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Cleaning Facebook and Twitter With UBlock
Ublock Origin has a handy feature that allows you to build custom fields in addition to their standard ad blocking abilities. Here’s a few rules I set up the other day to clean up annoying parts of Facebook and Twitter. For Twitter I wanted to get rid of all their trends stuff but keep my…
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The Strongest Argument for Decentralized Tech May Be Security
Twitter got hacked real good last night. From all appearances it doesn’t appear to be a technical hack, but a social engineering hack of employees with almost limitless access to the platform. As centralized tech companies have become the norm for political, economic and public health discourse a new threat model has reared it’s head.…
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B2 Caching Control
Backblaze B2 storage and Cloudflare have a partnership that allows free egress from B2 storage through the Cloudflare CDN. What this means in effect is free bandwidth for serving your images and videos. I wanted to set up this system for my Hugo based blog but I ran into an undocumented step that I wanted…
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Spring Creek Crossing
Crossing spring creek. Still have to pinch myself every once in a while to realize we do this stuff 30 minutes from our house.
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Docker Slider
This slider in the Mac GUI for Docker kind of makes me sad. We start at 59.6GB. A click magically changes it to 21.1GB. There’s an arbitrary notch at 16GB. Then the minimum is 8GB. What did I just interact with?
