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4 pages tagged with "privacy"

Password Security through Compartmentalization

1135 words - 6 mins
Not all passwords are created equal. You can find evidence of this in the countless people who use "layered" password schemes. While a some people just re-use the same password on every website, others have an intuition for the different trust levels between websites that they use. Nobody … read more

Exploring the World of Password Managers

1997 words - 10 mins
Passwords are miserable to deal with. Bad passwords are both terrifyingly tempting and incredibly common. Good passwords and hygiene all but require complicated management schemes like password managers and a fair bit of diligence. At the same time, passwords are used so frequently that it's most pr… read more

Setting up IRC with soju and senpai

1475 words - 8 mins
Despite the rapid movement of many Free Software project communities to proprietary platforms like Slack and Discord, many communities continue to live on IRC. Notably, The Tor Project has several channels on OFTC. While many of these projects also have bridges to Matrix channels, I don't use Matrix… read more

Adding FreshRSS to NetNewsWire

787 words - 4 mins
A pain point that I have always had with RSS is syncing my feeds and read status between devices. There are various solutions out there; TinyRSS, Feedly, TheOldReader... the list goes on. The fact that I couldn't sync my constantly-changing feeds and content read statuses between my devices and virt… read more