The one where I suggest finding the nearest lifeboat

...or welcome back! I’ve been silent for the last 7 years and now I’m trying to resurface with this new blog :-)

Some of you might remember my previous work on Qubes OS1, a paranoid-security OS, which I started back in 2009, and led its development for the

Discover a curated list of peculiar Japanese inventions that add a playful twist to everyday life. Explore the weird and useless yet strangely intriguing creations from Japan.

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy…

A series of unfortunate events.

You can take steps to delete it though.

My best piece of travel advice: don't do what the locals do.

How wind and solar quietly pushed gas off the margin, and the wholesale price followed.

What Y Combinator doesn't put on Demo Day slides. Fraud, copycats, grifts, and failures.

Local AI models should be the default.

A maintained, canonical meta-index of indie web and small web index sites. 39 entries across 6 categories.

Aren't AI hyperscalers supposed to pay for these upgrades?

A sophisticated campaign is abusing the Obsidian note-taking app to deliver a new RAT, PHANTOMPULSE, to targets in the finance and crypto sectors using social engineering and malicious plugins.

Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook

The team behind RPCS3 suggests that vibe-coders "learn how to debug and code" instead of "generating slop that you don't understand"

A free text-message course from the Department of Labor (DOL) and private partner Arist called, “Make America AI-Ready”, is a useful start on the journey to AI literacy for all Americans.

Why we are not actually 10x more productive (yet).