A follow-up to All This Has Happened BeforePart of the Big Tech's War on Users series I told you to watch the thread. Here's what the thread looks like now. The Approval Queue Is Telling the Story Thirty days ago I said the most likely outcome was messy — some manufacturers get approved, some don't, nothing resolves...

Where We Left Off Part 15 was about moving the configs off GitHub to Codeberg. The infrastructure was in a decent place. Two servers running, monitoring up, backups humming. Things were... fine. Then nixos decided to go silent. Power light on. Sitting there looking perfectly fine. No SSH. No DNS. No VNC. Just......

The NSA issued a warning today: reboot your router weekly, change default passwords, update firmware, replace end-of-life hardware. Good advice. Genuinely. Do those things. Also: the same federal government that issued this warning is the one that banned new foreign router models in March, has yet to approve a single...

Back in Part 11, I wrote this: "If GitHub ever 'goes stupid' — account suspension, policy changes, acquisition drama — all my code is sitting on hardware I own, with backups being replicated by Syncthing. GitHub becomes the mirror, not the source of truth." I added a spoiler alert to that line recently. There's a...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech’s War on Users series. Earlier this past week, GitHub announced that starting April 24th, your Copilot interaction data will be used to train Microsoft’s AI models. By default. Unless you find the setting and turn it off. It’s worth pausing on that word — default. Because in 2018,...

Back in January, I was two days into setting up Vaultwarden when Bitwarden sent me their annual Data Privacy Week survey. What browser do you use? What email service? What VPN? What are your concerns about AI and your data? I filled it out. Checked every box about keeping AI away from my personal data. Sent it in. Went...

On March 23rd, the FCC quietly dropped a rule that affects the router sitting in your home right now. Most coverage treated it as a tech story. A few treated it as a national security story. Almost nobody followed the thread to where it actually leads. Pull the thread. Editorial note: This post refers to both...