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I don t code on my personal laptop anymore. I m scared of supply chain attacks. If I do any research, it s on a burner laptop where the odd npm or pip package riddled with malware, will just toast the burner and not much else. Are you worried about supply chain attacks? If not, why not? If [ ]
There s nothing much to update except that I took down all the Google Ads that I ran. There was a sweet spot around 2010-ish when Google really loved this blog. Whatever I posted would show up on the first page, and very often at or close to the top. Now, posting on the Web makes [ ]
Right now most of my work is in Python. It s a neat language, but not as fun as Ruby is IMHO. I don t want to get into a flame war. I prefer Ruby, often say it to someone with a math or data science background, get some eye rolling, and then say, I work in [ ]
In my last blog post, I talked about how a seriously compromised supply chain prevents us from ever building a secure computer. This morning I logged into my Instagram account and found that I had 7 followers even though my account was set to private and 2FA. I m hoping this is a bug, but even [ ]
Let s say I wanted to do basic security. I want to be able to defend myself against cyber attacks on my laptop, network, phone as well as any peripherals I might use that connect to any of the devices I use by switching to a SD-WAN network, if you want to learn more about it, [ ]
In Episode 83 of the now defunct Hashtagged Podcast, Jordan Powers interviews Tyson Wheat, who talked about the early days of Instagram. Back then (2011), he says, You just needed 10 or so likes within 5 minutes to get onto the popular page. Â When I heard this, I realized Instagram was gamed from the beginning. [ ]
Who we are Our website address is: https://www.codebelay.com/blog. What personal data we collect and why we collect it Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from [ ]
There hasn t been much tech-wise that s interested me. I ve gotten better as a coder, and finally built my own data app that helped me find and track people that follow and unfollow using bots on Instagram. It s closed source, but I just might get to sell it to an adtech company. We ll see. I first [ ]
I ve been spending most of my free time working on my photography. You can see see some of it at Bracket This, and a ton of it on my Instagram account. Right now though, I m starting to focus on tech again. I ve been learning Swift to make an iOS app while working with a really [ ]
Geonymity is geo-location based anonymity. Sometimes you want to broadcast your info to everyone like at a bar or a party. Sometimes you want to be low key like at a new airport. Apps with geonymity enabled allow you to automatically determine how much of yourself that you share based on your location.