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Firefox, Security Keys, U2F, and Google Advanced Protection

Advanced Protection for Google Accounts uses a legacy web technology that is only partially supported in Firefox. Here is how you get started with physical security…

Apps and services should auto-delete personal data after a few months by default

Do every app and web service we use really need to keep all the data they collect until long after we’re all dead? I believe more…

Brave should have its own User-Agent, but here is how you detect it anyway

The User-Agent string is the name that web browsers and other web clients send to web servers to identify their make and model to the server.…

New Google Podcasts app: who needs data portability anyway?

Google introduced a new app for podcasts this week called Google Podcasts. Unlike most other podcast apps that are built on open standards; Google focuses on…

Don’t trust in YouTube’s break-reminders

The YouTube app on Android and iOS has an option that will pause video playback and remind you to take periodical breaks from staring at videos…

Moving to Hetzner VPS: Shorter legal docs as a competitive advantage

Do you read the often lengthy legal agreements required by your Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting provider? I guess that many skip past these documents, but…

How-to monitor system bandwidth usage statistics with Darkstat on Fedora

Darkstat is a handy little program that will monitor and track your system’s bandwidth utilization and help you keep an eye on what is eating up…

Problems to expect with Apache mod_cache

The mod_cache module in the Apache HTTP Server (httpd) is a standard HTTP web cache that you can use to accelerate your website by caching dynamically…