I setup NextDNS on a server. The idea was to test blocking all tracking when using a vpn. As far as the test, nextdns is quick and accurate. It's a nice system and works well. In…

The Discovery Say you're at work and stumble across a file system with 8 petabytes of log files. How do you start to analyze the data? TL;DR: There is no answer. But we walk through…

Of course, I had no idea my December 2019 visit to Malaysia and Singapore would be the last trip for a while. The quietness and consistency of these days at home pass mostly in blissful…

Background In discussions with someone about cloud security, they were surprised to learn I store anything in the cloud. It's convenient to have my files synced between machines. I use syncthing, resilio, and cloud drives.

Over the years, more and more of the services I use daily are prepaid. What is prepaid? Dictionary.com defines prepaid as, to pay or arrange to pay beforehand or before due: Basically, you pay for…