How PacketHound compares to Portmaster, simplewall and Fort, plus the one firewall rule that blocks DiagTrack even after svchost is allowed.
knowledgeconstructiond has shipped on every Mac since Ventura, Intel too, and it scores your contacts as family daily. How to read your graph and what turns it off.
Blocks, likes and follows sit in your public AT Protocol repo. The curl commands to check yours, and why a mute stays private when a block doesn't.
Lenovo's first fix for the plaintext SD card inside was epoxy. Four checks for any 'encrypted' USB drive, plus real LUKS or BitLocker in 5 minutes.
Paying for Max doesn't opt you out. Where the toggle is, the settings.json block to commit, and why one thumbs-down can keep a chat for 5 years.
Swissquote and Yuh verify GrapheneOS with hardware attestation, while UBS and Triodos officially support it. The confirmed list, plus the settings that fix most other bank apps.
Mullvad users who moved to Quad9 get hit twice. Configs for Linux, macOS, Windows, OpenWrt, Pi-hole and Unbound, plus which resolvers also block.
It's on by default and covers work and throwaway accounts too. The toggle only stops future linking, so here's how to remove the number already attached.
Disney's $20M bid doesn't cover the app. Get the official export, save characters as PNG cards, and run them locally with SillyTavern and Ollama.
An honest comparison of Plausible, Fathom, and self-hosted Umami after migrating four production projects off Google Analytics 4.
A practical comparison of Umami, Plausible, and Fathom for teams migrating off Google Analytics, with code examples and self-hosting notes.
An honest comparison of Umami, Plausible, and Fathom as privacy-focused Google Analytics alternatives, with real migration steps and code.
A practical walkthrough for auditing what your IDE extensions actually send to the cloud, using lsof, mitmproxy, and filesystem monitoring.
After six hours automating a 30-second task, I audited my stack. Here's an honest comparison of Plausible, Fathom, and Umami after migrating off GA.
A practical comparison of Umami, Plausible, and Fathom for replacing Google Analytics — with a self-hosting safety lesson from a viral Reddit post.
Comparing bundled platform domains vs independent registration, plus privacy-focused analytics like Umami, Plausible, and Fathom.
A look at MasterHttpRelayVPN-RUST, a Rust-based DPI bypass tool using Google Apps Script relays and TLS SNI concealment. Architecture breakdown and practical notes.
A practical comparison of Umami, Plausible, and Fathom as privacy-focused Google Analytics alternatives, with setup examples and migration tips.
A practical comparison of Umami, Plausible, and Fathom as Google Analytics replacements, with migration steps and real code examples.
Learn how to detect and prevent email address leaks in public collaborative documents, with concrete API design patterns and testing strategies.
Step-by-step guide to running LLMs locally with Ollama and llama.cpp when cloud AI providers start requiring invasive identity verification.
macOS Privacy & Security settings don't always reflect reality. Learn how to audit TCC databases directly and debug permission issues the right way.
How to detect and block aggressive AI crawlers like Meta's bot, plus comparing Umami, Plausible, and Fathom for privacy-focused traffic monitoring.
A practical comparison of Umami, Plausible, and Fathom as Google Analytics replacements, with migration steps and honest tradeoffs.
LinkedIn runs hidden JavaScript that probes thousands of Chrome extensions, encrypts the results, and sends them to third-party servers -- all without user consent or any mention in their privacy policy.
If you use GitHub Copilot Free, Pro, or Pro+, your code is being used to train AI models starting April 24. Not just your public repos. Your interacti
Step-by-step guide to auditing and controlling your GitHub Copilot data exposure after the latest policy changes to AI training data collection.
Comparing cloud AI inference vs the tinybox for on-prem offline workloads — cost analysis, privacy tradeoffs, and when local hardware actually makes sense.
How to prevent location data leaks in your apps — practical code examples for truncating GPS data, enforcing privacy zones, and making privacy the default.
