The Shadow of the Leviathan series is great
Robert Jackson Bennett's book series blends rich world building with a detective mystery
SEC ARCH DEV
Thoughts on security, architecture, and software development
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AWS Outage
As the massive outage of AWS on 20th of October, 2025 enters its 12th hour there are a couple of thoughts coming to mind. First is that AWS fucked up, badly. No, not because it's a 12 hour outage, AWS as a provider messed up badly because they
Writing can be structured thinking
Why did I start writing longer posts on this site again?
We need EU-hosted, centralized social media for the public sphere
With a couple of different threads coming together recently with the forced takeover of US TikTok by far-right authoritarians, media censorship in the US and Gleichschaltung of major media corporations, mask-off moments by Bluesky leadership, and larger trends on social media usage it is now a good time
AI Slop Warning Message
A lot of you know the long-term nuclear warning message. Here is the AI Slop version.
Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers
Google is planning changes in Chrome impacting ad blocker extensions and people are wondering whether those changes are motivated by self-interest or whether there are plausible, benign explanations.
2FA is Still Too Complicated for Most People
What makes second factor authentication still too difficult for personal use? How does 2FA compare in the wider picture? What can we do about it going forward?
When an OpenSSH MitM Isn't One
What do you do if you know that a server's OpenSSH host keys didn't change, but you see a MITM warning from ssh?
Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
Starting with Chrome 69, logging into a Google Site is tied to logging into Chrome.