Disable processor boost mode to prolong your battery life
How to disable Turbo Boost for AMD and Intel. Sacrifice some peak performance and get a cooler and quieter laptop with a longer-lasting battery.
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Hardware
What keyboard form factor is ergonomically right for you
How to measure what PC keyboard form factor (full-size, TKL, 60 %, etc.) allow you to maintain a good ergonomic posture (for both gaming and typing).
HTML
Take precautions when linking to outdated or incorrect information
Take some simple precautions when referencing outdated, incorrect, or misinformation via a link. Label it for human and machine readers.
Search engines
Yahoo!, AOL, OneSearch biased in favor of parent company’s websites
Verizon Media’s search engines promises “unbiased” search results, but serves results clearly favoring the company’s media websites over competitors.
HTML
Inconsistent user-experiences with native lazy-loading images
Web browsers has different priorities and user experience trade-offs in their lazy-loading image implementations. Firefox and Safari vastly different to Chrome.
Authentication and Passwords
How to back up your password manager
Plan for the day your password manager stops working. Even if it’s a cloud service! Backing up your password manager is harder that it sounds.
Microsoft Windows
Lessons learned maintaining EdgeDeflector for Windows 10
A 3-years retrospective of EdgeDeflector. The tiny utility program that lets you take back control over the default web browser setting in Windows 10.
Limit the impact of a security intrusion with systemd directives
OpenSMTPD recently had a critical remote code execution vulnerability. I look at how you can limit impact with systemd-service security directives.
Email politics, security, and why you got an empty newsletter
Feb 2020 was full of email vows, both in the larger world and for the Ctrl blog newsletter. What happened and why you got an empty blog newsletter this week.
Open Standards
The need for adversarial tech-interoperability legislation
Legislating open protocols and adversarial interoperability can help ensure more competition in the digital services market.
Diabetes
FreeStyle Libre Reader device versus the LibreLink app
The pros and cons of using Abbott’s dedicated Reader device or the LibreLink mobile app to read your levels with the FreeStyle Libre flash-glucose Sensor.
IPFS
Smarter reusable IPFS chunks from HTML documents
IPFS splits files into chunks. Smarter splitting points in HTML files can create more reusable/deduplicatd chunks with higher availability.