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Thoughts on encrypted DNS

Think your browsing is private just because there’s a little padlock in your browser? Cute. Even with HTTPS, your Internet Service Provider can still see every domain you visit because old-school DNS requests are basically sent out like postcards — wide open for anyone on the route to read. If you’d rather not hand your browsing history over like a grocery list, switch your system or router to use…

What Shell Your Mac is Using?

Every Mac comes with a Unix shell that provides a command line interface. Macs running macOS 10.15 and later use Zsh by default. Before that, Macs used the Bash shell by default. Of course, no matter what version of macOS you’re using, you can change the shell your Mac is using. What shell is your Mac using? Open the Terminal application on your Mac. At the prompt, type echo $0

Secure File Shredder

brew install coreutils and then use gshred to overwrite the file before you remove it. gshred will by default overwrite a file 3 times but you can set it to do more then remove the file. $ gshred -v -z -u -n 3 filename.txt

Google Sheets thoughts

In short, I always use the easiest solution to solve a particular problem and once that solution does not work for the business anymore, I reassess what the new requirements are and either try enhance the current solution or find an alternative that better solve the problem. In my case the easiest solution is often creating a new Google sheet. Batta bing, bada boom!