #RonWyden gets a refusal to deny that there are #encryption #backdoors at #Google from the UK government under the #IPAct
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/29/uk-encryption-backdoor-wyden-letter-gabbard/
Have fun depleting your org's (or your own) budget at Hacker Summer Camp!
"Reports highlight eye-watering prices such as $33 bagels 🥯 and $26 bottles of water 🚰, onerous parking and resort fees, and surprise charges for early check-ins and basic amenities."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/real-reasons-las-vegas-losing-090956014.html
Do you publish a site on #Vercel? Are you annoyed by or just want to prevent scraping by #AI
Since I don't manage the underlying infrastructure, I wasn't sure if I could deploy something like #Anubis. A quick search through the docs reveals they have built-in bot mitigation settings in the firewall function, even at the free tier.
Note that these are off by default, so you need to go in and change them.
TL;DR Enable anti-scraping bot measures ASAP
An update to this post from a week ago. I've checked my website's visitor stats and they are way down. The firewall and browser challenge capabilities seem to be working well.
It was nice to see all that traffic, but I knew it couldn't be people actually visiting, so this is much more realistic.
Molly White
#StreetPapersRSS 🇺🇲
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Jim Killock
Jonas
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