Backing up TrueNAS to a second remote server with Tailscale
It’s been quite some time since I had to abandon using CrashPlan Pro for backups when I found out that the limit of “unlimited” is 10TB per system. I would have simply sharded my...
Category: Geek
Geeky things. You probably won’t see Shauna using this category anytime soon.
The credit industry gets its “come to Jesus” moment
I’m pretty confident that the only people who haven’t yet heard of the massive breach at Equifax at living under a rock. The breach itself is pretty bad, comprising credit data on 3/4 of...
Bitcoin is an Awful Currency
The distributed blockchain protocol is one of the more interesting developments in computing. It creates a cryptographically verifiable and yet decentralized ledger of transactions. While there are many applications possible for such technology, the...
A Plan for CrashPlan
I’ve been a very long-time CrashPlan user at home. In fact, I will have been backing up my data there for five years next month. I’ve also recommended it to many friends and family...
Eero makes big promises, but where’s the skepticism?
I’ve been through my share of really crappy routers and WiFi before finally settling into equipment that works properly. I can’t even imagine the frustration an average consumer must feel at having routers that...
Why blame your phone manufacturer when Google will do?
There’s been a bunch of buzz lately about a vulnerability in versions of Android prior to 4.4 (KitKat). Google has advised that it doesn’t plan to issue any fixes for these older versions. Unsurprisingly,...
Are you an unwitting stalking accomplice?
At least once a week, someone on Twitter or Facebook will share a picture describing a missing person (usually a child) with one or more phone numbers to call. Our immediate reaction is to...
Is Tor Permanently Broken?
Federal law enforcement seems to have decided that anonymizing networks are public enemy number one. They’ve racked up some impressive wins in taking down drug-trading market Silk Road, notorious child pornography site Lolita City,...
Let’s have a chat about gaming
Some of you gamers are really ruining it for the rest of us. You’ve threatened a game developer into fleeing her home for no discernable reason, you’ve overreacted to a clear breach of journalistic...
There’s no such thing as safe sext
Put down your pitchforks, your social justice warrior shrieking about “slut-shaming”, and your righteous indignation about, well, everything. It’s time to have a much-needed expounding upon my call to take more responsibility for the...