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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Tag Archives: Internet
Adieu, Facebook, Adieu
I swore I was never going to get involved with Facebook. For a long time, I resisted. This was partly for privacy reasons (though ironically, one of the people who in the end convinced me to sign up through multiple … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Tech drivel
Tagged A.D.D., Facebook, friends, Internet, privacy, social media
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Finally, an offline RSS-reader that doesn’t make me want to beat people…
Ok, I admit it – I used to be a feed junkie. That all stopped when Torsten was born, though, mainly because I was reading my feeds through LiveJournal, and the River of News style I prefer basically sucks if … Continue reading
A word to the not-so-wise…
Sometime in, oh, I don’t know… April of this year, I made a snarky tongue-in-cheek post about the AOL generation trying to reproduce and some of the very special things (especially the very special acronyms) the folks on the “TTC” … Continue reading
Cleanin’ up my feeds
Oh, I feel so organized. After forever and a day of using my private Livejournal friends-list as my RSS reader, I finally decided it wasn’t working for me. I ended up with a page flooded with one feed’s posts if … Continue reading
Best… xkcd… evah!
Soooo true (click to embiggen): If I had a thicker skin, I suppose the best revenge would be to actually SEND such losers naked pics of me. But, um, not even I want to see those…
Bad Behavior
So I finally got sick of some of the stuff that gets through my blog comment spam filter, especially empty comments that I presume are probing for the ability to spam (although I will say that in general, Akismet does … Continue reading
Posted in Wordpress
Tagged Bad Behavior plugin, blogging, idiots, Internet, software, spam, Wordpress, Wordpress plugins
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Ack… An anonymity nightmare
I haven’t posted much on the privacy and anonymity front since getting pregnant, but I wanted to pass on a link in any event. Alex Janssen, a guy who runs a Tor server in Germany and who had promised never … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged anonymity, idiots, Internet, privacy, scary stuff, security, Tor
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Pet peeve ;)
Ok, so don’t any of you take this personally, but… here’s a little internet terminology lesson, since I’ve seen this, I swear, 3 or 4 times in the last two weeks. So here goes <enter super-pedantic smartassed mode>: My blog, … Continue reading
