Today, I wanted to sign in to one of my old Google accounts. And like all my Google accounts, this one also uses Google's Advanced Protection Program. If you don't know, Google's Advanced Protection Program is a thing you can enable for your Google account which enforces the use of [...]
I just found an undocumented feature in ProtonMail... which I thought you might find useful to know. Backstory I use ProtonMail as my primary email hosting provider nowadays, as it gives me convenient PGP encryption across my devices, and all incoming emails that are not already PGP encrypted will be [...]
Background If you grew up in the 90s you might remember "PC Speakers", not to be confused with "computer speakers", the ones that you plug into a 3.5mm jack and use to listen to things, and instead I mean those small built-in speakers that could play basic sounds, and with [...]
Background Some time ago, at the end of last year or so, I did set up a Minecraft server at home. It's public, in the sense that anyone can join, but it's not listed anywhere other than on its small website. So, for now it's used by friends only. But [...]
A hidden gem, that's what it is! You see, I always liked how Synology has a web interface that is like a desktop, with windows and applications that really make you feel like you're "computing in the cloud". Of course a Synology NAS has its limits as to what you [...]
I am writing this post because Thunderbird 78.x has issues for advanced PGP users
I met someone through this very blog. We have been emailing back and forth, and eventually the question arised why I'm so interested in IT security. My response was, that there's no particular reason and I guess it's just "obvious" to me. To which he replied seemingly perplexed, that I [...]
I just remembered, it was my Mac mini and Apple's software, and WoW that got me into software development. 😳 A bit of background I was a child and all our school machines were Macs… So, for compatibility’s sake I wished for a Mac mini for Christmas of 2007, which [...]
Minecraft came out a bit over a decade ago, as a game written in Java that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux but only x86! That's because, while the game is written in Java, it depends on native libraries that are x86 (although I think now they're AMD64 so you [...]
If you ever used a Mac and had to install an application, you probably noticed that often there's no installer unlike on Windows. You just drag and drop the application to your /Applications folder. The downside is, there's often also no uninstaller for those applications. Now, you might say "just [...]