For me, the next step for this is taking all the sensor data recorded for a ride, and loading it into my own fitness tracking database that I own, control, and isn't tied to someone else's profits.

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/researcher-detained-at-u-s...

While so many people try to come up with technical solutions for legal concerns, the method Jacob used was pragmatic.

You cannot be compelled to turn over what you do not have

If you're concerned about your digital devices while crossing borders, do not forget a viable option is to simply not have a digital device with you when you cross.

Put simply, do not limit your imagination to purely technical means.

Of course, there may be means to compel you to retrieve that data, but typically at border crossings your primary threat surface is physical possession.

Years ago my cube-mate was called to support a desktop user who has having problems with their machine that couldn't be fixed remotely. He realized the user's HDD was full, so the first thing he did was clear the user's trash bin. Mysteriously the machine came up with a ton of free space.

The user seemed happy their machine was up. Nor long after, the help-desk called my cube-mate asking what they did to the user's machine; The user couldn't find any of their files that they had organized in the trash bin.

Meanwhile one of the other customers has norovirus and is deliberately touching everything so others contract it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/chronic...

Just like any security control, if it's your only means of security, it will not offer much risk reduction. Just like all security controls, the if you want risk reduction use more security controls together. Like all security controls, there is no way to eliminate risk, just reduce it as much as possible while still being able to effectively achieve your mission.

Because of this I believe security through obscurity to be important component in a healthy and mature risk posture.

It irks me when it's dismissed because obscurity is not security. No single security control is security on its own.

I remember that time I reported someone for reposting my images.

Flickr's response was deleting my profile, all of my photos, and not responding to any of my attempts to contact them.

On the upside, it was a good lesson to not trust service providers.

OpenScreen is more about screen recording, once recorded it turns into a simple-ish NLE that is focused on editing screen-casts.

The detail I failed to understand at the time was just how much money there is in data collection and brokerage.

Many datacenters I'd been to at that point were already DC.

Didn't think this was that new of a trend in 2026, but also acknowledge I did not visit more than a handful of datacenters since 2007.

It just seemed like a undenyably logical thing to do.

They appear to fall into 3 buckets:

1) Worst: Direction of the cursor has move in a circular pattern as if dragging a physical knob with a cursor.

2) Annoying, but least common: You have to move the cursor horizontally to move the knob

3) Most common, but still annoying: You have to move the cursor vertically to move the knob.

I'd say there were 3 distinct abstractions within NextSTEP: - The microkernel / OS (Mach / BSD) (for the hardware) - The Objective C based SDK - The User experience (not just window manager, but largely the window manager)

The SDK is what is still arguably the most highly regarded part of NeXTSTEP even today. That aside, at the time nothing else was so well polished and integrated on almost every level.

That reminds me, I should pull out my NeXT Cube and play with it. That machine is 33mhz of pure power. :-D None the less I still love it.

Meant to say those solutions are in addition to Lets Encrypt. An X509 certificate is an X509 certificate, regardless if its for https, imaps, or smtps. If you're distributing your stuff across multiple hosts or containers, then it makes sense to use some sort of automation, configuration management, or certificate management/distribution system.

If you use HTTP-01 challenge method you require an HTTP server on the host.

If you don't want an HTTP server on your imap/smtp server you need to use the DNS-01 challenge method.